Overview
California Online Casinos is an editorial publication that publishes reviews and rankings of online casinos available to California players. This privacy policy explains what information we collect when you visit lover.io, how we use it, who we share it with, and the rights you have to control or delete your data — including the specific rights granted to California residents under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA).
If you have any questions about this policy or want to exercise any of the rights described below, write to [email protected].
What Information We Collect
Information You Provide Directly
- Email address — only if you reach out to our editorial desk, partnership team, or privacy team.
- Correction details — only if you submit a factual correction to a review.
- Press inquiries — name, publication, and contact details only if you request data or commentary as a working journalist.
We do not run user accounts on lover.io. There is no sign-up, no profile, no password.
Information Collected Automatically
- Server logs — IP address, browser type, referring page, time of visit. Retained for 30 days for security and traffic analysis.
- Anonymous analytics — pages viewed, scroll depth, time on page. Aggregated, not tied to individual identifiers.
- Cookies — see the cookie section below.
Information from Third Parties
When you click an affiliate link from lover.io to a casino operator, the destination site receives a referral identifier confirming the click came from us. The operator may then share aggregated, anonymized signup data with our affiliate network — typically a count of registrations, not individual identities. We do not receive personally identifiable information about people who sign up at casino operators through our links.
How We Use Your Information
- To respond to inquiries — editorial corrections, partnership questions, privacy requests, press inquiries.
- To improve our content — anonymous analytics tell us which sections readers engage with so we can prioritize editorial updates.
- To track affiliate performance — aggregated click and signup counts let us measure which guides drive value.
- To prevent abuse — server logs help us identify bots, scrapers, and malicious traffic.
Cookies & Tracking
California Online Casinos uses minimal cookies. The cookies we set are:
| Cookie | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| _session | Anonymous session identifier | Session only |
| _ga | Google Analytics — anonymous user count | 2 years |
| _aff_click | Affiliate click attribution | 30 days |
Affiliate operators may set their own cookies on their domains after you click through. Those cookies are governed by the operator's privacy policy, not ours.
Sharing Your Information
We do not sell your personal information. We share information only in these limited cases:
- Affiliate networks — receive aggregated, anonymized click and conversion data.
- Service providers — hosting, email, analytics. Contractually bound to use data only for our purposes.
- Legal compliance — if compelled by valid legal process (court order, subpoena, regulatory request from a body with jurisdiction).
- Business transfers — if California Online Casinos is sold or merged, your data would transfer to the acquiring entity. We would notify users 30+ days before any such transfer.
Your Rights as a California Resident (CCPA / CPRA)
If you reside in California, you have the following rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act and California Privacy Rights Act:
- Right to know — request a list of the categories of personal data we hold about you and the sources we collected it from.
- Right to access — request a copy of the specific personal data we hold about you.
- Right to delete — request that we delete personal data we hold about you, subject to legal retention requirements.
- Right to correct — request that we correct inaccurate personal data.
- Right to opt-out of sale — we do not sell personal data, so this right is not actionable in our case.
- Right to non-discrimination — we will not discriminate against you for exercising any of the above rights.
- Right to limit sensitive data use — we do not collect sensitive personal data as defined under CPRA.
To exercise any of these rights, write to [email protected] with your request. We will respond within 30 days as required by California law.
Children's Privacy
California Online Casinos is intended for adults 21 years of age or older. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 21. If you believe a minor has provided us with personal information, contact [email protected] and we will delete it.
Data Security
We use industry-standard security: TLS 1.3 encryption for all traffic, server-side encryption at rest, restricted access to staff who need it, and quarterly internal security review. No security system is perfect — but we minimize the data we collect specifically to reduce the impact of any potential breach.
Data Retention
- Server logs: 30 days, then deleted.
- Email correspondence: 24 months from last contact, unless you ask us to delete sooner.
- Aggregated analytics: 26 months (Google Analytics default), then anonymized further.
- Affiliate click data: 90 days, then aggregated and individual records purged.
International Visitors
California Online Casinos is operated from the United States. If you visit from outside the US, your data may be transferred to US servers for processing. We do not currently target visitors from the European Economic Area, but if you are visiting from the EEA, you have additional rights under GDPR — write to [email protected] to invoke them.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this policy as our practices evolve or as regulations change. The "last updated" date at the top reflects the most recent revision. Significant changes are announced on the homepage 30 days before they take effect.
Contact
Privacy questions and requests: [email protected]. Editorial corrections: [email protected]. General contact: see the Contact page.