This Cookie Policy explains how True North Drawson Inc. ("True North Drawson", "we", "us", or "our") uses cookies and similar storage technologies on truenorthdrawson.com (the "Platform"). True North Drawson is a free social casino platform built purely for entertainment. Nothing on the Platform involves real money, real wagering, real prizes, or anything of monetary value, and that principle carries through to the way we handle cookies: our use of these technologies is deliberately modest, transparent, and focused on making the Platform work well for you. This document describes what cookies are, which categories we use, why we use them, how long they last, and how you can control or remove them at any time. We encourage you to read it alongside our Privacy Policy, which describes our broader approach to personal information. If anything in this policy is unclear, our contact details are provided in Section 13 and we will gladly explain further.
Cookies are small text files that a website places on your computer, tablet, or phone when you visit. Each cookie typically contains the name of the site that created it, a lifespan (how long it should survive before your browser deletes it), and a value, which is usually a randomly generated identifier or a short piece of configuration data. When you return to the same website, your browser sends the relevant cookies back to the site, which allows the site to recognise your device, remember your earlier choices, and behave consistently from one page to the next. Without cookies or an equivalent mechanism, every page load would look like a brand-new visit from a stranger, and even simple things such as staying signed in between pages would be impossible.
Cookies are generally divided along two axes. The first axis is who sets them: first-party cookies are set by the website you are actually visiting (in our case, truenorthdrawson.com), while third-party cookies are set by a different domain, usually because the page embeds content or code from another company. The second axis is how long they live: session cookies are temporary and vanish when you close your browser, whereas persistent cookies remain on your device for a defined period, from a few hours to many months, so the site can remember you across separate visits.
Alongside classic cookies, modern browsers offer related storage technologies that behave in similar ways, most notably local storage and session storage. These allow a website to keep small amounts of data directly in the browser without sending it to the server on every request. On the Platform we use local storage for a small number of purposes, such as remembering your cookie consent choice and your virtual coin balance for demonstration play. Throughout this policy, when we say "cookies", we include these similar technologies unless we say otherwise.
Essential cookies are strictly necessary for the Platform to function. They do not track you across other websites, they do not build advertising profiles, and they cannot be switched off through our cookie banner, because disabling them would break core parts of the site. Consent is not required for this category under applicable Canadian privacy guidance, since these cookies exist solely to deliver a service you have explicitly requested by visiting and using the Platform. We keep this category as small as we reasonably can.
When you sign in to your free player account, a session cookie keeps you authenticated as you move between pages. It holds a random session identifier — not your password or email address — and it allows the Platform to know that the person loading the games lobby is the same person who just signed in. This cookie also underpins basic security measures, such as protecting forms against cross-site request forgery and ending idle sessions after a period of inactivity.
True North Drawson is intended exclusively for adults. When you first arrive, we ask you to confirm that you meet the minimum age requirement in your province or territory. Once you confirm, we store a small flag on your device so that we do not interrupt you with the same question on every single page. This flag contains nothing more than a yes-value and a timestamp; it does not record your actual age or date of birth.
When you make a choice in our cookie banner — either "Accept all" or "Essential only" — we must remember that choice, otherwise the banner would reappear on every visit and your preference would be lost. This memory is itself stored locally on your device. It is one of the small ironies of privacy law that respecting your refusal of cookies requires a tiny piece of stored data, but that record exists purely to honour your decision.
Performance cookies help us understand whether the Platform is technically healthy. They measure things like how quickly pages load on different devices and connection speeds, whether a game canvas rendered correctly, whether an error occurred while loading a slot demo, and whether a particular browser version struggles with any of our animations. The data collected in this category is technical rather than personal: it describes the behaviour of the software, not the behaviour of the person using it.
We use this information to prioritise fixes and improvements. If performance measurements show that a game loads slowly on older phones, we can optimise the assets involved. If error counts spike after we release an update, we can roll the change back before most visitors ever notice. Performance cookies are only set if you choose "Accept all" in our banner. If you choose "Essential only", the Platform will still work exactly the same way; we simply will not receive the technical measurements from your visits, and your experience will be invisible to our performance reporting.
Analytics cookies help us understand, in broad and aggregated terms, how visitors use the Platform: which pages are most popular, which games attract the most demo play, how visitors typically move from the home page into the games lobby, roughly how long an average visit lasts, and what proportion of traffic comes from phones versus desktops. This insight guides decisions about what content to expand, which games to feature, and how to organise navigation.
We want to be precise about what "aggregated" means here, because the word is often used loosely. Our analytics reporting is reviewed at the level of groups, not individuals. We look at statements such as "forty percent of visitors this month opened the games page" — we do not sit and inspect the click-by-click journey of a specific identifiable person. Analytics identifiers are random values that are not linked to your name, email address, or account profile. We do not use analytics data to make decisions about individual players, and we do not sell or rent analytics data to anyone.
