Cookie Policy
Last updated: 4 June 2026
About this policy
This Cookie Policy explains how virtualbasketballbet.com uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit the site. It supplements the Privacy Policy and should be read together with it. The policy is written to comply with the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations and with the UK General Data Protection Regulation.
What cookies are
A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store. When you return to the site or move between pages, the browser sends the file back to the server. This is how websites remember preferences such as theme or language, how they keep a reader logged in across pages and how analytics tools recognise a returning visitor as the same session. Cookies can be set by the site you are visiting, in which case they are first-party cookies, or by a third-party service the site embeds, in which case they are third-party cookies. They can be session cookies that disappear when you close the browser, or persistent cookies that last for a defined period.
Similar technologies include local storage entries, pixel tags inside images and small fragments of script. Where this policy uses the word “cookie” it includes those other technologies if we use them for the same purpose.
Categories of cookie we use
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are required to operate virtualbasketballbet.com securely. They include a cookie that records your response to the cookie banner so we do not show it on every page, and short-lived cookies that protect form submissions from cross-site request forgery. Strictly necessary cookies are not subject to consent under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations. They are first-party cookies set by virtualbasketballbet.com and are removed when they expire or when you clear your browser data.
Analytics cookies
We use a privacy-respecting analytics tool to understand which articles attract readers, how long readers stay and how readers move between sections. Where analytics requires a cookie, the cookie is first-party, is set only after you accept the analytics category in the cookie banner and is configured to expire within thirteen months. The cookie does not record your full IP address and does not build a profile that can follow you across other websites.
Functional cookies
If you change a preference on virtualbasketballbet.com — for example, a font size or a colour theme — we use a functional cookie to remember your choice. Functional cookies are first-party and are set only after you accept the functional category in the cookie banner. They are removed when they expire or when you clear your browser data.
Cookies we do not use
virtualbasketballbet.com does not use advertising cookies. We do not run programmatic display advertising, we do not embed retargeting pixels and we do not share reader-level data with advertising networks. We do not embed social-media widgets that set tracking cookies. The handful of links to external sites that we publish do not set cookies on virtualbasketballbet.com.
How long cookies last
The lifetime of each cookie depends on its purpose. Session cookies are deleted when you close the browser. Persistent cookies are deleted either after a fixed period — typically less than thirteen months on virtualbasketballbet.com — or when you clear them yourself. The cookie that records your choice from the cookie banner has a longer lifetime so that your preference is remembered across visits.
How you give and withdraw consent
The first time you visit virtualbasketballbet.com we show a cookie banner that lists the categories of cookie we use and offers you the choice to accept all, reject all but the strictly necessary category, or pick categories individually. We do not deploy non-essential cookies before you make a choice and the “Reject” path is as easy to use as the “Accept” path.
You can change your mind at any time. The cookie banner is available again through the small “Cookie settings” link in the footer of every page. Adjusting your choices there will set new cookies in line with the new selection and will remove cookies in the categories you have withdrawn from.
How to manage cookies in your browser
Beyond the cookie banner, every modern browser offers tools to view, accept, refuse and delete cookies. The exact path differs by browser, but the options are typically found under “Settings” or “Preferences”, then “Privacy” or “Privacy and security”. You can choose to block all cookies, block only third-party cookies, accept cookies from named sites only or remove cookies after each session. Blocking all cookies, including the strictly necessary category, will affect the way virtualbasketballbet.com and most other websites work.
International transfers
Some of the processors we use to deliver the site and the analytics function operate infrastructure outside the United Kingdom. Where data routed through a cookie is transferred outside the UK, the transfer is governed by the safeguards described in the Privacy Policy.
Changes to this policy
We will update this Cookie Policy from time to time, in particular if we change the tools we use, if a tool changes its own technical behaviour or if the underlying UK law changes. The date at the top of the page records the most recent revision. Material changes will be flagged on the homepage and a fresh consent prompt will be shown in the cookie banner where the change requires it.
Contact
For questions about how virtualbasketballbet.com uses cookies, write to the editorial team using the contact channel listed on the About page. For complaints about the way we handle personal data you have the right to contact the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.