Cookie Policy

| Wellington

Last updated: June 2025

This Cookie Policy explains how ("we", "us", or "our"), operating our hotel-casino website located in Wellington, uses cookies and similar tracking technologies when you visit our website. This policy describes what these technologies are, why we use them, and your rights to control our use of them.

Please read this Cookie Policy carefully. By continuing to use our website, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy. If you do not agree to our use of cookies, you should adjust your browser settings accordingly or refrain from using our website.

For any questions regarding this Cookie Policy or our broader data practices, please contact us at: privacy@lanternfieldgroup.com

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, tablet, or other internet-enabled device when you visit a website. They are widely used by website owners to make websites work more efficiently, to provide a better and more personalised user experience, and to gather reporting and analytical information.

Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, ) are called "first-party cookies". Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third-party cookies". Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website, such as advertising, interactive content, and analytics. The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognise your device both when it visits our website and also when it visits certain other websites.

In addition to cookies, we may also use other similar tracking technologies such as:

  • Web beacons (pixel tags): Small graphic images embedded in web pages or emails that allow us to track page views and email open rates.
  • Local Storage (HTML5): A technology that allows websites to store data locally within your browser.
  • Session Storage: Similar to local storage, but data is cleared when the browser session ends.
  • Device fingerprinting: Collecting information about your device's configuration to create a unique identifier.

Cookies can remain on your device for different periods of time. Some cookies are "session cookies", meaning they exist only while your browser is open and are deleted automatically once you close your browser. Others are "persistent cookies", which survive after your browser is closed and can be used by websites to recognise your device when you reopen your browser and browse the internet again.

2. Why Do We Use Cookies?

uses cookies and similar technologies for a variety of reasons, including:

  • To ensure our website functions correctly and securely.
  • To remember your preferences and settings for future visits.
  • To understand how visitors interact with our website so we can improve the user experience.
  • To deliver relevant advertising and promotional content, including information about our hotel, casino, dining, and entertainment offerings.
  • To measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns.
  • To comply with our legal obligations, including those related to responsible gambling requirements.
  • To detect and prevent fraudulent activity on our website and protect the security of our users.

3. Types of Cookies We Use

The cookies we use on the website can be categorised as follows:

3.1 Strictly Necessary / Essential Cookies

These cookies are essential for the operation of our website. They enable core functionality such as security, network management, accessibility, and account authentication. Without these cookies, services that you have requested — such as online reservations, account login, and secure payment processing — cannot be provided. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver our website to you, they cannot be disabled without severely affecting the way our site functions.

These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information beyond what is strictly required for the service to function.

3.2 Performance and Analytics Cookies

These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our website, and to see how visitors move around our site when they are using it. This helps us understand which pages are the most and least popular, how visitors navigate our content, and where errors may occur. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. The data is used solely to improve how our website works and to enhance user experience.

3.3 Functionality / Preference Cookies

These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make when you visit, such as your preferred language, your region, your currency, or customisations you have made to text size and other parts of web pages. They may also be used to provide services you have requested, such as watching a video or commenting on a blog post. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.

3.4 Marketing and Targeting Cookies

These cookies are used to deliver advertisements and promotional content that is more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and to help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. These cookies are usually placed by third-party advertising networks with the website operator's permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information may be shared with other organisations, such as advertisers.

3.5 Social Media Cookies

These cookies are set by a range of social media services that we have added to the website to enable you to share our content with your networks and friends. They are capable of tracking your browser across other websites and building up a profile of your interests. This may impact the content and messages you see on other websites you visit. If you do not allow these cookies, you may not be able to use or see these social sharing tools.

4. Specific Cookies We Use

The following table provides detailed information about the specific cookies used on the website, including their purpose, provider, and duration.

