| What cookies are | A cookie is a small text file that a website leaves on your device so that the site can remember something about you between page loads. Cookies are not programs — they cannot install anything, they cannot read your other files, and they expire after a length of time set by whoever placed them. In practice the ones this site uses are short strings of characters that keep track of two things: whether you have dismissed the age-gate banner, and how many times a given page has been viewed. UK law (specifically the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, alongside the UK GDPR) requires us to explain what cookies we set and to let you refuse the ones that are not strictly necessary. That is what this page does. |
| Analytics — what it actually sees | The analytics provider we use is configured to strip identifying information before it reaches us. That means: your IP address is truncated at source before it is written to any log we have access to; your device fingerprint is not collected; the referring page is preserved but the query string of that page — the part after the question mark, which sometimes carries personal identifiers — is dropped. The result is that when we open our analytics dashboard we can see that a page was viewed a certain number of times from a certain country and on a certain type of device, and nothing more. We cannot tell that you personally read a specific page. That is intentional: this site is a reference, not a marketing funnel, and detailed tracking would give us information we do not need and cannot honestly protect. |
| Third-party cookies | We do not embed advertising, we do not run remarketing pixels, and we do not include social-sharing widgets that call home before you click them. That means the list of third-party cookies on this site is very short: the analytics provider named above, and whichever affiliate network is used for a given outbound link. Both are declared in the previous section. |
| Which cookies we use | Strictly necessary cookies keep the site working. There is one: a session cookie that records whether you have dismissed the age-gate banner. Without it the banner would reappear on every page load, which would make the site unusable. It expires when you close your browser. Analytics cookies count aggregate pageviews. There is one, set by our analytics provider, valid for twelve months. It does not carry your name, your IP address, or any identifier that can be traced back to you personally. It exists so that we can tell — in the aggregate — that ten thousand people read our bonus review in a month and only three hundred read our page on withdrawal delays, which then tells us which pages are worth updating first. Affiliate cookies are set only after you click a link that goes to Betbolt. They live on the destination site, not on ours. They tell the operator that you arrived from betbolts.uk so that the referral can be attributed correctly, and they expire after 30 days. |
| How to switch cookies off | Every mainstream browser lets you block or clear cookies. In Chrome the setting is under Settings → Privacy and Security → Cookies and other site data; in Safari it is under Safari → Preferences → Privacy; in Firefox it is under Preferences → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data. You can block cookies from this site specifically, block all third-party cookies, or clear cookies each time the browser closes. If you want to opt out of analytics without changing your browser settings, the simplest route is to install an extension that blocks the analytics domain (uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger and a dozen others do this out of the box). The site continues to work with analytics blocked; we just lose the aggregate count of your visits, which is fine. |