This policy explains what cookies are, which ones this website uses, and how you can control them.
What cookies are
A cookie is a small text file placed on your device when you visit a website. It lets the site remember things between pages and visits, such as whether you have already dismissed a notice. Similar technologies, such as local storage and tracking pixels, do comparable jobs and are covered by this policy too.
The cookies we use
- Essential cookies. These make the site work. They handle things like page delivery, security and remembering your cookie choices. The site cannot function properly without them, so they are not optional.
- Analytics cookies. These tell us how the site is used in aggregate, such as which pages are read and how visitors arrive. We use this to decide what to write and what to fix. We are interested in patterns across all readers, not in identifying you.
- Affiliate tracking cookies. When you click a link through to a bookmaker, that bookmaker may set a cookie so it can tell that you arrived from this site. That is how our affiliate arrangements are recorded. It costs you nothing and does not change your account.
Third-party cookies
Some cookies are set by other companies rather than by us. Analytics providers and the bookmakers you click through to are the main examples. Those cookies are governed by the provider’s own privacy and cookie policies, and we cannot control what they collect. Once you leave our site by following a link, you are on that company’s terms rather than ours.
Your consent
Under UK rules, non-essential cookies require your consent. Essential cookies do not, because the site cannot work without them. Where a consent banner is shown, your choice is recorded and applies until you change it or clear your browser data.
How to manage cookies
You are in control and you do not need our permission to change anything. Every major browser lets you:
- See the cookies currently stored for a site.
- Delete cookies, either for one site or all of them.
- Block cookies from being set, including third-party cookies specifically.
- Browse privately, so cookies are cleared when you close the window.
The controls sit in the settings or preferences menu of your browser, usually under privacy. If you use more than one device or browser, you will need to set your preferences on each of them, because cookies do not carry across.
What happens if you block cookies
Blocking essential cookies may stop parts of the site working properly. Blocking analytics cookies makes no difference to your experience at all. Blocking third-party cookies may affect whether a bookmaker records that you arrived from us, which affects us rather than you.
How long cookies last
Some cookies are deleted as soon as you close your browser. Others remain for a set period so the site or a third party can recognise a returning visit. Clearing your browser data removes all of them at any time.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy as the site changes or as the services we use change. The version published on this page is the one that applies.
More information
How we handle personal information generally is set out in our privacy policy. If you have a question about cookies on this site, please use our contact page.