Cookie Policy
This page documents the cookies and equivalent browser-storage technologies in use on Sun Bingo, what each one is doing, how long it persists on your device, and how to control or remove it. The broader question of personal-data handling is covered on the Privacy Policy page; the content below is the technical complement to it. The wider site description sits on the About page, with the flagship operator review hosted on the Sun Bingo Casino homepage.
1. What a cookie is, briefly
A cookie is a small text file a website asks the browser to keep on your device. Next time the same site loads, the browser passes 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 additional information already tied to the cookie. Many things colloquially called "cookies" today are technically other browser-storage mechanisms — localStorage, sessionStorage, IndexedDB — that operate in much the same way; for plain English, the term "cookie" on this page covers them all.
2. Categories of cookies used on Sun Bingo
Sun Bingo deploys three categories of cookie. Each is presented on the first visit through a consent banner, and the chosen selection can be adjusted at any point afterwards using the link sitting 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 Sun Bingo so the partnership can be credited. | Yes |
Sun Bingo does not use advertising or remarketing cookies. We do not display on-site advertising, do not plug into programmatic ad networks, and do not 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 listing below covers the cookies that can be set during a visit to Sun Bingo. Third-party cookies are placed by services Sun Bingo relies upon; full control over their behaviour rests with the third party, and links out to their respective policies are provided.
| Name | Set by | Category | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
sunbingo_consent | Sun Bingo | Strictly necessary | Stores your cookie-banner choice so the banner does not reappear on every page load. | 12 months |
sunbingo_session | Sun 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 |
sunbingo_aff | Sun Bingo | Affiliate tracking | Records that a click on an outbound operator link originated from Sun Bingo so the partnership is credited. | 30 days |
Third-party policies: Google Privacy and Terms covers Google Analytics. Operator partner sites drop their own cookies once you have clicked through; those cookies are governed by the operator's privacy policy rather than by Sun Bingo.
4. How to control cookies in your browser
Every modern browser allows you to block cookies, wipe existing ones, or reject third-party cookies entirely. Official documentation:
It is also possible to browse Sun Bingo in private or incognito mode, which stops cookies from being saved across sessions.
5. What happens if you decline non-essential cookies
The site keeps running normally. You can still read every page, follow every internal link and click through to operator sites. Three minor differences apply: traffic statistics will not register your visit; clicking an affiliate link while affiliate tracking is declined means the partnership cannot be credited — the operator still pays out to you, the user, exactly the same way; only the commission flowing back to Sun Bingo goes unrecorded; and the consent banner will reappear if you clear cookies, because the choice itself is held in a cookie. Editorial standards underpinning every page (including how affiliate links are flagged) are documented on the Editorial Policy page, while player-safety commitments live on the Responsible Gambling page.
6. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
Sun Bingo honours the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal: whenever your browser transmits GPC, all non-essential cookies are automatically blocked and the consent banner is not shown at all. The older Do Not Track header has no agreed enforcement standard, so it is not relied upon here.
7. Updates to this policy
If the cookies on Sun Bingo change, this page is refreshed and the "Last updated" date at the top is updated. Material changes — new categories, new third parties — trigger a one-time consent banner refresh so existing visitors are prompted to re-confirm. Minor housekeeping changes (rewording, link updates) do not trigger a fresh consent prompt.
8. Questions and complaints
Specific cookie-related queries on Sun Bingo are best routed through the Contact page. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), reachable at ico.org.uk, manages complaints about UK sites under the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018.