Privacy Policy

Last updated: January 1, 2026. Welcome to stgerards.org.nz. We are committed to protecting your personal information and respecting your privacy in compliance with the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020 and relevant international data protection standards.

1. Information We Collect

While operating as an independent online gambling comparison platform, we may collect the following types of information:

• Personal Information: Name and email address, provided voluntarily when you subscribe to our newsletter or contact us directly.
• Device & Technical Data: Your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, operating system, and hardware identifiers.
• Usage Data: Pages visited, time spent on pages, referral sources, link clicks, and interaction patterns on stgerards.org.nz.
• Cookies: Small data files stored on your device to ensure core functionality and track affiliate referrals.

2. How We Use Information

We process your data for the following lawful purposes:

• Site Performance & Analytics: Analyzing traffic trends and user behaviour to optimize our content, reviews, and site speed.
• Affiliate Tracking: Generating and processing outbound tracking tokens to register referrals when you click links directing to partner casinos.
• Communications: Responding to inquiries and sending marketing updates (if you have explicitly opted in).
• Legal Compliance & Security: Detecting, preventing, and mitigating fraudulent activity, security vulnerabilities, or violations of our Terms of Service.

3. Cookie Policy

stgerards.org.nz utilizes various categories of cookies:

• Essential Cookies: Necessary for basic website navigation and security.
• Analytical Cookies: Help us measure audience engagement (e.g., Google Analytics).
• Affiliate Cookies: Track downstream clicks to third-party casino operators so we can receive commissions, without passing personally identifiable details to them.

You can manage, restrict, or delete cookies via your browser settings. Opting out of cookies may affect certain interactive elements of the website.

4. Third-Party Links

Our website features reviews, comparison charts, and outbound links to third-party online casinos, sportsbooks, and gaming providers. Once you leave stgerards.org.nz via an affiliate or external link, this Privacy Policy no longer applies. We exercise no control over, and accept no liability for, the privacy practices, terms, or data collection policies of external gambling operators. We urge you to review the privacy policy of any third-party website before providing them with personal details or depositing funds.

5. Your Rights

Depending on your location, you hold statutory rights regarding your personal information:

• New Zealand (Privacy Act 2020): You have the right to request access to and correction of any personal data we hold about you.
• European Economic Area & United Kingdom (GDPR / UK GDPR): Where applicable, you may request access, rectification, erasure ("right to be forgotten"), restriction of processing, data portability, or object to processing.
• United States (CCPA / CPRA & State Laws): Where applicable, residents may request disclosure of data categories collected, request deletion, and opt out of the sale or sharing of personal data (note: we do not sell personal data).

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details below.

6. Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purposes set out in this policy, satisfy legal or tax requirements, or resolve disputes. Aggregated and anonymized usage data containing no personal identifiers may be kept indefinitely for analytical and reporting purposes.

7. Contact Us

If you have questions, concerns, or requests concerning your privacy or this policy, please reach out to our Data Protection Officer:

Email: [email protected]
Website: stgerards.org.nz