Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how MALINA FZ LLE uses cookies and similar storage technologies on malinafz.com, our free social casino built around Boreal Berries — fictional entertainment credits with no real-world monetary value. It describes each category of cookie we rely on, how long it stays on your device, and the choices you have at every step.
Last updated: March 27, 2026
1. What Cookies Are
Cookies are small text files that a website places on your computer, tablet, or smartphone when you visit. Each cookie contains a modest amount of information — typically a unique identifier, the name of the site that created it, and an expiry date — which your browser sends back to that site on subsequent visits. Cookies allow a website to recognise your device, remember choices you have made, and distinguish you from other visitors without necessarily knowing who you are.
There are two broad families of cookies. Session cookies live only in your browser's short-term memory and disappear the moment you close the window; they carry temporary information such as whether you are currently signed in. Persistent cookies remain on your device for a defined period, from a few hours to several months, so that the site can remember you when you return later.
Alongside classic cookies, malinafz.com also uses closely related technologies such as localStorage and sessionStorage. These browser storage areas behave like cookies in the sense that they keep small pieces of data on your device, but they are never transmitted automatically with every request. Throughout this policy, the word "cookies" covers all of these techniques. Because MALINA FZ LLE operates a free social casino, no cookie we set ever relates to payments, deposits, or financial transactions of any kind.
2. Essential Cookies
Essential cookies — sometimes called strictly necessary cookies — are the small set of files without which malinafz.com simply cannot work. They secure your play session, remember that you have already confirmed your age at the entry gate, and record the decision you made in the cookie banner so that we do not ask you the same question on every page. Because these cookies are indispensable for delivering the service you have expressly requested, applicable law allows us to place them without prior consent. You may still delete them through your browser at any time, but core features such as signing in, staying signed in, or keeping your place inside a game will stop working correctly.
| Name | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| mfz_session | Keeps your login session active while you move between pages and games, and protects it against tampering. | Session — deleted when you close your browser |
| mfz_age | Remembers that you confirmed you are 18 years of age or older, so the age gate does not reappear on every visit. | 30 days |
| mfz_cookie | Stores the choice you made in the cookie consent banner (accept all or essential only). | 12 months |
None of these essential cookies tracks your browsing on other websites, builds an advertising profile, or stores payment details. MALINA FZ LLE never handles real money, and Boreal Berries carry no monetary value whatsoever, so there is nothing financial for a cookie to record.
3. Performance Cookies
Performance cookies collect technical information about how the platform behaves while you use it. They measure how quickly pages and games load, flag scripts that fail to start, count error messages, and tell us which parts of the site slow down when many players are online at the same time. This category exists purely so that our engineers can keep malinafz.com fast, stable, and pleasant to use on every device, from a compact 320-pixel phone screen to a widescreen desktop monitor.
The data gathered by performance cookies is aggregated before anyone looks at it. We see, for example, that a certain game screen took longer than two seconds to render for a percentage of sessions on a given evening — we do not see that a specific, named person experienced the delay. These cookies never read the content you type, never follow you to other websites, and never influence the outcome of any game round, which is always determined independently by our certified random number generator.
Performance cookies are only placed if you choose "accept all" in the consent banner. If you decline them, every feature of the site continues to work exactly as before; we simply receive less diagnostic detail when something misbehaves.
4. Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors, considered as a crowd rather than as individuals, actually use malinafz.com. They count how many people arrive each day, which pages they open first, which slot themes attract the most free-play spins, how long an average visit lasts, and whether players browse from Canada on mobile devices or on desktop computers. We rely on a privacy-conscious, first-party analytics setup: measurement data is collected under our own domain, IP addresses are truncated before storage, and the resulting reports contain statistics, not identities.
These insights shape genuine product decisions. When analytics showed that many visitors were reading our responsible play guidance on small screens, we redesigned that page for easier mobile reading. When a seasonal game lobby drew little interest, we retired it and invested the effort in features players demonstrably enjoyed. Without analytics we would be guessing; with it, we improve the free entertainment experience in an evidence-based way.
Analytics cookies are placed only after you consent through the banner. Declining them has no effect on your Boreal Berries balance, your access to games, or any other feature — your visits simply stop being counted in our aggregate statistics.
