Cookies Policy
The cookies this site sets, what each one does, how long it lasts, and how to change your choices at any time. Last updated: 18 August 2026.
A cookie is a small text file a website puts on your device so it can remember something. This page lists the cookies TheBingoOnline.com uses, what each one is for, how long it lasts, and how to switch off the ones that are optional.
First Party, Third Party, Session, Persistent
A cookie is set either by the site you are on, which makes it a first-party cookie, or by another service that site uses, which makes it a third-party one.
Some cookies last only until you close your browser. Those are session cookies. Others stay on your device until they expire or you delete them, and those are persistent. The table below says which is which for every cookie we set.
The Cookies This Site Uses
| Cookie | What it does | How long | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| tbo_consent | Remembers the cookie choices you made, so the banner stops asking | 180 days | Strictly necessary |
| _ga | Google Analytics. Tells one visitor apart from another | 2 years | Analytics |
| _ga_B9FJ1XX4GT | Google Analytics. Holds session state | 2 years | Analytics |
On our current setup Google is the only outside company that sets a cookie here, and only after you have allowed analytics. We do not control what Google does with what it collects; that is covered by Google’s privacy policy.
Two things happen on this site that are worth explaining here even though they are not cookies. When you click through to a bingo site from one of our pages, we record that the click happened, so we know which of our pages send readers where. And if you submit a review through the form on an operator page, the name, email address and text you type are sent to us. Both are covered by our privacy policy rather than by this page.
How Your Choice Works
Nothing optional is stored until you say so.
When you first arrive, the banner appears with every optional category switched off, and Google’s tools are told explicitly to deny analytics and advertising storage. So no analytics cookie is written and no analytics identifier is assigned to you while the banner is still sitting there waiting. That is the part most sites get wrong: they set the cookie first and ask afterwards.
Being precise about the rest of it: Google’s tag does still load on the page. While your answer is no, it neither reads nor writes an analytics cookie, and no cookie-based identifier is assigned to you. It does send a basic measurement signal, and that request carries the ordinary technical information any web request carries — your browser details and your IP address. Google says Analytics does not log or store that IP address. Once you accept, cookie-based measurement starts properly.
You can accept everything, reject everything, or open Customise and decide category by category. Whatever you pick is stored in the tbo_consent cookie for 180 days and applied straight away.
There are three categories.
Strictly necessary is always on and cannot be switched off, because the site does not work without it. On this site that is the consent cookie itself.
Analytics covers Google Analytics, and it is off until you turn it on.
Marketing covers advertising and remarketing cookies. Nothing on this site uses it. The toggle exists because the consent tool ships with three categories — and if we ever did start using marketing cookies, we would update this page and the banner before switching anything on, rather than leaning on an answer you gave months earlier about something else.
Changing Your Mind
The quickest way is the Manage Cookies link at the bottom of every page on this site. It reopens the panel with your current choices showing. Change whatever you want, save, and it takes effect immediately. This only affects TheBingoOnline.com.
If you would rather work at browser level, which affects every site you visit rather than just this one, each browser handles it differently: Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge all publish instructions. Blocking cookies entirely will stop parts of this site working as intended.
To stop Google Analytics measuring you on any website, not only this one, Google publishes a browser opt-out add-on.
What We Do Not Use
Several things a cookie policy usually has to cover are not here, because we do not do them.
No advertising or remarketing cookies. No Meta pixel, no retargeting, nothing that follows you to another website to show you an advert for this one.
No marketing email, and therefore no tracking pixels in email from us.
No social sharing widgets. The social icons in our footer are ordinary links. They set nothing until you follow one and arrive at X, Instagram or Facebook, at which point you are on their site under their rules.
No heatmaps, session recording or live chat. We do not watch you use the site.
What Analytics Actually Tells Us
Google Analytics tells us which pages get read, how long people stay, roughly where in the world they are, and what they clicked before leaving. We use it to work out which guides are worth expanding and which ones nobody finishes.
We are not told who you are and we do not try to find out. But analytics data is not anonymous either. Google Analytics uses an identifier stored in the _ga cookie to tell one visitor from another, and it processes your IP address at the point of collection, including to work out roughly where you are — although it does not log or store that raw IP address in the reports we see. An identifier that persists for two years is personal data, which is exactly why this sits behind the consent banner instead of running by default.
Changes to This Policy
If we start using a cookie that is not listed on this page, this page changes before the cookie does.
The date at the top moves when something in the substance has changed. It does not move because somebody fixed a typo.
If you have a question about any of this, get in touch or write to contact@thebingoonline.com. Our terms cover the rest of your use of the site.