Cookies on the Gambling Commission website

The Gambling Commission website uses cookies to make the site work better for you. Some of these cookies are essential to how the site functions and others are optional. Optional cookies help us remember your settings, measure your use of the site and personalise how we communicate with you. Any data collected is anonymised and we do not set optional cookies unless you consent.

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Details about cookies on the Gambling Commission website

The Gambling Commission website puts small files (known as ‘cookies’) onto your phone, tablet or computer to collect information about how you browse the site.

Accepting all cookies via our website banner activates those cookie settings that are listed as optional on the settings page (that is, not ‘strictly necessary cookies’ or ‘third party websites’ cookies). Your activation of all optional cookies lasts for 1 year and the banner will appear again. This gives you the opportunity to regularly re-visit and adjust your decision.

To learn more about what cookies are, our use of cookies and how we protect and process your information see our Privacy policy.

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies do things like remember your preferences and the choices you make, to personalise your experience of using the Gambling Commission website service.

Cookies message

You may see a banner when you visit the Gambling Commission website inviting you to accept cookies or review your settings. We’ll set cookies so that your computer knows you’ve seen it and also to store your settings.

Name Purpose Expires
seen_cookie_message Lets us know if you've seen our cookie message 1 year
cookie_policy Saves your cookie consent settings 1 year
gc-website-676377656273697465 Saves your session information 4 hours
_GRECAPTCHA Used to manage site security 6 months
ARRAAffinity Used to manage site security At the end of the session
ARRAAffinitySameSite Used to manage site security At the end of the session

Cookies that measure website use

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics software (Google Analytics 4) to collect anonymised information about how you use this site. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting the needs of its users and to help us make improvements.

We do not allow Google to use or share the data about how you use this site.

Google Analytics stores information about:

  • how you got to the site
  • the pages you visit on this site and how long you spend on each page
  • what you click on while visiting the site.

Google Analytics sets the following cookies.

Name Purpose Expires
_ga This helps us count how many people visit the Gambling Commission website service by tracking if you've visited before 400 days
_gid This helps us count how many people visit the Gambling Commission website by tracking if you've visited before 1 day
_ga_0HH6YRTMN9 Used by Google Analytics to find and track an individual session with your device 400 days

You can read Google’s overview of data practises within Google Analytics (opens in new tab).

Microsoft Clarity

We also use Microsoft Clarity to capture how you use and interact with our website through behavioural metrics, heatmaps, and session replay to improve the site. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting the needs of its users and to help us make improvements.

Microsoft Clarity sets the following cookies.

Name Purpose Expires
_clck Persists the Clarity User ID and preferences, unique to that site is attributed to the same user ID 1 year
_clsk Connects multiple page views by a user into a single Clarity session recording 1 day
CLID Identifies the first-time Clarity saw this user on any site using Clarity 1 year
ANONCHK Indicates whether MUID is transferred to ANID, a cookie used for advertising. Clarity doesn't use ANID and so this is always set to 0 10 minutes
MR Indicates whether to refresh MUID 7 days
MUID Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes 390 days
SM Used in synchronizing the MUID across Microsoft domains At the end of the session

YouTube videos

Some website pages may contain content from other sites, like YouTube, which may set their own cookies. These sites are sometimes called ‘third party’ services. This tells us how many people are seeing the content and whether it’s useful.

In addition, if you share a link to one of our website pages, the service you share it on (for example, Facebook) may set a cookie. We have no control over cookies set on other websites – you can turn them off, but not through us.

YouTube sets the following cookies.

Name Purpose Expires
_use_hitbox This is a randomly generated number that identifies your browser When you close your browser
VISITOR_INF01_LIVE Lets YouTube count the views of embedded YouTube videos 9 months

Last updated 17 July 2023.

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