Privacy

• No accounts, sign-ups or logins are offered today.
• No cookies are set, and no analytics, advertising or third-party scripts run on these pages.
• Searches are not linked to you, stored against a profile, or sold.
• Our hosting provider keeps ordinary server request logs, which include your IP address.

Server request logs. Like any website, SlotCafes runs behind a hosting provider that records each request: the URL, the time, the response, your IP address and your browser's user-agent string. These logs exist to keep the site running and to investigate abuse and errors. We do not use them to build a profile of you.

Your search terms. A ZIP code, town or address you type appears in the page URL, so it is present in those same server logs. Please do not type anything into the search box that you would not want written to a log.

Your location, only if you offer it. The “use my location” control asks your browser for coordinates and your browser asks you first. If you agree, the coordinates are placed in the page URL to run the search. We do not store them, and declining simply means you type a place instead.

• No cookies. SlotCafes sets no cookies of its own and no non-essential cookies of any kind. There is nothing to consent to, so there is no consent banner.
• No analytics or advertising. No measurement service, tag manager, pixel, session recorder or advertising network is loaded.
• No account data. There is nothing to register for, so we hold no name, email address or password.
• No payment data. Nothing is for sale on this site today.

Our hosting provider serves every page and keeps the request logs described above.

The US Census Bureau geocoder. ZIP codes and Illinois municipality names are resolved from a table we host ourselves and never leave our servers. A free-form street address that we cannot resolve locally is sent from our server to the Census Bureau's public geocoding service to be turned into coordinates. Your IP address is not forwarded — the request comes from us, not from your browser.

The Illinois Gaming Board. We download public reports from the IGB on a schedule. That traffic is ours; browsing SlotCafes sends nothing to the IGB.

Gaming data: SlotCafes publishes a rolling five years of official monthly reporting. Older months are pruned from the live database. The original source files stay archived with their checksums so any published figure remains traceable to the file it came from.

Request logs: retained by our hosting provider on its own schedule, and used only for operating and securing the site.

Video gaming terminals in Illinois are restricted to players 21 and over. SlotCafes is intended for adults and is not directed to children.

Because we hold no account and set no cookie, there is no profile to access, correct or delete. If you believe a request log contains something that identifies you and you want it addressed, write to us and we will work with our hosting provider.

If accounts, saved searches or business claims are introduced later, this policy will be updated in the same release, and the new collection will be described here before it starts.

Questions about this policy: privacy@slotcafes.com.

See also our terms of use and data sources.