Cookie Policy
What follows is a technical breakdown of the cookies and adjacent storage mechanisms in use across the MagicWin Casino review hub: what each one is for, how long it lingers on your device and the routes available to disable or wipe it. Personal-data handling more broadly is dealt with separately on the Privacy Policy page; this page is the technical sibling to that document. The site at large is described on the About page, while the flagship operator write-up sits at the MagicWin Casino homepage.
1. What a cookie is, briefly
A cookie is essentially a tiny text file that a site requests your browser store locally. The next time that same site is loaded, your browser hands the file back, which is how the site recognises a return visit, recalls a preference or tallies traffic numbers. Cookies cannot execute code on your machine, cannot read other files on your device, and cannot identify you personally unless other information is already linked to the cookie itself. A lot of things popularly called "cookies" these days are technically separate browser-storage mechanisms — localStorage, sessionStorage, IndexedDB — but they all behave similarly enough that, for plain-language purposes, the word "cookie" on this page covers them collectively.
2. Categories of cookies used on MagicWin
Three buckets of cookie are in use across the MagicWin Casino review hub. Your first visit triggers a consent banner that surfaces all three categories, and the selection you make there can be revised whenever you like through the link sitting 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 MagicWin so the partnership can be credited. | Yes |
The MagicWin Casino review hub does not use advertising or remarketing cookies. We don't show on-site display advertising, don't run programmatic ad networks, and don't pixel-track readers across other sites. The funding model that supports the site is described 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 the MagicWin Casino review hub. Third-party cookies are set by services we use; control over their full behaviour rests with the third party, and links to their own policies are provided.
| Name | Set by | Category | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
magicwin_consent | MagicWin | Strictly necessary | Stores your cookie-banner choice so the banner does not reappear on every page load. | 12 months |
magicwin_session | MagicWin | 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 |
magicwin_aff | MagicWin | Affiliate tracking | Records that a click on an outbound operator link originated from MagicWin so the partnership is credited. | 30 days |
Relevant third-party policies: Google Privacy & Terms governs anything Google Analytics-related. Operator partner sites drop their own cookies after you click through; the rules for those cookies sit in the operator's privacy policy, not in this one.
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 browse the MagicWin Casino review hub in your browser's private or incognito mode, which prevents cookies from being saved across sessions.
5. What happens if you decline non-essential cookies
The site keeps working normally even with cookies declined. Every page remains readable, every internal link still resolves, and clicking out to operator sites still works. Three small differences are worth flagging: your visit will be invisible to our traffic statistics; an affiliate click made with affiliate tracking declined cannot be credited — you, the visitor, are treated identically by the operator on the other side, the only thing missed is the commission attribution back to the MagicWin Casino review hub; and clearing cookies makes the consent banner reappear, because the consent decision itself is stored as a cookie. The editorial standards behind every page (including how affiliate links get flagged) sit on the Editorial Policy page, and the player-safety commitments live on the Responsible Gambling page.
6. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
The MagicWin Casino review hub honours the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal: if your browser sends GPC, all non-essential cookies are blocked automatically and the consent banner isn't shown. The older Do Not Track header has no agreed enforcement standard and isn't relied on.
7. Updates to this policy
If the cookies on the MagicWin Casino review hub change, this page is updated and the "Last updated" date at the top is revised. Material changes — new categories, new third parties — come with a one-time consent banner refresh so existing visitors are asked again. Minor housekeeping changes (rewording, link updates) don't trigger a fresh consent prompt.
8. Questions and complaints
Cookie-specific queries on this site are best handled via the Contact page. Complaints about UK sites under the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018 are escalated to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), reachable at ico.org.uk.