No ad networks
No ad pixels, no retargeting tags, no banners chasing you around the internet because you looked at a menu once.
The small print · Oamaru waterfront
Cookie policy
without the legal fog
This is the cookie policy for happydaydreams.com, the website of our restaurant and poker room at 1 Esplanade, Oamaru. It covers what these little files are, the few we keep, and how to switch them off.
First, the boring bit
What a cookie actually is
A cookie is a small text file a website saves in your browser. That's the whole mystery. When you come back, the site reads it and remembers something about the last visit. Some cookies last minutes, some sit around for months, and nearly every website you've ever used keeps a few.
Cookies aren't programs. They can't do anything by themselves, they just sit there holding a line of text. What a site chooses to write in that line is the part worth knowing about, which is what the rest of this page is for.
- They remember choices you already made, so nothing asks twice
- They hold multi-step pages together on sites that have them: a checkout, or a poker night booking flow
- They can count visits, which is how sites tell whether the poker page or the menu gets read more
The edible kind
lives in the kitchen
lives in the kitchen
What we keep
Every cookie we use, in menu form
No table of forty tracking codes here. This is the whole list, and it fits between the starters and the mains.
The list changes only if the site changes. If we ever add something, say a way to save your usual poker night, this page gets updated the same week.
One honest footnote
Strictly speaking, the banner's answer lives in your browser's local storage rather than a cookie file. Same idea, different drawer, and it belongs on this page anyway.
Asked once
remembered
remembered
How the banner works
One question, answered once
First visit
A small bar slides up
Land on the homepage for the first time and a banner asks whether cookies are fine with you. Two buttons: Sounds good, or No thanks. Both are real answers.
Every visit after
The answer is saved
Your pick is written to your browser as one word, either accept or decline. Next visit the banner reads it, sees you've answered, and stays away.
Changing your mind
Clear your site data
Delete the stored data for happydaydreams.com in your browser settings. The banner will greet you like a stranger on your next homepage visit and ask again.
The banner knows one word about you and nothing else. It can't see whether you browsed poker nights or went straight to the dining menu.
The don'ts
What this site doesn't do
A short list we're quietly proud of. Small business, small website, small appetite for tracking strangers.
No cross-site tracking
Nothing here reports your visit to another website. What you read on our poker page stays between you and us.
No selling data
We don't have a profile of your habits to sell, and frankly we wouldn't know who to sell it to. We sell dinner and seats at card tables.
Worth knowing: table bookings and poker seat enquiries go through our forms and the phone, not through cookies. What happens to your name and email once you send them is the privacy policy's job, and our terms cover the house rules.
Your controls
You're in charge of the jar
Every browser lets you see, delete or block cookies. The menus look slightly different depending on yours, but the idea is identical.
The thirty-second version
Settings, then Privacy, then site data. Search happydaydreams.com, delete what you find, done.
01
Find the setting
Open your browser's settings and look for Privacy or Security. On a phone it's the same idea, tucked one menu deeper.
02
Delete for one site
You can clear data for happydaydreams.com alone. That resets the banner choice, and that's all there is to reset: a poker seat enquiry isn't stored until you submit it.
03
Or block outright
You can refuse cookies entirely. This site still loads and reads fine, the banner just can't remember you answered it.
Everything here works the same with or without cookies: dinner bookings, poker seats, the lot. The form only ever sends what you submit.
A palate cleanser
Back to the part that isn't paperwork
Questions
Asked about cookies
Four things people actually want to know, answered without legal costume. The contact page gets you one of us for anything else.
Still unsure?
The number's +64 9 352 8417 and the inbox is happydaydreams@gmail.com; either lands with someone who works here.
Close enough that it belongs on this page. It sits in your browser's local storage rather than a cookie file, and it holds a single word: accept or decline.
The essentials that make pages behave, and that's it. We don't run visit counters or ad pixels, so declining changes exactly one thing: the banner stays gone — same treatment whether you're here for poker nights or the wine list.
Clear the site data for happydaydreams.com in your browser settings. The next time you land on the homepage the banner comes back and asks fresh, and whatever you pick replaces the old answer.
No. None of the cookies here carry your name or email. A dinner booking or a poker seat enquiry goes through the contact form, and that information is covered by the privacy policy instead.
Kept light
like the pastry
like the pastry
The boring page is done
The menu is a better read and the room is better still. If a poker night booking or anything on this page raised a question, ask us directly.
+64 9 352 8417 · happydaydreams@gmail.com · 1 Esplanade, South Hill, Oamaru