Essential

These hold your session open, carry the bet slip between pages, defend against cross-site request forgery, and remember what you chose on the cookie banner. They cannot be disabled without breaking the account, and they are worth nothing to an advertiser.

Fraud and security

A handful of cookies let us recognise a device we have encountered before. That is how an account being opened from an unfamiliar place gets flagged, and how we stop somebody under an exclusion quietly opening a second account.

Measurement

Aggregated data about which pages get used and where people give up. It arrives aggregated and is never used to target anything at you individually. Turn it off and nothing about the site changes.

What you will not find

• No advertising cookies and no retargeting pixels. We run no inducement advertising, so there is nothing to chase you with.
• No social network tracking pixels.
• No cross-site profiling and no onward sale of your browsing.
• Nothing that could survive an exclusion, BetStop is enforced against the account, not the browser.

Controlling them

Use the banner, or your browser settings, which can block or clear cookies for this site alone. Blocking the essential set will stop you signing in, which is the expected result rather than a bug.