Cookie & Privacy Policy

To continually offer a great service, we use cookies on our website www.uk-gambling.org.uk. Below you can find out more about the types of cookies we use and what purpose we use them for.

What Are Cookies?

As is common practice with almost all professional websites, this website uses cookies, which are tiny files downloaded to your computer to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored. However, this may downgrade or 'break' certain site functionality elements. For more general information on cookies, we recommend that you check out the Wikipedia article on Cookies.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons, detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are unsure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service you use.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser 'Help' for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The Cookies We Set

• Email & Newsletters-related Cookies: This site allows you to opt in to receive newsletters, email subscription services, and browser notifications. Cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
• Contact Forms-related Cookies: When you submit data through a form such as those found on our contact us page or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
• Site Preferences Cookies: To provide you with a great experience on UK-Gambling.org.uk, we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. To remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page which is affected by your preferences.
• Third-Party Cookies: In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. As an example, UK-Gambling.org.uk uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web, to help us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track how long you spend on the site and the pages you visit so we can continue producing engaging content for your enjoyment.
• UI Cookies: From time to time, we test new features and make subtle changes to how the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features, these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most. As we recommend products, it's important for us to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our site actually use our recommendations and as such, this is the kind of data that these cookies will track.
• Social Media Cookies: We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work, these social media sites will set cookies through our site, which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.

We also use affiliate tracking cookies throughout our pages. In the simplest terms, an affiliate tracking cookie is a file that is created and stored on your web browser when you click on one of our affiliate links. Basically, this allows affiliate networks that we work with to have the ability to make certain that they can determine whether sales have come from UK-Gambling.org.uk or not.

Further Information

Hopefully, that has clarified things for you; if there are some things you aren't sure you need or not, it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. If you are still looking for more information, you can contact us directly - we'd be happy to answer any questions.