Cookie Policy

What This Covers

Cookies are small files a site stores on your device to make it work and to learn how it is used. This policy explains which ones Spinchester sets, why, and how you keep control of them. Read it alongside the Privacy Policy.

Honesty requires stating the basic trade-off. Some cookies are necessary for the site to function at all, so switching everything off will break parts of the platform rather than simply making it quieter. Decide which categories you accept with that in mind.

Data We Collect Automatically

When you visit, we record technical details on their own: your browser, IP address and the referring website. This happens before you log in and is tied to how the request reaches our servers, not to any marketing choice you have made. It is standard for any site you open.

The Three Categories

We group cookies into three purposes. Required cookies keep navigation and core features working; functional cookies analyse how the site is used and remember settings such as session, language and region; advertising cookies measure marketing performance and are supplied by partners. Each category does a distinct job.

Required cookies cannot be declined without breaking the service. This is a fact, not marketing: login, security and payment steps depend on them, so treating them as optional would misrepresent how the site runs. Functional and advertising cookies, by contrast, are yours to refuse.

How Cookies Are Structured

By technical structure the cookies fall into three groups: back-end application, front-end application and third party. Back-end and front-end cookies belong to the platform itself, whilst third-party cookies come from the partners behind analytics and advertising. The purpose categories above and these structural groups describe the same cookies from two angles.

Third-party cookies deserve attention because they leave our direct control. Once a partner sets a cookie, that partner’s own policy governs what it does with the data, and we cannot vary those terms for you. Review a partner’s policy if a specific service concerns you.

Managing Cookies

You control cookies through your browser. Every major browser lets you block or delete cookies, either wholesale or by site, and the settings menu is where you do it rather than anywhere on our platform. Clearing them will log you out and reset saved preferences.

Blocking non-essential cookies is the balanced middle path. It cuts analytics and advertising tracking while leaving required cookies in place so the site still functions, which is usually what a privacy-minded player actually wants. Set that once and revisit it if your preferences change.