Cookie Policy
The page below describes the cookies and similar technologies running on Clover Casino, what each one actually does, how long it sits on your device, and the ways to manage or remove them. The broader topic of personal-data handling is dealt with separately on the Privacy Policy page; this page is the technical companion to it. The site as a whole is introduced on the About page, with the flagship operator write-up hosted on the Clover Casino homepage.
1. What a cookie is, briefly
A cookie is essentially a small text file that a website asks your browser to save on your device. When that same site loads again, the browser hands the file back, which lets the site recognise the return visit, recall a setting, or track traffic patterns. Cookies can't execute code on your machine, can't read other files, and can't identify you personally unless some other information has already been tied to the cookie. Plenty of things people now casually call "cookies" are technically alternative browser-storage mechanisms — localStorage, sessionStorage, IndexedDB — that operate along similar lines; for the sake of plain English, "cookie" on this page covers all of them.
2. Categories of cookies used on Clover Casino
Clover Casino works with three categories of cookie. They're surfaced to you on your first visit through a consent banner, and the selection can be adjusted at any moment via 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 Clover Casino so the partnership can be credited. | Yes |
Clover Casino does not operate advertising or remarketing cookies. There's no on-site display advertising, no programmatic ad networks, and no pixel-tracking of readers across third-party sites. The funding model that supports the site is set out on the Affiliate Disclosure page.
3. Specific cookies, third parties and lifetimes
The table below catalogues the cookies that can be set when you visit Clover Casino. Third-party cookies are placed by services Clover Casino integrates with; ultimate control over their behaviour belongs to that third party, and the relevant links to their own policies are supplied.
| Name | Set by | Category | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
clovercasino_consent | Clover Casino | Strictly necessary | Stores your cookie-banner choice so the banner does not reappear on every page load. | 12 months |
clovercasino_session | Clover Casino | 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 |
clovercasino_aff | Clover Casino | Affiliate tracking | Records that a click on an outbound operator link originated from Clover Casino so the partnership is credited. | 30 days |
Third-party policies: Google Privacy and Terms applies to Google Analytics. Operator partner sites drop their own cookies once you've clicked through; those fall under each operator's own privacy policy, not under Clover Casino.
4. How to control cookies in your browser
Every current browser offers a way to block cookies, wipe existing ones, or refuse third-party cookies outright. The official documentation pages:
You can also visit Clover Casino through your browser's private or incognito mode, which stops cookies from persisting between sessions.
5. What happens if you decline non-essential cookies
The site keeps functioning normally. Every page is readable, every internal link works, and click-throughs to operator sites function as expected. Three minor knock-on effects: your visit won't be reflected in traffic statistics; if you follow an affiliate link with affiliate tracking switched off, the partnership can't be credited — the operator still pays you, the user, exactly as it would otherwise; only the commission flow to Clover Casino fails to register; and the consent banner will return whenever you clear your cookies, because the choice itself is stored in a cookie. The complete editorial standards governing every page (including how affiliate links are flagged) sit on the Editorial Policy page, with the player-safety commitments on the Responsible Gambling page.
6. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
Clover Casino respects the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal: where your browser transmits GPC, every non-essential cookie is automatically blocked and the consent banner doesn't appear. The older Do Not Track header has no consensus enforcement standard and isn't depended on.
7. Updates to this policy
Where the cookies on Clover Casino shift, this page is amended and the "Last updated" date at the top is moved forward. Material amendments — new categories, additional third parties — go alongside a one-time consent banner refresh so existing visitors get re-prompted. Smaller housekeeping edits (rewording, link updates) don't trigger a fresh consent prompt.
8. Questions and complaints
For questions tied to a particular cookie on Clover Casino, the best route is the Contact page. Complaints against UK sites under the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018 fall instead to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), reachable at ico.org.uk.