1. Cookie Notice
We, GSH Online Media, may start collecting data directly from your device as soon as you access the SlotsCalendar NZ website, products, services, or content.
We use these cookies for various reasons. This cookie policy aims to define and clarify cookies, ensuring you understand their nature and types of usage. It’s also our aim to inform you about the cookie types we use, but also how you can manage them yourself.
We will request your consent to visit them upon your first visit to our website. We will do so even if the cookies are not essential for our operations, but are important for the provision of services.
The SlotsCalendar NZ Privacy Policy also applies, including for the information that we collect via these cookies. We will make further clarifications within this cookie policy.
2. About Cookies
We will start with an introduction to cookies.
By definition, cookies are small text files stored by your device upon firstly entering a website. They entail details such as stored preferences, previously used devices, or other interactive actions with said website. The purpose of this information is to gather data and help improve your navigation experience.
Cookies work by ensuring the highest level of effectiveness for the website’s features, functions, and content. Once these cookies are in place, your browser will store them and use them every time you re-enter the website.
In general, cookies do not contain data that would directly identify you. At the same time, we may associate cookie-generated data with information that we’ve obtained about you.
You have the right to disable certain cookies, or to just change up specific cookie interactions. For privacy considerations, we provide such modification optionality.
Please note that modifying and restricting certain cookies may impact several key aspects of our website, including how our services perform and the overall navigation experience. We will provide you with a guide on how to manage cookies in Section 4.
3. Cookies Used on Our Website
At SlotsCalendar NZ, we use both persistent and session cookies.
Persistent cookies are those that remain on your devices until they either expire or are manually removed. Their purpose is to recognise returning website visitors and store details about them. Among them are login credentials and website preferences, helping you retain the personalised experience on a website.
Session cookies are those that your device stores temporarily, and only while you use a website. Since their purpose is to improve your navigation experience, they will remember your preferences only during that session of visiting a website.
There is also a specific method to place cookies in certain categories, among them being:
First-party cookies — their usage is for establishing a straightforward experience that will also prove useful.
Third-party cookies — their most usual users are external services and providers; they use them for specific purposes, such as gathering data for analytics and advertisement considerations.
Please note that cookie usage can have various objectives. However, we, SlotsCalendar NZ, only use those that belong to the following categories.
3.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies
We use strictly necessary cookies because they are crucial for our website to function properly. Their main objectives are to enable standard features, among them being:
Our ability to provide helpful content
Maintaining our website’s high level of security
Delivering services and/or products upon request.
Yet another feature of cookies that are strictly necessary is to help the loading and streaming of information, easing these processes. This makes them indispensable for how we provide access to SlotsCalendar NZ, not to mention the consolidation of services.
This category of cookies also helps with the login procedure, which can be important for either traditional logs or just for anonymous sessions.
The main thing about these cookies is that you cannot disable them. They do not require or hold any personal information, but they are essential in setting up basic website features.
3.2. Functional Cookies
Functional cookies are important because they’re the ones that recognise your device once you return to our website. They will also reinstate your preferences and help with the overall performance of our website, which improves your user experience during navigation.
Among their features, you’ll find that functional cookies help with:
How we store specific details related to your navigation experience, such as language and other website settings
Personalisation elements for how you navigate the website.
Both we, SlotsCalendar NZ, and trusted third-party service providers appearing on our website have access to the functional cookies. Please remember that disabling may lead to certain features and/or services not working as expected or intended.
3.3 Performance Cookies
Performance cookies have the purpose of providing us with analytical data about your interactions with SlotsCalendar NZ. They only identify you after you log in. They can also collect anonymised browser data and generate statistics that help us understand your website usage.
Their primary function is to use performance cookies internally. Using them allows us to create assessments in the interest of better SlotsCalendar NZ functionality. As a result, they are conducive to experience improvements.
There may also be cases when we allow third-party services to manage performance cookies. They would do so on our behalf and as part of performance analysis objectives. They do not have the clearance to use them in any other way.
Please note that personal identification is not a method of performance cookie usage.
You can still choose to disable performance cookies. The direct effect is that we will not be able to generate accurate performance measurements and analysis. The indirect effect is that it will hinder our ability to improve our website and the experience that it generates.
3.4 Targeting Cookies
Targeting cookies are those that keep a record of your visits to SlotsCalendar NZ, creating a log of the pages that you access and the items that you interact with while on our website.
Their main ability is to provide us with data that helps with how we customise and optimise website content and preference-based ads, tailored to your showcased interests.
These cookies are courtesy of our advertisement partners. They set up these targeting cookies and use the generated data to build and define your preferences in order to create a better consumer platform. They are particularly good at providing relevant ads that will appear across the websites that you’re using.
There are several other target cookie functions:
They provide us with marketing content and communications that will match your preferences.
They limit the frequency at which certain types of ads will appear.
They provide insights that help in the assessment of specific advertisement campaigns.
Please note that targeting cookies will recognise both your browser and device, but do not store personal information.
Additionally, disabling targeting cookies will not block ads. You will still see them, but they will not be as relevant and targeted to your interests.
4. Managing Cookies
You have the right to either accept or reject cookies. If you want to make any modifications, you’ll need to erase existing cookies or adjust your browser settings regarding cookie usage.
Before you make such a step, please consider that cookie modifications apply to all websites that you use on that browser, with SlotsCalendar NZ being one of them. General modifications can appear when you manually block cookies for certain websites as well.
If you use multiple browsers, each of them will have its own set of cookie settings that will require your attention if you want to customise them.
One last detail to mention is the ability/desire to block or erase cookies for our website only. This can trigger effects like the inability to use certain parts of SlotsCalendar NZ. A notable example is when you block session cookies, which will impact your ability to log in right away.
Managing Cookies in Popular Browsers
If you are to manage cookies within certain popular browsers, you may want to check out this list of reference points that we’ve prepared for you:
Certain developers have very clear tutorials on how to manage cookies within their browsers. Follow their instructions for a quick resolution on this topic.
Moreover, Google Analytics keeps a tracker that you can opt out of if you visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Once again, this tracker applies to all websites, and opting out of it will impact all the sites that use Google Analytics.
We would like to invite you to check out more reference points about cookies, including their management and transparency details.
If you want to understand the complete picture of how GSH Online Media, via its SlotsCalendar NZ brand, manages and protects your personal information, we’d like to invite you once again to consult our SlotsCalendar NZ Privacy Policy.
