1. Who we are
CasinoJules is an independent editorial site dedicated to casinos, published at casinojules.club. Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applicable in Belgium and across the European Union, we act as data controller for everything described on this page. We do not operate any casino, hold no player wallet, and no bet, deposit or withdrawal moves through any system we control. Our servers host only a small editorial site and the traffic that reads it, and nothing more.
This policy is deliberately written in everyday English. If a paragraph still seems unclear, that is our fault: email us and we will fix it.
2. The personal data we collect
We collect the bare minimum needed to run a website and reply to the people who write in. There are three sources, and none of them involves an account, a wallet or an ID document.
Statistics from your visit
When cookies are accepted, Matomo and Microsoft Clarity log which pages load, how long readers stay, approximately which country the visit comes from, and which device displayed the page. IP addresses are truncated before they reach us, so the data is aggregated rather than tied to a named person. Matomo runs on GDPR-friendly European infrastructure.
Comments and messages
If you leave a comment on an article or write to the editorial inbox, we keep the name and email address you chose to share, plus the text you sent. That is it. We do not enrich the record with third-party data and we do not cross-reference it with your browsing.
Newsletter sign-up
Signing up to the CasinoJules newsletter records your email address, the timestamp of your opt-in confirmation and the IP address that validated the sign-up, so that we can prove consent was given if a regulator asks. Every issue carries a one-click unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email.
We do not collect payment data, we never ask for ID documents, we build no advertising profile of individual readers, and we do not sell, rent or swap personal data with anyone. Full stop.
3. What we keep, why, and for how long
The table below is the complete view. If a data point is not there, we do not hold it.
| Data type | Purpose | Retention | Legal basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Comments and emails (name, address, message) | Reply, moderation, editorial follow-up | 24 months after the last message | Legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f)) |
| Newsletter subscription (email, opt-in log) | Sending the CasinoJules newsletter to people who asked for it | Until you unsubscribe, then purged within 30 days | Consent (Art. 6(1)(a)) |
| Matomo analytics events (page views, referrer, country, device) | Understanding what works so we can prune what does not | 14 months, then aggregated | Consent (Art. 6(1)(a)) |
| Server logs (truncated IP, timestamp, URL) | Security, abuse blocking, technical debugging | Rolling 30-day window | Legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f)) |
| Cookie consent record | Remembering your choice from the banner | 12 months, or until browser is cleared | Legal obligation / consent |
4. Our legal bases (GDPR)
Every activity above sits on one of the two Article 6 bases listed in the table, and we do not try to stretch them to extra uses.
- Consent covers Matomo analytics, Clarity session replay and the newsletter. Nothing loads or lands in the inbox until you actively opt in, and you can withdraw that consent from the cookie banner or the unsubscribe link at any time.
- Legitimate interest covers our replies to the messages you send us, the running of the strictly necessary cookies that keep the layout together, and the short-term retention of server logs that keep the site from going offline.
Belgian readers also benefit from the further clarifications in the Belgian Act of 30 July 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data, overseen by the Data Protection Authority (APD).
5. Cookies and trackers
CasinoJules uses a small, carefully chosen set of cookies. Strictly necessary cookies load on every visit because the layout and the consent banner cannot work without them. Everything else, including Matomo analytics and session replay, waits for a positive click on the banner before firing.
For the full cookie-by-cookie breakdown, including provider, duration and category, head to the Cookies page. You can revisit the banner at any time to change your mind, and clearing site data in your browser resets the whole record.
6. Who has access to your data
A small number of trusted processors help us keep the site online. Each receives only what its role requires, and each is covered by GDPR-compliant contractual clauses or an equivalent transfer safeguard.
- Hosting. A European infrastructure provider serves the site and holds the truncated server logs described above.
- Email. Anything you send to privacy@casinojules.club lands with a European email host operating under a signed data processing agreement.
- Matomo Analytics. Aggregated, IP-truncated audience measurement, loaded only after your consent, so we can see which guides earn their place. Matomo runs on GDPR-compliant European infrastructure.
- Microsoft Clarity. Anonymised session replay and heatmaps used to spot broken layouts and dead-end pages, also subject to your consent.
- Newsletter platform. A GDPR-compliant email service stores the subscriber list and delivers each issue, with an unsubscribe link at the foot of every message.
- Affiliate networks. When you click an outbound link to a casino, the operator or its network may drop its own attribution cookie on its domain. From that point, its own privacy policy applies, not ours. We only receive aggregate data from those networks (click counts, conversions) that does not identify you.
Your rights, in one place
Wherever you live, if you fall under European GDPR, email privacy@casinojules.club with your request and we will act on it within 30 days. No account required, no form to fill, no fee.
7. Your rights under GDPR
If you are covered by European GDPR or by any regime offering equivalent protection, the rights below apply to the data we hold about you.
- Right of access. Request a copy of everything we hold about you.
- Right of rectification. Get anything wrong, out of date or incomplete corrected.
- Right to erasure. The right to be forgotten. One email to privacy@casinojules.club and we delete verified records within the legal 30-day window.
- Right to restriction and objection. Ask us to pause processing, or object to a specific use such as marketing.
- Withdrawal of consent. Switch off analytics from the cookie banner, or unsubscribe from the newsletter in one click, with no effect on anything else.
- Right to portability. Receive your data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format you can pass on to another service.
- Right to lodge a complaint. You can take the matter to your local supervisory authority. In Belgium, that is the Data Protection Authority (APD): autoriteprotectiondonnees.be.
8. Contact us
For any privacy question, data subject access request or concern about how your information is handled, write to privacy@casinojules.club. Give us enough detail to find the record (usually the email address you originally wrote in from and an approximate date range), and tell us what you would like us to do.
For general queries that are not about privacy, the contact page points to the fastest route to each part of the editorial team.
9. Updates to this policy
We revise this page whenever the underlying tools change or the regulation moves. Every material update changes the date at the top of the policy, and the previous version is archived internally so we can show the audit trail if a regulator asks. The version currently online is dated 31 July 2026.
