Lino Token is an independent Australian information and comparison resource covering deposit methods, withdrawal speeds and banking practices across the online casino australia landscape. This Privacy Policy explains, in plain language, what personal information we collect when you visit linotoken.com, why we collect it, how it is stored and secured, and the rights you hold under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles. It applies to every page on this site, including our guides on payments, bonuses and licensing, and it sits alongside our editorial disclaimers rather than replacing them.
We are a publisher, not a gambling operator: we do not accept deposits, process withdrawals, or hold your payment card, bank or cryptocurrency wallet details. Any transaction you make with a third-party operator happens entirely on that operator's own platform, under its own terms, not ours. This policy is about the data we hold as a media business, nothing more.
Scope of This Policy and Who It Covers
This policy covers linotoken.com in its entirety, including our homepage, comparison tables, guides such as our payments and payouts guide, and any contact or subscription forms embedded on our pages. It does not cover the privacy practices of external gambling operators, payment providers or advertisers we may mention or link to.
If you follow an outbound link from Lino Token to a casino, payment app or affiliate offer, you leave our site and become subject to that third party's own privacy policy. We encourage you to read those documents carefully, particularly before submitting identity or banking details anywhere online.
What Personal Information We Collect
We collect two broad categories of information: details you actively provide, and details generated automatically as you browse. Neither category includes financial account numbers, card details or government identity documents, because we have no operational reason to ask for them.
The amount of information we hold about any individual reader is intentionally modest. We are a publishing and research business, and our data practices are built around collecting only what is needed to run the site well and respond to genuine enquiries.
Information You Give Us Directly
If you subscribe to our newsletter, submit a contact form or email our editorial team, you may give us your name, email address and the content of your message. Some readers also mention their state or territory when asking location-specific questions about payment methods.
We do not require a real name or verified identity to use the site, browse guides such as our online pokies resources, or read a comparison table. Forms are opt-in, and any field marked optional can be left blank without affecting your experience.
- Full name (optional on most forms)
- Email address (required to subscribe or receive a reply)
- State or territory (optional, only if relevant to your question)
- The content of your message, question or feedback
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit any page, our servers and analytics tools automatically log technical details such as your IP address, approximate geographic region, browser type, device category, operating system, referring website, and the pages and guides you viewed.
This automatically collected information is generally not enough, on its own, to identify you personally. We use it in aggregate, at a statistical level, to understand which guides and payment topics Australian readers find useful.
How We Collect Your Information
We gather information through a handful of specific channels, each described below, rather than through broad or hidden data-harvesting practices. Every collection method exists for a clear operational reason connected to running an editorial website.
We never purchase mailing lists, scrape personal data from other platforms, or buy behavioural profiles from data brokers to build a picture of individual readers. What we hold comes directly from your own interactions with linotoken.com.
Contact and Newsletter Forms
Our contact page and newsletter sign-up box are the main direct-entry points for personal information. Both forms ask only for the minimum fields needed, typically a name, an email address, and your message or subscription preference.
Newsletter subscriptions use a confirmation step, so nobody can add your email address without your own action. You can unsubscribe from any newsletter email using the link provided in the footer of every message we send.
Analytics, Cookies and Tracking Pixels
Like almost every modern website, we use cookies, similar storage technologies and small tracking pixels to understand how readers use our guides and to measure the performance of our editorial content over time.
These tools typically assign your browser an anonymous or pseudonymous identifier rather than your real name. The section below, Cookies and Analytics in Detail, explains exactly which categories of cookies we deploy and why.
Why We Collect and Use Your Data
We collect personal information for a defined set of purposes connected to publishing, improving and maintaining linotoken.com as a useful independent resource for Australian readers researching online casino australia payment options.
We do not use personal information to make automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects on you, and we do not sell personal information to third parties for their own independent marketing purposes.
Operating and Improving the Site
Aggregated analytics help our editorial team see which comparison tables, payment guides and bonus explainers perform well, which pages need updating, and where readers commonly stop reading before finishing an article.
We also use technical logs to detect unusual traffic patterns, prevent automated scraping or abuse of our servers, and keep the site available and fast for genuine human readers across Australian time zones.
Communicating With You
If you contact us with a question, we use your details solely to research and answer that specific enquiry, and to keep a short record in case you follow up. We do not add contact-form senders to marketing lists automatically.
If you separately opt in to our newsletter, we use your email address to send periodic updates about new guides, payment method changes or notable regulatory developments, always with a working unsubscribe link included.
Cookies and Analytics in Detail
Cookies are small text files stored on your device that let a website remember choices or recognise a returning browser. We rely on a limited set of cookies rather than an extensive, sprawling tracking network.
We also use analytics scripts, such as those provided by mainstream platforms like Google Analytics, which read and write cookies on our behalf to build anonymised usage statistics rather than an individual behavioural dossier.
Categories of Cookies We Use
Strictly necessary cookies keep basic site functions working, such as remembering your cookie consent choice. Performance and analytics cookies measure page views, session length and navigation paths across guides like our licensing and regulation overview.
We may also use a small number of preference cookies, which remember display settings such as a chosen currency format, and third-party advertising cookies where display advertising appears on the site.
