Cookie Policy
This page lays out the cookies and similar technologies used on Gransino, what each does, how long it lingers on your device, and how to control or remove them. The broader matter of personal-data handling is dealt with separately on the Privacy Policy page; this page is the technical companion to it. The site overall is described on the About page, with the flagship operator review on the Gransino Casino homepage.
1. What a cookie is, briefly
A cookie is a small text file a website asks your browser to keep on your device. When the same site next loads, the browser returns the file, letting the site recognise the visit, recall a setting, or tally traffic. Cookies cannot execute code on your machine, cannot read your other files, and cannot identify you personally without other information already tied to the cookie. Plenty of things loosely called "cookies" nowadays are technically other browser-storage mechanisms — localStorage, sessionStorage, IndexedDB — that behave much the same way; for simplicity, "cookie" on this page stands in for all of them.
2. Categories of cookies used on Gransino
Gransino uses three categories of cookie. They are put to you on your first visit via a consent banner, and you can amend your choice whenever you like through the link in the site footer.
| Category | Purpose | Consent required |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Keep the site working: load the page, recall your cookie-banner choice, route traffic, block abuse. | No (legal basis: legitimate interest) |
| Analytics | Anonymous, aggregated traffic measurement: which pages get read, where readers arrive from, which links get clicked. | Yes |
| Affiliate tracking | Note that a click through to an operator originated on Gransino so the partnership can be credited. | Yes |
Gransino does not use advertising or remarketing cookies. We run no on-site display advertising, no programmatic ad networks, and no pixel-tracking of readers across other sites. The funding model behind the site is set out 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 Gransino. Third-party cookies come from services Gransino relies on; full control over how they behave rests with that third party, and links to their own policies are given.
| Name | Set by | Category | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
gransino_consent | Gransino | Strictly necessary | Holds your cookie-banner choice so the banner does not pop up on every page load. | 12 months |
gransino_session | Gransino | Strictly necessary | Anonymous session identifier used to serve 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 ahead of storage. | 14 months |
gransino_aff | Gransino | Affiliate tracking | Logs that a click on an outbound operator link came from Gransino so the partnership is credited. | 30 days |
For the third parties: Google Analytics is governed by Google Privacy & Terms. As for operator partners, they drop their own cookies the moment you click through — and those sit under each operator's privacy policy, never under Gransino's.
4. How to control cookies in your browser
Every modern browser lets you block cookies, clear existing ones, or refuse third-party cookies entirely. The official documentation:
You can also visit Gransino in your browser's private or incognito mode, which stops cookies being kept across sessions.
5. What happens if you decline non-essential cookies
The site keeps working normally. You can read every page, follow every internal link, and click through to operator sites. Three minor differences: your visit will be left out of traffic statistics; if you click an affiliate link with affiliate tracking turned off, the partnership cannot be credited — the operator still treats you, the user, exactly the same; only Gransino's commission goes unregistered; and the consent banner will return if you clear your cookies, since the choice itself lives in a cookie. The full editorial standards behind every page (including how affiliate links are flagged) sit on the Editorial Policy page, and the player-safety commitments are on the Responsible Gambling page.
6. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
Gransino respects the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal: if your browser sends GPC, every non-essential cookie is blocked automatically and the consent banner stays hidden. The older Do Not Track header lacks any agreed enforcement standard and is not relied upon.
7. Updates to this policy
If the cookies on Gransino change, this page is updated and the "Last updated" date at the top is amended. Significant changes — new categories, new third parties — come with a one-off consent banner refresh so existing visitors are asked once more. Minor housekeeping (rewording, link updates) does not prompt a fresh consent request.
8. Questions and complaints
Got a query about a particular cookie here? The Contact page is the route to take. Formal complaints about UK sites, meanwhile, go to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) — reachable at ico.org.uk — which handles them under the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018.