Privacy and Cookies: What We Store
Two kinds of record exist on this site, server logs and contact mail, and both are listed on this page. Nothing is sold, no advertising profiles are built, and the whole inventory fits in four short sections.
This page states, in plain terms, what britishwins.uk keeps about its readers, for how long, and who else ever sees it. It sits alongside the terms page and the responsible gambling page as one of the site's standing commitments.
- Advertising profiles none are built
- Data sales nothing is sold
- What is kept only what the list below names is stored
What the site stores
Two kinds of record exist, and the list stops there. The first is the server log. Every time a browser asks for a page, the hosting stack writes a line: the address the request came from, the browser and device string it sent, the exact page requested, the time, and the page linked in from, where one exists. That is the web working as it always has, not a choice to profile anyone.
The second is contact mail. When a reader writes to the site through the contact address, the site keeps what the reader chose to send: a name or a signature line, the reply address, and the message itself. There are no accounts on britishwins.uk, no comment forms, no newsletter sign-up and no member area, so there is nothing else to collect. The comparison tables and the cost model run on figures written into the page, not on anything a visitor supplies. No payment details are ever taken, because there is nothing to pay for and no cashier to pay through.
Cookies
One cookie runs on this site, and it is a session cookie: a small text file the server hands the browser so the visit holds together, and one the browser deletes when the tab closes. It carries no identifier that outlives the session and feeds nothing to any advertising system. The outbound cloak redirect that carries a reader from a link on this site to an operator's page sets no cookies of its own; it performs a single hop and stores nothing.
There are no tracking pixels, no social buttons and no embedded third-party frames that could place their own files. Analytics do not run here today, so nothing is counted about a visit beyond what the server log already holds. If that ever changes, this page changes first: any analytics tool would be named here, with what it records and for how long, before a single line of its code went live. A reader who blocks cookies in the browser settings will find every page on the site still readable.
How long anything lives
Every item named on this page carries a deletion date, and none of them is measured in years of profiling. Server logs rotate on a 30-day cycle: a line written today is gone when the cycle turns, overwritten by the routine housekeeping of the hosting stack rather than archived anywhere. Contact mail is kept while a conversation is live, so a reply can be sent and a follow-up question answered, and it is deleted twelve months after the last message in a thread. The session cookie dies with the browser tab, as session cookies do, so the longest-lived record on the site is a month of logs.
Nothing is copied into a backup kept for marketing, because no marketing exists to feed. Nothing is exported into a spreadsheet of reader behaviour, because no such behaviour is recorded. If a reader asks for a message to be removed sooner, a note through the contact address is enough and the deletion happens before anything else that day.
Who it is shared with
Nobody, in one word. The logs and the mail described on this page are not sold, not rented, not traded and not handed to an advertising network, because no advertising profiles are built from them and no advertising network is connected to the site. The only party with routine sight of any record is the hosting provider, which processes server logs as an unavoidable part of running the machine the site sits on; it is given no reader list, because no reader list exists. No data broker appears anywhere in the chain and no profiling firm receives a feed, because there is no feed to receive.
The outbound cloak redirect deserves its own line: it forwards a reader to the destination page and carries no personal data with it, so the operator at the far end learns nothing from this site about who is arriving or what they read here. If any of that were ever to change, this page would say so first, in plain words, before the change went live.
If gambling stops being fun: GAMSTOP lets you self-exclude from every GB-licensed online operator in one free request, though it does not cover sites licensed offshore. The National Gambling Helpline on 0808 8020 133, run by GamCare, is free, confidential and open around the clock. GambleAware and Gamblers Anonymous list further support, and most UK banks can block gambling transactions on a current account.