The small files behind a working casino

What a cookie actually is

When your browser loads mickey9.com, the server can ask it to store a small labelled note and hand that note back on the next request. That note is a cookie. It is text, not code — it cannot read your files, watch your screen or run anything on your machine.

What it can do is carry an identifier. That is how the site knows the person opening a slot is the same person who logged in two minutes ago, and it is why a casino cannot function without at least a handful of them.

Strictly necessary

These are the ones with no off switch, because switching them off is the same as switching off the account. They carry no marketing value and are never shared.

Preference cookies

Small conveniences, all optional. Turn them off and the site still works; it just forgets things it would otherwise have remembered.

• Language. Which of English, Hungarian, Japanese or Norwegian you last chose.
• Currency. Whether your balance shows in Australian dollars or one of the other 25 currencies we support.
• Lobby view. Grid or list, and the last category you filtered by.
• Recently played. The handful of titles that appear at the top of your lobby.

None of these leave your browser except as a setting sent back to us, and none of them are used to build a profile.

Analytics

Analytics cookies tell us which pages get read, where people give up, and which parts of the cashier cause the most support tickets. They are aggregated — we look at patterns across thousands of sessions, not at what one named player did on a Tuesday.

Turn analytics off and you lose nothing at all as a player. You do make the site marginally harder for us to improve, which is why we ask rather than assume.

Attribution cookies

If you arrived here from a partner site, one cookie records which partner sent you so that they are credited correctly. It holds a campaign reference and a timestamp. It does not hold your name, your email address or anything about how you play once you are here.

This is standard practice across online gaming and we would rather describe it plainly than leave it unmentioned. Blocking the cookie has no effect on your account, your bonus eligibility or your VIP level.

Turning them off

Every browser lets you refuse cookies, delete the ones already stored, or allow them only from sites you have visited deliberately. The route differs slightly by browser but the destination is the same.

1. Chrome — Settings, then Privacy and security, then Third-party cookies. Per-site rules live under "Sites that can always use cookies".
2. Safari — Settings, then Safari, then Privacy & Security on iOS; Preferences, then Privacy on macOS.
3. Firefox — Settings, then Privacy & Security, then Enhanced Tracking Protection, where Strict blocks most optional cookies outright.
4. Edge — Settings, then Cookies and site permissions, then Manage and delete cookies and site data.

Blocking everything logs you out and keeps you out. Blocking third-party cookies only is the usual middle ground and leaves mickey9.com fully usable.

Beyond cookies

Two other browser technologies do similar work and deserve the same disclosure.

• Local storage. A larger, longer-lived store used by some of the 2,945 games to cache graphics so a title you have played before opens faster. Clearing site data removes it.
• Session storage. Wiped the moment the tab closes. Used for things like the state of a form you were halfway through.

Neither is readable by other websites, and neither is used for advertising. If you clear site data, expect a longer first load next time and to be signed out — nothing else changes.

Anything unclear here is worth asking about. Live chat runs 24/7 and the online form comes back within 24 hours; both are on the Contact page. How the resulting data is handled is set out in our Privacy Policy.