Cookie Policy for The Marble Parlour
This Cookie Policy explains how The Ivory Felt Lounge & Grill at The Marble Parlour uses cookies and similar technologies on our website to support secure offline poker information, bookings and premium dining experiences for guests across Australia.
Cookie Policy Overview
This Cookie Policy outlines how The Ivory Felt Lounge & Grill at The Marble Parlour uses cookies and similar technologies to enhance your experience on our website, support our table booking and tournament schedule tools, and meet our compliance obligations for visitors across Australia.
Because our venue combines an upscale card room, Texas Hold'em tournaments and a boutique grill restaurant, our website is designed to present offline poker information, chip stack structures, dining menus and reservation options in a clear, responsive way. Cookies help us deliver this experience smoothly and securely.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your device (such as your computer, tablet or smartphone) when you browse our 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 our site, cookies help remember your preferences, such as your preferred view of the tournament calendar, form inputs you have started, or whether you have already acknowledged our age restriction notice and cookie banner. Some cookies are required for the site to function, while others are used to refine performance and help us understand how guests engage with our offline poker and dining content.
Types of Cookies We Use
On The Marble Parlour's website we use a limited and considered set of cookies aligned with our focus on premium, secure hospitality and social poker experiences. These include:
- Essential cookies that are required for the basic operation of the site, such as navigation, age gating and reservation flows.
- Functional cookies that remember your selections and enhance how the site behaves for you across sessions and devices.
- Performance & analytics cookies that help us understand how visitors use the site so we can continue refining page speed, accessibility and the clarity of our poker table and dining information.
Together, these cookies enable smooth navigation, memorable booking processes and more relevant content for guests exploring our offline poker room, Texas Hold'em tournaments, Pot-Limit Omaha events and gourmet dining options.
Essential Cookies
Essential cookies are strictly necessary for the operation of our website and cannot be switched off using the standard preference tools. Without these cookies, core features and security controls would not function correctly.
We use essential cookies to:
- Support secure navigation around key pages such as Poker, Tournaments, Menu and Contact Us.
- Enable reservation and enquiry forms to operate reliably, including maintaining your progress as you request a poker table or dining booking.
- Remember age verification and important venue notices, including our 18+ requirement and social card room standards.
- Maintain basic security measures that help protect the integrity of the booking process and prevent misuse of our forms and tools.
- Store minimal technical preferences such as your cookie consent status, so we do not need to ask for your consent on every page load.
Because these cookies are essential for the website to function, they are always active when you use the site.
Performance & Analytics Cookies
Performance and analytics cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our pages so we can continually refine the experience for guests exploring our offline poker tables, Texas Hold'em tournaments, Pot-Limit Omaha events and dining options.
Subject to your consent where required, these cookies allow us to:
- See which sections of the site are visited most often, such as the tournament schedule, high roller lounge information or card room rules.
- Monitor site performance, load times and responsiveness across different devices and browsers.
- Identify navigation patterns, for example how many guests move from the tournaments page to the booking form to secure a seat at a live Texas Hold'em tournament.
- Detect and troubleshoot errors so we can maintain a stable, fast and accessible experience.
The information collected by these cookies is aggregated and does not aim to identify you personally. It is used solely to improve the way our website performs and to ensure you can easily find relevant card room, chip stack and dining information.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies enhance how our website feels to use by remembering certain choices you make and tailoring the experience to your preferences.
On The Marble Parlour's website, functional cookies may be used to:
- Remember information you have entered into forms so you can return to them more easily within a browsing session.
- Recall your preferred viewing options for the tournament schedule, such as day of the week or favourite game format.
- Support features that make it easier to compare blind structures, starting chip stacks or high roller event details across pages.
- Maintain consistent presentation preferences, such as light layout choices and language-region settings appropriate for Australian guests.
These cookies are not essential for basic site operation but contribute to a smoother and more personalised browsing experience as you explore our card room and restaurant content.
