Cookies and similar trackers are small pieces of data that a website stores on a visitor's device or reads back from it. Betsider ("we", "us", "our") uses them to keep the sportsbook and casino working properly, to remember choices a player has already made, and to understand broadly how the site gets used. This page sets out what these technologies are, the categories Betsider relies on, and the ways a player can manage or turn them off.

What Cookies and Trackers Actually Do

A cookie is a short text file created by a server and stored by a browser. When a browser first loads betsiderodds.com, the site can ask it to store a cookie, and on later visits the browser sends that cookie back so the site recognises the same device. Some cookies only last for the current browsing session and disappear the moment the browser closes. Others are persistent, staying on the device for a set period or until they are removed by hand.

Cookies are not the only tool of this kind. Local storage works in a similar way but can hold more information and is not sent back to the server with every request, which suits things like remembering an odds format or a half-finished bet slip. Small tracking pixels, sometimes called web beacons, can confirm that a page or an email was opened without storing anything on the device at all. This page uses the word cookies loosely to cover all of these related technologies unless one is named specifically.

Cookie Categories Betsider Uses

Not every cookie serves the same purpose, so it helps to split them into groups. The table below sets out the four broad categories active across the platform, what each one is for, and a short description of how it behaves in practice.

The essential category is the only one that cannot be switched off through the site's own settings, because doing so would stop core parts of the platform, including login and the cashier, from working at all. The other three categories can be adjusted freely, and turning any of them off changes the experience without breaking it.

How Betsider Cookie Categories Work in Practice

It helps to see, category by category, what a cookie actually switches on and where the control for it sits. The table below lines the two up so a setting can be found quickly.

First-Party and Third-Party Cookies

Cookies also split by who sets them, separately from the category they belong to. First-party cookies are placed directly by Betsider and are only ever read back by the site itself, covering things like the session token, the consent record and saved display preferences. Third-party cookies are set by tools that run on top of the site, most often for performance measurement or advertising, and they can be read back by whichever service placed them rather than by Betsider directly.

This distinction matters mainly for the performance and advertising categories, since those are the ones most likely to rely on outside tools alongside the platform's own code. Essential and functional cookies that run login, the cashier and saved preferences stay first-party in practice, because they need to be read reliably by the platform itself every time a page loads, rather than by a separate service sitting on top of it.

Managing and Disabling Cookies

Betsider offers two main ways to manage cookies. The first is the consent banner shown on a first visit, together with a cookie settings link kept available afterwards, where preferences can be reviewed and changed by category at any time. Choosing to accept only essential cookies, or turning off performance and advertising cookies, does not stop a player from using the sportsbook or casino, though it does remove some personalisation and stops the site from measuring how a page or a promotion performed for that visit.

The second way to manage cookies sits inside the browser itself. Every modern browser lets a user view stored cookies, delete some or all of them, and block new cookies from being set, either site by site or across the board. This control works alongside whatever choice was made in the site's own consent tool, since a browser-level block applies no matter what a website asks for. Clearing cookies through the browser will sign a player out and reset saved preferences, such as language or odds format, the next time the site loads.

Because browser menus differ by vendor and change over time, exact names are not listed here, but the general pattern holds across all of them: cookie or privacy controls sit inside the browser's main settings area, usually under a heading for privacy, security or site data, with an option to view, delete or block cookies from there.

Cookies and the Betsider Privacy Policy

Cookies are one of the ways Betsider collects information about how the site is used, sitting alongside the account and transaction data covered by the privacy policy. Anything a cookie records, such as a device identifier, a session token or a browsing pattern, is handled under the same principles that apply to the rest of a player's data: it is kept only as long as it serves the purpose it was collected for, and it is not used beyond running the site, understanding its performance or supporting relevant marketing.

The account rules that sit around cookies, including how consent is given and what happens if a player disagrees with how data gets handled, are also referenced in the terms and conditions, since accepting those terms includes accepting that certain cookies are required just to use the service.

Why Betsider Essential Cookies Cannot Be Turned Off

A small number of cookies keep the platform functional rather than convenient, matching the essential row in the tables above. They hold the session token that proves a player is logged in, the security check that stops a form being submitted from somewhere it should not be, and the reference that ties a deposit or withdrawal request to the right account. Without them, a browser would need to prove who it is on every single page, which is not how the web works, so the site would effectively stop functioning.

In practical terms, blocking these cookies at the browser level, rather than through the site's own settings, tends to show up first as a broken login: the site accepts a username and password, then treats the very next page as a new, signed-out visitor. The cashier behaves the same way, since a deposit or withdrawal request has to stay tied to a verified session from start to finish. If a deposit in C$ seems to fail repeatedly, or a session keeps resetting on its own, checking whether cookies are blocked for betsiderodds.com is a reasonable first step before contacting support.

Getting Help With This Cookie Policy

Anyone with a question about a specific cookie, why a category exists, or how to change a saved preference can reach the support team through the contact page. General information about the wider platform, including the sportsbook and casino sections that these cookies support, sits on the Betsider home page.