Privacy Policy
Last updated: January 2026
Welcome to shopbaysiderum.com. We provide independent reviews, comparisons, and information regarding online gambling sites in New Zealand. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you access or interact with our website.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect and process the following categories of information:
- Directly Provided Information: Name, email address, or other contact details you submit voluntarily via newsletter sign-ups or contact forms.
- Technical & Network Data: Your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, operating system, and geographic location.
- Usage & Behavioral Data: Information regarding how you navigate our site, pages viewed, time spent on pages, referral sources, and interactions with outbound links.
- Cookies: Small data files stored on your device that help us monitor and analyse web traffic.
2. How We Use Information
We process your personal information for lawful and legitimate business purposes, including:
- Site Optimization: Monitoring site traffic and user engagement to improve user experience, content quality, and website performance.
- Affiliate Tracking: Generating and processing outbound tracking links to verify referrals to third-party casino operators.
- Communications: Responding to your direct inquiries or sending relevant updates if you have opted in to receive them.
- Security & Fraud Prevention: Protecting our infrastructure, identifying suspicious activity, and ensuring website integrity.
3. Cookie Policy
Our website utilizes cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your browsing experience.
- Essential Cookies: Necessary for the basic technical operation and security of the website.
- Performance & Analytics Cookies: Gather anonymous, aggregated data on how visitors interact with our content (e.g., Google Analytics).
- Affiliate/Tracking Cookies: Placed when you click an outbound link to an online casino, enabling the operator to record that you were referred by our site.
You can adjust, manage, or disable cookies at any time via your browser settings. Please note that disabling cookies may affect your browsing experience or certain functionalities of the website.
4. Third-Party Links
shopbaysiderum.com contains outbound hyperlinks to third-party online casinos, sportsbooks, and affiliate networks. We do not own, operate, or control these external platforms. Once you click an outbound link and leave our domain, your data is governed by the respective privacy policies and terms of those third-party operators. We accept no responsibility or liability for their independent data handling practices.
5. Your Rights
Depending on your location, you hold statutory rights regarding your personal data:
- New Zealand (Privacy Act 2020): You have the right to request access to the personal information we hold about you and request correction of that information if it is inaccurate.
- European Economic Area / UK (GDPR/UK GDPR): Where applicable, you hold rights to access, rectification, erasure ("right to be forgotten"), restriction of processing, data portability, and objection 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 information.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided below.
6. Data Retention
We retain collected personal information only for as long as strictly necessary to fulfill the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. Technical log data and anonymized analytics are routinely purged or permanently de-identified.
7. Contact Us
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our data management practices, please contact our Data Protection representative at:
Email: privacy@shopbaysiderum.com