Cookie Policy
Version of 23 September 2026
A cookie is a small file your browser keeps for a website. This page lists the ones we use and how to change your mind about them.
We have tried to keep it short on jargon. If a line still reads like legal fog, tell us and we will rewrite it.
This policy covers the GambleZen Casino brand site for players in the United Kingdom. It sits alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how personal data is handled more broadly.
1. Cookies and similar tools in plain English
Think of a cookie as a note your browser writes down on behalf of a website. Next time you load a page from the same site, the browser hands the note back. That is how a site can remember a setting without asking you on every visit.
Cookies are not programs. They cannot install anything, read files on your device or look at other sites you have open.
A few related tools do a similar job, and the law treats them the same way:
- Local storage is a small drawer inside your browser where a site can keep simple values. Unlike a cookie, it is never sent back to the server automatically.
- Session storage works like local storage but empties itself when you close the tab or the browser.
- Pixels (sometimes called web beacons) are tiny invisible images that report when a page or email was opened. We do not use any.
Where this page says "cookies", read it as covering all of these unless we say otherwise.
2. First-party and third-party cookies
A first-party cookie is set by the site you are actually visiting. A third-party cookie comes from somebody else, usually an analytics or advertising company whose code sits on the page.
Everything on this site is served from our own domain. We load no outside fonts, no outside scripts and no embedded trackers, so at the moment nothing on these pages can drop a third-party cookie on your device.
Keeping everything in-house was a deliberate choice. Pages load faster, there are fewer moving parts to go wrong, and you do not have to trust a list of outside companies you have never heard of just to read a bonus guide.
Should that ever change, the new tool will fall into the statistics or marketing group and will stay switched off until you say yes.
3. The three groups
| Group | What it does | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Essential | Keeps your session steady, protects the site against misuse, remembers your cookie choice. | Always on |
| Statistics | Counts visits and measures how fast pages load, without identifying you. | Off until you agree |
| Marketing | Tells us which partner or advert brought you, so we can pay them and stop showing you offers that do not help. | Off until you agree |
Essential items cannot be switched off from the panel because the site would not work properly without them. They are never used to follow you around the web or to build a profile.
4. What we store, item by item
Here is the fuller picture. Names in the first column describe the item rather than quote a technical label, apart from the one key we have fixed ourselves.
| Item | Purpose | Group | Where it lives | How long |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Session identifier | Holds your visit together from page to page and helps block automated abuse. | Essential | Cookie | Until you close the browser |
| Security check | Confirms that requests to the site come from a real browser session. | Essential | Cookie | Until you close the browser |
| zn_consent_uk | Records whether you accepted, saved a mix or rejected statistics and marketing. | Essential | Local storage | 12 months, then we ask again |
| Offer card closed | Remembers that you dismissed the floating offer card so it stays out of the way. | Essential | Session storage | Until you close the browser |
| Visit statistics | Counts page views and measures loading speed in a way that does not identify you. | Statistics | Cookie | Up to 13 months |
| Referral marker | Notes which partner site or advert sent you, so the right partner is credited. | Marketing | Cookie | Up to 13 months |
Right now the site loads no analytics or advertising scripts at all. The statistics and marketing rows describe what would be set if we add such tools later. Even then, nothing in those two groups loads before you agree.
5. How long they last
Session cookies are deleted when you close the browser. Your cookie choice is stored for twelve months, then we ask again. Statistics and marketing cookies last up to thirteen months.
We picked twelve months for the choice so that the question comes back roughly once a year. People change their minds, and a yearly reminder feels fairer than asking once and assuming forever.
6. How consent works, step by step
- On your first visit, the cookie panel appears at the bottom of the screen. Only essential items are active at this point.
- You see three groups. Essential is marked as always on; Statistics and Marketing each have a switch that starts in the off position.
- Pick one of three buttons of equal size: "Accept all", "Save" or "Reject all". None of them is hidden, greyed out or made smaller than the others.
- "Save" keeps exactly the switches you set, so you can allow statistics and leave marketing off, or the other way round.
- Your answer is written to local storage under zn_consent_uk, and the panel closes.
- From then on the site reads that answer before loading anything optional. No answer means no optional items.
The panel uses switch buttons only. There are no text boxes to fill in, and we never ask for your name or email to record a cookie choice.