How We Use Collected Data
Any information derived from cookies is used strictly to support and improve our services. Within the context of The Ivory Felt Lounge & Grill and The Marble Parlour's offline poker and dining offering, cookie-related data helps us to:
- Maintain a secure, reliable booking experience for poker tables, tournaments and dining reservations.
- Customise website content so that information about tournaments, chip stacks, blind structures and menu highlights is presented clearly and accessibly.
- Understand which card room, Texas Hold'em and high roller pages are most helpful for guests, so we can refine the way we explain formats, buy-ins (in points or tournament chips) and etiquette.
- Monitor and protect the integrity of our systems, including safeguarding our forms and ensuring that our social card room information remains accurate and up to date.
We do not use cookies to create profiles for real-money gambling or to track your activity on external wagering platforms. Our focus is solely on supporting our licensed restaurant, hospitality venue and social card room operations.
Third-Party Cookies
In some cases we may use carefully selected third-party service providers to help us analyse how our website is used and to support performance optimisation.
These providers may include analytics platforms such as Google Analytics or similar tools, which can place their own cookies on your device. These third-party cookies are used to:
- Measure aggregated visitor activity across our offline poker, tournament calendar, dining and contact pages.
- Provide anonymised insights into device types, general location trends and engagement, helping us optimise for Australian guests.
- Support troubleshooting when issues such as slow page loads or navigation errors occur.
Third-party cookies are governed by the respective provider's privacy and cookie policies. Where applicable, we configure these tools to respect Australian privacy expectations and to minimise the identifiability of individual visitors.
How to Control & Manage Cookies
You have control over how cookies are used on your devices. In addition to the cookie settings panel available on our website, you can manage, block or delete cookies at any time through your browser settings.
Most browsers allow you to:
- View which cookies are stored on your device and delete them.
- Block all cookies or only specific types of cookies.
- Set preferences for certain websites, including ours.
- Receive notifications before a cookie is stored.
If you choose to disable or block certain cookies, particularly essential or functional cookies, some parts of our website may not function as intended. Features such as table reservation forms, tournament schedule views or preference saving may be limited or unavailable.
For more detailed guidance, refer to the help section of your browser or visit support pages for browsers such as Chrome, Safari, Firefox or Edge.
Retention Periods
Cookies have different retention periods depending on their function and whether they are set as session or persistent cookies.
On The Marble Parlour's website:
- Session cookies remain active only while your browser is open. They typically support navigation, age verification and short-term reservation flows. These cookies are deleted when you close your browser.
- Persistent cookies stay on your device for a defined period or until you delete them. They may remember your cookie consent preferences, functional choices or analytics identifiers used to understand repeat visits in aggregated form.
We aim to keep retention periods proportionate to their purpose and compliance requirements. Where practical, we configure cookies to have reasonable lifespans that support guest convenience without retaining information longer than necessary.
Your Consent
By using The Ivory Felt Lounge & Grill website at The Marble Parlour, you acknowledge and consent to the use of cookies as described in this Cookie Policy, subject to any explicit choices you make in our cookie settings panel.
When you first visit the site, you will see a cookie banner that explains our use of cookies and offers you options to accept or manage non-essential cookies. You can adjust your preferences at any time by reopening the cookie settings panel, which will update your consent choices for future browsing sessions.
Your consent covers the devices and browsers where you have set your preferences. If you access the site from different browsers or devices, you may need to review and confirm your cookie choices on each of them.
Updates to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in legal requirements, industry best practice or the way we use cookies to support our offline poker lounge and restaurant services.
Any changes will be posted on this page, and the revision date at the top of the policy will be updated accordingly. In some cases, we may provide additional notice, such as a refreshed banner or on-page notification, particularly if the changes are significant or if the way we seek your consent is updated.
We encourage you to review this Cookie Policy periodically to stay informed about how cookies support your experience when viewing tournament schedules, exploring poker tables, learning about chip stacks and blind structures, or reserving a seat at The Marble Parlour.
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, you may contact us via the details provided on our Contact & Reservations page.
Related venue policies
For more detail on how we handle personal information and the standards that apply to our social card room and hospitality operations, please also review: