GBbet
Privacy policy
This page explains what this site collects, why, and what you can tell us to do about it. GBbet is a guide to bookmakers, not a bookmaker: there is no account to open here, nothing to deposit and no betting to do, which keeps the list of what we hold short. Personal data on this page is controlled by Harbourleigh Publishing Limited, Grand Ocean Plaza, Ocean Village, Gibraltar GX11 1AA – the company that publishes GBbet – reachable at [email protected].
What we collect
- Site analytics. We use Google Analytics 4 (measurement ID G-JMDB8J5ET3), a Google service, to count which pages were opened, roughly where a request came from, which site or search sent it and what kind of device was used. That tally tells us which pages deserve work. Google handles the data as our processor and may process it outside the UK under its own transfer safeguards.
- What you send us. If you email the editor, we hold that email and our reply for as long as the correspondence is useful, and then we delete it.
- What you type into our two forms. The newsletter form and the contact form are described below; nothing is sent unless you press their button.
- Cookies. A short list, set out in full in the table below. None of them stores your name or email address.
Outside the contact form we do not ask for your name, and nowhere do we ask for your address, your date of birth or any payment detail, because we have no use for them. We do not sell data, and we do not build advertising profiles.
The newsletter and contact forms
Two pages carry a form, and both forms are run for us by fortunida.com, which stores what you submit on our behalf. Opening either page makes your browser load the form's script from fortunida.com; the forms set no cookies.
- Newsletter sign-up, on the home page. It takes your email address and nothing else. We use it only to send the newsletter you asked for, on the basis of your consent, and keep it until you unsubscribe – through the link in any newsletter or by writing to the editor.
- Contact form, on the contact page. It takes your name, your email address, an optional subject and your message. We use them to answer you, which is our legitimate interest in running a site that people can correct, and treat them the same way as an email to the editor.
Apart from fortunida.com as the processor for these two forms, we pass what you send to no one.
Links to bookmakers
Links from this site to an operator carry a tracking code so that the operator can attribute an account to us and pay commission. That code says the visit came from GBbet. It carries no name or contact detail of yours (the redirect step itself sets two short-lived cookies, listed below), and once you are on the operator's site you are covered by that operator's privacy policy, not by ours – including any checks it runs when you register.
The cookies, and how to refuse them
Two cookies arrive with any page of gbbet.co.uk. Two more are added only at the moment you click through to a bookmaker, because those clicks pass through a short redirect on this domain first. Google Analytics adds its own pair.
| Name | When it is set | What it does | How long it lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| mz_vid | Any page | A random ID that stops one returning reader being counted as several | 1 year |
| mz_src | Any page | Records the referral source: typed address, search engine or a linking website | 30 days |
| mozbiz_session | A click through /go/ to a bookmaker | Holds the redirect session that attributes the click | About 20 hours |
| XSRF-TOKEN | A click through /go/ to a bookmaker | A security token that stops another site faking a click on the redirect | About 20 hours |
| _ga, _ga_JMDB8J5ET3 | Any page, by Google Analytics | Tell one browser from another in the visit counts | Up to 2 years |
Every browser in current use can block cookies, delete the ones already stored, or accept them only from sites you choose, and the setting is in the browser's own privacy menu rather than here. Blocking them does not break this site: nothing on it needs a cookie to work. Analytics can also be refused at browser level, and many browsers now do so by default.
Your rights
Under UK data protection law you can ask what personal data we hold about you, ask for it to be corrected, ask for it to be deleted, and object to how it is being used. In practice, for this site, that almost always means an email thread. Write to [email protected] and we will act on it; if we cannot, we will say why. If you are not satisfied with how we have handled it, the Information Commissioner's Office is the regulator you complain to, and you do not need our agreement to do that.
Children
This site is for adults. Nothing here is aimed at anyone under 18, we do not knowingly collect anything from a child, and if you believe we hold something from one, tell us and it will be deleted.
Changes to this page
If what we collect changes, this page changes with it, and the date on it moves. There is no version of this policy that applies retrospectively to data we no longer hold.
Written and checked by the GBbet editorial desk
Licence numbers are checked against the Gambling Commission public register; bonus terms, minimum odds and payment limits are read from the operator’s own published pages. Nothing here is a personal opinion, and no page is rated by stars — how we work · about the desk.
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