Managing or Disabling Cookies
Most browsers let you view, block or delete cookies through their settings menu, and our cookie banner lets you accept or decline non-essential categories the first time you arrive on the site.
If you block analytics cookies, linotoken.com will still function normally, though we will have less visibility into which payment guides are genuinely useful, which can occasionally slow down how quickly we refresh outdated content.
Pros
- Helps us prioritise updates to popular payment and payout guides
- Supports free access to independent research without a paywall
- Flags slow or broken pages so we can fix them faster
Cons
- Your browsing pattern on this site is logged, even if pseudonymously
- Some cookies may be set by third-party analytics or advertising platforms
- Declining cookies limits the data we use to improve the site for you
Third-Party Services We Use
We work with a small number of external service providers to run linotoken.com, and each one only receives the specific data needed to perform its function, not a full copy of our reader database.
These providers act on our behalf under standard commercial terms, and none of them is authorised to use reader data for their own independent online casino australia marketing campaigns without your separate consent.
Analytics and Measurement Partners
We use web analytics software to measure traffic volume, popular guides and general audience trends. These tools typically process data on servers located outside Australia, which is addressed further in our overseas data handling section below.
Analytics reports our editorial team reviews internally are aggregated and de-identified wherever practicable, meaning we see trends across many sessions rather than a dossier on any single reader.
Affiliate and Advertising Partners
Some outbound links on comparison pages such as our real money casino reviews use affiliate tracking parameters, which let a partner operator know a visit originated from Lino Token. This is standard publisher practice and helps fund our independent research.
Display advertising, where present, may be served by third-party ad networks that use their own cookies. We do not share your name, email address or contact-form content with these advertising or affiliate partners.
How We Store and Secure Your Data
Personal information collected through this site is stored on reputable cloud hosting infrastructure, with access restricted to a small number of authorised editorial and technical staff.
We apply administrative, technical and physical safeguards appropriate to the modest volume and sensitivity of the data we hold, recognising we are an information publisher rather than a financial institution.
Hosting and Infrastructure
Our website files, contact-form submissions and newsletter database sit behind standard cloud provider security controls, including firewalls and routine software patching. We do not run our own physical servers on site.
Backups are encrypted and access-limited, and we periodically review which staff accounts retain administrative access, removing permissions that are no longer required for day-to-day publishing work.
Security Safeguards
All pages on linotoken.com are served over an encrypted HTTPS connection, protecting information such as form submissions in transit between your browser and our servers.
While we take reasonable steps to protect personal information, no online system can guarantee absolute security. If you become aware of a security concern affecting our site, please contact us promptly using the details in the final section of this policy.
How Long We Keep Your Data
We keep personal information only for as long as it remains necessary for the purpose it was collected, or as required by Australian law, whichever period is longer.
Where practicable, we de-identify or delete data once it is no longer needed, rather than retaining it indefinitely on the off-chance it becomes useful later.
Retention Periods by Data Type
Contact-form messages are typically retained for a limited administrative period after your enquiry is resolved, then archived or deleted. Newsletter details are kept until you unsubscribe or the address becomes permanently undeliverable.
Analytics identifiers are generally retained for a fixed window measured in months rather than years, consistent with standard retention settings offered by mainstream analytics platforms, after which older records age out automatically.
Your Rights Under the Privacy Act 1988 and the APPs
The Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) is Australia's principal privacy law, and Schedule 1 of that Act sets out 13 Australian Privacy Principles, commonly called the APPs, which govern how organisations like Lino Token handle personal information.
The table below summarises each principle in plain terms and how it shapes our day-to-day practice. It is a general summary only and does not replace the full text of the Act.
The 13 Australian Privacy Principles
The APPs cover the entire lifecycle of personal information, from the moment it is first collected through to its eventual correction, use, disclosure or deletion, and they apply whether information is collected online or offline.
As a small publisher, several principles, particularly open and transparent management, collection limits, security and access, are the most directly relevant to how we run linotoken.com day to day.
| Principle | Focus Area | How Lino Token Applies It |
|---|---|---|
| APP 1 | Open and transparent management | We publish this policy and explain our data practices in plain English. |
| APP 2 | Anonymity and pseudonymity | You can browse most of the site without ever identifying yourself. |
| APP 3 | Collection of solicited information | We only ask for details actually needed for forms like newsletter sign-up. |
| APP 4 | Unsolicited information | Any unrequested personal details sent to us are handled under this same policy. |
| APP 5 | Notification of collection | This policy tells you what we collect and why, before or when we collect it. |
| APP 6 | Use or disclosure | We use personal information only for the purposes described in this policy. |
| APP 7 | Direct marketing | Newsletter emails are opt-in only, with an unsubscribe link in every message. |
| APP 8 | Cross-border disclosure | Covered in our overseas data handling section below. |
| APP 9 | Government identifiers | We do not collect or use identifiers such as Medicare or tax file numbers. |
| APP 10 | Quality of information | We rely on readers to keep their own contact details accurate and current. |
| APP 11 | Security of information | Encrypted connections and restricted access protect the data we store. |
| APP 12 | Access to information | You can request a copy of what we hold about you at any time. |
| APP 13 | Correction of information | You can ask us to fix inaccurate or outdated details we hold on file. |
Access, Correction and Anonymity Rights
Two of the most practical APPs for everyday readers are the rights to access the personal information we hold about you, and to request correction if any of it is inaccurate, out of date or incomplete.
