Cookies are small text files left on a device by the browser, and entries in local or session storage and counting pixels behave in a comparable fashion. For a British readership following online casinos, licensed and offshore, and the payout speeds claimed by them, oddscompassuk.com needs only a handful of such technical tools, and this policy sets out which run, what each does, and the ways in which a choice on them can be refused or revisited.
Legal basis
Regulation 6 of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (PECR) supplies the governing rule: information stored on, or read from, a user's device may not be handled without clear and comprehensive information and the user's consent, unless the storage is strictly necessary for a service the user has asked for. Consent must reach the standard set by the UK GDPR (Article 4(11) and Article 7) — freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous — and withdrawing it must be no harder than giving it. Personal data processed through cookies additionally falls under the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.
Strictly necessary files
Reliable operation depends on these. They hold a session open, share load between servers, guard forms against abuse, and record the cookie decision itself. No separate choice precedes them. A session file disappears when the browser closes; the stored decision survives no longer than twelve months.
Functional and analytics files
Settings such as which comparison tables were opened last are recalled by functional files. Analytics files tally page views and reveal which pages are actually read, so the content can be sharpened up. Only after consent is given in the cookie banner do either group load. Analysis runs on shortened IP addresses, and behavioural profiles spanning several sites are not assembled.
Third-party files
Files of their own may be placed by embedded outside services, videos and maps among them. The provider's privacy rules then come into play as well, and any objection belongs with that provider. Advertising cookies that assemble profiles for personalised ads are not set by oddscompassuk.com unless a clear choice is made in the consent banner.
Refusing and changing consent
Through the "Cookie settings" link in the footer, consent can be altered or pulled back at any moment; a withdrawal applies going forward and leaves the lawfulness of what came before untouched. Cookies can also be blocked and deleted from the privacy settings of any browser, with manufacturer help pages giving the steps for Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge. Deleting the necessary files brings the banner back, and a few features may be briefly unavailable afterwards.
Supervision
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is the UK's supervisory authority and the body to which a complaint about personal data handling may be addressed. How personal data is handled here is described in the privacy policy of this site.
Last updated: 13.11.2026.