Checked October 2026
Cookies and similar storage: what this site keeps, and how to clear it
Three kinds of thing can end up on your device when you read these guides: a short record of how the site should behave, a counter that tells us which pages get read, and an attribution marker that lets a casino see a click came from here. Only the first is switched on before you answer the banner. This page says what each one is for, roughly how long it hangs about, and where the off switch lives in every browser worth naming.
- Three categories, nothing hidden
- Consent asked before anything optional
- 18+
A cookie is a small file a website asks your browser to hold on to, so the next page load knows something the last one did. Browsers offer other lockers that do a similar job, local storage and session storage among them, and the rules treat all of it alike. Either something was written to your device or it was not, and that is the only distinction that matters here.
The banner you meet on a first visit decides the rest. Accept the optional categories, and a reader counter and an attribution marker join that necessary handful. Refuse, and the guides read the same, the arithmetic still works, and nothing is held back. What happens to personal information once it reaches us belongs on the privacy notice.
The three kinds of storage, side by side
Read the right-hand column first. It is the only one that changes anything for you.
| Category | The job it does | How long it sticks | Placed before you choose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Serves the right version of a page and holds the answer you gave the banner | The visit, or up to 12 months for your answer | Yes, with no opt-out |
| Analytics | Counts visits and which guides get read, as totals rather than a file on one reader | Up to two years at the outside, usually far less | No, only once you agree |
| Affiliate attribution | Marks a click so the operator can credit the referral behind a sign-up | Set by the operator, commonly 30 to 90 days | No, only once you agree |
The ones the site cannot run without
Four jobs sit in this group: serving a page in the right layout, holding the site upright when a lot of people arrive at once, turning away automated nuisance traffic, and remembering whether you accepted or refused. None of them builds an advertising profile or recognises you anywhere else. Block the lot and the pages still load, but your answer cannot be stored, so the banner will greet you on every visit.
Counting readers without following anyone about
The analytics category answers dull questions. How many people opened the bingo section this week. Which guides get read to the end and which get abandoned halfway down a table. Whether a calculator gets used or ignored. Those totals decide where the next bit of arithmetic goes, which is the whole of their value to us.
What arrives is aggregate. A measurement tool sets an identifier so two page views in one visit are not counted as two readers, and that identifier can sit there for a couple of years depending on how the tool is set up. Say no and the counting does not happen.
The marker that travels with a click to a casino
Click a button on a ranking card and you leave for the operator’s own website. Somewhere in that hop a marker records which site sent you, so that if you open an account the operator can credit the referral and pay the commission that keeps these guides being written. The money side of it sits on how this site is funded.
Most of that storage is not ours. It is placed by the operator, or by the network handling its partner payments, on the operator’s own domain, so their notice governs it rather than this one. A small first-party record may be written here just before the hop so the right link gets credited. What comes back to us is a count, not a dossier: no name, no account details, no idea what you deposited.
Why you get asked in the first place
The Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations are the reason for the banner. Anything written to your device beyond what is strictly necessary to deliver the service you asked for needs consent first, and the UK data protection rules set the bar that consent has to clear: a positive, informed choice, freely given, no harder to take back than it was to give. Analytics and attribution both sit on the wrong side of that line, so both wait.
So refusing takes one click, on the same banner and at the same size as accepting, and nothing optional fires while the banner is still open. Names and lifetimes also shift when a measurement tool is swapped, which is why the banner itself, rather than this page, lists every item actually in use with its purpose and its lifetime.
Changing your mind after you have said yes
The cookie link in the footer reopens the banner on any page. Switch a category off there and the choice is written to the same necessary record that held the old one, so it sticks on your next visit.
One thing catches people out: withdrawing consent stops anything further being written, but it does not reach back and wipe what is already there. For a clean slate, turn the category off and then clear the stored data in your browser. Doing only the first leaves yesterday’s items until they expire on their own.
Clearing or blocking storage in your browser
Every browser hides these controls in its own settings, and all of them let you wipe what is stored or block what arrives next. Menu wording shifts between versions, so the middle column names the section rather than a precise path.
| Browser | Where the controls live | What you can do there |
|---|---|---|
| Chrome, desktop and Android | Settings, then privacy and security | Delete browsing data, or block third-party cookies |
| Safari on iPhone and iPad | The Settings app, then Safari | Clear history and website data, or refuse cross-site tracking |
| Safari on a Mac | Safari’s own settings, privacy tab | Remove stored data site by site |
| Firefox | Settings, then privacy and security | Clear cookies and site data, or pick strict blocking |
| Edge | Settings, then cookies and site permissions | Wipe stored data, or allow and block named sites |
A private window throws the lot away when you close it, which is the quickest way to read a page without leaving anything behind. Mind the trade: block everything and your banner answer goes too.
When this notice moves, and who to ask
This notice was last looked over in October 2026. If a measurement tool is added or dropped, the categories here and the list inside the banner change together and the date at the top moves with them. Questions, including a request to see what a particular item does, go to contact@bingo-no-depositbonus.uk, or through get in touch. The wider rules for using the site sit on the site terms page.
Next in the book
18+. Offers change; always read the operator’s terms. Free help and self-exclusion tools: GambleAware.