Readers in Great Britain come to betdispatchuk.com for material on online casinos, those with a British licence among them and those outside GamStop, and only a handful of technical tools is needed to serve it. Which cookies and similar technologies run here, what each is for and the ways they may be refused or changed are set out on this page. A cookie is a small text file that a browser stores on a device; entries in the browser's local and session storage and counting pixels work in much the same way.
Legal basis
Regulation 6 of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (PECR) is the governing rule: information may be stored on a user's device, or read from what is already stored there, only with clear and comprehensive information and the user's consent — unless the storage is strictly necessary to deliver a service the user has asked for. Consent has to satisfy the UK GDPR (Article 4(11) and Article 7): freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous, and no harder to withdraw than to give. Wherever cookies touch personal data, the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 govern that processing too.
Strictly necessary files
The site cannot work reliably without this group. A session is kept open by them, load is spread across servers, forms are shielded against abuse, and the cookie choice itself is remembered. No separate choice is asked for before they are set. Session files expire when the browser is closed, and the stored choice is kept for no more than twelve months.
Functional and analytics files
Settings such as the comparison tables opened last are remembered by functional files. Page views are counted by analytics files, which also show which pages get read, so that the content can be improved. Only after consent has been given in the cookie banner does either group run. IP addresses are shortened for analysis, and profiles that follow behaviour across different sites are not built.
Third-party files
Files of their own may be set by embedded outside services, such as videos or maps. The provider's privacy rules then apply alongside these, and any objection goes to that provider. Advertising cookies that build profiles for personalised ads are not set by betdispatchuk.com without a clear choice in the consent banner.
Refusing and changing consent
The "Cookie settings" link in the footer changes or withdraws consent at any time; withdrawal works for the future and does not affect the lawfulness of earlier processing. Blocking and deleting cookies is also possible from the privacy settings of every browser, with the manufacturer's help pages giving the steps for Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge. Once the necessary files are deleted, the banner appears again, and some features may stop working for a short time.
Supervision
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK's supervisory authority, receives complaints about the handling of personal data. The privacy policy of this site gives the details of how personal data is processed.
Last updated: 13.11.2026.