Cookie policy — what we set, why, and how to control it
This page is about the cookies and similar storage used by this review site — the independent, informational site you are reading now. It is not about DicePalace Casino's own cookies, and it is not our privacy policy. If you want to know what personal data we handle and why, read the privacy policy instead; this page sticks to storage in your browser and the single choice our banner records.
What a cookie actually is
A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to keep. The next time you load a page from the same site, the browser hands that file back, so the site can recognise a setting you chose earlier. Related technologies do much the same job by different means: localStorage and sessionStorage keep a small value inside the browser without sending it back with every request. In everyday language people call all of it "cookies", and this policy uses the word the same broad way, because what matters to you is not the storage mechanism but what is kept, why, and for how long.
Cookies are not programs. They cannot read the rest of your device, install anything, or see files outside the browser. What they can do — when a large advertising network sets them across thousands of sites — is build a picture of where you have been. That is the part most people object to, and it is the part we have deliberately left out of this site.
The two categories we use
There are only two. One category is needed for the site to function and cannot sensibly be switched off; the other runs only if you say yes.
| Category | What it does | Needs your consent? |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Remembers the choice you made on the cookie banner so it does not ask again on every page, and supports basic security and delivery of the pages themselves. Without it the site cannot honour your own preference. | No — it exists only because you interacted with the banner, and it stores nothing but that answer. |
| Analytics | Counts visits in aggregate: how many people opened a page, which pages get read, roughly where readers arrive from, whether something is broken. It is how we learn which guides are useful and which are ignored. | Yes. Analytics is the only non-essential category on the site and it follows your banner answer. |
What we do not set
We set no advertising cookies and no profiling cookies. There is no retargeting pixel on this site, no ad network tag, no audience list built from your reading, and nothing that follows you to another site to show you a gambling advert. We do not sell or share a browsing profile, because we do not build one. If that ever changes, this page changes with it and the banner asks you again.
We also use no consent-management platform. There is no third-party vendor behind our banner, no shared consent database and no industry framework signal. The banner is a few lines of code on our own pages, and the answer never leaves your browser.
How our banner works, in plain terms
When you first open the site, a small bar appears at the bottom of the screen with two buttons: Accept and Decline. Whichever you press, the browser writes a single value under the key mp-consent in localStorage. That value is either granted or denied. There is nothing else in it — no identifier, no timestamp we read, no record of which page you were on when you answered.
On every later page load the site checks for that key. If it is there, the banner stays hidden and the analytics category behaves according to the answer you gave. If it is not there — because you cleared it, or you are in a fresh browser or a private window — the banner appears again and waits for a new answer. Nothing is assumed on your behalf.
The choice lives in the browser profile you made it in, on the device you made it on. It is not tied to an account, so a different browser, a different device or a private-browsing window will ask you again. That is by design: we have no way to recognise you across devices, and we would rather ask twice than guess.
If you decline
The site works exactly the same. Every page, every table, every link opens as normal — nothing is paywalled, degraded, delayed or hidden behind consent. There is no second banner nagging you, no reduced version of the content and no "are you sure" prompt. The only difference is on our side: we simply see no statistics from your visit. Our totals are a little lower and a little less useful, and that is the whole consequence.
We mention this because plenty of sites make declining feel like a punishment. It should not be a decision you have to weigh up. Read the review, ignore the analytics question entirely if you like, and press Decline without losing anything.
Changing or clearing your choice later
Your answer is not final. There are two ways to revisit it.
Clear the stored value
Delete the site's data for this domain in your browser settings, or clear cookies and site data generally. That removes the mp-consent key along with everything else this site stored. Reload the page and the banner returns, so you can answer the other way.
Block the storage outright
If you set your browser to block cookies and site data for this site, the answer cannot be saved at all. In that case the banner will keep appearing on each visit, and nothing non-essential runs. That is a legitimate way to use the site — slightly repetitive, but entirely functional.
Where the controls live
The wording moves around between releases, so treat the following as directions rather than exact menu paths.
- Chrome on desktop — open the browser menu, go to Settings, then the privacy and security section. There you will find both the controls for third-party cookies and an option to clear browsing data, where you can remove cookies and site data for a chosen period. Chrome also lets you view and delete data for one individual site rather than clearing everything.
- Chrome on Android or iOS — the same settings sit behind the three-dot menu, under privacy and security, with "clear browsing data" as the equivalent option. You can pick a time range there too.
- Safari on macOS — the privacy section of Safari's settings holds the site-data controls; you can manage stored data per website and remove just this site if you prefer, or clear the browsing history and data together.
- Safari on iPhone or iPad — the controls are in the device Settings app under Safari rather than inside the browser itself, with options to clear history and website data or to block cookies.
Other browsers, including Firefox and Edge, group the same controls under privacy settings. If you cannot find yours, the browser's own help pages are the reliable source — we would rather point you there than describe a menu that has since been renamed.
How long a choice lasts
The value stays until something removes it: you clearing site data, your browser doing so under its own storage rules, an extension that tidies storage, or the browser discarding a private session when you close it. We do not put a countdown on it and we do not refresh it silently, so on a browser you use regularly and never clean out, one answer holds indefinitely. If you would like to be asked again, clearing site data is the way to do it.
Partner links and other people's cookies
This site links out to the operator we review. When you follow one of those links you leave our pages and land on a site we do not run. From that moment the operator's own cookie notice applies and the operator's own storage is set — session cookies, tracking for the referral, whatever their platform uses. We neither set those cookies nor control them, and your answer to our banner has no effect on them at all.
The practical point: read the cookie notice on any gambling site before you use it, in the same way you would read its terms. That is a separate decision from the one you made here, and it deserves the same attention. The same applies to the safer-gambling organisations linked in our footer — those are their sites, with their own policies.
Whatever a cookie banner says, the more important checks before you use a gambling site are regulatory ones. DicePalace does not hold a UK Gambling Commission licence, which is covered in full on our UK legal position page. 18+ only.
Questions and corrections
If something here is unclear, out of date, or does not match what you observe in your browser, tell us — a cookie policy that describes something other than the code is worthless. Use the routes on our support and contact page. We would rather correct this page than defend it.
You can also read how we handle personal data, or start from the DicePalace review hub if you came here from a search result and wanted the review itself.