Cookie Policy
This page lays out the cookies and similar technologies in use on Jackpot City, what each one does, how long it remains on your device, and the methods for controlling or deleting them. The wider topic of personal-data handling is dealt with separately on the Privacy Policy page; the page you're reading is the technical companion to that one. The review hub as a whole is introduced on the About page, with the flagship operator review on the Jackpot City Casino homepage.
1. What a cookie is, briefly
In plain terms, a cookie is just a tiny text record that a website hands to your browser for safekeeping. On any return visit, the browser hands it back, allowing the site to identify the visit, recall a preference, or tally up traffic. A cookie cannot run code, cannot reach into other files, and on its own cannot identify you personally — only when paired with separately-held information already tied to that cookie. Several things popularly grouped under the "cookies" label today are in fact different browser-storage mechanisms — localStorage, sessionStorage, IndexedDB — which behave similarly enough that, for plain-English purposes, the word "cookie" throughout this page is used to cover all of them.
2. Categories of cookies used on Jackpot City
There are three categories of cookie deployed on Jackpot City. Each one is surfaced on your first visit through a consent banner, with the option to amend your choice at any later point via the link in the site footer.
| Category | Purpose | Consent required |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | 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 Jackpot City so the partnership can be credited. | Yes |
This review hub does not use advertising or remarketing cookies. We display no on-site advertising, run no programmatic ad networks, and do not pixel-track readers across other sites. The funding model behind the site is explained on the Affiliate Disclosure page.
3. Specific cookies, third parties and lifetimes
Listed further down on this page are the cookies that may be placed during a visit to Jackpot City. Third-party cookies are issued by the services this review hub depends on; full control over their behaviour rests with the third party itself, and the relevant policy links appear alongside.
| Name | Set by | Category | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
jackpotcity_consent | Jackpot City | Strictly necessary | Stores your cookie-banner choice so the banner does not reappear on every page load. | 12 months |
jackpotcity_session | Jackpot City | Strictly necessary | 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 |
jackpotcity_aff | Jackpot City | Affiliate tracking | Records that a click on an outbound operator link originated from Jackpot City so the partnership is credited. | 30 days |
For third-party policies: Google Privacy & Terms governs Google Analytics. Operator partner sites place their own cookies once you click through; those fall under the operator's individual privacy policy rather than the policy of this review hub.
4. How to control cookies in your browser
Every current browser lets you block cookies, remove existing ones, or reject third-party cookies outright. The official documentation:
You can also visit Jackpot City in your browser's private or incognito mode, which stops cookies from persisting across sessions.
5. What happens if you decline non-essential cookies
Everything on the site continues to function as normal. You retain access to every page, every internal link, and every click-through to operator sites. Three small consequences follow: traffic statistics will leave your visit out of the count; clicking an affiliate link with affiliate tracking declined means the partnership cannot be credited — the operator treats you, the user, in identical fashion; only the commission paid to this review hub fails to register; and the consent banner reappears whenever you clear cookies, since the choice itself is held in one. Full editorial standards behind every page (including the markers used to flag affiliate links) live on the Editorial Policy page, with player-safety commitments documented on the Responsible Gambling page.
6. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
The Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal is honoured here: when your browser transmits a GPC signal, all non-essential cookies get blocked automatically and the consent banner is suppressed. The older Do Not Track header has no agreed enforcement standard behind it and is therefore not relied upon.
7. Updates to this policy
Where the cookies in use on Jackpot City change, this page is updated and the "Last updated" date at the top is bumped. Material changes — new categories, new third parties — are paired with a one-off consent-banner refresh so existing visitors are asked again. Minor housekeeping changes (rewording, link updates) do not trigger a fresh consent prompt.
8. Questions and complaints
Queries concerning specific cookies on Jackpot City are best sent through the Contact page. Formal complaints about UK sites fall to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk, which acts under the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018.