Cookie Policy
Plain answer first
ONLINE CASINO DOCTOR uses a small set of cookies: a few the site cannot function without, an analytics cookie that waits for your consent, and, when you click an outbound link to a casino, an affiliate tracking parameter that tells the operator the visit came from us. That last one is how the site is funded, and this page explains it with the same bluntness we apply to bonus terms.
What a cookie is, in one paragraph
A cookie is a small piece of text your browser stores at a website’s request and sends back on later visits, letting the site recognise the browser it saw before. Related mechanisms such as local storage and tracking pixels achieve similar ends by different routes. For the purposes of this policy and your consent choices, we treat them all identically.
The categories on this site
Strictly necessary
These keep the site standing: security and abuse-prevention tokens, load-balancing identifiers, and the cookie that records your consent decision so the banner does not interrogate you on every page. They are set without consent because the law allows it and the site genuinely cannot operate without them. They contain no profile of you.
Preferences
If the site offers display choices such as a dark theme, your selection is stored locally in your browser. Deleting it loses your settings and nothing else.
Analytics
One measurement tool, set only after you consent, telling us in aggregate which articles are read and from roughly where. We use this to decide what to cover, not to identify anyone. Decline it and the site behaves identically; we simply see one fewer anonymous reader in the totals.
Affiliate tracking on outbound links
This is the category most gambling sites bury, so we will not. When you click a link from our site to a casino, the destination URL carries an identifier that tells the operator the referral came from ONLINE CASINO DOCTOR. If you go on to register and play, the operator’s own systems may set cookies in your browser to attribute that activity to our referral, and we may earn a commission. Two things matter here. First, this tracking happens on the operator’s domain under the operator’s privacy policy, which you should read. Second, the identifier tells the operator that a visitor came from us; it does not carry your name, your reading history on this site, or anything else about you, because we hold none of that.
Your choices
- The banner. On your first visit you are asked to accept or decline non-essential cookies. Declining is a one-click, first-class option, not a maze. Your choice is remembered and can be changed later from the cookie settings link in the footer.
- Your browser. Every mainstream browser lets you view, block, and delete cookies per site, and can block third-party cookies wholesale. Blocking all cookies may break the consent banner’s memory, which means it will ask you again; nothing else on this site should degrade.
- Outbound links. If you prefer that no referral be attributed, you can navigate to any operator directly instead of clicking through from our pages. Reviews stay identical either way; we would rather you arrive informed than tracked.
Retention
The consent cookie persists for up to twelve months so we do not re-ask constantly. Analytics identifiers expire on the schedule set by the tool, typically between one and twenty-four months, and we configure the shortest interval available to us. Operator-side affiliate cookies live under the operator’s rules; typical lifetimes in this industry run from thirty days to a year, and the operator’s own cookie policy is the authoritative source.
Changes
If we add a tool that sets cookies, this page changes first and, where consent is required, the banner asks again. We review this page whenever our stack changes and at least annually. It was last reviewed in 2026. Questions: support@onlinecasinodoctor.com.
