Cookie Policy

What Are Cookies?

Understanding the technology that helps improve your lottery experience.

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and provide information to website owners.

On our Australian lottery platform, cookies help us remember your preferences, keep you logged in securely, verify your age, process payments safely, and understand how you use our service so we can improve it.

Stored Locally

Cookies are saved on your device, not on our servers

Time-Limited

Different cookies last for different periods of time

Secure Data

Cookies don't contain personal information like passwords

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for several important purposes to ensure a safe, secure, and personalized lottery experience.

Essential Website Functionality

We use cookies to enable core website features that are necessary for the lottery platform to work properly. These include keeping you logged in, remembering your language preference, and maintaining your shopping cart as you select lottery tickets.

Session management and secure authentication
Shopping cart and ticket selection preservation
Security and fraud prevention measures

Age Verification

To comply with Australian gambling regulations, we use cookies to remember your age verification status. This prevents you from being asked to verify your age every time you visit, while ensuring underage individuals cannot access lottery services.

Remembering verified 18+ status
Legal compliance with age restrictions
Preventing underage access to gambling

Payment Processing Security

When you purchase lottery tickets, we use secure cookies to facilitate safe payment transactions. These cookies help detect and prevent fraudulent activity, ensure your payment information is transmitted securely, and confirm successful transactions.

Secure payment gateway connections
Fraud detection and prevention
Transaction confirmation and receipt generation

Responsible Gaming Features

We use cookies to support responsible gaming by remembering your spending limits, tracking your session time, managing self-exclusion settings, and delivering responsible gaming reminders at appropriate intervals.

Enforcing deposit and spending limits
Session time tracking and break reminders
Self-exclusion and cooling-off period management

Analytics and Performance

With your consent, we use analytics cookies to understand how visitors use our website, which pages are most popular, how long people spend on the site, and what improvements we can make to enhance your lottery experience.

Understanding user behavior and preferences
Identifying technical issues and bugs
Improving website performance and speed

Types of Cookies We Use

We categorize cookies based on their purpose and how they enhance your lottery experience.

Essential Cookies

These cookies are strictly necessary for the website to function. They enable core functionality like security, network management, and accessibility. You cannot opt-out of essential cookies.

Examples:

• Authentication and login sessions
• Shopping cart functionality
• Security and fraud prevention
• Load balancing

Preference Cookies

These cookies remember your choices and preferences to provide a more personalized experience when you return to the site.

Examples:

• Language and region settings
• Currency preferences
• Font size and accessibility options
• Cookie consent preferences

Analytics Cookies

These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

Examples:

• Page views and navigation paths
• Time spent on pages
• Traffic sources and referrals
• Device and browser information

Marketing Cookies

These cookies track your visits across websites to deliver relevant lottery promotions and personalized content.

Examples:

• Personalized jackpot notifications
• Promotional offer targeting
• Advertising effectiveness measurement
• Email campaign tracking

Detailed Cookie List

Complete list of cookies used on our lottery platform with their specific purposes and durations.

Cookie Name	Purpose	Type	Duration
session_id	Maintains your login session and authentication state	Essential	Session
age_verified	Remembers your age verification status for legal compliance	Essential	90 days
cart_items	Stores lottery tickets in your shopping cart	Essential	7 days
payment_session	Secures payment transaction processing	Essential	1 hour
csrf_token	Prevents cross-site request forgery attacks	Essential	Session
cookie_consent	Stores your cookie consent preferences	Preference	1 year
language_pref	Remembers your language selection	Preference	1 year
rg_limits	Stores responsible gaming limits and settings	Preference	Persistent
session_timer	Tracks session duration for responsible gaming alerts	Preference	Session
_ga	Google Analytics - distinguishes unique users	Analytics	2 years
_gid	Google Analytics - distinguishes unique users	Analytics	24 hours
_gat	Google Analytics - throttles request rate	Analytics	1 minute
marketing_pref	Personalizes lottery promotions and offers	Marketing	6 months

Third-Party Cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we use third-party services that may set cookies on your device:

Payment Processors: Stripe, PayPal, and other payment gateways use cookies to securely process transactions
Analytics Services: Google Analytics helps us understand how visitors use our website
Security Providers: Services that help protect against fraud and ensure platform security

Managing Your Cookies

You have full control over which cookies you accept. Here's how to manage your preferences.

Cookie Consent Banner

When you first visit our site, you'll see a cookie consent banner. You can choose to:

Accept all cookies for the full experience
Decline non-essential cookies
Review detailed cookie information

Browser Settings

All major browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings:

Block all cookies
Block third-party cookies only
Delete existing cookies
Set preferences for specific websites

Browser-Specific Cookie Instructions

Chrome

Manage cookies

Firefox

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Safari

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Edge

Manage cookies

Impact of Disabling Cookies

Blocking or deleting cookies may affect your ability to use certain features of our lottery platform.

What You Should Know

While you have the right to decline cookies, doing so may limit your ability to use our lottery services effectively. Here's what might be affected:

Essential Functionality Loss

Without essential cookies, you may not be able to:

• Log in to your account or stay logged in
• Add lottery tickets to your shopping cart
• Complete purchases or transactions
• Access age-restricted content

Personalization Impact

Without preference cookies, you'll lose:

• Your saved language and regional settings
• Personalized lottery game recommendations
• Your responsible gaming limit settings
• Customized dashboard preferences

Service Improvement Limitations

Without analytics cookies, we can't:

• Understand how to improve our services
• Identify and fix technical issues quickly
• Optimize website performance
• Provide the best user experience

Security Concerns

Blocking certain cookies may impact:

• Fraud detection and prevention systems
• Secure payment processing
• Account protection measures
• Two-factor authentication functionality

We recommend keeping essential cookies enabled to ensure proper functionality and security of our lottery platform.

Updates to This Policy

How we communicate changes to our cookie usage.

Policy Updates

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technology, legal requirements, or other factors. When we make significant changes, we will notify you through:

Email notification to registered users
Prominent notice on our website
Updated "Last Modified" date at the top of this policy

Last Updated: January 11, 2025

We recommend reviewing this Cookie Policy periodically to stay informed about how we use cookies. Your continued use of our lottery platform after policy updates constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.

Contact Us About Cookies

Have questions about our cookie usage? We're here to help.

Email Support

Send us your cookie-related questions or concerns

privacy@AussieJackpotZone.com

Contact Form

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Table of Contents

What Are Cookies?

Stored Locally

Time-Limited

Secure Data

How We Use Cookies

Essential Website Functionality

Age Verification

Payment Processing Security

Responsible Gaming Features

Analytics and Performance

Managing Your Cookies

Cookie Consent Banner

Browser Settings

Browser-Specific Cookie Instructions

Impact of Disabling Cookies

What You Should Know

Essential Functionality Loss

Personalization Impact

Service Improvement Limitations

Security Concerns

Updates to This Policy

Policy Updates

Last Updated: January 11, 2025

Contact Us About Cookies

Email Support

Contact Form

Related Policies

Cookie Preferences