Cookie Name Provider Category Purpose Duration
__cf_bm Cloudflare Strictly Necessary Used by Cloudflare's bot management solution to distinguish between humans and automated bots. This cookie helps protect our website against malicious bot attacks and fraudulent traffic, ensuring a safe and reliable experience for all users. 30 minutes
cf_clearance Cloudflare Strictly Necessary Records that a user has passed a Cloudflare security challenge. This prevents users from having to repeatedly complete security verification challenges during the same session. 1 year
__cflb Cloudflare Strictly Necessary Used for Cloudflare load balancing to distribute website traffic across multiple servers and ensure optimal performance and availability of the website. Session
_cfuvid Cloudflare Strictly Necessary Used by Cloudflare to implement rate limiting policies. Helps identify individual users to apply appropriate rate limits and prevent abuse of our web services. Session
_ga Google Analytics Analytics The main Google Analytics tracking cookie. Used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier, allowing us to track user sessions and calculate aggregated website usage statistics such as visits, page views, and session duration. 2 years
_ga_[ID] Google Analytics (GA4) Analytics Used by Google Analytics 4 to persist the session state and track user interactions across our website, including page navigation, button clicks, and conversion events. 2 years
_gid Google Analytics Analytics Used to distinguish users and track user behaviour within a 24-hour period. Stores and updates a unique value for each page visited, helping us understand daily usage patterns. 24 hours
_gat Google Analytics Analytics Used to throttle and limit the request rate to Google Analytics servers, ensuring that tracking requests do not overload our analytics infrastructure during periods of high website traffic. 1 minute
_gac_[ID] Google Analytics / Google Ads Analytics / Marketing Contains campaign-related information for the user. Used to track the effectiveness of Google Ads campaigns and attribute conversions (such as hotel bookings or event registrations) to specific advertising efforts. 90 days
_fbp Meta (Facebook) Pixel Marketing The Facebook Pixel tracking cookie. Used by Meta to identify browsers for the purpose of delivering targeted advertising on Facebook and Instagram. Helps us measure the effectiveness of our social media advertising campaigns and retarget users who have previously visited our website. 90 days
_fbc Meta (Facebook) Pixel Marketing Stores the last click attribution for Facebook advertising. Used to track conversions from Facebook Ads when a user clicks on an advertisement and subsequently completes a booking or other valuable action on our website. 90 days
fr Meta (Facebook) Marketing Used by Meta to deliver and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Contains a unique browser and user ID combination used for targeted advertising on Meta platforms including Facebook and Instagram. 90 days
_gcl_au Google Tag Manager / Ads Marketing Used by Google AdSense to experiment with and measure the efficiency of advertising on websites using Google services. Helps to track conversion rates from Google advertising campaigns directed to the website. 90 days
IDE Google DoubleClick Marketing Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report user actions on our website after viewing or clicking on one of our advertisements. This enables us to measure the effectiveness of our display advertising campaigns. 1 year
CONSENT Google Strictly Necessary Used by Google to store the user's cookie consent state for the current domain. Helps ensure compliance with applicable data protection and privacy regulations. 2 years
lanternfield_session Strictly Necessary Our own first-party session cookie that maintains your login session, preserves items in your booking cart, and stores your current session state while you navigate through the website. Session
lanternfield_prefs Functionality Stores your site preferences including language selection, currency choice, and cookie consent preferences for future visits to the website. 1 year
lanternfield_cookie_consent Strictly Necessary Records whether you have acknowledged and accepted our Cookie Policy and which categories of cookies you have consented to. This ensures we do not repeatedly display cookie consent notices to the same user. 1 year
XSRF-TOKEN Strictly Necessary A security cookie used to prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks. This cookie helps protect our users and their data by ensuring that form submissions and other sensitive actions originate from our legitimate website. Session

Please note that the specific cookies in use may change from time to time as we update our website, partners, and services. We will endeavour to keep this table as current as possible. The third-party providers listed above may also set additional cookies that are not listed here. We encourage you to review the privacy and cookie policies of these third-party providers directly for the most up-to-date information.

5. Third-Party Cookies and Services

In addition to our own cookies, we use a number of third-party services on our website that may set their own cookies. These third-party services are described below, along with links to their respective privacy and cookie policies:

5.1 Cloudflare

We use Cloudflare to provide content delivery network (CDN) services, DDoS protection, web application firewall services, and general website security. Cloudflare may set cookies on your device as part of these services. For more information, please visit: Cloudflare Privacy Policy and Cloudflare Cookie Policy.

5.2 Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC ("Google"), to analyse how users use our website. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information about your use of our website, which is then transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information to evaluate your use of our website, compile reports on website activity, and provide other services relating to website activity and internet usage to us.

You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. For more information about Google's privacy practices, please visit: Google Privacy Policy.

5.3 Google Tag Manager

We use Google Tag Manager, a tag management system provided by Google, to manage and deploy marketing tags (snippets of code) on our website without modifying the website code directly. Google Tag Manager itself does not use cookies, but the tags that it manages may set cookies. For more information, please visit: Google Tag Manager Privacy Information.

5.4 Google Ads (formerly Google AdWords)

We use Google Ads to advertise on the Google Search Network and Google Display Network. Google Ads may use cookies to track conversions and to retarget visitors who have previously visited our website. For more information, please visit: Google Advertising Policies.

5.5 Meta (Facebook) Pixel

We use the Meta Pixel (formerly Facebook Pixel) to measure the effectiveness of our advertising on Facebook and Instagram. The Meta Pixel allows us to understand the actions taken on our website, build custom audiences for our advertisements, and optimise our ad campaigns. The Meta Pixel may collect information about your use of our website and your Facebook account. For more information, please visit: Meta Cookie Policy and Meta Privacy Policy.

You can opt out of targeted advertising by Facebook by visiting your Facebook account's advertising settings or by using the Your Online Choices tool.

5.6 Social Media Platforms

Our website may include social media sharing buttons or embedded content from platforms including but not limited to Instagram, Twitter/X, and LinkedIn. These platforms may set cookies on your device when you interact with this content. We recommend reviewing the cookie and privacy policies of each respective platform for more information.

5.7 Online Booking and Reservation Systems

Our hotel-casino reservation system may be provided by or integrate with third-party booking platform providers. These providers may set their own cookies to manage the booking process, ensure security of transactions, and prevent fraud. Further details are provided at the point of reservation.