7. Changing your choice
Every page footer carries a "Cookie settings" button. Press it and the panel comes back showing what you picked last time; whatever you change there applies straight away. You can also clear cookies in your browser settings; the site will then ask again on your next visit.
Withdrawing consent is meant to be as easy as giving it. One tap on "Reject all" undoes an earlier "Accept all", and any optional cookies already set are no longer read.
8. If you say no
Nothing breaks. Every page, guide and table on this site works in full with only the essential items switched on.
You will not see a watered-down version of the site, and we will not nag you with the panel on every page. It returns only when your saved choice expires, when you clear your browser data or when you press "Cookie settings" yourself.
The one practical difference is on our side: we lose a little insight into which pages load slowly or which partners send visitors. That is a fair trade for your privacy.
9. Signals from your browser
If your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track, we treat it as a refusal of statistics and marketing cookies and do not show the panel.
Some browsers and privacy extensions switch these signals on by default. If you would like to allow statistics after all, the "Cookie settings" button in the footer still works and lets you change your answer by hand.
10. Local storage
Besides cookies, the site keeps your consent choice and whether you closed the offer card in your browser's own storage. Neither holds any personal data.
The consent choice sits under the key zn_consent_uk for twelve months. The offer card note lasts only for the current browser session and vanishes when you close it. Neither value ever leaves your device.
11. Deleting cookies and site data in your browser
You can wipe what any site has stored at any time. Menu names shift a little between versions, so treat the paths below as a guide.
Chrome
On a computer, open the menu with the three dots, then Settings, Privacy and security, and Delete browsing data. Tick "Cookies and other site data" and confirm. To clear a single site, click the icon to the left of the address bar and choose "Cookies and site data".
On Android, tap the three dots, then Settings, Privacy and security, and Delete browsing data.
Safari on iPhone
Open the Settings app, go to Safari (on newer iOS versions, Settings, Apps, Safari), then Advanced and Website Data. You can swipe to remove one site or tap "Remove All Website Data".
Safari on Mac
From the Safari menu, choose Settings, open the Privacy tab and click "Manage Website Data". Search for the site, select it and press Remove.
Firefox
Go to Settings, then Privacy & Security, and scroll to Cookies and Site Data. "Manage Data" lets you pick individual sites; "Clear Data" removes everything. The padlock in the address bar also offers "Clear cookies and site data" for the page you are on.
Microsoft Edge
Open Settings, then Cookies and site permissions, and choose "Manage and delete cookies and site data" followed by "See all cookies and site data". For a full clear-out, use Privacy, search and services, then Clear browsing data.
Samsung Internet
Tap the menu icon with three lines, then Settings, Personal browsing data and Delete browsing data. Tick cookies and site data, then tap Delete.
After a clear-out the cookie panel will appear again on your next visit, since your earlier choice has gone with everything else.
12. Private browsing
Incognito or private windows start with an empty cookie jar and throw everything away when you close them. That includes your consent choice, so expect to see the panel each time you open a fresh private window.
Private mode hides your activity from other people using the same device. It does not make you invisible to your internet provider or your employer's network.
On a shared family computer, a private window is a tidy way to visit without leaving settings behind for the next person.
13. Cookies on the casino after you follow a link
Buttons on this site that lead to the casino itself take you to a separate platform. Once you land there, the casino shows its own cookie notice and asks for its own consent.
Choices you made here do not carry over, and this policy does not cover cookies set on that platform. Please read the notice and policy you find there before you register or play.
If a partner link brought you here and you allowed marketing cookies, the referral marker simply helps us credit that partner. It carries no account details, no betting history and nothing that tells the casino who you are.
14. Children
This site is meant only for adults aged 18 or over. We do not knowingly set optional cookies for children or collect data about them. If you think a child has been using a device to visit us, clearing the browser data as described above removes everything we stored.
15. Changes to this policy
We update this page when we add or remove a cookie, change how long something is kept or bring in a new tool. The date at the top shows the latest revision.
If a change means we would set something new in the statistics or marketing groups, we will ask for your consent again rather than rely on an older answer.
16. Questions
Write to our support team or see our Privacy Policy for how personal data is handled in general.
A real person reads every message. Tell us which page you were on and what puzzled you, and we will get back to you as quickly as we can.