5. Functional Cookies
Functional cookies and their localStorage equivalents remember choices you make so the platform can offer you a more personal, continuous experience. The two most important entries in this category concern your language and your virtual wallet. When you switch between English and Canadian French, we record that preference so that every following page greets you in the language you selected. And because MALINA FZ LLE is a purely free-to-play social casino, your Boreal Berries balance lives on your own device: the mfz_wallet entry keeps your current balance, your last chosen bet level in demo play, and similar game state so that a session interrupted by a phone call can resume exactly where it stopped.
| Name | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| mfz_lang | Remembers whether you prefer English or Canadian French pages. | 12 months |
| mfz_wallet | Stores your Boreal Berries balance and current game state locally on your device. | Until you clear your browser storage |
It is worth repeating: the wallet entry is not a financial record. Boreal Berries are fictional entertainment credits, cannot be purchased for withdrawal, and cannot be converted into money or goods. Deleting mfz_wallet simply resets your free balance to its starting amount.
6. Preference Cookies
Preference cookies fine-tune the comfort of the interface rather than its core functions. They remember whether you muted game sound the last time you played, whether you asked for reduced motion so the aurora animations stay calm, which view you chose for tables that can be displayed in compact or expanded form, and whether you already dismissed a particular announcement bar so it does not greet you twice. They may also remember the open or closed state of the support chat window, so that a conversation you minimised stays minimised as you browse.
The philosophy behind this category is simple: a returning player should not have to repeat small decisions. If you told us once that you prefer silent reels at midnight, the site should respect that at half past midnight too. Each preference is stored as a tiny key-value pair on your own device, is readable only by malinafz.com, and reveals nothing about your identity, your location, or your activity elsewhere on the internet.
Preference cookies are optional. If you decline non-essential cookies in the banner, the site falls back to its default settings on every visit — everything still works, but you will need to re-mute the sound or re-collapse the chat each time you return.
7. Marketing Cookies
MALINA FZ LLE does not currently use marketing or advertising cookies of any kind. There are no third-party advertising networks on malinafz.com, no retargeting pixels, no social media tracking buttons that report your visit elsewhere, and no data brokers receiving information about your play. We do not sell, rent, or trade personal information, and we have no advertising partners with whom such data could be shared. Any promotions you see on the site — for example, an announcement about a new slot theme or a seasonal Boreal Berries bonus of free virtual credits — is shown to every visitor alike and is not based on behavioural profiling.
We state this plainly because the distinction matters. Marketing cookies are the category most often associated with intrusive tracking across the web, and many visitors rightly want to know where a site stands. Our position is that a free social casino does not need them to offer good entertainment.
Should we ever decide to introduce marketing cookies in the future, we commit to three things before a single such cookie is set: we will update this policy with a full description of the cookies and their providers, we will present the change clearly in the consent banner, and we will request your explicit opt-in consent. Silence or inactivity will never be treated as agreement.
8. Browser Settings
Beyond our consent banner, every modern browser gives you direct control over cookies. You can inspect the cookies stored for any site, delete some or all of them, block third-party cookies entirely, or ask the browser to discard everything when you close it. The exact path differs slightly between browsers:
Google Chrome: open Settings, choose "Privacy and security", then "Third-party cookies" and "Site settings". From there you can view stored data, block cookies for specific sites, or clear everything for malinafz.com alone.
Mozilla Firefox: open Settings, choose "Privacy & Security", and review the "Enhanced Tracking Protection" level along with "Cookies and Site Data", where the "Manage Data" button lists every stored site individually.
Apple Safari: on a Mac, open Safari Preferences, select "Privacy", and click "Manage Website Data". On iPhone or iPad, open the device Settings app, scroll to Safari, and use "Block All Cookies" or "Clear History and Website Data".
Microsoft Edge: open Settings, choose "Cookies and site permissions", then "Manage and delete cookies and site data" to review, block, or remove entries.
Please remember that blocking or deleting essential cookies affects basic functions: the age gate will reappear, you will be signed out, and your consent choice will be forgotten. Private or incognito windows discard all cookies automatically when closed.
9. Third Parties
Almost everything on malinafz.com is served directly by us, from our own domain, using first-party cookies only. The single exception is the interactive map embedded on our contact page, which is provided by Google Maps so that visitors can see the region of our registered office. When your browser loads that embedded map, it connects to Google's servers, and Google may set its own cookies or collect technical data such as your IP address in accordance with Google's own privacy policy, available at policies.google.com/privacy. We do not control what Google does with that information, and no data from your MALINA FZ LLE account is ever passed to Google by us.
