Privacy policy

What we collect

We record which pages are visited and which operator links are clicked, so we can see which guides are useful. We do not store your IP address with those records.

Our statistics run on this site's own server. There is no Google Analytics or any other outside tracking service, and no cookies. A small script keeps a random identifier in your browser's local storage, so that a second visit can be told apart from a first one. With each page view it sends us the page address, the site or search engine you came from, and any campaign labels (utm) or a placement code of ours in the address, how far down you scrolled, how long the page was in front of you, how fast it loaded, where on the page you tapped (so we can see which parts of a page people use), which parts of a page you reached and opened, and whether you scrolled a table or a row of game tiles sideways or saw the Play bar appear at the bottom of the screen, which adverts on the page were on screen for at least a second, your type of device, browser and country (and, for readers in South Africa, the province your connection reports), and whether you opened the site from its icon on your home screen. It never reads what you type into a form. Our server does keep what you search for on the site, as a daily count of search words, without who searched. A word searched fewer than three times in a day is not kept, and neither is a search with an email address, a link or a long number in it, such as a phone or ID number. While you type in the search box at the top of the page, the letters go to our server to suggest pages, and it answers without keeping them. Our server's own log of requests keeps the page address without what was typed into it and without your IP address.

If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal, the script records nothing at all, and nothing is recorded from a browser that reports it is run by automation software. Clearing this site's data in your browser deletes the identifier. We delete page-view records after about 13 months.

When you follow a link to an operator, the link carries a click number and a short label for the page it came from. The operator's affiliate programme can later tell us whether that click led to a registration or a deposit. No name, email address or account detail of yours reaches us that way.

Sometimes we compare two versions of a button's wording or of the order of a list of operators. Our server picks a version at random each time a page is loaded, and nothing is stored in your browser to remember it, so the next page you open may show the other one. We count how many times each version was shown per day and type of device, without any identifier. If you follow a link to an operator from such a page, the click records which version you were shown and your type of device (phone, tablet or computer), and the link may carry the version. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal, the version you see is not counted or recorded.

Notifications

If you choose Notify me, your browser gives us an address at its own push service (Google, Mozilla, Apple or Microsoft) and a key to encrypt messages for it. We store that address, the page you subscribed from and the browser family. We also store your type of device (phone, tablet or computer) and your country, and whether each notification was shown, tapped or closed, so we can see which ones are useful. Nothing else: no name, no email, no IP address.

We use it only to tell you about new guides and changed offers. You can switch notifications off at any time in your browser's settings for this site, and we delete the address as soon as the push service tells us it is no longer valid.

Messages you send us

If you write to us through the form on the Contact page, we store your email address and your message so that we can reply. We do not add you to any list, and we delete a message on request. To stop the form being flooded, we keep a scrambled version of your connection's address for the day you wrote; it cannot be turned back into the address. A copy of your message and your email address is also sent to our editor through Telegram, so that we see it sooner; Telegram stores it under its own privacy policy.

When you leave this site

When you follow a link to an operator, you leave this site and that operator's own privacy policy applies. We have no control over what they collect.

Some game pages can show the studio's own version of the game from playin.com, the site of the Evolution Group's studios. Nothing loads from playin.com until you press the button on that page; from then on its own terms, privacy and cookie policies apply to it, and we have no control over what it collects.

Habanero's games load the same way from app-test.insvr.com, Habanero's demo server: nothing comes from it until you press the button, and we have no control over what it collects after that.