What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. They contain information that helps the site recognise your browser and remember certain details over a short or extended period.
On Thecin Derroom website, cookies support features such as remembering that you have acknowledged our age restriction, keeping your progress in enquiry or booking forms for poker tables and dining, and helping us understand how guests move between the poker, tournaments, menu, lounge, FAQ and contact pages.
Cookies are not programmes and cannot access files on your computer or mobile device. You can control and delete cookies at any time using your browser settings.
Types of Cookies We Use
We group the cookies used on our site into three main categories:
We design our cookie usage to be respectful, minimal and aligned to the experience you would expect from a premium Australian hospitality venue and social card room.
Essential Cookies
Essential cookies are fundamental for our website to function properly. Without them, key features would not work as expected. These cookies do not track your browsing for marketing or external advertising.
Essential cookies on our site may:
Because these cookies are crucial to the operation of the site, they are usually set automatically when you visit and cannot be fully disabled without affecting core functionality.
Performance & Analytics Cookies
Performance and analytics cookies help us understand how guests use our website so we can refine content, navigation and service information. This insight allows us to align the digital experience with the level of care and organisation you would expect in our offline card room.
Analytics cookies may provide anonymous, aggregated information about:
We use these insights to improve page layout, clarify details about blind structures, chip stacks, offline social poker formats and dining offerings, and ensure that key information (such as how to book or view Texas Hold'em tournaments) is easy to find.
We do not use analytics cookies to create personal profiles for advertising, and we do not sell analytics data to third parties.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies provide a more tailored, comfortable browsing experience that reflects the calm, organised ambience of Thecin Derroom. These cookies remember choices you make so that each visit feels more seamless.
Functional cookies on our site may, for example:
These cookies are optional, and you can control them through your browser settings. However, disabling them may mean you need to re-enter information more often.
How We Use Cookie Data
We use information collected through cookies solely to operate, protect and refine our website and the services we describe, including offline poker events, chip-based Texas Hold'em tournaments, pot-limit Omaha nights and our dining and bar offerings.
In practice, cookie-derived data helps us to:
Cookie information is processed in accordance with our broader privacy practices, as outlined in our Privacy Policy. We do not use cookie data for third-party advertising networks or to promote real-money wagering of any kind.
Managing & Disabling Cookies
You have control over how cookies are used on your device. Most browsers allow you to review, delete or block cookies, and to set rules for different websites.
Instructions are typically available in your browser's help or settings area. Common approaches include:
If you choose to block certain cookies, especially essential or functional cookies, some parts of our site may not work as designed. This may affect your ability to:
You can still contact us directly via the details on our Contact Us page if you prefer not to use online forms.
Third-Party Cookies
In some cases, we work with trusted third-party service providers who help us operate and improve our website. These partners may place their own cookies when their tools are integrated into our site.
Examples of third-party cookies may include:
These third parties are carefully selected to align with our standards of privacy, hospitality and responsible social play. They are not permitted to use information collected on our site for their own unrelated advertising campaigns.
We encourage you to review the privacy and cookie information provided by these services where relevant, as they operate under their own policies.
Retention & Security of Cookie Data
Cookies are stored for varying periods depending on their purpose:
We aim to keep cookie lifetimes as proportionate and limited as possible for their intended use. Cookie-related information is protected using reasonable technical and organisational measures designed to safeguard your privacy and maintain the integrity of our digital environment.
Our approach reflects the same commitment to responsible hospitality that governs our offline card room operations, Texas Hold'em tournaments, pot-limit Omaha events and high roller social poker experiences.
Contact & Further Information
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, how cookies are used on our site, or if you wish to discuss your cookie preferences in more detail, you are welcome to contact our privacy officer.
For privacy and cookie enquiries, please use the contact details provided on our Contact Us page and include "Cookie Policy" in your message subject or enquiry. This helps us direct your request promptly.
You may also wish to review our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions for further information about how we handle personal information in connection with enquiries about offline poker tables, Texas Hold'em tournaments, pot-limit Omaha nights, social poker events and dining at Thecin Derroom.
This Cookie Policy may be updated from time to time to reflect changes in technology, legal requirements or our services. Any updated version will be published on this page with a revised effective date.