Privacy Policy for Casino de Montréal

This Privacy Policy describes how Casino de Montréal gathers, applies, safeguards, and discloses information when visitors browse our pages, read our casino reviews, or interact with the tools and guides we publish. We have prepared this document to give you a transparent account of our data practices and to reflect the privacy principles recognized across Canada, including the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and comparable provincial statutes such as Quebec’s Law 25.

By accessing our platform, you acknowledge the practices outlined below. We encourage every reader to review this page periodically, as our handling of personal information, cookies, and analytics data may evolve alongside our content and the regulatory landscape governing online privacy in Canada.

The Nature of Our Platform: An Independent Information Resource

Our website operates exclusively as an informational and editorial resource dedicated to the Canadian iGaming landscape. We publish casino reviews, bonus guides, slot analyses, payment method explainers, and general gambling education aimed at adult readers across Canadian provinces and territories. We are not a gambling operator, we do not hold a gaming licence, and we never accept wagers, deposits, or withdrawals of any kind.

Because we do not process gaming transactions, we never collect banking credentials, payment card numbers, or wagering histories. The scope of data we handle is considerably narrower than what a licensed operator would gather, and this policy reflects that limited footprint. Readers in Ontario who wish to verify the licensing status of any operator we discuss can consult the iGaming Ontario registry, the official body overseeing regulated internet gaming in that province.

Our editorial content may include partner links, which are addressed in detail later in this document. Nothing on our platform constitutes financial, legal, or wagering advice, and decisions about whether to register with any third-party operator remain entirely yours.

Information We Receive From Visitors

The majority of our readers browse anonymously, and we have deliberately designed our platform so that registration is not required to access any guide or review. Nevertheless, certain categories of information reach us in the ordinary course of operating a modern website.

When you voluntarily reach out to us — for instance, by sending an email with a question about a review or a correction request — we receive whatever details you choose to share, typically your name, email address, and the substance of your message. We use these details solely to respond to your enquiry and to maintain a record of our correspondence where reasonably necessary.

Separately, our servers and measurement tools automatically log technical signals generated by your device and browser. These signals are largely non-identifying on their own and include items such as your approximate geographic region, browser type and version, operating system, screen resolution, referring website, the pages you viewed, and timestamps of your visit. We rely on this telemetry to keep the platform stable, detect abuse, and understand which guides resonate with Canadian readers.

The table below summarizes the principal categories of data we handle and the reasons we process each one:

Category of Information	Examples	Purpose of Processing
Voluntary correspondence	Name, email address, message content	Responding to enquiries, handling feedback and correction requests
Device and browser telemetry	Browser type, operating system, screen size, language settings	Ensuring compatibility, optimizing page layout and load speed
Usage and navigation data	Pages visited, session duration, referring URLs, click paths	Measuring content performance, improving editorial coverage
Approximate location	Province or region derived from IP address	Tailoring content relevance to provincial gambling contexts
Referral identifiers	Affiliate tracking parameters appended to outbound links	Attributing referrals to partner platforms, sustaining our free content

Cookies, Pixels, and Similar Technologies

Like virtually every publisher in the iGaming media space, we deploy cookies and comparable technologies — including pixels, local storage, and tags — to make the site function smoothly and to learn how our audience engages with our material. Some cookies are strictly functional and expire when you close your browser, while others persist longer to remember your preferences between visits.

Cookies on our platform broadly serve four purposes: essential site operation, performance and analytics measurement, enhancement of the reading experience, and affiliate referral tracking when you click through to a partner operator. None of the cookies we set are designed to identify you by name, and we do not combine cookie data with directly identifying information from your correspondence.

You retain meaningful control over these technologies. Every mainstream browser allows you to inspect, restrict, or delete cookies through its privacy settings, and you can configure your browser to reject cookies entirely. Please be aware that blocking certain cookies may degrade parts of the site — for example, your display preferences may not persist, and some embedded elements may not render correctly.

If you would like a deeper, vendor-neutral explanation of how these technologies work and how to manage them across different browsers, the independent resource All About Cookies offers practical, plain-language guidance. Canadians who wish to opt out of interest-based advertising more broadly can also use the consumer choice tool maintained by the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada.

Analytics, Audience Measurement, and Content Performance

We use reputable third-party analytics services to compile aggregated statistics about how readers move through our reviews and guides. These tools tell us, for instance, which payment method explainers attract the most attention, where readers abandon long-form content, and which devices our Canadian audience favours.

Analytics data is processed in aggregated or pseudonymized form, and we configure our measurement tools to respect privacy-protective settings wherever the vendor makes them available, including IP truncation and restricted data retention windows. We do not use analytics output to single out or profile individual visitors, and we never sell analytics data to data brokers or list compilers.

The insights we draw from this measurement directly shape our editorial calendar. Understanding audience behaviour allows us to retire outdated bonus guides, expand coverage of topics Canadian readers actively search for, and keep our slot and casino reviews genuinely useful.

Affiliate Relationships and Referral Tracking

Our platform participates in affiliate partnerships with licensed gaming operators and related service providers. When you click an outbound partner link and subsequently register or transact on that third-party platform, we may earn a referral commission. These commissions fund our research, writing, and fact-checking, and they allow us to keep every guide on our site free of paywalls.

Affiliate attribution typically works through tracking parameters embedded in outbound URLs and, in some cases, cookies placed by the partner’s own systems once you arrive on their domain. We receive aggregate conversion reporting from partners — such as the number of qualified referrals in a given period — but we do not receive your personal account details, deposit amounts, or gameplay records from any operator.

We want to be unambiguous on one point: commercial arrangements do not dictate our editorial conclusions. Our reviews, ratings, and comparisons are produced according to independent assessment criteria, and the presence or absence of an affiliate relationship does not determine whether an operator receives favourable coverage. Where we identify shortcomings in a partner’s product, we say so.

How We Apply the Information We Hold

Every processing activity we undertake is tied to a defined and reasonable purpose. In keeping with Canadian privacy principles, we limit collection to what is genuinely necessary and we do not repurpose information in ways a reasonable person would find unexpected.

In practical terms, the information described in this policy is used to:

• Operate, secure, and maintain the technical infrastructure of our website;
• Answer reader correspondence and act on feedback, corrections, or content suggestions;
• Analyze aggregate traffic patterns so we can improve the depth and accuracy of our iGaming coverage;
• Attribute referrals to partner platforms under our affiliate agreements;
• Detect, investigate, and prevent fraudulent activity, scraping, or other misuse of our platform;
• Comply with legal obligations that apply to Canadian website publishers.

We do not engage in automated decision-making that produces legal effects for visitors, and we do not build behavioural profiles linked to identifiable individuals.

Consent and Our Lawful Grounds for Processing

Canadian privacy law is anchored in the concept of meaningful consent, calibrated to the sensitivity of the information involved. For the limited, low-sensitivity data we handle — browsing telemetry, analytics signals, and voluntary correspondence — we rely on implied consent demonstrated through your continued use of the site, alongside the express consent you give when you deliberately send us a message.

Certain narrow processing activities rest on our legitimate operational needs, such as defending the platform against denial-of-service attacks or preserving server logs needed to investigate a security incident. These activities are conducted proportionately and with regard to your reasonable expectations as a visitor to an informational gambling publication.

You may withdraw consent at any time, subject to legal and contractual limits, by adjusting your browser settings or by contacting us directly. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before your request. For an authoritative overview of how consent and the ten fair information principles operate under federal law, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada maintains a detailed explainer on PIPEDA.

Your Privacy Rights as a Canadian Reader

Subject to the statutes applicable in your province or territory, you hold a set of enforceable rights over the personal information we may have collected about you. We honour these rights regardless of which Canadian jurisdiction you reside in, and we respond to valid requests without charging a fee in ordinary circumstances.

