Cookies Policy

Cookies Policy for Thetford Bingo

We use cookies to enhance your browsing experience and provide the best possible service on our website, including features like login persistence and personalization. This page explains how we collect and process cookie-related data when you visit or interact with our site.

What are Cookies?

A cookie is a small piece of text that is stored locally on your device by your web browser while you are interacting with a website. It allows the website to store information about your browsing session, preferences, and other settings for future visits.

Why do We Use Cookies?

We use cookies to provide a range of benefits to our users, including:

• Enhancing security features
• Improving user experience through personalization
• Simplifying login processes
• Enabling analytics for website improvement

These cookies help us understand how you interact with the site and make necessary improvements. They also assist in ensuring your browsing session is secure.

Essential Cookies

Essential cookies are required to ensure our site functions as intended, including security measures like session management and authentication. These cannot be disabled if you wish to use certain functionalities on the website.

• Session ID: This cookie identifies your current user session for a limited time.
• Login persistence: If selected at login, this remembers you across sessions until explicitly cleared or until account expiration.

Session Cookies

These cookies are stored temporarily and only last as long as your browsing session. They help maintain continuity of interactions while ensuring security standards are met.

Persistent Cookies

Unlike session cookies, persistent ones remain on your device after closing the browser until a specified time in the future when they expire.

• Cookie consent: Stores user preference for cookie acceptance.
• Login persistence: Continues to authenticate you over sessions if enabled at login.

Functional Cookies

We use functional cookies to improve site functionality and provide convenience features.

• Language preferences: Set your language of choice on our website to personalize the content displayed.
• Device recognition: Helps optimize web pages for the specific device or screen size being used for a better user experience.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

These cookies track how you use our site, enabling us to understand performance issues and improve overall browsing experience.

• Site analytics: Data is anonymized, allowing analysis of general trends rather than individual activity.
• Session statistics: Records your interaction with the website over time.

Preference and Language Settings

We respect that users prefer control over their online settings. Our cookies are set to remember preferences such as language selection and content format for future visits, if chosen.

Login/Session Continuity

Login persistence allows us to securely store information across sessions without requiring frequent re-authentication once logged in.

• Persistent session authentication: Ensures you remain authenticated even after closing your browser until login expires or is cleared.

Device Recognition

This cookie helps tailor the website's presentation for optimal viewing experience based on the type of device being used, making it easier to navigate and access site features.

Security-related Cookies

For enhanced security measures, we may use cookies to track suspicious patterns that could indicate unauthorized attempts at gaining control over your session.

• Anti-fraud cookie: Part of a broader set of tools to detect misuse or malicious activity on the website.

Browser Storage Technologies

Modern browsers allow developers like us to create and store items in local storage for quicker loading and more dynamic page interactions. This is how we make our site feel so personalized without overwhelming users with too many options at login.

• Session information: Temporarily holds information related to current browsing session until it expires.
• User preferences: Stores your personalization settings like language choices and display formats for easy recall on future visits.

Third-party Integrations

While most cookies used are first-party, we occasionally integrate with third parties who set their own cookies. These serve a variety of purposes beyond our direct control but help us enhance service levels to you as users.

• Social media integration: Cookies from third-party platforms for sharing content.
• Advertising analytics: Cookies related to advertising campaign performance on other websites or ours.

Marketing or Communication Preferences

While primarily focused on improving user experience, we also store information about your marketing preferences if selected at any point during interactions with our site.

• Direct communication preference: Stores choice regarding receipt of direct email contact for offers and announcements related to Thetford Bingo services.
• Push notification preference: Controls whether you wish to receive push notifications or not.

Cookie Consent Management

Your consent is fundamental to our use of cookies. We follow international guidelines to ensure transparency and clear choices about the types of data collected through our site.

• Cookie banner presentation: Promptly presents a message on visiting Thetford Bingo, detailing what we do with information obtained.
• Preferences tracking cookie: Records your choice regarding accepting or declining specific categories of cookies during that visit, ensuring future compliance.

Browser Cookie Controls

While our platform is designed to enhance security and functionality through the use of cookies, users have full control over acceptance, rejection, and deletion as per their device's capabilities and settings for each relevant browser type in use.