Joyful Day OutThe consent flag
Click either button on the cookie banner and the site writes jd-cookie-ok into your browser's local storage. It means “this person has seen the notice”. No ID inside it, no expiry ping, nothing phoning home.
Policy page, written by the people who run the place
Cookies, without
Cookies, without
the legal fog
This is the page our cookie banner points to. The short version: we store one consent flag in your browser and almost nothing else. The poker room upstairs keeps even less than that.
1 crumb
worth naming
worth naming
01 / In one breath
This site forgets you the moment you leave
Cookies are small text files a site parks in your browser so it can recognise you next time. Some do useful work, like remembering a login or keeping a basket full. Others get used to follow people around the internet, which is where most cookie policies grow long and slippery.
Ours stays short because our site is simple. Joyful Day Out is a grill and a card room on Thames Street, and the website is a brochure with a booking form. When you book a table or a poker seat at the felt, those details come to us by form or phone call and land in the bookings diary. Your browser keeps almost nothing of it.
“One consent flag, one bookings diary, zero surprises.”
02 / The full inventory
Everything this site keeps, itemised
The whole list fits on a napkin. We checked the code ourselves so you wouldn't have to.
checked line by line, february 2026
Form details
Name, date and contact details you type into the booking form live in the page until you hit send. They are never written to storage. Close the tab halfway through and they're gone.
Server logs
Like every site on the internet, our host records page requests (address, time, rough region) so we can tell what's broken. They rotate out on the host's schedule and get read only when something goes wrong.
That's the lot, and if we ever add anything else, say anonymous visit counting, we'll date it on this page first.
03 / The other direction
What we don't do with your data
A shorter list than most sites can offer, because there's less to confess.
- No advertising trackers or remarketing pixels. Nothing follows you from our pages to the rest of your internet.
- No selling, renting or trading your details. Your email reaches us when you write to us and stops there.
- No social-media pixels quietly reporting your visit back to a platform.
- No fingerprinting tricks that identify you without using cookies at all.
The gist: the only thing this site remembers about you is that you've seen the cookie banner. Your poker face, and everything else, stays your own business.
04 / You're the boss of your browser
Managing cookies yourself
You can clear or block cookies in any browser. Here's the short route in the big four.
1
Open the privacy settings
Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies. Safari: Settings → Privacy. Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security. Edge: Settings → Cookies and site permissions.
2
Block what you don't want
Most browsers let you refuse third-party cookies while keeping first-party ones. That setting changes nothing here. Our site doesn't lean on third parties for anything.
3
Clear site data if you like
Deleting site data wipes our jd-cookie-ok flag along with everything else. Nothing bad happens. The cookie banner just says hello again on your next visit.
4
That's the whole chore
Real bookings live in the diary behind the bar, the one with the pencil. Whatever you clear in your browser, a confirmed table or poker seat stays exactly where it was.
Blocking us breaks nothing
Refuse every cookie this site offers and it still works end to end: menus, poker night info, the booking form. The banner will simply keep asking each visit, politely.
05 / Where the felt meets the browser
Cookies and poker seats, connected barely
People sometimes assume booking a poker seat means creating an account somewhere. It doesn't. The two worlds mostly wave at each other from across the street.
- Booking a poker seat works by form, phone call or walking in. A person confirms it, and a person writes it down.
- The poker room keeps no online accounts: no logins, no profiles, no stored results or hand histories.
- Chips are counted by hand and wins are remembered by the table. The game lives in the room, in person, the way it should.
The details you give us for a booking (name, contact, date) are handled under our privacy policy. None of them are stored in a cookie.
06 / Talk to a human
Questions about any of this?
Cookies, bookings, poker nights, the lamb shoulder. Ask us anything. We answer the email ourselves and the phone sits behind the bar.
- Email: joyfuldayout@gmail.com
- Phone: +64 3 366 2941
- Address: 84 Thames Street, Oamaru 9400, New Zealand
Last updated: February 2026. Joyful Day Out Limited, NZBN 9429048761358. If we change anything on this page we'll update the date, and the cookie banner will keep linking here.
07 / Enough about cookies
Policy read. Now come and eat.
The kitchen runs Wednesday to Sunday from 5pm, and poker nights go Thursday to Saturday from 7pm in the card room upstairs. Browsers aside, we'd rather see you in person anyway.
Thu–Sat cards
from 7pm
from 7pm