Your available options include the right to:

1. Request confirmation of whether we hold personal information about you and obtain access to it;
2. Ask us to correct inaccurate, incomplete, or outdated details in our records;
3. Withdraw previously given consent to specific processing activities;
4. Request deletion of correspondence records we no longer need to retain;
5. Raise a complaint with us about any aspect of our data handling;
6. Escalate unresolved concerns to the federal Privacy Commissioner or the relevant provincial oversight authority.

To exercise any of these rights, simply contact us using the details at the end of this policy. We may need to verify your identity before releasing or amending records, which protects you against fraudulent access attempts. We aim to acknowledge requests promptly and to provide a substantive response within the timelines contemplated by applicable Canadian legislation.

Safeguarding Measures and How Long We Keep Data

We apply administrative, technical, and physical safeguards proportionate to the sensitivity of the information we hold. These measures include encrypted transmission via TLS, access controls restricting who within our team can view correspondence, hardened hosting infrastructure, and periodic review of the third-party tools integrated into our platform. While no online system can guarantee absolute security, we take commercially reasonable steps to defend against unauthorized access, alteration, and disclosure.

Our retention practices follow a principle of minimization. Server logs containing technical telemetry are retained for a short rolling window sufficient for security analysis before being purged or anonymized. Email correspondence is kept only as long as needed to resolve the matter at hand and to maintain a reasonable record of our interactions, after which it is securely deleted.

Aggregated statistics that no longer relate to any identifiable person may be retained indefinitely for trend analysis, since such data falls outside the scope of personal information under Canadian law. If a legal hold, dispute, or regulatory obligation requires us to preserve specific records for longer, we retain only what the obligation demands and dispose of it once the requirement lapses.

Outbound Links and Third-Party Destinations

Our reviews and guides necessarily link to external destinations — casino operators, payment providers, regulators, and reference resources. Once you leave our domain, this Privacy Policy ceases to apply, and the privacy notice of the destination site governs any data you provide there. We have no control over, and accept no responsibility for, the data practices of third-party platforms, even those we partner with commercially.

We strongly encourage readers to review the privacy documentation of any operator before creating an account or submitting payment details. Licensed Canadian-facing operators are subject to regulatory privacy and player-protection obligations, but the specifics of how each one handles your information vary considerably, and only their own policies can answer those questions authoritatively.

Age Restrictions and Responsible Access

The content we publish concerns gambling and is intended exclusively for adults who have reached the legal gambling age in their province or territory — 19 in most Canadian jurisdictions, and 18 in Alberta, Manitoba, and Quebec. Our platform is not directed at minors, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone below the applicable age threshold.

Because we are an informational publisher rather than a licensed operator, identity and age verification take place on the operator platforms you may choose to visit, not on our pages. If we become aware that a minor has submitted personal information to us, we will delete it without undue delay. Parents and guardians who believe a child has interacted with our site are asked to notify us so we can act swiftly.

We also remind all readers that gambling carries financial risk and should be approached as entertainment, never as a source of income. Provincial resources and operator-level responsible gaming tools exist to help anyone who feels their play is becoming difficult to control.

Revisions to This Document

We review this Privacy Policy regularly and amend it when our practices change, when we adopt new tools, or when Canadian privacy legislation evolves — as it has done significantly in recent years with Quebec’s modernization reforms and ongoing federal proposals. Each revision takes effect upon publication on this page, and material changes will be flagged through a prominent notice or an updated effective date.

Your continued use of the platform after a revision constitutes acceptance of the updated terms. We recommend bookmarking this page and revisiting it from time to time so you remain informed about how your information is treated.

Reaching Us With Privacy Questions

We welcome questions, access requests, correction submissions, and complaints relating to anything described in this policy. The most direct route is to write to us at [email protected], where privacy enquiries are routed to the team member responsible for data protection matters. You can also submit your question through our Contact page, or call us toll-free at 1-800-665-2274 during regular business hours.

Written correspondence may be addressed to our office at 1 Avenue du Casino, Montréal, QC H3C 4W7, Canada. We endeavour to acknowledge every privacy-related communication promptly and to resolve substantive requests within the timeframes set out under applicable Canadian privacy law. If you remain dissatisfied with our response, you retain the right to bring your concern to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada or your provincial privacy regulator.