Cookie Statement
This page documents the cookies and similar technologies running on Buzz Bingo, the role each one plays, the length of time it lingers on your device, and the routes for controlling or removing them. The wider question of personal-data handling is dealt with separately on the Privacy Policy page; the current page is its technical companion. The site as a whole is described on the About page, and the flagship operator review lives on the Buzz Bingo Casino homepage.
1. What a cookie is in brief
A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to keep on your device. Each subsequent time the same site loads, the browser hands the file back, letting the site recognise the visit, remember a setting, or count traffic. Cookies cannot execute code on your machine, cannot read other files, and cannot identify you personally without other information already tied to the cookie. Several things commonly described as "cookies" today are technically other browser-storage mechanisms — localStorage, sessionStorage, IndexedDB — that operate in much the same way; in plain English, "cookie" on this page is shorthand for all of them.
2. Cookie types deployed on Buzz Bingo
Buzz Bingo runs three cookie categories. These are surfaced on first visit through a consent banner, and the selection can be revised at any point using 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 Buzz Bingo so the partnership can be credited. | Yes |
Buzz Bingo does not run advertising or remarketing cookies. There is no on-site display advertising, no programmatic ad network in use, and no pixel-tracking of readers across other sites. The funding model that supports the site is documented on the Affiliate Disclosure page.
3. Each cookie, its providers and lifetimes
The list below covers the cookies that may be set during a visit to Buzz Bingo. Third-party cookies are set by services that Buzz Bingo uses; control over their full behaviour rests with the third party in question, and links to each provider's own policy are included below.
| Name | Set by | Category | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
buzzbingo_consent | Buzz Bingo | Strictly necessary | Stores your cookie-banner choice so the banner does not reappear on every page load. | 12 months |
buzzbingo_session | Buzz Bingo | 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 |
buzzbingo_aff | Buzz Bingo | Affiliate tracking | Records that a click on an outbound operator link originated from Buzz Bingo 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 a click goes through; those sit under the operator's own privacy policy, not under Buzz Bingo.
4. Controlling cookies from within your browser
Every modern browser allows cookies to be blocked, existing ones removed, or third-party cookies refused outright. Official documentation:
Buzz Bingo can also be browsed in private or incognito mode, which keeps cookies from persisting across sessions on the local device.
5. The impact of refusing non-essential cookies
The site keeps working normally. Every page can still be read, every internal link followed, and operator click-throughs work the same as before. Three small differences are worth noting: traffic statistics will not include the visit; if an affiliate link is followed with affiliate tracking declined, the partnership cannot be credited — the operator still pays you, the visitor, on identical terms, and only the commission back to Buzz Bingo does not register; and the consent banner will resurface if cookies are cleared, because the choice itself is held in a cookie. Full editorial standards behind every page (including how affiliate links are flagged) sit on the Editorial Policy page, while player-safety commitments are documented on the Responsible Gambling page.
6. The Do Not Track header and Global Privacy Control
Buzz Bingo respects the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal: where a browser transmits GPC, all non-essential cookies are blocked automatically and the consent banner is suppressed. The older Do Not Track header has no agreed enforcement standard behind it and is not relied upon.
7. Changes to this policy
If the cookies running on Buzz Bingo change, this page is updated and the "Last updated" date at the top of the page is revised. Material changes — new categories, new third parties — come with a one-off consent banner refresh, so existing visitors are prompted again. Minor housekeeping updates (rewording, link maintenance) do not trigger a fresh consent prompt.
8. Filing a query or a complaint
Questions about specific cookies running on Buzz Bingo are best routed through the Contact page. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk takes complaints relating to UK websites under the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018.