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Cookie policy
A cookie is a small file a website leaves on your device so it knows you again next time. A few of them this site genuinely cannot run without. Everything else waits, switched off, until you say otherwise.
1. Session and cashier cookies
The banner shows these as locked on, because without them there is no working site. They hold you signed in from page to page, keep your seat while you are at a live table, remember the currency and language you picked, guard the cashier against cross-site request forgery and spread load across our servers.
The session ones in this group die the moment the browser closes. None of the rest outlive twelve months.
2. Traffic measurement (optional)
These show us which parts of the site get used: which pages get read to the end, where a sign-up gets abandoned, which errors keep firing. What comes back is aggregated, and it goes towards fixing what is broken, not towards building a picture of you. Two years is the usual lifetime, and turning them down changes nothing about your account.
3. Referral tracking (optional)
These remember that you arrived through a particular advertisement or partner link, so the referral gets credited to the right place, and they stop the same promotion following you around. Turn them down and the site works exactly as before; the only difference is that advertising you meet elsewhere is less relevant.
4. Cookies set by other companies
Some tools embedded in the site set their own cookies. Our live chat provider does, so a conversation survives a page reload. Game studios set a session cookie while a game is open. Payment providers set one during a transaction for fraud checks. Those companies act as controllers of their own cookies and publish their own policies.
5. Changing your mind
The consent panel offers three ways out: Only the essentials refuses both optional groups, Keep my picks saves whatever the two switches are set to, and Allow the lot turns everything on. All three carry the same weight and the same styling, so none of them is the nudge.
Your choice lives on your own device and never on our servers, which means clearing it brings the panel back. Use the button below, or clear site data from your browser settings.
Clearing your choice brings the consent panel back the next time you open the site.
You can also block cookies entirely from your browser settings. Be aware that blocking essential cookies will stop you from staying signed in, and the cashier will not complete a transaction.
6. Do Not Track
Browsers send a Do Not Track signal inconsistently and there is no agreed standard for honouring it, so we do not rely on it. Use the controls on this page instead — they do exactly what they say.
7. More detail
What happens to the information behind these cookies is set out in our privacy policy, including how long we keep it and how to ask for a copy.
8. What sits on your device, one by one
Names vary between releases, so what matters is the job each one does and how long it lasts.
- Session token — keeps you signed in from page to page. Deleted when the browser closes. Essential.
- Cashier token — ties a deposit or withdrawal to your session so it cannot be replayed by anyone else. Minutes. Essential.
- Preference store — currency, language, the filters you last used in the lobby. Up to twelve months. Essential.
- Consent record — what you chose on the panel, so it stops asking. Twelve months. Essential, and the one thing clearing your cookies always resets.
- Load balancing — keeps you on the same server mid-game. Session only. Essential.
- Measurement — an anonymous visitor identifier and a page counter. Up to two years. Optional.
- Referral — which advertisement or partner link brought you, so credit goes to the right place. Thirty to ninety days. Optional.
- Frequency cap — how often you have seen a given promotion, so it stops following you. Thirty days. Optional.
9. Cookies against local storage
Not everything kept on your device is a cookie. Browsers also offer local storage, which holds a little data without sending it back with every request. Your consent choice lives there rather than in a cookie, which is why it survives a refresh but disappears when you clear site data.
Local storage is covered by the same rules and the same panel. Clearing site data in your browser clears both at once.
10. Turning cookies off in the browser itself
Every browser can block or clear cookies without asking us, though the path differs.
- Chrome. The control lives in the privacy section of Settings, and a single site can be handled from the small icon at the left of the address bar.
- Safari. On a phone it is filed under the Safari entry in Settings, behind the advanced options; on a Mac the same thing sits in Preferences under privacy.
- Firefox. Open Settings and look for the privacy heading, where stored site data is managed next to the cookie switch itself.
- Edge. Settings again, this time under the entry that covers permissions granted to individual sites.
- Android and Samsung Internet. Both follow Chrome closely. Samsung files the same controls under its sites and downloads section.
Blocking everything is your call, but the essential group is not optional in a technical sense: without it you cannot stay signed in and the cashier will not finish a transaction. That is a limitation of how the web works, not a nudge.
11. Cookies inside a game window
When you open a game the studio loads its own frame, and that frame may set a session cookie of its own to keep the round running. Those cookies belong to the studio, are covered by the studio’s own policy, and end when the game closes.
We do not pass your name, your email or your balance history into a game frame. What goes across is a session identifier and a stake amount.