Like performance cookies, analytics cookies are set only if you choose "Accept all". Declining them has no effect on any feature of the Platform.
Functional cookies remember choices you make so that the Platform can offer you a smoother, more personal experience on your next visit. They are convenience features: none of them are required for the site to operate, but many players find them genuinely useful. On the Platform, functional cookies and equivalent local storage entries may be used for the following purposes.
If you tick a "keep me signed in" style option when logging in to your free account, a persistent functional cookie allows the Platform to recognise your device and restore your session on your next visit, so you do not have to re-enter your credentials every time. This cookie contains a revocable random token, never your password. Signing out removes it immediately, and we recommend that you avoid this option on shared or public computers.
Our games offer several adjustable settings — for example, sound on or off, animation speed, and your last-used demo coin denomination. Functional storage remembers these choices so that a game opens the way you left it, rather than resetting to defaults each time. We may also remember your virtual coin balance for demonstration play in the browser itself; because our coins have no monetary value whatsoever, this balance is simply a piece of entertainment state, like a saved position in a puzzle.
To help you pick up where you left off, the Platform may keep a short local list of the games you opened most recently and surface them in a "recently played" shelf. This list lives on your device and can be cleared at any time by clearing your browser data.
Functional cookies are set only with your consent through the "Accept all" option. If you choose "Essential only", every game remains fully playable; you will simply need to reapply your preferred settings each visit.
Preference cookies are closely related to functional cookies but concern the interface of the Platform itself rather than the games. They record presentation choices so the site looks and behaves the way you like it. Examples of interface choices we may remember include:
None of these preferences reveal anything sensitive about you; they simply describe how you like the furniture arranged. Preference cookies are covered by the same consent choice as functional cookies: they are only stored if you select "Accept all", and refusing them means the interface reverts to its default state on each new visit.
Plain-language summary: only Section 2 (essential) cookies are required for the site to work. Everything described in Sections 3 through 6 is optional, is switched on only if you click "Accept all", and can be refused with a single click on "Essential only" — with no loss of access to any game or page.
We want to be direct about this category, because it is the one visitors worry about most. True North Drawson does not use third-party advertising or tracking cookies. There are no advertising networks embedded in the Platform, no cross-site trackers, no social media tracking pixels, and no data brokers receiving information about your visits. We do not participate in real-time bidding, retargeting, or interest-based advertising ecosystems of any kind. Your activity on the Platform is not used to follow you around the internet, and nothing you do here influences the advertisements you see elsewhere.
The only activity on the Platform that could even loosely be described as "marketing" is strictly first-party and minimal: we may occasionally use a cookie to record that you have already seen a particular on-site announcement about our own features — for example, a banner introducing a newly released free game — so that we do not show you the same message repeatedly. Such a cookie references only our own content, never third-party products, and it stores nothing beyond a dismissed-flag. If we ever decided to change this approach in the future, we would update this policy first, present the change clearly in our consent banner, and ask for your explicit opt-in before setting any new marketing cookie. We will never quietly introduce advertising trackers behind an existing consent.
Beyond our own consent banner, every major browser gives you granular control over cookies. You can view the cookies stored on your device, delete some or all of them, block third-party cookies entirely, or block all cookies from all sites. Please note that blocking all cookies will affect essential functionality on the Platform — you will be asked to reconfirm your age on each visit and you will not be able to stay signed in — but the choice is always yours. The instructions below reflect current desktop versions; the mobile equivalents are similar and are documented in each vendor's help pages.
Open the three-dot menu and choose Settings, then select "Privacy and security" followed by "Third-party cookies" and "Site settings". From there you can block third-party cookies, clear existing data, or manage permissions site by site. To remove cookies already stored, use "Delete browsing data" and tick "Cookies and other site data".
Open the application menu and choose Settings, then "Privacy & Security". Under "Enhanced Tracking Protection" you can pick Standard, Strict, or Custom levels. Under "Cookies and Site Data" you can clear stored data, manage exceptions for individual sites, and instruct Firefox to delete cookies automatically whenever it closes.
On a Mac, open Safari's Settings and select the "Privacy" tab, where you can enable "Prevent cross-site tracking" and use "Manage Website Data" to inspect or remove stored cookies. On iPhone and iPad, the equivalent controls live in the Settings app under Safari, including options to block all cookies and clear history and website data.
Open the three-dot menu, choose Settings, then "Cookies and site permissions" followed by "Manage and delete cookies and site data". You can block third-party cookies, see all cookies currently stored, and add per-site block or allow rules. The "Privacy, search, and services" section additionally offers tracking-prevention levels from Basic to Strict.
Most browsers also offer a private or incognito mode, in which cookies set during the session are discarded automatically when you close the window. This is a convenient way to try the Platform without leaving any persistent local data behind.
