Play Natioon – Black Tie Card Society
Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy describes how Play Natioon (Black Tie Card Society) uses cookies and similar technologies to deliver a refined browsing experience that reflects our values of privacy, sophistication and Australian hospitality across both our restaurant and offline poker salon.
Cookie Policy Overview
How we use cookies at Play Natioon
At Play Natioon, home of the Black Tie Card Society, cookies help us ensure that your journey from dinner to the card room feels seamless, secure and thoughtfully curated. This policy explains how we use cookies and similar technologies across our website, including the restaurant pages, poker salon information, hosted poker evenings, table guides and journal features.
We use cookies primarily to maintain core site functionality, support secure interactions such as contact forms, and to understand how guests move between menu, poker events and card lounge content so that we can refine the overall experience. We do not use cookies for online gaming, betting, casino-style activity or behaviour-based advertising.
What Are Cookies?
Understanding cookies in a club setting
Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your device when you visit. They allow the site to recognise your browser, remember certain choices and keep essential functions running from page to page. In the context of our restaurant and offline card lounge, cookies serve as quiet, behind-the-scenes hosts, helping you move smoothly from exploring seasonal dishes to learning about Texas Hold’em evenings or enquiring about a private poker salon booking.
Some cookies are required for the site to function at all (for example, to keep forms secure or remember your progress during a simple booking flow), while others help us understand which parts of the site guests find most useful, such as the table guide, card room etiquette or poker events calendar. These small data pieces do not let us see the physical playing cards or chips on our poker tables; they are limited to website interactions only.
Types of Cookies We Use
Essential categories only
To keep the experience focused on refined dining and in-person poker, we use a limited set of cookie categories:
We deliberately avoid using advertising cookies, cross-site tracking cookies or profiling cookies. Your visit to Play Natioon should feel like an evening in a private card room: discreet, contained and not followed around the web.
Purpose of Cookie Usage
Supporting the journey from dinner to the card room
Cookies help us support the two connected worlds at Play Natioon: modern Australian restaurant culture and the offline poker salon. We use them to:
- Maintain smooth navigation as you move from exploring seasonal dishes on the Menu page to reading about poker table layouts on the Table and Guide pages.
- Remember basic functional preferences you may indicate (for example, how content is ordered or which sections of the poker events overview you expanded), so that repeated visits feel familiar.
- Support secure, reliable handling of enquiries about hosted poker nights, private card lounge experiences or restaurant reservations submitted via the Contact Us page.
- Protect the website and our guests by helping detect unusual technical behaviour, ensuring that browsing club news, etiquette articles and card room information remains safe.
These uses focus on operational convenience and guest service, ensuring your digital experience reflects the same calm, attentive tone as our in-person poker tables and dining room.
Cookie Consent and Management
Managing your preferences
Where required, we ask for your consent to place non-essential cookies, such as certain performance or analytics tools. When you first arrive, you may see a banner explaining our use of cookies for site operation and experience improvement across the restaurant and poker salon sections.
You can withdraw or adjust your consent at any time by changing settings in your browser or device. Most browsers allow you to:
- See which cookies are stored on your device
- Delete individual cookies or clear all cookies
- Block cookies from specific sites
- Block all cookies, or only third-party cookies
For detailed guidance, you may refer to your browser’s official help resources, such as:
Essential Cookies Only
No advertising, profiling or online gaming cookies
Play Natioon is dedicated to an offline, face-to-face poker experience, complemented by a modern Australian dining room. In the same spirit, we intentionally restrict our cookies to operational and guest service purposes.
We do not use cookies for:
- Third-party advertising networks or targeted advertising campaigns
- Building marketing profiles of individual guests across unrelated websites
- Running or promoting online casinos, online poker platforms or wagering products
Any cookies placed by our site exist to keep the digital elements of your visit aligned with the atmosphere of our card lounge: focused, private and centred on in-person poker evenings and dining experiences.
How to Disable Cookies
Adjusting or clearing cookies on your device
If you prefer to limit or remove cookies, you can usually do so through your browser or device settings. The steps vary, but the general process is similar:
- Open your browser settings or preferences menu.
- Locate the privacy or security section.
- Find cookie or site data controls.
- Choose whether to block all cookies, block third-party cookies or manage exceptions.
- Clear existing cookies if you wish to remove those already stored.
If you disable certain cookies, some features of our website may work less smoothly. For example, forms for contacting us about poker salon reservations or requests for specific dining arrangements may not remember your details between steps, and basic performance insights we use to refine the menu, card room and poker events pages may be reduced.
Duration of Stored Cookies
Session and longer-lived cookies
Cookies on our site may be stored for different lengths of time, depending on their purpose:
- Session cookies: These exist only while your browser is open. They support immediate tasks such as safely submitting a form requesting a hosted poker evening, viewing table guides or moving between the menu and journal without losing context. They are deleted when you close your browser.
- Persistent cookies: These may remain on your device for a defined period after your visit. We use them in a limited way, for example to remember basic functional choices or to recognise a regular guest returning to explore card lounge details, poker etiquette or Australian dishes, so that navigation feels familiar.
We review our cookies periodically to ensure that any persistent lifespans remain appropriate, proportionate and aligned with our privacy and hospitality standards.
Third-Party Services
Essential partners only
We may rely on carefully selected third-party service providers to support the smooth operation of Play Natioon’s website and its core restaurant and poker lounge functions.
Examples include:
- Analytics providers that help us understand, in aggregate, how guests use pages such as the Texas Hold’em evenings overview, card room etiquette guides or Top 10 offline poker night features. This insight informs improvements to content and layout.
- Reservation or enquiry tools that securely manage messages or booking requests for the dining room, poker tables, private poker evenings or corporate card lounge events.
Where these partners use cookies, they do so only for technical, security or performance-related reasons on our behalf and in line with this Cookie Policy. We do not permit them to use cookies from our site for unrelated advertising, online gaming services or external profiling.
Your Privacy Rights
Guests’ rights under Australian law
As an Australian venue, Play Natioon manages personal information, including any data linked with cookies, in line with applicable Australian privacy laws and principles. Depending on the circumstances, you may have rights to:
- Request information about how we collect and use your personal information
- Request access to personal information we hold about you
- Request correction of inaccurate, incomplete or outdated information
- Raise concerns about the way we handle personal information associated with cookies or similar technologies
Most of the information generated by our cookie use is aggregated or technical in nature and is not used to identify individual guests. For more detail about how we handle personal information, please refer to our Privacy Policy.
Contact Us Regarding Cookies
Speaking with the Black Tie Card Society
If you have any questions, concerns or requests relating to this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies and similar technologies, we invite you to contact the Play Natioon management team.
You can reach us via the Contact Us page, where you may submit an enquiry regarding:
- How cookies support reservations for restaurant tables, poker nights or private card lounge evenings
- Technical questions about performance cookies, analytics or security
- Privacy requests relating to information connected to cookie usage
When you write to us, please include enough detail to help us identify your query, such as the browser and device you are using and the section of the site you were visiting (for example, poker table guide, restaurant menu, events or journal). We will respond as promptly as possible, with the same care we extend to guests at our in-person poker tables.