6. Cookies and Responsible Gambling

As a licensed hotel-casino operator in Wellington, we take our responsible gambling obligations seriously. We may use certain cookies and tracking technologies to:

  • Remember your responsible gambling preferences and self-exclusion settings, where applicable.
  • Comply with age verification requirements and prevent underage access to casino-related content.
  • Monitor patterns of use that may indicate problem gambling behaviours, in accordance with our responsible gambling programme.
  • Ensure compliance with applicable New Zealand gaming and gambling regulations.

These uses of cookies and tracking technologies are carried out in the interests of responsible gambling and public health, and may constitute a legitimate interest or legal obligation under applicable law. Accordingly, some cookies used for responsible gambling purposes may be classified as strictly necessary and cannot be disabled without limiting our ability to comply with our regulatory obligations.

7. Your Cookie Choices and How to Manage Cookies

You have several options for controlling and managing cookies on our website and in your web browser. Please note that restricting or disabling certain cookies may impact the functionality and performance of our website, and some features or services may not work as intended.

7.1 Cookie Consent Banner

When you first visit the website, you will be presented with a cookie consent banner that allows you to accept all cookies, reject non-essential cookies, or customise your cookie preferences by category. Your preferences will be saved and applied to your future visits to our website.

You can change or withdraw your cookie consent at any time by clicking the "Cookie Preferences" link located in the footer of our website. This will reopen the cookie consent tool and allow you to update your preferences.

7.2 Browser Settings

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through the browser settings. You can set your browser to refuse all cookies, or to indicate when a cookie is being set. You can also delete existing cookies from your browser. Please note that if you choose to delete or refuse cookies from our website, some features may not work properly.

Instructions for managing cookies in the most commonly used browsers are available at the following links:

7.3 Opting Out of Analytics Cookies

You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking across all websites by downloading and installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. This add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript from sharing information about visit activity with Google Analytics.

7.4 Opting Out of Targeted Advertising

You can manage your preferences regarding interest-based advertising through the following industry opt-out tools:

7.5 Do Not Track Signals

Some browsers have a "Do Not Track" (DNT) feature that signals to websites that you do not want to have your online activity tracked. Our website currently does not respond to DNT signals because there is no consistent industry standard for how to interpret these signals. However, you can use the other methods described in this section to manage your cookie preferences and control tracking on our website.

7.6 Mobile Devices

If you access our website from a mobile device, you can adjust your privacy and advertising settings through your device's operating system settings. Please refer to your device manufacturer's documentation or the operating system's help resources for instructions on how to manage these settings.

8. Your Consent

When you first visit our website, we will seek your consent to place non-essential cookies on your device through our cookie consent banner. Your consent is obtained in accordance with applicable New Zealand privacy law, including the Privacy Act 2020, and any applicable international data protection standards.

By clicking "Accept All Cookies" on our cookie consent banner, you consent to our use of all categories of cookies described in this Cookie Policy. By clicking "Manage Preferences" or "Customise", you can choose which categories of cookies to accept or reject.

Strictly necessary cookies do not require your consent as they are essential for the operation of our website and the provision of services you have requested. These cookies will always be active.

You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time by accessing your cookie preferences through the "Cookie Preferences" link in the footer of our website. Withdrawal of consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing that has taken place prior to the withdrawal.

We will retain a record of your cookie consent, including what you consented to and when, for a period of 12 months, after which we may ask you to renew your preferences.

9. Data Transfers

Some of the third-party services we use, including Google Analytics and Meta Pixel, may transfer data to servers located outside New Zealand, including to the United States and the European Union. Where such transfers occur, we seek to ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your personal information in accordance with New Zealand's Privacy Act 2020 and any applicable cross-border data transfer requirements.

For more information about how your data may be transferred and the safeguards in place, please refer to the privacy policies of the relevant third-party providers or contact us at privacy@lanternfieldgroup.com.

10. Children and Cookies

Our hotel-casino website is not directed to individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18 through cookies or other tracking technologies. If you believe we have inadvertently collected information from a child under 18 through our website, please contact us immediately at privacy@lanternfieldgroup.com so that we can take appropriate steps to delete such information.

11. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We reserve the right to update or modify this Cookie Policy at any time to reflect changes in our practices, technology, legal requirements, or for any other operational reasons. When we make changes to this policy, we will update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page and, where the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice on our website or send you a notification by email.

We encourage you to review this Cookie Policy periodically to stay informed about how we use cookies and similar technologies. Your continued use of our website after any changes to this Cookie Policy will be taken as your acceptance of those changes.

12. Privacy Policy

This Cookie Policy forms part of and should be read in conjunction with our full Privacy Policy, which provides additional information about how collects, uses, stores, and protects your personal information. The Privacy Policy explains your rights as a data subject and how to exercise them.

Please visit our Privacy Policy for complete details about our data handling practices.

13. Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or complaints about this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies and similar tracking technologies, please do not hesitate to contact us:

We will endeavour to respond to all privacy-related enquiries within 20 working days, in accordance with our obligations under the Privacy Act 2020 (New Zealand).

If you are not satisfied with our response, you have the right to complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of New Zealand at www.privacy.org.nz or by calling 0800 803 909.