Privacy Policy and Cookies

When you interact with us at HeadlineCasinos.com (the "Site") you do so in trust in a number of ways. We value this trust placed in us and will always uphold its sanctity. One of the ways you impose faith in us is by sharing personal information. We have created a comprehensive Privacy Policy to demonstrate that we value your privacy. The Privacy Policy and the General Terms and Conditions of the Site describe in detail how we collect and process personal data. We request you to carefully read and understand these and contact us should you need any clarifications. By visiting our Site you are granting consent to the practices and terms laid out in this Privacy Policy.

1. Personal Data

a. Personal data refers to information about a person that can be used to identify that person. It does not include anonymous data from which the identity of the person cannot be determined.

b. Our designated data controller will be glad to answer any questions that you may have in this regard. You may contact at http://www.headlineCasinos.com/contact/.

2. How We Collect Personal Data

Users interact with us in different ways. For each there is a different mechanism of collecting and processing personal and anonymous data.

a. Browsing through the Site

Each time you visit our Site, whether you are a registered user or not, the following data may automatically be collected.

• Technical information: This information is non-personal. However, it is accorded the same level of security and protection as personal information. This data will be used only for internal analysis of user trends. The objective is to optimise the Site for offering the best online experience. The technical information collected will include:
  • Internet Protocol (IP) address used by your computer to connect to the Internet
  • Login information
  • Device used
  • Your location
  • Your time zone
  • Operating system and platform
  • Browser type and version
  • Browser plug-in details
  • Your internet service provider (ISP)
• Additional technical information for mobile device:
  • Your mobile carrier information
  • Unique device id number.
• Information about your visit to the Site:
  • Full Uniform Resource Locators (URL)
  • Page interaction information
• Information received from cookies
• Information collected through data analytics: The Site uses its own analytics tools and third party analytics providers to collect data from analytics platforms. The information collected includes:
  • Information on the Operating System of your device
  • Your geolocation through Internet Protocol address
  • Access times
  • Browser type
  • Language
  • Website you visited before our site.

b. Opting in for Our Newsletter

If you opt to receive our email newsletter, which may contain information on our promotions, we will store your name and email address on our records. Then you will regularly receive the newsletter through email.

At any time, you may opt out of receiving the email newsletter. The instructions for doing so will be available in the emails. Even after you have opted out, we may send non-promotional emails. For example, these may include important information about your account.

c. Creating a User Account

• When you register with the Site and create a free online User Account we will collect information from you. This is in addition to the information stated in Clause 2(a) above. The information includes:
  • Name
  • Date of birth
  • Email address
  • Username
  • Country
  • IP address
• If you exercise the option ‘Register with Facebook’, then you will be consenting to share the registration information available in your Facebook profile, including your email address, status updates and contacts list. For more clarity on how Facebook uses and processes your data when you access the Site through them, you will need to contact Facebook.

d. Contacting us

When you contact the customer support team at the Site for any assistance, we may record the information you furnish at that time.

3. How Personal Data Is Used at the Site

a. The Site Mainly Uses Personal Data for the following:

• Marketing Communications: In order to get maximum leverage from the Site, you need to be abreast of the latest developments. With this in mind we will keep you informed of announcements, updates and other relevant events that will be of help. This information will be delivered through email and other forms of electronic communications only under the following circumstances.
  • You have opted to receive this information while registering at the Site.
  • You have changed the settings in your User Account to permit us to send this information.
  You may, whenever you wish to, opt out of receiving communication from the Site by changing the settings in your User Account or by following the unsubscribe link in the email.
• The Site offers promotions like competitions and raffles from time to time. When you choose to participate in such events, we use your personal data to administer these promotions.

b. Account Verification:

The Site may use your personal data to verify your account information in the event the need arises.

c. Personal Interest Advertising

The Site endeavours to provide you with advertisements based on your interests. For this it uses personal data collected in the following ways.

• Personal data collected through your interactions at the Site
• Personal data collected by analytics platforms
• Personal data collected through cookies.

You can opt out of receiving these personalised ads.

4. Categories of Personal Data Held

The personal data that the Site collects can be grouped as follows:

• Identity Data: title, first name, maiden name, last name, username, gender, marital status, date of birth, employment status, occupation.
• Contact Data: residential address, email address, telephone number
• Technical Data: IP address, login data, browser type and version, time zone and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform
• Profile Data: username, password (encrypted), login times, logout times
• Usage Data: how you use the Site
• Marketing and Communications Data: your preferences in receiving marketing information, through which medium you prefer to receive the communication

5. Lawful Basis for Processing Personal Data

There is absolutely nothing unlawful in the way we use personal data as set out in the above clauses. In order to be completely transparent we have created a table that describes the different ways we use personal data. Against each of these, the table clarifies the legal basis for doing so and our legitimate interests for the activities.

