1. What Is a Cookie?
A cookie is a small text file that a website places on your device through your web browser. Cookies are used to remember information between visits — settings, preferences, and similar data. "Local storage" is a related browser technology that allows a website to store information on your device until you clear it.
2. Why We Use Cookies & Local Storage
Northern Play Venture uses minimal cookies and local storage to:
- Remember that you confirmed you are 18 or older so we don't ask you again every visit;
- Remember your decision about non-essential cookies;
- Save your virtual coin balance, game progress and statistics so you don't lose progress between sessions.
Because we do not accept payments, we do not use any cookies or storage to handle financial transactions, payment cards, or sensitive identity data.
3. Categories of Storage We Use
3.1 Strictly Necessary (Always Active)
These items are essential for the Site to work and cannot be disabled in our system.
- nort_ageVerified (local storage) — confirms you accepted the 18+ age gate. Persistent until you clear browser data.
- nort_cookieConsent (local storage) — records your choice on the cookie banner ("accept" or "decline"). Persistent.
3.2 Functional (Game Progress)
These items make your gaming experience more enjoyable but are not strictly required.
- nort_game_plinko — your Plinko Drop progress (virtual coins, wins, losses, streak).
- nort_game_mines — your Mines Gold progress.
- nort_game_crash — your Crash X progress.
- nort_game_dice — your Dice Roll progress.
All of these are stored only in your browser's local storage. They never leave your device.
3.3 Analytics & Advertising
We currently do not use third-party analytics or advertising cookies. If this changes in the future, we will update this policy and present a new consent choice before activating them.
4. Third-Party Resources
Our Site uses two external resources for technical reasons:
- Google Fonts — provides the typefaces "Inter" and "Playfair Display". Loading fonts may share your IP address with Google.
- unpkg.com (Lucide icons) — provides the icon set used on this Site. Loading the script may share your IP address with the CDN.
These services are used for display only and do not set cookies on our domain.
5. How to Control Cookies
You can control or delete cookies and local storage at any time via your browser settings. Useful guides:
If you clear our cookies or local storage, the age gate and cookie banner will appear again, and your virtual coin progress will reset to the starting amount of 1,000 coins per game.
6. Your Rights Under PIPEDA
Northern Play Venture is based in British Columbia, Canada. Under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and the British Columbia Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA), you have rights regarding any personal information we may process. Because we do not request or store personal data through the Site itself (no accounts, no payment), these rights mainly apply to information you actively send us — for example through the Contacts form.
You may request:
- Access to the personal information we hold about you;
- Correction of inaccurate or incomplete information;
- Deletion of your information, where applicable;
- To withdraw consent at any time.
Please contact us at support@northernplayventure.com to exercise any of these rights.
7. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. The "Last updated" date at the top will reflect the most recent revision. Material changes will be communicated through the cookie banner.
8. Contact
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, contact:
- Email: support@northernplayventure.com
- Phone: +1 (604) 555-0184
- Address: 882 Granville Street, Suite 410, Vancouver, BC V6Z 1K3, Canada