What is a Cookie?

Most websites you visit will use cookies in order to improve your user experience by enabling that website to ‘remember’ you, either for the duration of your visit (using a ‘session cookie’) or for repeat visits (using a ‘persistent cookie’).

Cookies do lots of different jobs, such as letting you navigate between pages efficiently, storing your preferences and generally improving your experience of a website. Cookies make the interaction between you and the website faster and easier. If a website doesn’t use cookies, it will think you are a new visitor every time you move to a new page on the site – for example, when you enter your login details and move to another page it won’t recognise you and it won’t be able to keep you logged in.

Some websites will also use cookies to enable them to target their advertising or marketing messages based for example, on your location and/or browsing habits.

Cookies may be set by the website you are visiting (‘first party cookies’) or they may be set by other websites who run content on the page you are viewing (‘third party cookies’).

How does Casino.com use cookies?

Cookies enable us to identify your device, or you when you have logged in. We use cookies that are strictly necessary to enable you to move around the site or to provide certain basic features. We use cookies to enhance the functionality of the website by storing your preferences, for example. We also use cookies to help us to improve the performance of our website to provide you with a better user experience.

Some websites also use targeted online behavioural advertising cookies to enable them to tailor their advertising and make it more relevant to you by tracking your behaviour and internet usage across the World Wide Web.

Please see below to find out more about each of these categories of cookie along with our descriptions of the cookies set by Casino.com.

Guidance from the EU and the ICO has led to cookies being placed into four different categories:

1. Strictly Necessary

These cookies are strictly necessary in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features as smoothly and securely as possible, allowing the correct elements to be displayed on all pages as quickly as possible. Without these cookies, we would not be able to provide you with the proper functionality of the website, making for a poor user experience.

Strictly Necessary Cookies set by Casino.com:

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Site functionality, language, ensures correct elements of the website are loaded efficiently.

2. “Functionality” Cookies

Functionality cookies record information about choices you’ve made and allow us to tailor the website to you, to give you a more personalised experience. This might include your preferred language, detecting if you have already seen a popup so that it isn’t shown again and remembering other similar choices you may have made. All this is done to allow the website to function in a way that makes your experience better.

Functionality Cookies set by Casino.com:

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Remembers user choices, tracks affiliate information, remembers whether a page has been accessed before and what content to display based on this, arranges site layout based on previous preferences and provides geo targeting for site language purposes.

By using our website and services, you agree that we can place these types of cookie.

3. Performance Cookies

We use performance cookies on Casino.com for internal purposes to help us to provide you with a better user experience. This anonymous information supplied by cookies helps us to understand how our visitors use our website so that we can improve how we present our content to you. They also allow us to test different design ideas for particular pages, such as our home page.

Performance cookies set by Casino.com:

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Tracks how and from where users visit the websites, internal data mining, testing different design ideas for various pages on our website, etc.

All of these cookies are our own, using our own measurement and research systems, except for one section of Google Analytics cookies, which collects standard internet log information and details of visitor patterns to help us find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information does not identify visitors or collect any personal details. Find out more about Google Analytics cookies here.

Google Analytics Cookies set by Casino.com:

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Google Analytics tracking cookie

By using our website and services, you agree that we can place these types of cookie.

4. Online Behavioural Advertising Cookies

These cookies collect information about your browsing habits which is then used to provide you with targeted advertising based on these habits. They work out what advertising might be most relevant to you based on the areas you look at these sites, as well as your IP address geo-location.

Casino.com does not employ itself nor allow 3rd parties to set any online behavioural advertising cookies of any kind.

What to do if you don’t want cookies to be set?

At this moment in time we do not offer you the chance to specifically enable or disable individual categories of cookies.

Nonetheless, you are not obliged to accept a cookie from us or from any other website. You can modify your browser so that it will not accept cookies. Please consult the “Help” section of your browser for instructions on how to do so correctly. However, for legitimate security reasons, we may refuse access to specific website content unless you accept the use of a cookie or similar device.