If you prefer to avoid this third-party contact entirely, you have several options: you can simply refrain from opening the contact page, you can block third-party cookies in your browser using the settings described in the previous section, or you can reach us by courriel or through the on-site support chat instead, neither of which involves Google in any way.
We deliberately keep the list of third parties this short. Fonts, scripts, stylesheets, game engines, and images are all hosted on our own infrastructure, which means fewer external observers and a faster site for you.
10. Retention
Every cookie we set has a defined lifetime, chosen to be no longer than its purpose requires. Session cookies such as mfz_session vanish as soon as you close your browser, because a login that has ended needs no memory. The age confirmation in mfz_age lasts 30 days, striking a balance between convenience and the seriousness of an 18+ entry check. Your consent record in mfz_cookie and your language preference in mfz_lang each persist for 12 months, after which the banner will politely ask again. Aggregated analytics and performance data is kept for a maximum of 14 months before being deleted or reduced to long-term statistical summaries that contain no device identifiers at all.
Entries stored in localStorage, including the mfz_wallet record of your Boreal Berries balance, have no automatic expiry under browser rules; they remain until you clear your site data or until our code replaces them. We review the full cookie inventory at least once a year and whenever a feature changes, removing entries whose purpose has lapsed.
Expired cookies are deleted by your browser automatically. You can accelerate any of these timelines yourself at any moment using the browser controls described in section 8.
11. Consent
On your first visit to malinafz.com, a consent banner appears before any non-essential cookie is placed. It offers clear, equal choices: "Accept all" enables performance, analytics, functional, and preference cookies alongside the essential ones, while "Essential only" limits the site to the strictly necessary cookies described in section 2. Neither option is pre-ticked, neither is visually privileged, and the site remains fully playable whichever you choose. Your decision is recorded in the mfz_cookie entry so we do not nag you on every page.
Consent is not a one-way door. You may withdraw or change your choice at any time by selecting the "Cookie settings" link in the footer of every page, which reopens the banner, or by deleting the mfz_cookie entry in your browser, which causes the banner to reappear on your next visit. When you withdraw consent for a category, we stop placing those cookies immediately; cookies already on your device can be removed with your browser's clearing tools.
Withdrawing consent never affects your access to games, your Boreal Berries balance, or the availability of any page. It also does not retroactively invalidate processing that lawfully occurred while your consent was active. Our approach follows Canadian privacy expectations, including PIPEDA's requirement for meaningful, informed consent.
12. Updates
We review this Cookie Policy regularly and update it whenever our use of cookies changes — for example, when a feature is added that needs a new functional cookie, when a lifetime is shortened, or when legislation or regulatory guidance in Canada or elsewhere evolves in a way that affects our practices. Each revision is published on this page, and the "Last updated" date at the top of the policy is changed at the same time, so you can tell at a glance whether anything has moved since your previous reading.
For minor edits, such as clarified wording, corrected typography, or an updated link, the new version simply takes effect upon publication. For material changes — a new cookie category, a new third-party provider, or a longer retention period — we do more: the consent banner is shown again to every visitor, previous consent records are treated as expired, and your fresh, informed choice is requested before any newly described non-essential cookie is placed.
We encourage you to revisit this page from time to time, particularly after long absences. Earlier versions of the policy are archived and can be provided on request through the contact details below, so you can compare exactly what changed and when.
13. Contact Information
Questions, concerns, and requests about this Cookie Policy — or about privacy at MALINA FZ LLE more broadly — are genuinely welcome. Cookies can feel like an opaque subject, and we would rather explain a detail twice than leave a player uncertain about what is stored on their device. Whether you want to know why a specific entry exists, how to remove it, or how our consent banner behaves in a particular browser, our support team will give you a plain-language answer.
You can reach us in writing at: MALINA FZ LLE, Creative Tower, P.O. Box 4422, Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. For faster handling, write to support@malinafz.com with the subject line "Cookie Policy", or call +971-9-222-0149 during business hours. You can also use the form and support chat on our contact page. We aim to acknowledge every enquiry within 48 hours and to resolve most questions within a few business days.
For a complete picture of how personal information is handled across the platform, please read this policy together with our Privacy Policy, which covers accounts, data rights, and security in full detail.
