Data we keep and share

What does the server record about each request?

Each time you open one of our pages, the server makes a short entry about that request. The entry holds the address of the page you asked for, the time the request was made, your IP address, the string your browser sends to identify itself, and the address of the page you came from. The IP address is the address your connection shows to the outside world, and the browser string says what browser software you use. If the delivery provider works out an approximate country from the IP address, that is recorded in the entry as well, though the provider does not always report one. When you arrive through a campaign link, the tags in the page address are stored together with the request. This happens automatically as part of delivering the page. We keep these server records for 30 days.

Does my request reach you directly?

A request from your browser does not reach us in a single step. On the way it passes through outside companies that supply the infrastructure the site runs on: the hosting, where the pages live, and the delivery network that hands pages to readers. These providers process the request on our behalf, so the technical details it carries are handled by them on the way in. The providers themselves are not named.

Which visit figures are kept longer than the server records?

• They are combined totals across visits, not one entry per request.
• They carry no IP addresses.
• They include the countries readers visit from, when the delivery provider reports them.
• They include the number of visits the site receives.
• They include where those visits come from.
• They include the pages that prove most popular.
• They include the browsers that readers use.

What happens when I click a casino partner link?

Some pages link to casinos as partners, and following such a link may earn us a reward. When you click one of these affiliate links, we record the click: your country, your IP address, the page you clicked from, and the string your browser identifies itself with. The record itself stays with us, but not everything in it stays. The IP address and the browser string are erased after 90 days. What remains is a record of the click without those two details: that a click happened, from which country and which page, without the parts that single out a connection.

What goes to the casino when I follow a partner link?

A click on an affiliate link may pass data about that click onward, to the partner, the casino, or its affiliate programme. What can travel is your country, the address of the website you came from, the domain of the website, and the address of the page you were on. If you would rather those details not change hands, the only certain way is not to follow the link. The casinos behind these links are external websites. They run under their own rules and policies, and once you are there, theirs are the ones that apply to you.

Do you set analytics or advertising cookies?

No. We set neither analytics cookies nor advertising cookies. Your browser receives no cookie of either kind from this website.