Cookies

Analytics and the embedded comment widget set their own cookies, and the details for each — the name, the lifetime and the data they carry — are listed in the privacy notice. Opt-out links for each provider are collected on the same page. We check both twice a year and update this page if a provider changes terms. Affiliate programmes also set a short-lived cookie on your device when you follow an outbound operator link; the cookie is a plain string the operator uses to credit the referral and carries no personal data from this site. If you clear cookies between the click and the account opening, the operator will not credit the referral and we will not earn commission — the review will stay the same either way. Social-media embeds — a quoted post from an operator's channel, a video of a review clip — set cookies from the social network when you load the page. We try to use thumbnail previews instead of live embeds where possible, so the cookie is set only after you click through, but a few archived pages still load the full widget. If you prefer not to accept those cookies, decline analytics in the banner and the embeds will fall back to a static thumbnail that does not call the social-media server.

A cookie is a small text file your browser stores so a site can remember a setting between visits. The file has a name, a value, a domain, a path and an expiry date; it does not run code and cannot read anything on your device beyond its own value. On this site, cookies remember whether you have consented to analytics, which theme you prefer — light or dark — and whether you have already dismissed the age-verification notice on the first visit. These cookies live on the first-party domain and are deleted when you clear cookies in the browser or when their expiry date passes. A cookie set by a different domain than the one in the address bar is called a third-party cookie; those are listed in the next section. Modern browsers block third-party cookies by default; if yours does, nothing on this site will stop working, but some analytics reports will see fewer events. If you use a browser extension that strips cookies after each tab close — Firefox Multi-Account Containers, Brave Shields — the consent banner will appear every visit because the previous answer did not survive the session.

Strictly necessary cookies run the site: the consent flag that records your choice on the cookie banner, the dark-mode flag and the age-gate dismissal flag. These cannot be turned off because without them the banner would re-appear on every page view. Analytics cookies measure page use anonymously and are optional; the banner at the first visit asks for consent and the choice is sticky across visits. The analytics provider aggregates data at country level, with no identifiers that would single out an individual reader. If you decline, no analytics cookie is set and the provider's script does not load. Affiliate cookies are set only when you follow an outbound operator link. They are first-party on the operator's domain, not on this site, and carry a short string the operator uses to credit a referral. They are deleted on the operator's side after a window set by their affiliate programme, usually seven to thirty days. We do not read those cookies and do not get back any information about which account you opened, how much you deposited or when you played.