Cookie Information
Version of 24 September 2026
This page explains the small amount of browser storage Velwins Casino UK uses, the three categories you see in the banner, and how to change your mind later. The short version: only the strictly necessary part is switched on, and it holds nothing but your own choice.
UK rules on cookies come from the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003, usually shortened to PECR, read together with UK GDPR. In practice they say a website may store or read information on your device only if it is strictly necessary for something you asked for, or if you have agreed to it.
1. Cookies and local storage in brief
Think of a cookie as a short note that a site leaves with your browser for later. Local storage does a similar job: it is a space inside your browser where a site can save short notes for itself. The main difference is that cookies travel back to the server with every page request, while local storage stays on your device unless the page's own script reads it.
PECR treats both the same way. Whatever the technology, the question is whether the information is needed for the service or needs your permission.
2. What this site stores
Right now, one thing: a record of your answer to the cookie banner. It lives in your browser's local storage under the key vlw_cookies_uk. The value is a short line of text with three parts:
- whether statistics are allowed (true or false);
- a matching yes or no for marketing;
- the date on which you made the decision, written as year, month and day.
No name, email address or IP address is saved in it, and it is never sent to our server. The date is there so that, if we ever change what the categories contain, the site can tell whether your choice was made before or after that change and ask again if needed.
We chose local storage over a cookie for a practical reason: a cookie would be attached to every request your browser makes to our server, carrying your decision along for no purpose. Kept locally, the note is read only by the small script that decides whether to show the banner.
The one storage item, in a table
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name (key) | vlw_cookies_uk |
| Kind | Local storage, first party |
| Written when | You press Accept, Save or Decline, or your browser sends a privacy signal |
| Contents | Statistics yes or no, marketing yes or no, date of the decision |
| Lifetime | No expiry date; it lasts until you clear it or your browser removes it |
| Sent to our server | Never |
| Category | Strictly necessary |
Some browsers, Safari in particular, delete script-written storage for sites you have not opened for a few weeks. That is normal behaviour. The only effect is that the banner asks you once more.
We set no cookies of our own at all. Server logs kept by our host are a separate matter and are described on the privacy information page.
3. The three categories
| Category | What it covers | Current status |
|---|---|---|
| Necessary | Remembering your banner choice so it does not appear on every page | Always on; cannot be switched off |
| Statistics | A visitor counter that would show which pages are read and where readers drop off | Off by default; no tool installed |
| Marketing | Tags from advertising or affiliate partners that measure campaigns | Off by default; no tool installed |
Necessary
This category exists so the site can respect the answer you already gave. Without it, the banner would reappear on each page. PECR allows storage that is strictly necessary for a service the user has requested, and remembering a privacy choice falls squarely within that exemption, so it needs no consent.
Statistics
Nothing sits behind this switch at present. We kept it in the banner because we may one day want simple reading figures, such as how many people reach the withdrawals section of the casino review. If we add a tool, it will run only for readers who turned this category on, and this page will name it before it goes live.
Marketing
Likewise empty today. The affiliate link to the casino does not rely on it: the redirect to Velwins Casino works the same way whatever you choose here, and it does not set a cookie on our domain. Once you arrive on the casino's site, its own cookie banner and cookie policy take over, and Fortuna Games N.V. decides what is stored there.
4. How the banner works
On your first visit a small panel appears near the bottom of the screen. It waits until the page's fonts have loaded, so the text does not jump around while you read. Three buttons sit side by side, equal in size and styling, so none of them is pushed as the "right" answer:
- Accept turns on every optional category and saves that choice.
- Save keeps exactly what you set with the switches in the panel, which are all off until you change them.
- Decline leaves statistics and marketing off and saves that too.
Closing the page without clicking anything saves nothing, and the banner will simply appear again on your next visit. Nothing optional loads in the meantime.
The panel does not cover the review or block scrolling. You can read the whole page with it open and decide at the end, or ignore it entirely. Each button and switch can be reached with the Tab key and pressed with Enter or the space bar, and screen readers announce the switches as on or off, so the choice works the same without a mouse.
Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track
A browser that broadcasts Global Privacy Control, or has Do Not Track turned on, has already answered for you: we treat it as "Decline". The banner is not shown; the site records a decline with the date, exactly as if you had pressed the button yourself. You can still open the settings and choose differently.
