Cookie Policy

Last updated: 9 June 2026

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies and similar technologies are, which ones how Does nba Betting Work uses, why we use them, on what lawful basis, and how you can control them. It supplements our Privacy Policy and should be read together with it. The framework that governs our use of cookies in the United Kingdom is the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (PECR) and, where personal data is processed through cookies, the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR).

Table of Contents
  1. What Cookies Are
  2. Categories of Cookies We Use
  3. Lawful Basis for Each Category
  4. Cookie Inventory
  5. Third-Party Tools
  6. How to Manage Your Cookie Choices
  7. Children
  8. Changes to This Policy
  9. Contact

What Cookies Are

Cookies are small text files placed on your device by the websites you visit. They are widely used to make websites work, to remember your preferences, to measure how a site is used and to enable certain features. The same general explanation applies to other technologies that perform a similar function, such as local storage entries, pixels and software development kits embedded by third-party tools. Throughout this policy, references to “cookies” should be read as covering these similar technologies as well.

Categories of Cookies We Use

We classify the cookies on how Does nba Betting Work into three categories: strictly necessary, performance and analytics, and functional preferences. We do not use advertising or behavioural-tracking cookies. We do not allow third parties to use cookies on the site for the purpose of building cross-site advertising profiles.

Strictly necessary cookies are required for the site to function. They include cookies that record your cookie consent choice, that maintain page-level state during your visit, and that protect against abuse such as automated attacks. These cookies are set on the basis of our legitimate interest in operating a functional and secure website. They cannot be refused through the consent banner because the site cannot reasonably function without them, but you can block or delete them through your browser settings if you choose to.

Performance and analytics cookies help us understand, in aggregate, how visitors use the site — which pages they read, how long they spend on each, where they arrive from. These insights inform editorial priorities. We use a privacy-respecting analytics configuration: IP addresses are truncated or anonymised where supported, and we do not use analytics data to identify individual readers. These cookies are set only after you grant consent through the cookie banner.

Functional preference cookies remember choices that improve your experience on subsequent visits, such as a preferred reading mode if the site offers one. They are set only after you grant consent and are deleted if you withdraw consent.

Lawful Basis for Each Category

For strictly necessary cookies our lawful basis is legitimate interest in operating the site, in line with the exemption in regulation 6(4) of PECR. For all other cookies our lawful basis is your consent, freely given through the cookie banner that appears on your first visit and on any visit after a material change. Consent is recorded with a timestamp so that we can demonstrate compliance, and it can be withdrawn at any time.

The specific cookies set on how Does nba Betting Work at the time of writing are limited and described below by purpose rather than by individual technical name, because the underlying tooling occasionally renames cookies in ways that make a static technical list misleading. The current technical inventory is maintained internally and provided to readers on request via the contact form on how Does nba Betting Work.

Consent record. A single first-party cookie storing your most recent cookie-consent choice and the timestamp at which it was made. Lifetime up to twelve months. Strictly necessary.

Session and security. One or more first-party cookies used to maintain page-level state during a visit and to protect against abuse such as cross-site request forgery and automated scraping. Lifetime: session, deleted when you close the browser. Strictly necessary.

Analytics. A small number of first-party or first-party-aliased cookies set by our analytics tooling once you have granted consent. They record an anonymised visitor identifier, the time of the first visit and the pages viewed. Lifetime up to thirteen months. Set only with consent.

Functional preferences. Where applicable, a first-party cookie storing a non-identifying preference such as reading mode. Lifetime up to twelve months. Set only with consent.

We do not use third-party advertising cookies, behavioural retargeting pixels, social-media tracking pixels (such as those used by major social platforms to follow users across sites) or fingerprinting techniques designed to identify visitors without cookies.

Third-Party Tools

Some functionality on the site, such as analytics or content delivery, is supported by reputable third-party processors acting on our instructions under written data-processing agreements. Where these tools set cookies, they do so only for the purposes described above and only after you grant consent, except where the cookie is strictly necessary for security or functionality.

You can change your cookie choices at any time through the cookie preferences link, which is available from the footer of every page on how Does nba Betting Work. Withdrawing consent removes the corresponding cookies from your device on your next visit and stops them being set in future, although it cannot retroactively delete data already collected.

You can also manage cookies directly in your browser. All major browsers — Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge — allow you to block all cookies, block third-party cookies only, delete existing cookies, or be prompted before any cookie is set. Browser-based blocking applies to every site you visit, not just how Does nba Betting Work. Note that disabling strictly necessary cookies will prevent parts of the site from functioning correctly.

Mobile devices offer similar controls in the operating-system settings, including the ability to reset advertising identifiers and to limit cross-app tracking.

Children

The site is intended exclusively for adults aged 18 or over. We do not knowingly set cookies on the devices of children. If you become aware that a child has used the site, please contact us so that we can take appropriate steps.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the cookies we use, the tools we rely on or the legal framework that governs them. Material changes will trigger a renewed consent banner so that you can review your choices. The date of the most recent update is shown at the top of the page.

Contact

For questions about this Cookie Policy, the technical inventory of cookies set by the site, or to exercise any of the rights described in our Privacy Policy, please contact the editorial team via the contact form on how Does nba Betting Work. We aim to respond within seven working days and, in any event, within the statutory one-month period required by the UK GDPR.