You also generally have the right to interact with our public content anonymously or under a pseudonym wherever it is lawful and practicable, such as simply browsing our guides without ever submitting a form.
How to Access, Correct or Complain About Your Data
If you want to know what personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or raise a concern about how we have handled it, the process starts with contacting us directly.
We aim to respond to genuine access, correction and complaint requests as soon as practicable, and in most cases within a reasonable period of around 30 days, consistent with general OAIC guidance for the private sector.
Requesting Access or Correction
Email our privacy contact with a clear description of what you are requesting, along with enough detail, such as the email address you used, for us to reasonably locate any relevant records.
We may need to verify your identity before releasing personal information, to make sure we do not disclose your details to someone impersonating you. This is a safeguard, not an attempt to delay a legitimate request.
Lodging a Complaint With the OAIC
If you are unhappy with our response, or believe we have breached the Privacy Act 1988, you can lodge a formal complaint with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), Australia's independent privacy regulator.
The OAIC can be contacted through its website at oaic.gov.au or by phone on 1300 363 992. The OAIC generally expects you to raise the issue with the organisation first, which is why contacting us directly is the recommended first step.
Overseas Data Handling and Cross-Border Transfers
Some of the service providers we rely on for hosting, analytics, email delivery and content protection operate data centres outside Australia, including in jurisdictions such as the United States or Singapore.
This means personal information collected through linotoken.com may be processed on servers located overseas, even though our editorial operation and this policy are grounded firmly in Australian law.
Where Our Service Providers Are Located
We select established providers that publish their own security and privacy commitments, and we favour services already widely used across the Australian publishing and technology sector rather than obscure or unaccountable vendors.
Where a provider stores or processes data overseas, that arrangement is governed by our commercial contract with them and, where applicable, their own published data protection commitments.
Safeguards for International Transfers
Australian Privacy Principle 8 requires organisations to take reasonable steps to ensure overseas recipients do not breach the APPs before disclosing personal information to them, except in limited circumstances set out in the Act.
We take this obligation seriously by choosing reputable providers, limiting the personal information shared with any single vendor, and reviewing our service arrangements periodically rather than treating this policy as a one-off exercise.
Age Restriction and Responsible Gambling Content
linotoken.com is intended exclusively for readers aged 18 and over. Our content discusses online casino australia payment mechanics, bonus structures and licensing topics for research and comparison purposes, not as an invitation to gamble.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If we become aware that a newsletter subscription or contact-form submission was made by a minor, we will delete the associated personal information promptly.
This Site Is Restricted to Adults 18+
We do not verify the age of every visitor technically, since we do not process deposits, withdrawals or account registrations ourselves, but our terms of use require that anyone accessing gambling-related content confirm they are 18 or older.
Parents or guardians concerned about a young person's access to gambling-related websites in general may consider independent filtering software, since this site, like most publishers, cannot control access at the household network level.
Getting Help If Gambling Is Causing Harm
Reading about payment methods and bonus terms is not the same as gambling safely, and we want every visitor to recognise the difference between informed research and harmful play.
Free, confidential support is available across Australia through Gambling Help Online on 1800 858 858, twenty-four hours a day, regardless of which operator, licensed or offshore, someone has been playing with.
This content is intended for adults 18 and over. If gambling stops being fun, help is available around the clock through Gambling Help Online on 1800 858 858. Note that BetStop, the National Self-Exclusion Register, only covers licensed Australian wagering and lottery providers; it does not extend to offshore casino operators discussed on comparison sites like this one, which is a genuine gap worth understanding before you rely on it.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, the services we use, or Australian privacy law, including any future reforms to the Privacy Act 1988.
When we make a material change, we will update the "last updated" date at the top of this page and, for significant changes, display a visible notice on the site for a reasonable period.
How to Contact Us
Questions about this policy, or requests relating to your personal information, can be sent to our privacy team at [email protected]. We aim to acknowledge genuine enquiries within a few business days.
You can also learn more about our editorial team, standards and ownership on our About Us page, or start from our homepage to browse the payment, bonus and licensing guides referenced throughout this policy.
Sources
- Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) — regulates the Privacy Act 1988 and the Australian Privacy Principles
- Gambling Help Online — free, confidential 24/7 support — 1800 858 858
- AUSTRAC — Australia's AML/CTF and financial-intelligence regulator
Read more
- online casino Australia guide — our pillar overview
- about our review team — how we test and score
- licensing and regulation — the IGA, ACMA and offshore licences
Marcus Reid
Payments & Banking Editor · Lino Token
Marcus Reid is Lino Token's Payments & Banking Editor, focused on how deposits, withdrawals and verification checks actually work across the payment methods our readers research. He also oversees the site's data-handling practices, including how contact forms and analytics are managed day to day.
Last updated 17 July 2026