Cookies Policy

What Cookies Actually Are

Cookies are small text files that get saved to your device when you visit a website. They cannot run code, they are not software and they do not access anything else stored on your device. What they do is hold onto small bits of information so the site knows a bit about your last visit, rather than treating you like a complete stranger every time you open the page.

Some clear themselves the moment you close the browser tab. Others hang around for days or weeks, depending on what they were set up to do. Most of what they actually store is pretty unremarkable: session tokens, language choices, login states. Nothing that would mean anything to anyone outside the context of this particular site.

Cookies We Use

Some cookies are simply necessary for the site to work at all. Logging in, moving between pages, accessing your account balance – none of that happens without them. Because they are tied directly to basic site functionality, these cannot be switched off. Block them and the platform stops working for you, plain and simple.

Then there are functional cookies, which look after your personal settings across sessions. Display preferences, saved account details, that sort of thing. You are free to block them if you want, but the trade-off is that the site forgets your preferences every time you come back. Most people find that more annoying than just leaving them on.

Analytics and Performance

Analytics cookies give us a rough picture of how people actually move through the site. Which pages get the most visits, where people tend to drop off, how long a typical session lasts. The data gets lumped together across all users, so we are spotting patterns rather than watching any single person’s behaviour. It is genuinely useful for working out what needs fixing and what is fine as it is.

Performance cookies do a similar job but on the technical side. They flag slow load times and page errors so problems get picked up quickly rather than sitting there unnoticed. None of this goes to outside parties or gets used for advertising. It stays with us and serves one purpose: keeping things running without issues.

Third-Party Cookies

A handful of cookies on the site come from outside providers. Payment processors and identity verification services occasionally set their own when they are running on a page. We do not have full visibility into exactly what those providers do with that data on their end, so going through their own policies is worth doing if you want the full picture rather than just our side of it.

We keep outside tools to what is genuinely needed. There are no ad networks or data brokers buried in the site. If a third-party cookie shows up during your session, it is attached to something that has a real function on the platform, not something that snuck in through a back door.

Managing Your Cookie Preferences

Every mainstream browser lets you view, limit or delete cookies through its settings menu. Privacy or Security is usually where you will find the relevant options, though the exact layout varies by browser. Blocking everything will cause parts of the site to stop working, so if staying logged in and using your account normally is important to you, leaving the strictly necessary ones alone is the practical call.

Changes to This Policy

This page gets updated when something changes on the site in a way that actually affects cookies. A new tool, a provider being replaced, a legal requirement that shifts things slightly. We do not send notifications for small edits, but we do keep the page accurate. Checking back now and then is honestly the easiest way to stay on top of it.

If an update is significant enough to change how data gets handled in any real way, we will flag it clearly at the top of the page so it does not get missed. Anything you want to ask about this policy can go straight to [email protected] and we will come back to you directly.