Cookie Policy
This page explains the cookies and similar technologies used on Kinghills, 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 is the technical companion to it. The site overall is described on the About page, with the flagship operator review on the Kinghills 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 loads again, the browser returns the file, letting the site recognise the visit, recall a setting, or tally traffic. Cookies can't run code on your machine, can't read other files, and can't identify you personally without other information already tied to the cookie. Plenty of things casually called "cookies" today are really other browser-storage mechanisms — localStorage, sessionStorage, IndexedDB — that behave much the same way; for plain English, "cookie" on this page takes in all of them.
2. Categories of cookies used on Kinghills
Kinghills uses three categories of cookie. They're shown to you on your first visit through a consent banner, and you can revise your choice at any time via the link in the site footer.
| Category | Purpose | Consent required |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Keep the site working: load the page, remember 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 | Recognise that a click through to an operator originated on Kinghills so the partnership can be credited. | Yes |
Kinghills does not use advertising or remarketing cookies. We show no on-site display advertising, run no programmatic ad networks, and don't pixel-track 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 might be set when you visit Kinghills. Third-party cookies are placed by services Kinghills relies on; full control over their behaviour rests with the third party, and links to their own policies are given.
| Name | Set by | Category | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
kinghills_consent | Kinghills | Strictly necessary | Stores your cookie-banner choice so the banner doesn't return on every page load. | 12 months |
kinghills_session | Kinghills | 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 before being stored. | 14 months |
kinghills_aff | Kinghills | Affiliate tracking | Records that a click on an outbound operator link began on Kinghills so the partnership is credited. | 30 days |
Third-party policies: Google Privacy & Terms applies to Google Analytics. Operator partner sites place their own cookies once you've clicked through; those fall under the operator's own privacy policy, not Kinghills.
4. How to control cookies in your browser
Every modern browser lets you block cookies, clear existing ones, or refuse third-party cookies outright. The official documentation:
You can also visit Kinghills 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 small differences: traffic statistics won't include your visit; if you click an affiliate link with affiliate tracking declined, the partnership can't be credited — the operator still pays you, the user, the same way, and only the commission to Kinghills goes unrecorded; 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) are on the Editorial Policy page, and the player-safety commitments are on the Responsible Gambling page.
6. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
Kinghills honours the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal: if your browser sends GPC, every non-essential cookie is blocked automatically and the consent banner isn't shown. The older Do Not Track header has no agreed enforcement standard and isn't relied on.
7. Updates to this policy
If the cookies on Kinghills change, this page is updated and the "Last updated" date at the top is amended. Material changes — new categories, new third parties — come with a one-time consent-banner refresh so existing visitors are asked again. Minor housekeeping edits (rewording, link updates) don't trigger a fresh consent prompt.
8. Questions and complaints
If a particular cookie on this site leaves you with a query, the Contact page is the place to send it. For formal complaints about any UK website, the regulator is the Information Commissioner's Office — reachable at ico.org.uk — which oversees these matters under the Data Protection Act 2018 and the UK GDPR.