Storage on your device

Four categories, two of them optional

Cookies at Wolf Winner: What Is Stored, Why, and How to Change It

The Short Answer on Control

Two of the four cookie categories used on the Wolf Winner site are optional, and you can switch them off whenever you like without losing your balance, your account or access to any game. Advertising cookies and analytics cookies fall in that group. The other two, the ones that hold your session and remember your settings, are what an account actually runs on, and turning them off signs you out.

That is the whole practical summary. The rest of this page explains what each category does in specific terms, how long each type survives, which ones come from other companies, and exactly where the setting lives in the browser you are reading this in.

Cookies in One Paragraph

A cookie is a small piece of text that a site asks your browser to keep. It usually holds nothing more interesting than a random string. When you request the next page, the browser sends that string back, and the site recognises it. Web connections have no memory of their own, so this is the mechanism that lets a site know the person opening a pokie is the same person who typed a password two clicks earlier. Everything else cookies are used for is built on top of that basic function.

The Four Categories, and What Each Does Here

Strictly necessary

These carry the authenticated session, protect forms against cross-site request forgery, keep the cashier consistent while a transaction is in progress, balance traffic between servers, and record which cookie choices you made so you are not asked on every page. Without them the site cannot tell one visitor from another, which means no sign-in, no balance and no deposit. They are not optional and no consent is sought for them, because they are the site rather than an addition to it.

Functionality

These remember decisions you have already made: language, whether the interface is in your preferred layout, which games you favourited, recently played titles, and whether you have dismissed a particular notice. Blocking them leaves the site working but forgetful, resetting your preferences on every visit.

Performance and analytics

These count and measure. They record which pages are opened, how long a page takes to become usable, where a journey stops before it finishes, and which errors occur on which browser. Reporting is aggregated, and its purpose is diagnostic: a checkout step that fails on one mobile browser is invisible without it. This category is consent-based and can be declined with no effect on gameplay.

Advertising and targeting

These record that you arrived from a particular campaign, prevent the same advertisement being served to you repeatedly, and measure whether a campaign led to a registration. They are set by or shared with advertising partners and are the category most people mean when they ask what is being tracked. They require consent, they are off unless you agree to them, and they can be withdrawn at any point.

How Long They Stay on Your Device

Session cookies exist only for as long as the browser is open. Close it, and they are gone. Your sign-in session is one of these, which is why quitting a browser on a shared computer logs you out.

Persistent cookies carry an expiry date and survive between visits, though the length varies a great deal by purpose. A language preference is set for a long stretch because asking again every visit would be irritating. A record of your consent choices lasts as long as that choice is treated as current. Analytics identifiers expire on a shorter cycle, and advertising identifiers shorter still in browsers that cap them.

No cookie is permanent. Every one carries an expiry, browsers enforce their own maximum lifespans regardless of what a site requests, and clearing your browsing data removes all of them immediately whatever date is attached.

Cookies Set by Other Companies

A first-party cookie comes from the domain in your address bar. A third-party cookie comes from a different domain whose content is embedded in the page. Both appear here, and the difference matters when you start blocking things.

Game studios. Every pokie in the lobby is served from the studio that made it, running inside a frame. The studio sets its own identifier so that a round can be tracked from start to settlement, an interrupted game can be resumed at the right point, and the result returned to your balance matches what happened on the reels. Blocking third-party cookies wholesale is the most common reason a game shows a loading spinner and never starts, or drops out mid-round.

Analytics services. Measurement providers operate across the site with their own identifiers to produce the aggregated reporting described above.

Advertising and attribution partners. These operate only where you have consented to the advertising category, and they exist to connect a campaign to an outcome rather than to build a profile of what you do inside your account.

Wolf Winner does not sell personal information, and cookie data is not passed to unrelated companies for their own purposes. Sharing is limited to the verified partners described above, each contracted for a specific function.

