Readers in Great Britain come to wagerwatchuk.com for its material on online casinos, British-licensed and offshore, and that material rests on no more than a handful of technical tools. Set out below are the cookies and similar technologies in use, what each one does, and the ways consent to them can be refused or altered afterwards. A cookie is a small text file a browser stores on a device; counting pixels and entries in the browser's local and session storage behave in much the same way.
Legal basis
Regulation 6 of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (PECR) is the rule that governs: storing information on a user's device, or gaining access to information already stored there, requires clear and comprehensive information and the user's consent, except where the storage is strictly necessary to provide a service the user has requested. That consent must satisfy the UK GDPR (Article 4(11) and Article 7): freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous, and as easy to withdraw as to give. Where cookies are used to process personal data, the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 apply as well.
Functional and analytics files
Settings such as the comparison tables opened last are remembered by functional files. Page views are counted by analytics files, which show which pages are read, so that the content can be improved. Neither group is set before consent has been given in the cookie banner. For analysis, IP addresses are shortened, and profiles that follow behaviour across different sites are not built.
Strictly necessary files
Without them the site could not work reliably. A session is kept open, load is spread across servers, forms are protected against abuse and the cookie choice itself is remembered. No separate choice is asked for these. Session files expire when the browser is closed, and the stored choice is kept for no more than twelve months.
Third-party files
Files of their own may be set by embedded outside services, such as videos or maps. The privacy rules of the provider then apply too, and an objection to them is raised with that provider. Advertising cookies that build profiles for personalised ads are not set by wagerwatchuk.com without a clear choice in the consent banner.
Refusing and changing consent
Through the "Cookie settings" link in the footer, consent can be changed or withdrawn at any time; the withdrawal works for the future and leaves the lawfulness of earlier processing untouched. Cookies can also be blocked and deleted by every browser in its privacy settings, and the manufacturer's help pages describe the steps for Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge. Once the necessary files are deleted the banner appears again, and some features may stop working for a short time.
Supervision
A complaint about the handling of personal data can be made to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK's supervisory authority. Details of how personal data is processed are in the privacy policy of this site.
Last updated: 13.11.2026.