playdigestuk.com reports on withdrawal speeds at casinos not on GamStop, and for readers in Great Britain it keeps to a handful of technical tools while doing so. Which cookies and similar technologies run here, what each of them does and how a choice about them is refused or revised is the subject of this policy. A cookie is a small text file a browser stores on a device; local and session storage entries and counting pixels behave in much the same way.
Legal basis
Regulation 6 of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (PECR) is the rule in play: storing information on a user's device, or gaining access to information already stored there, needs clear and comprehensive information and the user's consent, unless the storage is strictly necessary to provide a service the user has requested. That consent must meet the standard of the UK GDPR (Article 4(11) and Article 7): freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous, and as easy to withdraw as to give. Where cookies serve to process personal data, the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 apply as well.
Strictly necessary files
Reliable operation is impossible without these. A session is kept open, load is spread across servers, forms are protected against abuse, and the cookie choice itself is remembered. No separate choice is asked for them. Session files expire when the browser closes, and the stored choice is held for no more than twelve months.
Functional and analytics files
Functional files remember settings such as the comparison tables opened last. Analytics files count page views and reveal which pages are read, which allows the content to be improved. Neither group is set before consent has been given in the cookie banner. IP addresses are shortened for analysis, and profiles following behaviour across different sites are not built.
Third-party files
Files of their own may be set by embedded outside services, such as videos or maps. The privacy rules of the provider then apply too, and an objection to them is raised with that provider. Advertising cookies that build profiles for personalised ads are not set by playdigestuk.com without a clear choice in the consent banner.
Refusing and changing consent
The "Cookie settings" link in the footer changes or withdraws consent at any time; withdrawal works for the future and does not affect the lawfulness of earlier processing. Cookies can also be blocked and deleted by every browser in its privacy settings, and the manufacturer's help pages describe the steps for Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge. Once the necessary files are deleted the banner appears again, and some features may stop working for a short time.
Supervision
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK's supervisory authority, receives complaints about the handling of personal data. Details of how personal data is processed are in the privacy policy of this site.
Last updated: 13.11.2026.