Cookie Policy

This policy explains how WinnersVault UK (ukwinnersvault.com) uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit the site. It sits alongside our Privacy Policy, which covers personal data more broadly, and our Terms & Conditions. We have written it in plain English rather than in the language of a compliance form, because a cookie notice nobody can read is not transparency.

What cookies are

A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store. On your next request the browser sends it back, which is how a site recognises a returning visitor, remembers a preference or measures whether a campaign worked. Related technologies — local storage, session storage and small tracking pixels — do much the same job by different means, and everything in this policy applies to them too.

Cookies are usually described in two ways. A session cookie lasts until you close the browser; a persistent cookie stays for a set period, from minutes to months. A first-party cookie is set by ukwinnersvault.com itself; a third-party cookie is set by another domain whose code runs on our pages, such as an analytics or advertising provider.

The categories we use

Strictly necessary

These make the site work and cannot be switched off from within the site. They keep a session consistent across page loads, remember whether you have already responded to the cookie notice, and support the security and anti-abuse technology we run to distinguish genuine visitors from automated traffic. That anti-abuse layer inspects technical signals from the request — browser and device characteristics, timing, and interaction patterns — and may store a short-lived identifier so a verified session is not re-checked on every page. Without these, pages will not load correctly.

Preferences and functionality

These remember choices you have made, such as a display preference or the fact that you have dismissed a notice, so the site behaves consistently on your next visit. They are not essential, but turning them off means the site forgets those choices.

Analytics

Analytics cookies tell us how the site is used in aggregate: which pages people open, how long they stay, which links they follow, roughly where in the world the visit came from, and where journeys break down. We use providers such as Google Analytics and, at times, Microsoft Clarity for this. We use the results to fix pages that confuse people and to decide what to write next. We do not use analytics data to build an individual profile of you or to make decisions about you personally.

Marketing and campaign measurement

WinnersVault UK buys advertising, largely through Google Ads and at times Meta’s advertising platform. Cookies and pixels from those platforms let us measure whether an advert produced a visit, avoid showing you the same advert repeatedly, and understand which campaigns are worth continuing. The platforms may also use them to personalise advertising you see elsewhere, subject to your settings with them.

Affiliate tracking

When you follow a link to an operator, a tracking cookie or parameter records that the visit came from ukwinnersvault.com. This is how our commission is attributed, and third-party tracking cookies may therefore be necessary for the effective use of affiliate links and the performance of affiliate agreements. The cookie identifies the referring site and the campaign; it does not tell us your name, your account details or how much you deposited or lost. Operators also set their own cookies once you arrive on their site, governed by their cookie policies rather than this one.

How to control cookies

Where consent is required, you can change or withdraw it at any time through the cookie notice on this site. You can also manage cookies at the browser level. Blocking all cookies will break parts of this and most other websites; blocking third-party cookies alone is usually a reasonable middle ground.

• Chrome — Settings → Privacy and security → Third-party cookies, and “Delete browsing data” to clear what is already stored.
• Safari — Settings → Privacy, where “Prevent cross-site tracking” is on by default, plus “Manage Website Data” to remove stored data.
• Firefox — Settings → Privacy & Security → Enhanced Tracking Protection, with Strict mode blocking most third-party cookies.
• Edge — Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Manage and delete cookies and site data.

You can opt out of Google Analytics across all sites with the browser add-on Google publishes at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout, and adjust advertising personalisation at myadcenter.google.com. Most browsers also offer a private or incognito window, which discards cookies when you close it.

Changes to this policy

We update this policy when the technologies we use change, and the date at the top of the page always reflects the current version. Material changes will be flagged on the site. If anything here is unclear, email us at info@ukwinnersvault.com and we will explain it.