This notice describes what Payout Desk records about the people reading it. It is short for an uncomplicated reason: a review publication needs almost nothing. Nothing can be opened here, there is no password to choose, no basket and no cashier, so the sort of record a gambling operator must necessarily keep on its customers never crosses to this side of the link.
Who stands behind this notice
Payout Desk is an independent editorial publication at 7bitcasinoreviews.com, and it is the organization answerable for the handling described here. No games run on it, it holds no licence of any sort, and it takes no money from readers. Accountability for privacy sits with the editor, who reads [email protected] and answers from it. No seal, audit or external certification is claimed on these pages, and no privacy officer exists under some other name.
The law this notice works to
Commercial handling of personal information in Canada sits under the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, usually shortened to PIPEDA, with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada as the body overseeing it. Three provinces (Alberta, British Columbia and Québec) have enacted their own private-sector statutes recognized as substantially similar, and where a reader is covered by one, it governs their information instead of the federal act. Québec’s Law 25 is the strictest regime of the four and the one that has moved furthest, with heavier transparency duties and specific rules about decisions made by automated means. Nothing on this site profiles anybody or decides anything about a reader automatically.
Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation, CASL, governs commercial electronic messages. No newsletter, promotional mailing or marketing list runs from this address; were one ever added, a reader would have to ask to join it and every message would carry a working unsubscribe. Anybody unhappy with the handling described here may also raise it with the Privacy Commissioner directly, without clearing it through the desk first.
What is recorded, and for how long
Five narrow things, set out in full.
| Recorded | Purpose | Kept for |
|---|---|---|
| Server request logs: the requesting address, timestamp, file or URL asked for, response code and browser string | Keeping the site up and making an outage or attack investigable | Weeks, on rotation |
| Page-view counts, time a page stayed open and scroll depth, measured by the site’s own script | Seeing which articles are read to the end and which lose people halfway | Up to 12 months |
| Click events on tracked operator links leaving this domain | Knowing which reviews readers act on, and reconciling commission | Up to 12 months |
| A session cookie set by the site itself | Stopping one visit from being counted twice in the figures above | Until the browser is closed |
| Email you send to the editorial address, with the address it came from | Answering you, and holding the evidence behind a correction | 12 months after the matter closes |
That is the list. No accounts exist, so nothing here holds a password, and no profile is tied to anybody’s identity. Nothing is sold either, so no card number, bank detail or billing address is ever asked for. No sensitive category is collected: there is no question anywhere here about a reader’s health, finances or gambling habits.
Cookies, and the controls already in your browser
The storage used here is modest and all of it belongs to this domain. One session cookie keeps a page view from registering twice. The measurement described above writes its events to this site’s own server rather than to a third party. There are no advertising cookies, no retargeting pixels, no social widgets loading scripts from elsewhere, and no identity graph assembled across other sites you visit.
None of that storage follows you beyond this domain, so the real control is the one your browser already hands you. Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge can each block storage site by site, clear whatever one site has already written, or refuse the whole category, from their site settings or privacy panel. Doing that for 7bitcasinoreviews.com switches off the counting and leaves the writing untouched. A global privacy or do-not-track signal is respected on the measurement side. If a consent interface is ever added to these pages, this notice will describe it on the day it appears and not before.
What the operator never tells us about you
Links to 7Bit Casino travel via a redirect hosted here before landing anywhere else. Two things happen in passing. The click is logged, as described above, noting the link type and which article it started from. The operator’s affiliate program then receives a code identifying this publication as the source, which is how any commission gets attributed.
The absence matters a good deal more. That code names the sending publication, never the person who clicked. Nobody here is told your name, whether you registered, what you paid in, where a balance stands or which games you opened. An affiliate program reports referrals in aggregate, not individuals, and there is no mechanism in it for asking about one. Outbound operator links are also tagged nofollow and sponsored, so no search engine treats them as a recommendation handed on from here. The moment you arrive at the operator, its own privacy policy takes over, drafted by a business whose interests are not yours and worth reading for precisely that reason. How the commercial side works is laid out in the disclaimer.
Where it sits, and who can reach it
The host and the network delivery and security layer handle this material on instruction, as service providers rather than parties free to use it for themselves, and correspondence travels through an email provider. Those are all the hands involved. Nothing goes to advertising networks, nothing is sold, and no one is told who read which review.
Some of that infrastructure sits outside Canada, which is permitted provided the information remains subject to comparable protection by contract while it is there, and PIPEDA treats that as the responsibility of the organization sending it. Access is limited to the person who maintains the site, the safeguards are proportionate to what is actually held, and no site can honestly promise a breach will never happen. Disclosure to a public body would occur only where the law compelled it.
Asking what is held about you
Under Canadian privacy law a reader may ask what personal information an organization holds about them, how it is being used, and to whom it has been disclosed; may ask for an error to be corrected; and may withdraw a consent given earlier. Those requests come to the editorial address, and PIPEDA expects an answer inside roughly a month, which is the standard applied here. There is no charge, and no one is penalized for asking.
One practical limit should be stated rather than buried. Because there are no accounts here and no identifiers in play, a line in a server log or a click event cannot in practice be matched to anybody by name. An access request will therefore often come back saying that nothing identifiable about you is held beyond the email in which you asked, and that it has been deleted along with the thread. That is a real answer, not an evasion.
Readers’ age, and changes to this page
The subject matter is gambling, so the site addresses adults who have reached the legal age where they live. Nothing on it is designed to appeal to children.
This notice will change as the site does. A revised version replaces it here and carries the date it took effect, and anything that materially alters what is collected gets said plainly rather than slipped into a clause. What else governs reading this site sits in the terms of use, and a question about either can go to the editorial desk.