stakevistauk.com compares how quickly casinos pay out, British-licensed and offshore, for readers in Great Britain, and needs only a handful of technical tools to publish that material. Which cookies and comparable technologies the site sets, what each of them is there for, and how a refusal or a later change is made are the subject of this policy. A cookie is a small text file stored on a device by the browser; local and session storage entries and counting pixels function in much the same manner.
Legal basis
Regulation 6 of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (PECR) supplies the governing rule: information may be stored on a user's device, or information already stored there may be accessed, only where clear and comprehensive information has been given and the user consents, unless the storage is strictly necessary for a service the user has asked for. Consent must satisfy the UK GDPR standard (Article 4(11) and Article 7) — freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous, and no harder to withdraw than to give. Where personal data is processed through cookies, the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 apply alongside it.
Strictly necessary files
Reliable operation is impossible without this group. A session is kept open, server load is spread, forms are protected against abuse, and the cookie choice itself is remembered. No separate choice precedes them. A session file ends with the browser, and the stored choice survives no longer than twelve months.
Functional and analytics files
Settings are remembered by the functional files — which comparison tables were opened last, for instance. Page views are counted by the analytics files, which also reveal which pages are read, so that the content can be improved. Both groups wait for consent given in the cookie banner. Analysis is done on shortened IP addresses, and no profile following behaviour across different sites is built.
Third-party files
Videos, maps and other embedded outside services may set files of their own. The provider's privacy rules then apply as well, and an objection belongs with that provider. Advertising cookies that build profiles for personalised ads are not set by stakevistauk.com without a clear choice in the consent banner.
Refusing and changing consent
At any time the "Cookie settings" link in the footer allows consent to be changed or withdrawn; withdrawal operates for the future and leaves the lawfulness of earlier processing untouched. Cookies can also be blocked and deleted through any browser's privacy settings, and the steps for Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge are described in the manufacturer's help pages. Once the necessary files have been cleared, the banner appears again, and individual features may be unavailable for a short while.
Supervision
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is the UK's supervisory authority, and a complaint about the handling of personal data can be addressed to it. The privacy policy of this site describes how personal data is processed.
Last updated: 13.11.2026.