Purpose	Category of data	Legal basis and legitimate interest
Registration as a new user	(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile	(a) Essential for our legitimate interests like keeping our records updated
Managing interactions with you, including: (a) Notifying changes to our Terms ofUseand PrivacyPolicy (b) Maintaining your User Account with us	(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d)Marketing and Communications	(a) Essential for contractual performance with you (b) Essential for our legitimate interests like keeping ourrecords updated
Sending newsletters and other promotional material	(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Usage (e)Marketing and Communications	(a) The legal basis is your consent allowing us to send direct marketing material.
Administering the Site and protecting our business, including: troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data	Technical	(a) Essential for our legitimate interests like · running our business · providing administration and IT services · providing network security · for business restructuring when needed
Delivering useful content and advertisements. Measuring the effectiveness of theadvertisements hosted.	(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Usage (e)Marketing and Communications (f) Technical	(a) Essential for our legitimate interests like · defining types of users · keeping the Site updatedand relevant · for business development
Using data analytics to improve our products and services, including: website, marketing offers, customer relationships and online experiences	(a) Technical (b) Usage	(a) Essential for our legitimate interests like expanding business through suggestions delivered via the Site. (b) The legal basis is your consent allowing us to send direct marketing material.
Recommending products that may interest you	(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Technical (d) Usage (e) Profile (f)Marketing and Communications	(a) Essential for our legitimate interests like expanding business through suggestions delivered via the Site. (b) The legal basis is your consent allowing us to send direct marketing material.

6. Cookies & Analytics

a. Cookies

The Site uses cookies. A cookie is a short code that the Site puts on your computer when you access it. Cookies enable us to distinguish between different users of the Site. This facilitates us in providing you with a personalised experience when you access our site. When we put together the browsing behaviour of all the users, we are able to make general improvements to the Site.

Because this is an important topic, we have a separate Cookie Notice.

b. Analytics

The Site also uses analytics. We mostly use Google Analytics and Matomo Analytics, which are the top platforms. But we also use other analytics providers as and when required. And the process applies to both registered users and casual visitors. One of the main purposes of using analytics is to place suitable advertisements on the Site and on other web sites that you may visit afterwards. We and the analytics providers use first party cookies and third party cookies.

We explain more about our major analytics providers.

i. Google Analytics

1. Google Analytics tracks and reports traffic on websites, including our Site. This data is shared with other Google services and used to selectively place the ads of its own advertising network.
2. Specifically, the Site uses Google Analytics’ 3rd-party audience data such as age, gender and interests. This helps us become familiar with our customers. The Site also collaborates with companies that collect information about your online activities so that you get to see ads suited to your interests when you visit us. Similarly, Google Analytics may place our ads on other sites that you visit based on data collected by us and them, including data collected through cookies. Google Analytics will also collect data when you click on advertisements on the Site.
3. There can be no doubt that this process increases the effectiveness of our marketing efforts and gives you a better online experience. However, if you are not comfortable with this, you can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize the Google Display Network ads by visiting the Google Ads Settings page (https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated). As a further precaution you can install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on for your browser (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout). This will prevent your data from being collected and used by Google Analytics when you surf the Internet.

7. Disclosure of Personal Data to Third Parties

a. The Site does not trade, share, transfer or disclose any of your personal data to any third party, except in the following circumstances.

• Information may be disclosed as stated in this Privacy Policy
• Information may be disclosed as required by and in accordance with applicable laws.

b. From time to time the Site ties-up with companies who provide services and promotions that are of value to you in our opinion. In order to improve your experience we will offer such services and promotions of these companies.

c. The Site also reserves the right to provide information on sales, traffic and other statistical data relating to the Site to third parties. This may include data on how you have used the Site. However, in no case will we reveal your identity.

d. We may also provide your personal data to our affiliates or related companies for legitimate business reasons.

e. Any time in the future, the Site may undergo a merger, reorganisation or sale. In such eventualities we may transfer personal and non-personal information available with us to the relevant third parties. However, the Site will inform users before such a transaction is entered into.

f. We may release your personal data in case we are compelled to do so by law.

g. We do not provide any warranty against the use of your personal data by third party sites linked to and from the Site.

8. Your Rights under Data Protection Laws

This clause notifies you of your rights with regard to your personal information under data protection laws.

a. Access to your personal data: You have the right to access your personal data stored by the Site. We shall comply with any reasonable request made by you in this regard. If your access request involves a large amount of effort at our end, we reserve the right to charge a fee to cover the costs as provided under the applicable law.

b. Correction of your personal data: You have the right to augment incomplete data or correct any inaccurate data we hold about you. We could ask for documents to verify the correctness of the new information provided by you.

c. Deletion of your personal data: You have the right to ask us to delete any personal data that we hold about you in the following conditions.

