1. Who we are
Aussino.org is an independent online-casino review publication that lives at the domain aussino.org. For the purposes of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles that sit inside it, we are the entity responsible for the personal information described on this page. We do not run any gambling site of our own, we do not open or hold player accounts, and no deposit, wager, bonus balance or withdrawal ever moves through any system that we operate.
2. Personal information we handle
Our approach is to gather only what is genuinely needed to keep the website running and to reply to readers who write to us. In short:
- The only personal information we actually hold on file is whatever you decide to send through the contact form or by email. If you have never got in touch, we quite simply have no record of you.
- Anonymised, aggregate analytics tell us which articles are being read and, at the country or state level, roughly where visitors are browsing from, without ever singling out an individual person.
- Ordinary web-server logs briefly capture IP addresses to protect the site against abuse.
- A small handful of cookies remember your consent choice and a couple of basic display preferences.
We never take payment details of any kind, we never ask for identification documents, we do not build advertising profiles against individual readers, and we do not sell, rent, trade or otherwise hand personal information over to third parties.
3. What we keep, why and for how long
| Type of information | Why we hold it | How long we keep it |
|---|---|---|
| Contact-form and email correspondence (your name, email address and message body) | So we can reply to you and, when the feedback is relevant, tighten up the site | Erased 24 months after the last message in the thread |
| Aggregated site analytics (pages visited, referring URL, country or region, device category) | To see which guides are actually being read and where the writing or layout could be sharper | Up to 14 months at the raw level, kept only in aggregate after that |
| Web-server logs (IP address, timestamp, requested URL) | Blocking scrapers and spam, investigating outages, keeping the hosting stack healthy | A rolling 30-day window |
| Cookie-consent record | So the banner does not pop up again once you have already answered it | 12 months, or until you clear your browser storage |
4. How the Australian Privacy Principles apply
The Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and its thirteen Australian Privacy Principles set out how personal information must be collected, used, disclosed, secured and disposed of in this country. In practice we lean on two straightforward footings and nothing else:
- Consent (APP 3 and APP 6). Nothing beyond the strictly necessary cookies ever loads until you have said yes on the consent banner. Analytics collection, in particular Matomo and Microsoft Clarity, only fires once that consent has been given, and you can withdraw it at any time by revisiting the banner.
- Reasonable business need (APP 3, APP 5 and APP 11). When you email us, we clearly need your address and message content in order to write back; the same principle covers the short-lived server logs that keep the site secure and the strictly necessary cookies that make it work at all.
5. Cookies, Matomo and Clarity
The cookies we set are kept intentionally light. The strictly necessary ones fire on every visit because the site cannot function without them; analytics and functional cookies only fire after you have said yes on the consent banner. A cookie-by-cookie inventory is maintained on our Cookies page. On the analytics side we rely on two named tools: Matomo for basic page-view measurement, configured with IP anonymisation switched on, and Microsoft Clarity for anonymised heatmaps and session recordings that help us see where the layout confuses readers. Both tools operate against pseudonymised session identifiers, both stop at the border of the browser you are currently on, and both can be disabled from the same consent banner that turned them on.
6. Third parties and affiliate tracking
A handful of the site's behind-the-scenes features rely on trusted external suppliers. Each of them only gets the exact information it needs to do its narrow job, and each is covered by contractual terms that are compatible with the Australian Privacy Principles or by an equivalent legal safeguard.
- Hosting. A reputable hosting provider serves the site itself and briefly holds ordinary access logs for security reasons.
- Email. Anything sent to hello@aussino.org lands with a business-grade email provider covered by a signed data-processing agreement.
- Analytics. Matomo and Microsoft Clarity collect aggregated, anonymised traffic and interaction data, and only after you have given consent.
- Affiliate outbound tracking. When you click a "Play now", "Visit site" or similar outbound button to reach an operator, that click is routed via a tracking link so the operator, or its affiliate network, can attribute a subsequent registration back to Aussino.org. The information that crosses over is transactional only, typically the click itself and a campaign identifier, and any account you then open sits entirely with the operator under the operator's own privacy policy from the second you land on their site.
7. Your rights under the APPs
If you are located in Australia, or anywhere else that offers roughly equivalent protection, you have the right to:
- Ask what we hold about you, in line with APP 12 on access to personal information.
- Have inaccurate or outdated information corrected, in line with APP 13 on correction.
- Request erasure of any personal information we keep on you. A simple email to hello@aussino.org is enough; once we have verified the request, we action it within the 30-day window that the OAIC treats as the standard response period.
- Object to or ask us to restrict a particular use of your information, for instance withdrawing the site from an analytics profile.
- Withdraw your analytics consent at any moment from the cookie banner, with no impact on any other part of your visit.
- Obtain a copy of your correspondence in a common, machine-readable format so you can take it elsewhere.
- Complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) at oaic.gov.au if you feel we have not lived up to the APPs. Australian residents can also reach the OAIC on 1300 363 992.
8. Contacting us
For any privacy-related question, an access or correction request, or a concern about the way we have treated your information, drop us a line at hello@aussino.org. Please include enough context for us to actually locate your records, usually the email address you first wrote in from together with any relevant dates, and spell out clearly what outcome you would like us to arrive at. We aim to acknowledge every message within a few business days and to complete verified requests inside the 30-day OAIC window mentioned above.
9. Revisions to this notice
We come back to this page whenever our tooling changes or whenever the underlying law shifts. Any material rewrite refreshes the last-updated date shown at the top of the notice, and the previous wording is kept in our own archive should you ever need to compare versions. The wording currently on public display carries the date 3 September 2026.