Cookies are small text files that a website places on your device so that it can remember things between visits. They make the difference between a site that recognises you when you come back and one that treats you as a complete stranger every time. CasinoWays uses cookies for four straightforward purposes: keeping you logged in, remembering your preferences, measuring how the site is used and supporting a small set of marketing partners. This page lays out which cookies do which job, how long they stick around and what choices you have over them.
Essential cookies cannot be switched off because they are required for the site to function. All other cookies are set only after you accept the cookie banner.
What categories of cookies does CasinoWays use?
Strictly necessary cookies are the cookies the site cannot work without. They keep your session active after you log in, they hold the contents of your bet slip across page loads, they remember whether you have accepted the cookie banner and they protect against cross site request forgery. They are set as session cookies or short lived persistent cookies and cannot be switched off through the banner because doing so would break the site.
Functional cookies remember your preferences. Choice of language, choice of game list view, accept of the responsible gambling reminder and the state of any lobby filters all sit in this category. These cookies expire after thirty days of inactivity. Analytics cookies measure how players move around the site so that we can find slow pages and improve them. We use a privacy respecting analytics provider that does not track individual identity. Marketing cookies are used by a small number of advertising partners to measure how well our adverts work. They expire after ninety days.
How do I manage cookies on CasinoWays?
The first time you visit the site you see a cookie banner at the bottom of the screen. Accepting the banner enables functional, analytics and marketing cookies. Closing the banner without accepting leaves only the strictly necessary cookies in place. You can change your mind at any time through the Cookie Preferences link in the footer, which opens the same banner with the current choices visible so you can switch categories on or off without restarting the visit.
If you prefer to manage cookies at the browser level rather than at the site level, every modern browser lets you block cookies entirely, block them by site or delete existing cookies on demand. Settings are in the Privacy or Cookies section of the browser preferences. Bear in mind that blocking strictly necessary cookies at the browser level will stop the site from working properly, including the ability to stay logged in across pages.
Do cookies share my personal information with third parties?
Strictly necessary and functional cookies are set by CasinoWays directly and do not share data with third parties. Analytics cookies share aggregated, non identifying usage data with our analytics provider, which is contractually prevented from using the data for anything other than the service it provides to us. Marketing cookies share a unique identifier with the named advertising partner for the purpose of attributing whether you arrived from one of their adverts and whether you went on to register. None of these cookies share your name, email, account balance or play history.
If you have accepted marketing cookies and want to opt out, you can do so through the Cookie Preferences link in the footer at any time. The change applies from the moment you save the new preference and the existing cookies are deleted within minutes. You can also use the standard industry opt out portals at youronlinechoices.eu for European Union jurisdictions and youradchoices.com for the United States to switch off behavioural advertising more broadly.
How long do CasinoWays cookies last?
Strictly necessary cookies are either session cookies that expire when you close the browser or short lived persistent cookies that expire within 24 hours. Functional cookies typically expire after thirty days of inactivity, so if you visit at least once a month they stay in place. Analytics cookies last for thirteen months, which is the standard window for understanding annual patterns of use. Marketing cookies last for ninety days, which is the standard attribution window for advertising campaigns.
If you accept the banner today and then do not visit again for six months, most of the cookies will have expired by the time you come back. The next visit will show the banner again so you can confirm or change your preferences. This is the default behaviour and it complies with the consent renewal expectations of UK and European data protection authorities.
A short note on do not track
Modern browsers send a do not track signal in their HTTP headers if the user has opted in. Industry consensus on how to honour the signal has not landed, but CasinoWays takes a conservative approach: when the do not track header is detected we do not set analytics or marketing cookies regardless of what the cookie banner shows. Strictly necessary and functional cookies are still set because the site cannot work without them.
Cookies, local storage and similar technologies
Beyond traditional cookies, modern browsers expose a few other persistence layers including local storage, session storage and IndexedDB. CasinoWays uses local storage in a small number of places to hold non sensitive preferences such as the chosen theme, the state of the lobby filter tabs and a flag indicating whether the responsible gambling reminder has been dismissed for the current session. None of these entries contain personal data, none of them are shared with third parties and all of them can be cleared from the browser developer tools without any effect on account access. Pixels and tags from analytics or marketing partners follow the same consent rules as cookies: nothing fires before the banner is accepted and everything stops firing within minutes of a preference change.
For the avoidance of doubt, this Cookie Policy works alongside the Privacy Policy, which sets out the broader framework for how CasinoWays handles personal data under UK GDPR, including the legal basis for each processing activity and your rights as a data subject. If you ever want to raise a concern that goes beyond cookies, the Get Help page lists the support channels and response times that apply.
If you have any specific questions about cookies on CasinoWays that this page does not answer, please contact privacy@casinoways.online and we will explain. We will not change a cookie behaviour to please an individual request because consistency matters across the user base, but we will always explain the why behind any cookie that is in use.