Cookie Policy
The cookies and similar technologies running on Dream Jackpot are documented on this page — what each does, how long each one persists on your device, plus the levers available to manage or remove them. Broader personal-data handling sits separately on the Privacy Policy page; this is the technical companion to that one. The site as a whole gets introduced on the About page, while the flagship operator review lives at the Dream Jackpot Casino homepage.
1. What a cookie is, briefly
Put simply, a cookie is a small text file that a website requests your browser to store on the device. On the next load of the same site, the browser sends the file back, allowing the site to identify the visit, restore a setting or tally traffic. What cookies cannot do: execute code on your machine, read other files, or identify you personally without other information already attached to the cookie. A number of things people call "cookies" these days are technically other browser-storage mechanisms — localStorage, sessionStorage, IndexedDB — operating along broadly similar lines; for readability, "cookie" on this page covers them collectively.
2. Categories of cookies used on Dream Jackpot
Three cookie categories are in use across Dream Jackpot. A consent banner shown on first visit lets you make a selection, and the choice can be adjusted later 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 Dream Jackpot so the partnership can be credited. | Yes |
Advertising and remarketing cookies aren't in use on Dream Jackpot at all. There's no on-site display advertising, no programmatic ad network in the mix, and no pixel-tracking of readers across other sites. The funding model behind the site appears on the Affiliate Disclosure page.
3. Specific cookies, third parties and lifetimes
Below is the full inventory of cookies that may end up on your device while visiting Dream Jackpot. Cookies set by third parties come from services Dream Jackpot integrates with; control over their full behaviour ultimately sits with that third party, with links to the relevant policies provided alongside.
| Name | Set by | Category | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
dreamjackpot_consent | Dream Jackpot | Strictly necessary | Stores your cookie-banner choice so the banner doesn't reappear on every page load. | 12 months |
dreamjackpot_session | Dream Jackpot | 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 |
dreamjackpot_aff | Dream Jackpot | Affiliate tracking | Records that a click on an outbound operator link originated from Dream Jackpot so the partnership is credited. | 30 days |
For third-party policies: Google Analytics is covered under Google Privacy & Terms. Once you've clicked through, operator partner sites set their own cookies — these are then governed by that operator's own privacy policy rather than Dream Jackpot's.
4. How to control cookies in your browser
Cookies can be blocked, deleted or restricted to first-party only in every modern browser. The official guides for each:
Alternatively, browsing Dream Jackpot in your browser's private or incognito window prevents cookies from being kept between sessions.
5. What happens if you decline non-essential cookies
Functionally, the site keeps working. Every page is still readable, every internal link still works, and click-throughs to operator sites still go through. Three minor consequences kick in: your visit doesn't get included in traffic statistics; should you click an affiliate link with affiliate tracking declined, the partnership can't be credited — the operator still treats you the same way as any other user, and only the commission flowing back to Dream Jackpot fails to register; the consent banner appears again whenever you clear cookies, because the consent record is itself a cookie. The full editorial standards behind each page (including how affiliate links get flagged) appear on the Editorial Policy page, with player-safety commitments laid out on the Responsible Gambling page.
6. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
The Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal is honoured at Dream Jackpot: a browser sending GPC automatically gets all non-essential cookies blocked, with no consent banner shown. The older Do Not Track header carries no agreed enforcement standard and isn't acted upon here.
7. Updates to this policy
Any change to the cookies set by Dream Jackpot will update this page along with the "Last updated" date at the top. Substantive changes — new categories, new third-party providers — are accompanied by a one-time consent banner refresh so existing visitors are prompted again. Smaller housekeeping changes (reword, link refresh) don't trigger a new consent prompt.
8. Questions and complaints
Cookie-related queries on Dream Jackpot are best routed through the Contact page. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk deals with complaints about UK websites under the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018.