Last updated: February 2026
This cookie policy explains what cookies are, how this website uses them, what information they collect, and how you can control or disable them. This policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which provides broader information about how we handle personal data.
What Cookies Are
Cookies are small text files placed on your device (computer, smartphone, or tablet) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites function correctly, to improve performance, and to provide information to site operators. Cookies may be set by the website you are visiting (first-party cookies) or by third-party services operating on the site (third-party cookies). Cookies can persist for varying durations: session cookies are deleted when you close your browser, while persistent cookies remain on your device for a set period or until you manually delete them.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for the following purposes.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for the basic operation of the website. They enable core functionality such as page navigation, access to secure areas, and remembering your cookie consent preferences. Without these cookies, the site cannot function properly. Because they are necessary, they do not require your consent under UK data protection law and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (PECR).
Strictly necessary cookies used on this site include a cookie consent preference cookie, which records whether you have accepted or declined non-essential cookies. This cookie is a first-party persistent cookie with a lifespan of up to 12 months.
Analytics Cookies
We use analytics cookies to understand how visitors interact with this website. These cookies collect information about which pages are visited most frequently, how long visitors spend on each page, how visitors arrive at the site, and whether visitors encounter any errors. All information collected by analytics cookies is aggregated and anonymised where technically feasible. It does not identify individual visitors.
We use this data to improve the website, identify content gaps, fix technical issues, and understand which guides and sections are most useful to our audience. Analytics cookies are third-party persistent cookies with lifespans that vary depending on the analytics provider but typically do not exceed 24 months.
Analytics cookies are non-essential and are only activated with your consent.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies remember choices you make on the site, such as your preferred display settings or whether you have dismissed a notification. They improve your experience by personalising the site to your preferences. Functional cookies may be first-party or third-party and are typically persistent with lifespans of up to 12 months.
Functional cookies are non-essential and are only activated with your consent.
Advertising and Affiliate Cookies
This site contains affiliate links to third-party gambling operators. When you click on an affiliate link, the destination site may set cookies on your device to track that you were referred from this website. These cookies are set by the third-party operator, not by us, and are governed by that operator’s own cookie and privacy policies.
We do not set advertising cookies ourselves. We do not serve display advertising, and we do not use cookies for behavioural targeting or retargeting on this site.
Your Consent
When you first visit this website, you are presented with a cookie consent mechanism that allows you to accept or decline non-essential cookies. Strictly necessary cookies do not require consent and are always active. All other categories of cookies — analytics, functional, and any others — are only activated after you provide consent.
You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clearing your browser’s cookies and revisiting the site, at which point the consent mechanism will reappear. You may also manage cookies through your browser settings as described below.
Managing Cookies Through Your Browser
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can typically configure your browser to block all cookies, block only third-party cookies, delete existing cookies, or receive a notification before a cookie is set. The method for doing this varies by browser.
Instructions for managing cookies in the most commonly used browsers are available at the following locations.
Google Chrome: support.google.com
Mozilla Firefox: support.mozilla.org
Apple Safari: support.apple.com
Microsoft Edge: support.microsoft.com
Please be aware that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of this website and other sites you visit. Some features may not operate correctly if cookies are blocked.
Third-Party Cookies
Third-party services used on this site may set their own cookies. These are governed by the respective third party’s own cookie and privacy policies, which we do not control. We recommend reviewing the privacy policies of any third-party services you interact with through this site.
Third-party cookies may be set by analytics providers when you consent to analytics cookies, and by gambling operators when you follow affiliate links to their sites. In the latter case, the operator’s cookies are set on the operator’s domain, not on ours.
Legal Basis
Our use of cookies is governed by the UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018, and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (PECR). Under PECR, strictly necessary cookies may be set without consent. All other cookies require informed, freely given, specific, and unambiguous consent, which we obtain through our cookie consent mechanism.
For more information about your rights under UK data protection law, including your right to access, rectify, or delete personal data collected via cookies, please refer to our Privacy Policy.
More Information
If you would like to learn more about cookies in general, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) provides guidance on their website at ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this cookie policy from time to time. The date at the top of this page indicates the most recent revision. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we use cookies.