• You can ask us to remove personal data from our records if there is no reason for the Site to continue holding or processing such information.
• You can also ask us to delete all your personal data held at the Site. We would then require you to close your account with us.

In either of the above cases, we may be subject to legal requirements that do not allow us to immediately delete part or all of your personal data in our records. Under legislation like Anti-Money Laundering laws we are required to retain the data for specified periods. However, we will process your request to delete personal information from our records as soon as the applicable data retention period expires.

d. Objection to processing of personal data:

• You have a right to object to our processing of personal data even when we, or our designated third party, have a legitimate interest in doing so. You may want to object to this information processing on the perceived ground that it violates your fundamental rights and freedoms. We may then show that our legitimate reasons for processing your personal data override your rights and freedoms.
• You also have the right to object to our processing your personal data for direct marketing. In that case we request you to uncheck the relevant check box for direct marketing. Ideally you should do it before creating a User Account. But you can also uncheck it at a later date by changing the settings of your User Account.

e. Restrict processing your personal data: You have the right to ask us to suspend processing your personal data in the following circumstances.

• When you want the Site to establish the correctness of the information.
• When the processing is not as per law, but you do not want the Site to immediately delete the data.
• When the Site does not need the data, but you need it to be held in order to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
• When you have objected to our processing of the data, but the Site needs to ascertain whether it has overriding legitimate grounds.

f. Transfer your personal data: This is technically referred to as data portability request. When you make this request we will provide your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. This right applies only to the following.

• Automated information for which you initially gave consent for us to process.
• The information that we used to fulfil a contract with you.

g. Withdraw consent for direct marketing: You can, whenever you want, request us not to contact you with direct marketing proposals. You can do so even if you had earlier given your consent. In order to exercise this right you should login to your account and uncheck the consent boxes related to direct marketing. You can also do this by contacting customer support. The withdrawal of consent for processing personal data for direct marketing will apply for the Site only.

h. The site will retain copies of all communication sent by you, through any medium including email. This is to maintain accurate records of the communication received so that it can be referred to later if such need arises.

i. In addition to the options given in this clause, you can also contact us at http://www.headlineCasinos.com/contact/ for exercising your rights.

9. Protection of Minors

a. The Site provides information on online gambling services. Therefore none of its content, products, services or promotions is suitable for children and visitors under 18 years of age( or the age of majority in local jurisdictions).

b. The Site does not knowingly ask for or collect personal data from those below the age of 18years. If it comes to our knowledge that we have inadvertently collected personal data from a minor, we will remove that child’s personal information from our records at the earliest.

c. We are not liable for the actions taken by visitors under the age of 18 (or equivalent minimum age in local jurisdictions) based on the content found on the Site, any of its sub-domains and pages or marketing campaigns (including but not limited to the email newsletter).

d. For more information on this topic we refer you to our Terms of Use accessible at http://www.headlineCasinos.com/terms-and-conditions/.

10. General Account Registration Policy

a. Registering an account with the Site is free. However, you can continue using the Site and participating in the promotions without creating an account, unless stated otherwise in any specific offer.

b. Children and visitors under 18 years of age (or the equivalent minimum age in local jurisdictions) are not permitted to open an account at the Site. As per the terms of this Privacy Policy the Site does not knowingly record, store or disclose any personal information related to children and visitors under 18 years of age (or the equivalent minimum age in local jurisdictions).

c. After you have created an account, you can whenever desired request us to deactivate or delete the account. However, we will retain the registered information in our secure archives for the purposes of statistical analysis. This is explained in detail in the Clause on Data Retention.

11. Data Retention

a. You have the right to request us to delete your personal data by closing your User Account. We will immediately erase all personal information, except the information we may be required to retain under law.

b. We may anonymise your personal data for research or statistical analysis. The characteristics can then not be identified with you. We may then retain the anonymised information indefinitely without further notice to you.

12. Customer Account Confidentiality

a. Your personal data will be accessible be only a limited number of senior staff members of the Site, who may need this information to carry out the responsibilities assigned to them.

b. Your personal data will be stored in a password protected and secure digital encryption environment.

c. We abide by all laws and regulations that are in force for the protection of personal data.

13. General Data Security

The Site has implemented all the required digital and infrastructure security measures at the physical IT and data storage facilities to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of your personal data.

14. Content Conditions

a. Because of the practical limitations of maintaining a digital content site of this magnitude, we cannot guarantee that all content posted on the site will always be accurate.

b. Therefore, the Site reserves the right to correct and change the information posted without any notice.

c. Please note that some of the services and promotions we offer may be subject to regulatory and jurisdictional restrictions. These may not be available in all markets that the Site operates in. If you are using the information contained on the Site for carrying out any activity, then it is incumbent on you to verify that the information used is currently valid before you commit to the activity.

15. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to make changes to our Privacy Policy as and when required in the future. However, the updated Privacy Policy will be posted on this page. Where possible we will notify you by email that the Privacy Policy has been updated. However, we request you to check back frequently to learn of any alterations made. If you do not agree with any of the changes made to the Privacy Policy, we recommend that you seek clarification from customer support or in the extreme close your account with us.

16. Other Sites

After visiting the Site you may exit from it. Or you may be redirected to a third party site by clicking on an advertisement or a banner of the third party. The applicability of our Privacy Policy will then immediately cease. The terms and conditions, privacy policies and data processing practices of the third party site shall apply, over which we have no control. We are not liable for any consequences incurred at such third party sites.

HeadlineCasinos.com (the "Site") uses cookies. A cookie is a small alphanumeric (text-only) file that we put on your device when you visit our website. It is only for record-keeping purposes and will not interfere in the operation of your device. Because of this we are able to distinguish your activities at our website from those of other users. This enables us to provide you with a customised experience when you access our website. It also allows us to provide a better product in general.

You Can Manage Cookies

Some users do not like cookies. Some realise that they are benefitting from cookies. It is possible to manage cookies to your liking through your browser settings. Usually, the Help function in your browser will have information on managing cookies. In order to make your work easier we list below the links for the more common browsers.

• Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647&p=cpn_cookies
• Firefox: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Cookies
• Internet Explorer: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835
• Safari 5 for Mac: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Safari/5.0/en/9277.html
• Opera: http://help.opera.com/Linux/10.50/en/cookies.html

You can also get useful information on cookies management at All About Cookies. If you want to opt out of cookies check out this Google Analytics page.

If you are using a mobile device, you may need to refer to the device’s instruction manual to manage cookies.

a. How We Use Cookies

1. We use cookies, and similar tools, for the purposes of recording non-personal statistical information. Examples of such information are how much time is spent on a certain page in our portal and which advertisements receive the most clicks by our users. The objective is only to present a better site, more attractive promotions and more useful information to you. All these will eventually result in a more enjoyable online experience.
2. Usually web browsers are designed to accept cookies by default. So, if you do not want cookies or want to remove cookies then you will have to take the needful action. You must keep in mind that blocking cookies could adversely affect certain features or services that we offer. By using or accessing the Site, you automatically accord your consent for accepting cookies. For detailed explanation on this please refer to Clause 6 of our Privacy Policy.
3. Be rest assured that cookies do not provide any personal data like your name. It tracks your navigation through the Site and indicates to us your preferences and interests. Therefore it allows us to present to you content that is likely to be useful to you. The content will include articles, customised advertisements and targeted services. If you permit the use of cookies then it will ultimately improve your online experience. Please refer the table later in this notice for concise information on specifically how we use cookies on the Site.
4. We also hold personal data about you like the information you fill in during account creation. We may combine information received from cookies to this data in order to serve you better.

You are free to disable cookies in your browser, but there are disadvantages of doing this.

• It will reduce the value you can obtain from the Site because useful targeted content will not be supplied.
• It will undo any browser customisations you may have put in place.
• It will also erase your opt-out preferences from certain sites that use cookies.

b. Classification of Cookies

Classification	Description
Strictly necessary cookies	These cookies are necessary for you to navigate through the website and avail of its facilities, particularly accessing the secure areas. Important. If you prevent these cookies then registration or authentication functions may get disabled. Also some content and functions may be unavailable.
Performance cookies	These cookies are needed to collect information about how customers use a website. They provide data on which pages of the portal are most visited by a user. They also inform the site owner if any error messages are delivered. Performance cookies do not collect personal data that will identify a visitor. The information collected from all the cookies is aggregated and is therefore anonymous.
Functionality cookies	These cookies allow websites to record data like username, language and region. The site can then provide personalised features. The cookies allow recording of your choices like text size, fonts and others. These are then automatically put in effect every time you visit the site. These cookies also enable the site to remember the services that you have requested like watching videos or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised.
Targeting or Advertising cookies	These cookies record your general behaviour on the website. The specific items include the pages you have visited, the games you have played, the financial transactions you have made and so on. The objective of these cookies is to deliver relevant and useful advertisements. They are also used to control your access to advertisements and measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. The information obtained through these cookies may be shared with third parties that carry out analytics on our behalf.

c. Cookies Behaviour

Cookies can also be classified according to behaviour.

• Session Cookies: These cookies are in existence only for a single visit to the Site. They are created when a user visits the Site. When the user leaves the Site or closes the browser, the session cookie is deleted.
• Persistent Cookies: As the name suggests, these cookies endure. The cookie remains on your device and gets reactivated every time you visit the Site. The time period that the cookies will be in operation is set in the cookie file. The cookies can be removed manually by the user.