Cookie Policy

What This Policy Covers

This Cookie Policy explains how Jelly Bean Casino (operated by the entity holding licence OGL/2023/174/0082, registered at Level 17, 11/19 Customs Street West, Auckland CBD, Auckland 1010, New Zealand) uses cookies and similar tracking technologies when you visit https://jelly-bean-casino-nz.com/.

Reading this page takes about three minutes and tells you exactly what data is collected through cookies, why it is collected, and what you can do about it. If you have already read a cookie policy before and just want the practical controls, skip to the section on managing your preferences.

This policy sits alongside our Privacy Policy, which covers the broader picture of how we handle your personal information under the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020. Cookies are one part of that picture, and this page gives them the dedicated attention they deserve.

What Cookies Are

A cookie is a small text file that a website places on your device when you visit. It does not install software, cannot access files on your computer, and cannot carry viruses. What it does is remember information between page loads and between sessions, which is what allows a site to keep you logged in, remember your language setting, or count how many people visited a particular page.

Beyond cookies in the traditional sense, we also use similar technologies that work on the same principle: locally stored data that helps our site function and helps us understand how it is used. These include:

• Session storage – data that clears when you close your browser tab
• Local storage – data that persists across sessions, similar to a persistent cookie
• Pixel tags and web beacons – small image files embedded in pages or emails that register when a page or message has been opened
• Device fingerprinting signals – technical characteristics of your device and browser used to distinguish unique visitors

When this policy refers to “cookies,” it covers all of the above unless we specifically say otherwise.

Why We Use Cookies

Jelly Bean Casino uses cookies for four distinct purposes, and it is worth being clear about each of them rather than bundling everything under vague language about “improving your experience.”

Keeping the Site Working

Some cookies are strictly necessary for jelly-bean-casino-nz.com to function at all. Without them, you could not log in, your session would not persist between pages, and basic security features would not operate correctly. These cookies do not track your behaviour for marketing purposes and do not require your consent under New Zealand law because they are essential to delivering the service you have requested.

Examples of what strictly necessary cookies handle on our site:

• Maintaining your authenticated session after login so you are not asked to re-enter your credentials on every page
• Storing your current balance and account state during an active session
• Preventing cross-site request forgery by validating that form submissions originate from our own site
• Enforcing geographic access controls as required under our licence conditions
• Managing load balancing so your requests are directed to the correct server

Remembering Your Preferences

Functional cookies remember choices you have made so you do not have to make them again every visit. These are distinct from strictly necessary cookies in that they are not essential for the site to load, but they meaningfully affect the quality of your experience.

Functional cookies at Jelly Bean Casino handle things like:

• Your display language preference
• Your chosen currency (NZD) if you have selected it from a list
• Whether you have dismissed particular notifications or promotional banners
• Game lobby layout preferences you may have set
• Accessibility settings such as reduced motion or display contrast preferences

Understanding How the Site Is Used

Analytics cookies collect information about how visitors use jelly-bean-casino-nz.com. None of this data identifies you personally in isolation; it is aggregated across many users to give us a picture of which pages are visited most, where people typically leave the site, how long sessions last, and whether technical errors are occurring on particular devices or browsers.

This information is genuinely useful for improving the site. If our data shows that a significant portion of mobile users abandon the deposit page at a particular step, that is a signal to investigate whether a technical issue is causing friction. Without analytics cookies, we would be making decisions about the site based on guesswork rather than evidence.

The analytics data we collect includes:

• Pages visited and the sequence in which they were visited
• Time spent on individual pages
• The device type, operating system, and browser used to access the site
• Approximate geographic location (country or region level, not precise address)
• Referral source (how you arrived at our site, for example whether you came from a search engine or a direct link)
• Technical error events

Showing Relevant Promotions

Marketing cookies track your activity across websites to build a profile that is used to show you advertisements relevant to your interests. On jelly-bean-casino-nz.com itself, these cookies help us understand whether promotional campaigns are effective and whether you have already seen a particular offer.

We are an 18+ gambling platform operating under responsible gambling obligations. Our marketing cookies are therefore subject to additional controls: we do not use them to retarget users who have registered as self-excluded, and we apply frequency caps to avoid showing gambling advertisements to the same individual at a rate likely to cause harm.