That is a narrower statement than "we never share data", and it is narrower on purpose, because a games lobby physically cannot work without the game studio recognising its own session. What the partner network does not include is a general market for your data. Nothing in the categories above is used to identify you to a third party outside that arrangement.

Changing Your Choice

The consent banner appears on your first visit and records what you selected. To revisit it later, open the cookie preferences link in the site footer, adjust the categories, and save. The change applies from that moment; previously stored cookies in a category you have just switched off are cleared by the browser when you delete site data, and are no longer set again.

Withdrawing consent takes the same effort as giving it. There is no confirmation chain and no reason to justify it, and none of it touches your ability to deposit, play or withdraw.

Before You Block Everything

Browsers offer a blanket option to refuse all cookies, and it is worth knowing what that does before you use it on this site.

You will not be able to stay signed in. Each page will treat you as a new visitor, so the account, the balance and the cashier become unreachable.
Games will not load reliably, because studio content depends on its own session identifier.
Preferences reset on every page, including the cookie notice itself, which will reappear constantly because the record of your dismissal cannot be stored.
Security protections that rely on matching a token to a session are weakened.

If your aim is to stop tracking rather than to break the site, decline the analytics and advertising categories in the preference panel and leave the necessary and functionality categories alone. That gets you the outcome you actually wanted.

Browser Settings, Step by Step

Every browser lets you inspect, delete and restrict cookies. The paths below are current for recent versions.

Google Chrome (desktop). Menu, then Settings, then Privacy and security. "Third-party cookies" holds the blocking options, including blocking third parties in Incognito only or everywhere. "Delete browsing data" clears cookies already stored, and "Site settings" lets you allow or block cookies for a single site rather than globally.

Safari (macOS). Safari menu, then Settings, then the Privacy tab. "Block all cookies" is the blanket switch, and "Manage Website Data" shows what is stored per site and removes individual entries. Safari applies its own cross-site tracking prevention on top of these settings by default.

Safari (iPhone and iPad). Open the Settings app, scroll to Apps, choose Safari, then Advanced. "Block All Cookies" is there, along with "Website Data" for clearing storage for a single site. On older versions of iOS, Safari appears directly in the Settings list rather than under Apps.

Mozilla Firefox. Menu, then Settings, then Privacy and Security. Enhanced Tracking Protection offers Standard, Strict and Custom; Custom lets you choose exactly which categories of cookie to block. Below it, "Cookies and Site Data" clears what is stored and can be set to clear automatically when Firefox closes.

Microsoft Edge. Menu, then Settings, then "Cookies and site permissions", then "Manage and delete cookies and site data". This is where blocking third-party cookies, allowing or blocking individual sites, and viewing stored data all live. Tracking prevention has its own entry under Privacy, search, and services.

Chrome and Firefox on Android. Both keep the controls under Settings, then Site settings, then Cookies, with the same per-site allow and block options as the desktop versions.

If you use several devices, the choice you make in one browser applies only to that browser. Cookie settings do not synchronise across devices even when your bookmarks do.

Cookies are not the only way information is kept in a browser, and the same rules of consent and control apply to these:

Local storage and session storage, which hold larger values than cookies and are used for interface state such as a partially completed form or the position of a carousel.
Pixels and tracking beacons, tiny transparent images inside a page or an email that register when the content loaded.
Software development kits inside embedded content, which set their own identifiers when a third-party component runs.

Clearing site data in your browser removes local and session storage along with the cookies.

Updates and Questions

This policy changes when the technologies in use change. The revised version is published here with a new effective date, and a change that materially affects what is collected or shared triggers a notice in your account at the next sign-in rather than a silent edit.

Questions about cookies, tracking, or what any individual identifier is doing can be raised through live chat inside your Wolf Winner account, which is staffed around the clock. Ask for the query to be logged as a data question so it reaches the team that can answer it in detail rather than being handled as a general enquiry. Broader data rights, including access and deletion, are covered in the privacy policy.