Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy provides detailed information on how Royal Panda and its partners use cookies and similar technologies on the website royalpanda-nz.com. The purpose of this document is to ensure transparency regarding the collection and use of data when you interact with our platform. This policy is an integral part of our overall commitment to protecting your privacy and providing a secure, efficient, and personalised user experience.

Understanding Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. These files contain anonymous identifiers and other data that help a website function correctly, remember your preferences, and tailor content to your needs. They are a standard technology used by most modern websites to improve user navigation and overall service quality. None of the cookies we utilise are designed to collect personally identifiable information such as your name, address, or email, and they cannot be used to identify you as an individual.

Types of Cookies We Utilise

To deliver our services effectively, we employ different categories of cookies, each designed to perform a specific function. This categorization helps to clarify the purpose of each technology and gives you a better understanding of how your data contributes to the functionality and improvement of our platform. The subsequent sections provide a detailed explanation of each type of cookie we use, their purpose, and the information they collect.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

For the core operation of our platform, certain technologies are essential to enable navigation and provide access to the features you request. These are fundamental to the functionality of the website, allowing it to perform its basic tasks, such as providing content and processing user actions. Without these, critical services like managing your bet slip or staying logged in to your account would not be possible. The primary functions these technologies perform are:

To correctly position information on your device’s screen for optimal viewing and interaction.
To maintain your logged-in status throughout your session, so you are not required to log in repeatedly.
To identify traffic originating from our affiliate partners, ensuring correct attribution.
To remember and update your selections in your bet slip during a live session until you place your bet.

Functionality Cookies

To provide a more personalised and enhanced user experience, specific identifiers are employed to remember your choices and settings from previous visits. These technologies improve the platform’s functionality by storing your preferences, which allows us to offer more tailored features and a more seamless interaction. By recalling your settings, we can ensure that your experience is consistent and aligned with your personal choices each time you return. These cookies support a range of functionalities including:

Remembering your preferences and settings, such as language, location, and marketing choices.
Recalling if you have previously used a specific product or feature on the platform to avoid repetition.
Displaying relevant “related article” links to enhance your content discovery experience.

Performance Cookies

To continuously improve our platform, we analyse aggregated statistical information about how visitors interact with our website. These technologies collect anonymous data on website usage, which is then used for internal purposes to test and enhance performance, ultimately providing a better user experience. This data helps us understand which parts of our platform are most effective, identify any errors, and measure the impact of our advertising efforts. The key purposes of these analytical tools are:

To generate aggregated statistics on how our platform is used by visitors.
To assess the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns through anonymous data.
To identify and evaluate any errors or performance issues within the user journey.
To gather anonymised browser information for broad analytical purposes.

Marketing and Targeting Cookies

For the delivery of advertisements that are relevant to your interests, tracking technologies are utilised to record your visit, the pages you have viewed, and the products you have selected. This information helps us and our third-party advertising partners make our website and the advertising displayed on other platforms more relevant to you. These technologies also help us measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns and limit the number of times you see a particular advertisement. The main applications of these targeting technologies include:

Collecting information about your browser habits to target website content and advertising.
Linking to social media networks, which may use this information to target advertising to you on their platforms.
Providing advertisers with information about your visit so they can present you with more relevant advertisements.
Performing geotargeting to display our advertisements on third-party websites based on your location.
Enabling site and search retargeting, which displays our advertisements on other websites based on your previous browsing and search activities.

How We Use Cookie Information

The data collected through these technologies serves several key operational and analytical purposes, all of which are aimed at improving the security, functionality, and relevance of our services. We use this information to optimise the user experience, prevent fraudulent activity, and ensure our marketing efforts are effective and well-directed. We do not sell any information collected via cookies. The primary applications for the data we collect are:

To assist new customers during the account sign-up process.
To allow customers to set and save their website preferences.
To enable more efficient navigation between different pages of the platform.
To ensure the optimal functionality of all website features.
To gather information about user activity to understand how the platform is used.
To detect and prevent fraudulent use of our services.
To track how users arrive at our platform for marketing attribution and referral purposes.
To deliver more relevant advertising to users on other websites and mobile applications.

Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You have full control over the use of cookies on your device. We provide tools on our platform, and you can also use your web browser settings to manage your preferences effectively. It is important to note that disabling or refusing certain cookies may impact the functionality of our website and your overall user experience. In some cases, you may not be able to log in to your account if essential cookies are disabled. The following options are available for managing your cookie settings:

Browser Settings: You can configure your web browser to notify you before a cookie is placed, to refuse all cookies, or to refuse only third-party cookies. You can also remove any cookies that have already been stored. These settings must be adjusted for each browser and device you use.
Platform Consent Tool: When you first visit our platform, you will be presented with a cookie consent tool. This tool allows you to accept all cookies, reject non-essential cookies, or customise your preferences based on the cookie categories described in this policy.

Opting Out of Targeting: For third-party marketing and targeting cookies, you can often opt out directly through the third-party advertising network or by using industry-wide opt-out platforms.