Legal & Compliance

Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how The Midnight Shuffle at The Cinder Room uses cookies and similar technologies on our website to support essential operations, refine your browsing experience, and understand how guests interact with our offline poker, tournament, and dining content.

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your device (such as a computer, tablet, or smartphone) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to site owners.

When you visit the The Midnight Shuffle website, cookies may be set to remember your preferences, help you move smoothly between pages, maintain secure booking sessions, and provide an experience tailored to the way you explore our offline poker card room, tournament calendar, and grill menu.

Types of Cookies Used

The Midnight Shuffle uses several categories of cookies and similar technologies on https://thecinderroom.com:

  • Essential (strictly necessary) cookies that are required for the secure and stable operation of the site.
  • Functional and personalisation cookies that remember your preferences and settings.
  • Analytics and performance cookies that help us understand how visitors use our pages.
  • Third-party service cookies set by trusted partners who provide embedded features, such as mapping or secure booking tools.

We strive to minimise non-essential cookies and use them only where they add clear value to your experience of our card room, tournaments, and dining content.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly necessary cookies are fundamental to the way our website works. Without them, core features would not function correctly. These cookies do not track your browsing activity for marketing purposes and are not used to profile you.

On The Midnight Shuffle website, strictly necessary cookies may be used to:

  • Maintain secure navigation between pages such as the poker room overview, tournament schedule, and dining menu.
  • Support the operation of booking and enquiry forms on the Contact & Table Bookings page.
  • Enable basic security features that protect both you and our systems from misuse.
  • Remember your choices about cookie consent so you are not repeatedly asked to provide your preferences.

Because these cookies are essential to site functionality and security, they cannot be switched off using on-site controls. You may still manage them through your browser settings, although this may affect how the site performs.

Functional & Personalisation Cookies

Functional cookies allow the site to remember the choices you make and provide enhanced, more personalised features. They improve your overall experience without being strictly necessary for basic operation.

On our offline poker lounge and grill website, functional and personalisation cookies may be used to:

  • Remember your display preferences, such as language and layout options, across sessions.
  • Store regional selections that relate to Australian formats or local information.
  • Maintain accessibility and usability settings you have chosen to make browsing more comfortable.

If you disable these cookies, some features may not behave as expected, and you may need to re-enter preferences each time you visit.

Analytics & Performance Cookies

Analytics and performance cookies help us understand how visitors interact with the site in an aggregated, anonymised way. We use this information to refine navigation, content layout, and overall usability, so you can more easily explore our card room, Texas Hold'em tournaments, and grill and speakeasy offerings.

These cookies may collect information such as:

  • Which pages are visited most often (for example, the Tournaments page or Dining & Bar Menu).
  • How guests move between sections like the poker tables overview, blind structure details, and high roller information.
  • Which devices and browsers are used to access the site, so we can maintain a smooth, mobile-first experience.

Analytics data is typically anonymised or pseudonymised and is used only to evaluate and improve site performance. Where required, these cookies are only activated once you have provided consent through our cookie controls (where available) or your browser settings.

Third-Party & Embedded Content Cookies

The Midnight Shuffle site may include embedded content or services provided by carefully selected third parties. These partners may set their own cookies when you interact with their features. We do not control these cookies directly, and they are governed by the respective third party's policies.

Examples of where third-party or embedded content cookies may be used include:

  • Map embeds on the Contact & Table Bookings page to help you locate our venue.
  • Secure booking or enquiry widgets that streamline the process of reserving a poker table, tournament seat, or dining experience.
  • Media or social sharing tools that allow you to share information about offline poker nights, Texas Hold'em tournaments, or dining experiences.

We work with partners who are expected to comply with privacy and accessibility laws relevant in Australia. We encourage you to review the privacy and cookie policies of any third-party services you interact with through our site.

Managing & Disabling Cookies

You have control over how cookies are used on your device. In addition to any on-site cookie controls we offer, you can adjust your browser or device settings to manage, limit, or block certain types of cookies.

In general, you can:

  • Configure your browser to notify you when a cookie is set.
  • Accept or refuse specific categories of cookies, such as analytics cookies.
  • Block third-party cookies from services you do not wish to use.
  • Delete cookies that have already been stored on your device.

Please note that strictly necessary cookies are required to maintain security and site stability, particularly for booking forms and navigation across key areas such as the card room, tournaments, and menu pages. If you disable or block these essential cookies through your browser, parts of the website may not function correctly.

Cookie Retention Periods

Cookies are stored for different lengths of time depending on their purpose and how your browser is configured.

  • Session cookies are temporary and generally expire when you close your browser. They support actions such as page navigation and secure use of booking or enquiry forms.
  • Persistent cookies remain on your device for a set period or until you delete them. They may be used to remember your preferences, such as cookie consent choices or site settings, when you next visit our card room, tournaments, or dining pages.

We aim to keep retention periods no longer than necessary for the purpose for which the cookie is used. You can manually remove cookies at any time using your browser's clear browsing data tools.

Your Cookie Choices & Rights

As a visitor to The Midnight Shuffle website, you have the right to control how non-essential cookies are used in connection with your browsing experience.

Subject to applicable laws, your choices and rights may include:

  • Choosing whether to allow analytics or functional cookies, where consent is required.
  • Changing your browser settings to withdraw consent to cookies at any time.
  • Clearing cookies and site data stored by our site from your device.
  • Requesting more information about how we handle personal information that may be associated with certain cookies.

For a broader explanation of how we handle personal information, including your rights under Australian privacy law and how we manage information related to offline poker bookings, tournament registrations, and dining enquiries, please refer to our Privacy Policy.

Policy Updates & Contact

We review this Cookie Policy periodically to ensure it reflects current legal requirements, industry standards, and the way we operate our offline poker club, tournament schedule, and restaurant services. Updates may also reflect technical changes to our website or the introduction of new features, such as enhanced booking tools or visual tournament leaderboards.

Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated effective date. We encourage you to review this policy from time to time to stay informed about how cookies support your experience on our site.

If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, our use of cookies, or our broader privacy practices in relation to poker table bookings, Texas Hold'em tournaments, or dining reservations, please contact us via the details provided on the Contact & Table Bookings page.