Cookie Policy
This page lays out the cookies and similar technologies used on Pub Casino, what each does, how long it remains on your device, and how to control or remove it. The broader subject of personal-data handling is covered separately on the Privacy Policy page; this page serves as its technical companion. The site as a whole is described on the About page, with the flagship operator review on the Pub Casino homepage.
1. What a cookie is, briefly
A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to save on your device. The next time the same site loads, the browser returns the file, letting the site recognise the visit, recall a setting, or count traffic. Cookies cannot execute code on your machine, cannot read other files, and cannot spot you personally without other information already tied to the cookie. Many things casually called "cookies" today are technically other browser-storage mechanisms — localStorage, sessionStorage, IndexedDB — that operate in much the same way; for plain English, the term "cookie" throughout this page refers to all of them.
2. Categories of cookies used on Pub Casino
Pub Casino uses three categories of cookie. You're shown them on the first visit through a consent banner, and you can revise your selection at any moment through the link in the site footer.
| Category | Purpose | Consent required |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly needed | Make the site work: load the page, remember your cookie-banner choice, route traffic, prevent abuse. | No (legal basis: legitimate interest) |
| Analytics | Anonymous, aggregated traffic measurement: which pages are read, where readers come from, which links are clicked. | Yes |
| Affiliate tracking | Recognise that a click through to an operator came from Pub Casino so the partnership can be credited. | Yes |
What Pub Casino does not place on your device: advertising cookies or remarketing cookies of any kind. The site doesn't carry display advertising in any form, runs no integration with programmatic ad networks, and doesn't drop tracking pixels that follow readers around the rest of the web. How the site actually funds itself is set out in detail on the Affiliate Disclosure page.
3. Specific cookies, third parties and lifetimes
The table below covers the cookies that may be placed when you visit Pub Casino. Third-party cookies are set by services Pub Casino uses; full control over their behaviour sits with the third party, and links to their own policies are supplied.
| Name | Set by | Category | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
pubcasino_consent | Pub Casino | Strictly needed | Stores your cookie-banner choice so the banner does not reappear on every page load. | 12 months |
pubcasino_session | Pub Casino | Strictly needed | Anonymous session identifier used to load assets and rate-limit abusive traffic. | Until browser closes |
_ga, _ga_* | Google Analytics 4 | Analytics | Aggregated traffic statistics: pages per session, traffic sources, average time on page. IP addresses are anonymised before storage. | 14 months |
pubcasino_aff | Pub Casino | Affiliate tracking | Records that a click on an outbound operator link originated from Pub Casino so the partnership is credited. | 30 days |
Where to find third-party policies: Google Analytics is covered by Google Privacy & Terms. Once a click takes you onto an operator partner's site, that operator drops its own cookies, and those cookies fall under that operator's privacy policy rather than Pub Casino's.
4. How to control cookies in your browser
Any modern browser gives you the controls to stop new cookies being set, clear the ones already saved, or refuse third-party cookies in their entirety. Vendor documentation for each of the major browsers:
An alternative route is to visit Pub Casino using your browser's private window or incognito session — that mode prevents any cookies from carrying over once the window closes.
5. What happens if you decline non-essential cookies
The site keeps working as normal. You can read every page, follow any internal link, and click through to operator sites. Three small differences: traffic statistics will not include your visit; if you click an affiliate link with affiliate tracking switched off, the partnership cannot be credited — the operator still treats you, the user, exactly the same; only the commission to Pub Casino does not register; and the consent banner will reappear if you clear cookies, since that choice is itself stored in a cookie. The full editorial standards behind every page (including how affiliate links are flagged) sit on the Editorial Policy page, and the player-safety commitments live on the Responsible Gambling page.
6. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
Pub Casino respects the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal: if your browser transmits GPC, all non-essential cookies are blocked automatically and the consent banner is suppressed. The older Do Not Track header has no agreed enforcement standard and is not relied on here.
7. Updates to this policy
If the cookies on Pub Casino change, this page is updated and the "Last updated" date at the top is bumped. Material changes — new categories, new third parties — trigger a one-time consent banner refresh so existing visitors are re-prompted. Minor housekeeping changes (rewording, link updates) do not prompt a fresh consent request.
8. Questions and complaints
Got a question about a particular cookie used on Pub Casino? The fastest route is through the Contact page. Formal complaints about how UK sites handle data go to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk, under the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.