Privacy Policy: What Data We Collect and Why Australia 2026 New
Cookies brief
We use a small set of first-party cookies to remember your preferences (for example, whether you have dismissed the age-check banner) and a short list of third-party cookies for analytics. You can clear or block any of these in your browser at any time, and the site will still work — you may just see the same notice twice. The detail is in the separate Cookie Policy page linked from the footer.
Cookies on this site are never used to profile you across the web or to show you retargeting ads. We do not run display advertising, we do not drop a Facebook pixel, and we do not share pseudonymous visitor identifiers with any ad network. If you see a cookie in your browser's developer tools whose purpose is not listed on the Cookie Policy page, email us — it either means our policy is out of date or something is wrong on our end, and both are worth fixing.
International transfers
Our site is hosted on a global content delivery network. That means a cached copy of a page you load from Melbourne might be served from a Sydney node, and analytics pings might be processed in the United States or the European Union. We do not transfer personal data to jurisdictions that are not covered by standard contractual clauses or an adequacy decision for Australian privacy law.
The CDN itself may log the IP address of the device that requests a page, together with the URL requested and the response size. That log is retained for 30 days for abuse-detection purposes (blocking scraper bots and credential-stuffing attempts), and is then deleted. We do not combine the CDN log with any other data source and we do not look at it in the normal course of running the site.
Your rights
Under the Australian Privacy Act, you can ask what personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, and ask us to delete it. Email the editorial desk at `hello [at] sky-city.bet` with the subject privacy request and we will reply within 30 days. We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it with any party for marketing purposes.
In practice, the only personal data we are likely to hold about you is: the email address you used if you ever wrote to the editorial desk, together with the message thread. We keep those for one year after the last reply, in case the conversation picks back up. If you want them deleted sooner, say so in your message and we will purge the thread when we close it.
Third parties
The third parties that can set cookies in your browser on this site are: our analytics provider (traffic and page views, no personal identifiers), our CDN (session security tokens), and the affiliate redirector on `/enter/` (click attribution). When you click a link that sends you to the Sky City operator, that is a separate domain with a separate privacy policy — please read it there.
If we change our third parties (for example, switch analytics providers or add a new CDN edge in a new region), the Cookie Policy page is updated first. Material changes also get a one-line note in the home-page news block for a week, so you can see what shifted without having to hunt through a diff.
What we collect
We collect the minimum needed to run the site: aggregated page views, referring page, country at country-level (not city), and device class (desktop or mobile). We do not collect your name, address, phone number, or any gambling activity — we have no way of knowing whether you signed up at Sky City, whether you deposited, or whether you won.
If you fill in a contact-form-equivalent email (that is, if you email the editorial desk at `hello [at] sky-city.bet`), we hold the email address, your message, and the reply. Nothing else.
Children
This site is strictly for adults aged 18 and over. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18 and we do not direct any content at minors. If you believe a minor has sent us information through the contact email, email us and we will delete it immediately. We also support parental-control tools and recommend them in the Responsible Gaming guide.
If you share the device you read this site on with a child, enable Family Link on Android, Screen Time on iOS, or a similar tool to block the gambling content category outright. That is a better safeguard than a cookie or a banner.
How we use
We use the aggregated data only to understand which guides are useful (pages people read for more than a few seconds), which ones need rewriting (high bounce), and to detect scraping or abusive bot traffic. We do not run retargeting ads based on your visit to this site, and we do not share the data with any third party for marketing.
Retention. Aggregated analytics are kept for 14 months, which is enough to compare this quarter against the same quarter last year. Raw server logs are kept for 30 days for abuse detection, then deleted. Email threads with the editorial desk are kept for one year after the last reply, or less if you ask us to delete them sooner.