5. Changing your choice later
Every page has a Cookie settings button in the footer. Pressing it brings the banner back with the switches set to your saved answer. Change them, press Save or one of the other buttons, and the new decision replaces the old one along with a fresh date.
Withdrawing consent is meant to be as easy as giving it. Should a statistics or marketing tool ever be running when you switch it off, it stops loading from the next page you open.
Clearing it from the browser
You can also delete the record directly. In most browsers, clearing site data for this site removes local storage along with cookies; the exact menu name varies:
- Chrome and Edge list it under privacy settings as site data or cookies and site permissions.
- In Firefox, look for "Manage Data" in the cookies and site data section.
- Safari on iPhone and Mac keeps it under website data in its advanced privacy options.
After clearing, the banner will appear again on your next visit. Private or incognito windows discard local storage when you close them, so you may see the banner each time you browse that way.
Chrome on a computer
- Open any page of the review and click the icon to the left of the address.
- Choose "Site settings", then "Delete data" (older versions say "Clear data").
- Confirm, and reload the page.
Microsoft Edge
- Click the padlock beside the address while on one of our pages.
- Pick "Cookies and site data", then "Manage cookies and site data".
- Remove the entry for this site with the bin icon.
Firefox
- Click the padlock in the address bar.
- Select "Clear cookies and site data" and confirm.
Firefox removes local storage for the site in the same step, even though the menu only mentions cookies.
Safari
- On a Mac, open Safari's settings, go to "Privacy" and press "Manage Website Data".
- Type part of the site name into the search box, select the result and press "Remove".
- On an iPhone or iPad, the same list lives under Settings, Apps, Safari, Advanced, Website Data; swipe left on the entry to delete it.
Menu labels shift a little between browser versions. When a label above does not match yours, searching the browser's settings for "site data" normally finds the right screen.
6. Content from other sites
The review pages link out to the casino and to a few support organisations, such as BeGambleAware and the Information Commissioner's Office. A link is not an embed: nothing from those sites loads until you click. They set their own cookies once you are there, under their own policies.
We do not embed social media widgets, video players or advertising slots, which is one reason the storage list above is so short.
If an embed is ever added
Suppose a future update included a video walkthrough of the casino's withdrawal screen. A player from a large platform would normally set its own cookies the moment the page loaded. Our approach would be a still image with a play button in its place: nothing from the video host loads until you press it, and a line under the image would name the host and link to its policy.
Screenshots on the review pages are ordinary image files served from our own server. They carry no tracking pixels.
7. If we change the setup
Adding any tool that stores or reads data on your device would mean three things. First, this page would be updated to name the tool, the provider, what it records and how long it keeps it. Second, the date on this page would change. Third, because your saved choice carries its own date, readers who decided before the change would see the banner again and could answer with the new information in front of them.
What analytics would change for you
- Readers who declined, or whose browser sends a privacy signal, would notice no difference at all.
- Readers who accepted would load one extra script, which would count page views and record roughly how far down each page people scroll.
- IP addresses would be shortened before storage, so a figure could not point back to a household.
- Reading figures would be kept for a set period, named on this page, and would never be shared with the casino.
Any such tool would also appear in the processor list on the privacy page, with the country where its data is held.
The date of the current version is shown above the text.
8. Questions and complaints
Spotted a difference between this page and what your browser actually shows? Tell us. Please write to the editors with the browser you use and what you noticed. General data questions, including your rights under UK GDPR, are answered on the privacy information page, and the wider rules of the site are under using this site.
You may also raise a concern about cookies with the Information Commissioner's Office, which enforces PECR in the UK. Its guidance for the public explains what websites may and may not do without your agreement.
9. Checking our claims yourself
You do not have to take this page on trust. Every desktop browser has developer tools that show exactly what a site has stored, and a look takes under a minute.
- Open one of our pages and press F12 (on a Mac with Safari, first switch on the Develop menu in the advanced settings).
- In Chrome or Edge choose the "Application" tab; in Firefox, "Storage"; in Safari, "Storage" as well.
- Expand "Local storage" and "Cookies" and select this site.
Before you answer the banner, both lists should be empty. Afterwards you should find a single local storage entry with the key given above and nothing under cookies. Anything else would be a mistake on our side, and we would like to hear about it.
A network view in the same tools will also show that no request goes to an analytics or advertising server while you read.