Our general position is that the fewer outside parties involved in your visit, the better. The Platform is designed to be self-contained: our fonts, scripts, stylesheets, and images are served from our own domain rather than from external content delivery networks, precisely so that loading a page here does not announce your visit to a chain of other companies. There are, however, two limited third-party touchpoints that we disclose for completeness.
Our contact page may include an embedded interactive map showing the location of our Toronto office. When a map is embedded from an external mapping provider, that provider's servers deliver the map tiles to your browser, and the provider may set its own cookies or receive technical information such as your IP address in the process. We do not control those cookies, and they are governed by the mapping provider's own privacy and cookie policies rather than ours. Where technically feasible, we load the map only after you interact with it or configure the embed in its most privacy-preserving mode. If you prefer not to load the map at all, the same address is always printed in plain text on the page: 482 Wellington St W, Toronto, ON M5V 1E3, Canada.
Like virtually every website, the Platform runs on servers operated by a hosting provider. Our host processes network-level technical data — such as IP addresses and request logs — as a necessary part of delivering pages to your browser and defending against attacks and abuse. The hosting provider acts on our instructions as a service provider, does not set cookies of its own on the Platform for advertising purposes, and does not use visitor data for its own independent ends. Standard server logs are retained for a short period for security and troubleshooting and are then deleted or anonymised.
We do not embed social media widgets, third-party analytics beacons from advertising companies, or any other external components beyond those described above. If that ever changes, this section will be updated before the change takes effect.
How long a cookie remains on your device depends on its type. Session cookies exist only in your browser's memory and are deleted automatically when you close the browser or, in some cases, when you simply end your visit and the session times out. Our authentication and security cookies fall into this group. Persistent cookies carry an expiry date and remain on your device until that date passes or until you delete them manually, whichever comes first.
We set retention periods according to a simple principle: each cookie should live no longer than its purpose requires. Typical lifetimes on the Platform are as follows:
These figures are maximums, not targets; many of the cookies above are refreshed or replaced far sooner in normal use. Regardless of the stated lifetime, you can wipe every cookie and local storage entry at any moment using your browser controls described in Section 8, and the Platform will simply treat your next visit as a fresh one.
On your first visit to the Platform, a cookie consent banner appears before any non-essential cookie is set. The banner offers two equally prominent choices, and we have deliberately avoided the manipulative design patterns — hidden reject buttons, pre-ticked boxes, endless nested menus — that make some consent banners a chore:
Your choice is stored locally on your device, as explained in Section 2.3, and the banner will not pester you again while that record remains valid. Until you make a choice, non-essential cookies simply are not set; we do not treat continued browsing, scrolling, or silence as agreement.
You can change your mind at any time, in either direction. To revisit your choice, use the cookie settings link in the Platform footer, which reopens the consent banner, or clear the site's cookies and local storage through your browser, which resets your decision entirely and causes the banner to reappear on your next visit. Withdrawing consent takes effect from that moment forward: we stop setting the affected cookies and stop reading the ones already present. Withdrawal cannot retroactively undo aggregated statistics that were already computed while your consent was active, but no further data from your device will feed into them.
Your consent is never a condition of play. Every free game, article, and feature on True North Drawson works identically whether you choose "Accept all" or "Essential only". We will never gate content behind cookie acceptance, and choosing the more private option carries no penalty of any kind.
We review this Cookie Policy periodically and update it whenever our practices change — for example, if we introduce a new feature that requires an additional cookie, retire an existing one, change a retention period, or engage a new service provider that touches cookie data. Each revision is published on this page with a new effective date shown at the top, so you can always tell at a glance whether the policy has changed since you last read it.
For minor edits, such as clarified wording or corrected typos, the updated page itself is the notice. For material changes — anything that expands the categories of cookies we use, lengthens retention meaningfully, or introduces a new third party — we will do more: we will refresh the consent banner so that it reappears and asks for your decision again under the new terms, and where appropriate we will announce the change prominently on the Platform before it takes effect. A change of this kind will never be applied silently to visitors whose consent was gathered under the old version of the policy. We recommend revisiting this page from time to time, particularly if you have not been on the Platform for several months.
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, about the specific cookies stored on your device, or about how to exercise any of the choices described above, we are happy to help. Please reach out using any of the following details, and include the words "Cookie Policy" in your subject line so we can route your message quickly:
We aim to respond to cookie-related enquiries within a reasonable time, normally a few business days. If your question concerns personal information more broadly — access, correction, or deletion of account data, for instance — please see our Privacy Policy, which sets out those rights and the process for exercising them under applicable Canadian privacy law. If you believe we have not resolved a concern adequately, you also have the right to contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada or your provincial privacy regulator. Thank you for taking the time to understand how True North Drawson uses cookies; an informed player is exactly the kind of player this free platform was built for.