Where marketing cookies are placed by third-party advertising networks, those networks have their own privacy policies that govern how the data they collect is used. Links to the relevant policies are included in the third-party section below.

Types of Cookies We Use

The table below lists the main categories of cookies active on jelly-bean-casino-nz.com, their purpose, and how long they remain on your device.

Strictly necessary cookies are active from the moment you load the site. All other categories require your consent before they are placed, which is why you see a cookie preference panel on your first visit.

Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies on jelly-bean-casino-nz.com are placed by third-party services that we use to operate the platform. We do not control these cookies directly; each third party governs the data collected through their own cookies according to their own privacy terms.

Analytics Providers

We use analytics tools to measure site performance and user behaviour. The data these services receive is governed by their respective data processing agreements with us and their own published privacy terms. Analytics providers process aggregated, non-identifying data and are not permitted under our agreements to use data collected from jelly-bean-casino-nz.com for their own advertising purposes.

Game Software Providers

The games available in our lobby are delivered by third-party studios including Play’n Go, Evolution, Playtech Live, PG Soft, Pragmatic Play, Spribe, BGAMING, and others. When you load a game, the game client may place its own cookies or use local storage for technical purposes such as saving your game state, storing sound preferences, or tracking performance metrics. These technical cookies are necessary for the games to function and are set by the game provider, not by Jelly Bean Casino directly.

Payment Processors

When you make a deposit or withdrawal using Visa, Mastercard, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Bitcoin, Ethereum, or USDT, the payment processing interface may set cookies required to complete the transaction securely. These cookies are strictly necessary for the payment process and are placed by the payment provider, not by us. Jelly Bean Casino does not have access to the full payment credentials you enter into processor-controlled interfaces.

Responsible Gambling Partners

We link to and integrate resources from Gambling Therapy and BeGambleAware. Visiting those external sites or interacting with embedded content from them is subject to those organisations’ own cookie and privacy policies.

Cookies and the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020

New Zealand does not have standalone cookie legislation of the type seen in some other jurisdictions, but the Privacy Act 2020 applies directly to how we collect and handle the personal information that cookies can generate or process.

Under the Privacy Act 2020, personal information means any information that could reasonably identify a living individual. A cookie ID on its own is typically not personal information, but combined with an email address, account details, or browsing history that is linked to an identified account, it can become so. We treat cookie-generated data accordingly and apply the Information Privacy Principles (IPPs) established under the Act.

The key obligations we observe in relation to cookies under the Privacy Act 2020 include:

• Collecting only the information that is necessary for the identified purpose (IPP 1)
• Collecting information by lawful means and, where practicable, directly from the individual (IPP 2 and IPP 3)
• Telling you why we are collecting information and how it will be used (IPP 3)
• Not using information for a purpose other than the one for which it was collected without further consent (IPP 10)
• Taking reasonable steps to protect information from loss, misuse, or unauthorised disclosure (IPP 5)
• Providing access and correction rights in relation to personal information we hold about you (IPP 6 and IPP 7)

New Zealand’s Privacy Commissioner has published guidance on online tracking and cookies, which we consider alongside the Act itself when reviewing our cookie practices.

Gambling-Specific Considerations

Jelly Bean Casino operates under licence OGL/2023/174/0082 and is subject to obligations under the Gambling Act 2003 in addition to the Privacy Act 2020. Several of our cookie practices reflect these obligations directly.

Age Verification

Cookies and session data are used as part of our age gate mechanism to record that a visitor has confirmed they are 18 or older before accessing gambling content. This information is held for session duration and does not substitute for the formal identity verification required before withdrawals are processed.

Self-Exclusion and Responsible Gambling Controls

If you have used the deposit limit, session limit, cool-off, or self-exclusion tools available through your Jelly Bean account settings, cookies are used to enforce those restrictions across your sessions. Specifically, if you are self-excluded, cookies help ensure that logged-in promotional content and personalised gambling offers are not presented to you. Clearing your cookies and logging back in does not override a self-exclusion that has been applied to your account; the restriction is stored at account level, not cookie level.

Marketing Restrictions

Under responsible gambling best practice, we do not use marketing cookies to retarget individuals who have self-excluded or who have used our responsible gambling tools to indicate they wish to reduce their gambling activity. If you have applied any such controls to your account, marketing cookies are suppressed for your profile.

