Cookies Policy
Effective Date: January 14, 2025Summary: Moose Trail Lotto uses cookies to support secure access to your account, enable the purchase and management of official lottery tickets, remember your preferences, and analyze website traffic in aggregate. Cookies help us operate a licensed online lottery ticket service in a safe and user-friendly way.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device by websites that you visit. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
Cookies perform a range of functions, such as helping you navigate between pages, remembering your login details and preferences, and improving your overall experience. They can also help ensure that content and features are relevant to you as a registered customer.
2. How We Use Cookies
At Moose Trail Lotto, a licensed online lottery ticket service, we use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us provide a secure environment for purchasing and managing official lottery tickets and allows us to improve our site.
We use cookies for the following purposes:
- Technical Necessity: To enable the core functionality of the site, such as page navigation, secure log-in to your account, and access to areas where you can view or manage your tickets and preferences.
- Account & Preference Management: To remember your settings, such as language, region, and display preferences, so that your experience is consistent every time you log in.
- Security & Fraud Prevention: To help detect suspicious logins or unusual activity that could indicate misuse of an account or payment method.
- Performance & Analytics: To understand how visitors and registered customers use our site (for example, which pages are visited most often) so we can improve navigation, content, and support information.
3. Types of Cookies We Use
We use both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your device for a set period of time or until you delete them). Below is a general description of the categories of cookies we use:
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for the operation of our website and our online lottery ticket service. They include, for example, cookies that allow you to log in securely to your Moose Trail Lotto account, navigate between protected pages, and submit forms for ticket purchases.
Functionality Cookies
These cookies are used to recognize you when you return to our website. They enable us to personalize content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (for example, your preferred language and basic display settings).
Analytical/Performance Cookies
These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors and registered customers move around our website. This helps us improve the way our website works, for example by ensuring that users can find information about games, results, and responsible play tools quickly and easily.
4. Cookie Table
Below is a list of example cookies that may be used on this site:
| Cookie Name | Type | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| moose_session | Necessary | Session | Maintains your authenticated session state across page requests so that you can log in and access secure account areas. |
| account_pref | Functionality | 1 Year | Stores your basic display and language preferences for the Moose Trail Lotto site so they are applied on future visits. |
| _ga | Analytics | 2 Years | Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users anonymously and help us understand how our licensed ticket service is used overall. |
| cookie_consent | Necessary | 1 Year | Stores your consent status for our cookie policy so we do not repeatedly ask for your preferences. |
5. Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies may be set by third-party service providers that help us operate and analyze our website, such as web analytics tools or embedded content providers. These third-party cookies are typically analytical/performance cookies.
Moose Trail Lotto does not use third-party cookies to offer real-money gambling products from other operators. However, payment processors, analytics providers, and content delivery networks that support our licensed ticket service may set their own cookies in line with their privacy practices.
6. Managing and Disabling Cookies
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. You can choose to block all cookies, or only certain types. However, if you block strictly necessary cookies, you may not be able to access your Moose Trail Lotto account or complete secure actions such as viewing or managing your tickets.
Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:
- Google Chrome: Settings > Privacy and security > Cookies and other site data.
- Mozilla Firefox: Options > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data.
- Apple Safari: Preferences > Privacy > Block all cookies.
- Microsoft Edge: Settings > Site permissions > Cookies and site data.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, you can visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout .
7. Changes to This Policy
We may update our Cookies Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, regulatory requirements, or the way our licensed ticket service operates. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date.
8. Contact Us
If you have questions about how we use cookies, please contact us at:
Email: [email protected]