Cookie Policy
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Cookies are small text files a website stores in your browser. They remember settings, hold a session together, or measure how pages perform. This page covers what cookies northstar-bet.ca sets, the reason behind each one, and where third-party cookies fit in.
northstar-bet.ca is an independent review and comparison site — not a casino, not a sportsbook. There’s no wallet running here, no player funds sitting in an account, no bet processing. That framing matters because it caps what our own cookies can (and cannot) do. Background on who runs the site is in our NorthStar Bets review; read it alongside the Terms & Conditions.
What cookies we use
- Essential cookies. These are what keeps the site working. A session identifier so pages load in a consistent state; a small cookie storing your consent choice so the banner doesn’t reappear on every visit; preference cookies for things like a language or region toggle. The site can’t run properly without them, so they aren’t subject to opt-in.
- Analytics cookies. We run privacy-focused analytics to see aggregated visitor data: which pages get read, session length, roughly where traffic comes from. Report-level aggregation only — nothing here is used to identify an individual reader. Cookie names you may see include
_gaand related identifiers when a standard analytics provider is in use. - Affiliate-tracking cookies. When you tap a CTA that goes out to the operator, the affiliate network drops a cookie so the referral gets attributed to this site under a standard last-click model. What that cookie does: tells the network the click came from northstar-bet.ca. What it does not do: give us any access to your account, deposit history, game history, identity documents, or any other data you share with the operator after registration. If a commission gets earned later on a referred signup, the payout is calculated by the network from its own records, not from anything sitting in your browser.
Cookies the operator sets
The moment you follow a CTA and land on the operator’s own site, it starts setting its own cookies — session state, KYC-flow markers, marketing pixels, whatever the platform uses. Those live under the operator’s domain, are governed by the operator’s privacy and cookie policies, and sit outside the scope of this document. If you want to control them, that means either the operator’s own settings or your browser controls after the redirect.
Managing cookies
Every modern browser lets you view, block or delete cookies from a settings panel. Chrome puts the controls under Privacy and security → Cookies and other site data. Firefox tucks them into Settings → Privacy & Security. Safari’s equivalent is Preferences → Privacy. Edge, Brave and other Chromium-based browsers follow much the same pattern.
You can:
- Block third-party cookies globally, which will disable most affiliate tracking and much of the analytics data.
- Clear cookies on exit, which resets consent state and any preferences on every visit.
- Enable a Do Not Track signal — we honour it for analytics where the provider supports it, though not every third party respects DNT.
- Opt out of analytics at the provider level (for example, Google’s browser add-on for opting out of Analytics).
Blocking essential cookies may break parts of the site — the consent banner reappearing, preferences resetting on every visit. Blocking analytics and affiliate cookies has no effect on the content you see.
Legal basis (PIPEDA)
Under PIPEDA — Canada’s federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act — any personal information collected through cookies is handled on a consent basis and limited to the purposes described here and in our Privacy Policy. Essential cookies operate on implied consent since the site can’t run without them. Analytics and affiliate cookies run on the choice you make in the consent banner, and you can revisit that choice any time by clearing this site’s cookies in your browser.
Cookie data is not sold, and it doesn’t get merged with information from elsewhere to build an individual profile of you.
Changes to this policy
This Cookie Policy may be updated from time to time — say, if we swap analytics providers or add a new affiliate partner. Material changes will show up on this page. No mailing list goes out for updates, so if this is something you follow, drop by periodically.
Contact
See our Privacy Policy for the contact procedure covering any question about cookies, data handling, or a request to access or delete information we hold.