Cookie Policy
This page documents the cookies and similar technologies in use on Jackpotjoy, what each one does, how long it sits on your device, and how to control or remove them. The broader question of personal-data handling is treated separately on the Privacy Policy page; this page is the technical companion. The site as a whole is described on the About page, with the flagship operator review on the Jackpotjoy Casino homepage.
1. What a cookie is, briefly
A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to keep on your device. When the same site loads next time, the browser returns that file, letting the site recognise the visit, remember a setting, or count traffic. Cookies cannot execute code on your machine, cannot read other files and cannot identify you personally without additional information already tied to the cookie. Many things commonly labelled "cookies" today are technically other browser-storage mechanisms — localStorage, sessionStorage, IndexedDB — that operate in much the same way; for the sake of plain English, the word "cookie" on this page covers all of them.
2. Categories of cookies used on Jackpotjoy
Jackpotjoy uses three categories of cookie. On a first visit you are shown them through a consent banner, and the selection can be changed at any time through the link in the site footer.
| Category | Purpose | Consent required |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Make the site work: load the page, remember your cookie-banner choice, route traffic, prevent abuse. | No (legal basis: legitimate interest) |
| Analytics | Anonymous, aggregated traffic measurement: which pages are read, where readers come from, which links are clicked. | Yes |
| Affiliate tracking | Recognise that a click through to an operator came from Jackpotjoy so the partnership can be credited. | Yes |
No advertising or remarketing cookies run anywhere on Jackpotjoy. There is no on-site display advertising, no programmatic ad network, and no pixel-tracking of readers across other websites. How the site is paid for is documented separately on the Affiliate Disclosure page.
3. Specific cookies, third parties and lifetimes
The list below covers the cookies that may be set when you visit Jackpotjoy. Third-party cookies are placed by services Jackpotjoy makes use of; full control over their behaviour sits with the third party, and links to their own policies are supplied below.
| Name | Set by | Category | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
jackpotjoy_consent | Jackpotjoy | Strictly necessary | Stores your cookie-banner choice so the banner does not reappear on every page load. | 12 months |
jackpotjoy_session | Jackpotjoy | Strictly necessary | Anonymous session identifier used to load assets and rate-limit abusive traffic. | Until browser closes |
_ga, _ga_* | Google Analytics 4 | Analytics | Aggregated traffic statistics: pages per session, traffic sources, average time on page. IP addresses are anonymised before storage. | 14 months |
jackpotjoy_aff | Jackpotjoy | Affiliate tracking | Records that a click on an outbound operator link originated from Jackpotjoy so the partnership is credited. | 30 days |
Third-party documentation: Google Analytics behaviour is detailed within the Google Privacy & Terms. Cookies dropped by operator partner sites after a click-through fall under each operator's own privacy policy rather than under Jackpotjoy's.
4. How to control cookies in your browser
Every modern browser lets you block cookies, delete existing ones or reject third-party cookies altogether. The official documentation:
You can also visit Jackpotjoy in your browser's private or incognito mode, which stops cookies from being saved across sessions.
5. What happens if you decline non-essential cookies
The site keeps working normally. You can read every page, follow any internal link and click through to operator sites. Three small differences: traffic statistics will not include your visit; if you click an affiliate link with affiliate tracking declined, the partnership cannot be credited — the operator still pays you, the user, the same way; only the Jackpotjoy commission goes unregistered; and the consent banner will resurface if you clear your cookies, because the choice itself is stored inside a cookie. The full editorial standards behind every page (including how affiliate links are flagged) live on the Editorial Policy page, with the player-safety commitments on the Responsible Gambling page.
6. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
Jackpotjoy respects the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal: if your browser is sending GPC, all non-essential cookies are blocked automatically and the consent banner is suppressed. The older Do Not Track header has no agreed enforcement standard and is not relied upon.
7. Updates to this policy
When the cookies on Jackpotjoy change, this page is updated and the "Last updated" date at the top is bumped. Material changes — new categories, new third parties — come with a one-off consent banner refresh so existing visitors are asked again. Minor housekeeping (rewording, link updates) does not trigger a fresh consent prompt.
8. Questions and complaints
Specific queries about cookies on Jackpotjoy are best raised through the Contact page. Formal complaints concerning UK sites under the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 are handled by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), reachable at ico.org.uk.