How to Manage Your Cookie Preferences

You have several options for controlling which cookies are placed on your device. The most direct route is through our on-site preference panel, but browser-level controls and opt-out tools also exist.

Cookie Preference Panel

When you first visit jelly-bean-casino-nz.com, a cookie preference panel gives you the option to accept all cookies, accept only strictly necessary cookies, or customise your choices by category. You can update these preferences at any time by clicking the cookie settings link in the footer of any page on our site.

Withdrawing consent is as straightforward as giving it. If you decide after the fact that you no longer want analytics or marketing cookies active, you can change your selection through the preference panel and the relevant cookies will be deleted from your device at that point.

Browser Controls

Every major browser allows you to view, delete, and block cookies independently of what any individual site sets. The specific steps vary by browser, but the relevant settings pages for browsers commonly used in New Zealand are:

• Google Chrome cookie settings
• Mozilla Firefox cookie settings
• Apple Safari cookie settings
• Microsoft Edge cookie settings

Note that blocking all cookies through your browser will prevent strictly necessary cookies from operating, which means you will not be able to log in to your Jelly Bean account or use the site in any meaningful way. If you want to block non-essential cookies while keeping the site functional, use our preference panel rather than a blanket browser block.

Opting Out of Analytics

If you prefer not to have your site usage included in our analytics data, you can withdraw consent for analytics cookies via our preference panel. Some analytics providers also offer independent opt-out mechanisms; where these are available for services we use, they provide an additional layer of control beyond what our panel offers.

Opting Out of Interest-Based Advertising

New Zealand participates in the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out framework. If you prefer not to receive interest-based advertising from networks that participate in this framework, you can register your preference at the Your Online Choices platform. This does not stop all advertising; it limits the use of your data for interest-based targeting specifically.

Cookies and the Jelly Bean Mobile App

The Jelly Bean Casino mobile app, available on the App Store for iOS and Google Play for Android, uses equivalent technologies to cookies to deliver the same categories of functionality: session management, preference storage, analytics, and marketing attribution. On mobile devices, these are implemented through mobile-native storage mechanisms rather than browser cookies, but they serve the same purposes and are subject to the same consent framework.

When you install the app, you will be asked for certain device permissions. These permissions are separate from cookie consent but overlap in purpose. For example, analytics data collected through the app may include device identifiers, which are governed by both this policy and the platform-level privacy settings of your iOS or Android device. Both Apple and Google provide operating system-level controls for advertising tracking that apply to all apps on your device, including ours.

Data Retention

We do not keep cookie-generated data indefinitely. The retention periods that apply to different categories of data are:

• Session cookie data is deleted when you close your browser or end your session
• Persistent cookie data is retained for the duration specified in the cookie itself (typically between 30 days and 24 months depending on purpose) and then deleted automatically
• Analytics data collected through cookies is retained in aggregated form for up to 26 months, after which it is deleted or further anonymised
• Marketing attribution data is retained for up to 12 months

If you delete cookies from your device, any data held locally is removed immediately. Data that has already been transmitted to our servers or to third-party analytics providers is subject to the retention periods above rather than being deleted at the point you clear your browser.

Changes to This Policy

We review this Cookie Policy periodically and update it when our practices change, when new cookie categories are introduced, or when relevant legislation or regulatory guidance is updated. If changes are material, meaning they affect what data is collected or how it is used in a way that could matter to you, we will notify registered users via email to support@jelly-bean-casino-nz.com and display a notice on the site.

Continuing to use jelly-bean-casino-nz.com after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the revised policy for cookies that do not require explicit consent. For consent-based cookies, your previously recorded preferences remain in effect until you update them, and we will prompt you to review your choices when changes affect the categories you have consented to or declined.

Contact Us

Questions about this Cookie Policy or about how your data is handled more broadly can be directed to our support team. We aim to respond to all privacy-related queries within five working days.

• Email: support@jelly-bean-casino-nz.com
• Phone: +64 9 868 1504
• Post: Level 17, 11/19 Customs Street West, Auckland CBD, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
• Contact form: Contact Us page

If you believe we have not handled your personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act 2020, you also have the right to make a complaint to the Office of the New Zealand Privacy Commissioner at www.privacy.org.nz. We would ask that you contact us directly first so we have the opportunity to resolve any concern before it escalates to a formal complaint, but approaching the Commissioner directly is entirely your right.