Privacy Policy
This page sets out what personal information Quickbet gathers from visitors, why, where it is held, who it is shared with, and how to exercise your rights under UK privacy law. The technical companion — cookies, analytics, browser storage — lives on the Cookie Policy page; this page is the plain-English version of the same arrangement.
Quickbet runs as an independent information platform; the wider context sits on the About page. This privacy policy covers the Quickbet website alone. The moment a reader clicks through to an operator's site, that operator's own privacy policy takes over; Quickbet shares no data with operators beyond the limited form described below.
1. What Quickbet is
Quickbet publishes reviews and guides on online casinos open to UK players. The flagship operator review is the Quickbet Casino homepage. The site hosts no games, runs no player accounts, accepts no deposits, holds no funds and processes no withdrawals. There is no signup. There is no login. A standard visit involves no data exchange beyond ordinary web traffic. Where Quickbet does gather personal data — when you write to us through the contact channels, say — this page spells out exactly what becomes of it.
2. UK privacy law context
Quickbet handles personal information under the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018 and the thirteen UK GDPR principles overseen by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). European visitors have their GDPR rights honoured as well. Californian visitors have their CCPA rights honoured so far as they apply. Where any of these frameworks imposes a stricter rule, the stricter rule prevails.
3. What data Quickbet collects
Three categories in all: technical traffic data, contact data you submit voluntarily, and aggregated analytics.
| Category | What is collected | Why | Legal basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Technical traffic data | IP address (anonymised after 24h), browser type, device type, page URL requested, timestamp, referrer. | Serve pages, prevent abuse, debug performance issues. | Legitimate interest under UK GDPR Article 6 legitimate interest. |
| Voluntary contact data | Name, email address, message content, supporting documents you choose to attach. Submitted only if you write to us. | Reply to your enquiry. | Consent under UK GDPR consent basis (you provide the data; we use it for the stated purpose). |
| Aggregated analytics | Pseudonymous traffic statistics generated by Google Analytics 4 with IP anonymisation enabled. | Understand which pages are useful and which are not. | Consent (you can decline analytics cookies on first visit). |
Quickbet does not gather: financial data (no payment processing happens on this domain), gambling-account credentials (we run no accounts), biometric data, location finer than country level (worked out from anonymised IP), or special-category data (race, religion, health, sexual orientation, political opinion). Targeted advertising and remarketing aren't used; the funding model behind the site is on the Affiliate Disclosure page.
4. Cookies and similar technologies
The cookies Quickbet uses, the third-party services that drop them, and how to control them are laid out in full on the Cookie Policy page. In brief: strictly necessary cookies (page loading, consent banner state, abuse prevention) are always set; analytics and affiliate-tracking cookies are set only with your consent via the cookie banner; and you can revisit your choice any time through the link in the footer.
5. Affiliate links and operator-side tracking
When you click an outbound operator link on Quickbet, three things happen. First, an internal redirect at /go logs the click for our analytics (whether or not you carry on). Second, your browser is forwarded to the operator's site. Third, the operator may set its own cookies and count the visit as a referral attribution. Quickbet passes the operator no name, email, or other identifying personal data. All the operator learns is that "a visitor arrived from Quickbet". If you then register an account on the operator's site, that registration falls under the operator's own privacy policy, not this one.
6. How long data is retained
- IP addresses: unmasked IPs stay on file for as long as 24 hours to guard against abuse, after which they are anonymised by stripping the closing octet (IPv4) or final 80 bits (IPv6). Once anonymised, they remain up to 14 months purely for traffic statistics.
- Contact correspondence: messages you send, and whatever files come with them, sit on record for 24 months so we can follow up and audit, after which they go unless a thread is still live.
- Analytics events: Google Analytics 4 data is held for 14 months under our setup, then deleted automatically.
- Cookie consent record: the consent record itself sits locally in your browser for 12 months, after which the consent banner returns.
Where the law requires longer retention — tax records under HMRC record-keeping rules for affiliate-related accounting, for instance — the relevant data is held only for the period the law demands and put to no other use.
7. Who Quickbet shares data with
Three controlled categories. Service providers running parts of the Quickbet infrastructure — web hosting, content delivery, email — each bound by a written data-processing agreement that limits their use of the data to delivering the service. Analytics providers (Google Analytics 4): IP-anonymised traffic data only, no personally identifying information. Law-enforcement bodies and regulators: only on a valid legal demand, and only the data that demand covers. Quickbet never sells, rents or trades personal data to anyone, full stop.
8. Where data is stored
Quickbet infrastructure runs on cloud providers in the UK and the European Economic Area. A few service providers — Google Analytics 4 in particular — process data in the United States. Where data leaves the UK, the recipient is bound either by Standard Contractual Clauses or by an equivalent regime the ICO has judged to offer protection at least as strong as UK law.
9. Your rights
Under the UK GDPR and equivalent international laws, you hold the following rights over any personal data Quickbet keeps about you.
- Access: ask what we hold and be given a copy.
- Correction: request that inaccurate data be put right.
- Deletion: request that your data be erased, subject to legal retention rules.
- Withdrawal of consent: where processing rests on consent, you may withdraw it at any time without undoing prior lawful processing.
- Complaint: if you think Quickbet has mishandled your data, you can complain to the ICO at ico.org.uk. UK readers should normally come to us first so we get a chance to put things right.
To exercise any of these rights, write to the privacy address given on the Contact page. Quickbet will reply within 30 days, the window the UK GDPR requires.
10. Children's privacy
Quickbet content is written for adult UK readers. The site is neither directed at nor intended for anyone under 18. We don't knowingly gather personal data from minors. Should we learn that data has been submitted by someone under 18, that data is deleted and (where relevant) the parent or guardian is told.
11. Security
Quickbet runs industry-standard security controls: TLS 1.2+ for all data in transit; access controls and least-privilege rules across internal systems; regular review of who can reach what; logging of administrative actions; periodic third-party penetration testing of the public site. No system is unbreakable; in the event of a personal-data breach likely to cause serious harm, affected individuals are notified directly and the ICO is informed under the ICO breach notification regime within the UK GDPR.
12. Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the "Last updated" date at the top is amended. Material changes — new categories of data collected, new third-party processors, altered retention periods — come with a banner on the home page for at least 30 days. Minor housekeeping (rewording, link updates) triggers no banner.
13. Contact
Privacy-related questions are best sent through the privacy contact given on the Contact page. Editorial questions about Quickbet content go via the editorial channel; correction requests follow the procedure on the Editorial Policy page. Player-safety guidance for anyone reading this site is on the Responsible Gambling page.