Introduction
This Privacy Policy refers to the top100bookmakers.com website and explains what type of data/information is being collected through this website, how the information is collected, what the purpose of collecting this information is, and how the information is shared. Furthermore, it serves as a tool for better understanding regarding cookies, privacy and security.
Collecting information
When visitors access the top100bookmakers.com website, the following information may be collected:
1/ The information which visitors provide when they leave a rating/review/analysis of an online bookmaker presented on the website: username/nickname, email address, comments/personal opinions.
2/ The information which visitors provide when they contact the website using the contact form available: email address and subject/message content.
3/ The IP address and date when visitors leave a rating/review/analysis of an online bookmaker presented on the website.
How is the information collected?
The information is collected by the website whenever visitors access the website and decides to leave a rating/review/analysis of an online bookmaker presented on the website or when they decide to send a message to the owners of the website. This information is collected at the visitor's initiative.
What is the purpose of the information collected?
The website allows visitors to leave ratings/reviews/analyses of online bookmakers in order to contribute to the overall ranking of online bookmakers. The IP address is collected not to identify the visitor, but to identify the visitor's country which may be relevant when leaving a rating/review/analysis or when checking a bookmaker's review page. For example: if the highest number of visitors to a specific online bookmaker's review page is from Portugal, then we can consider that the specific online bookmaker is relevant for visitors from Portugal. This example shows this information is useful for both the website in order to correctly organize the online bookmakers, as well as for the other visitors accessing the website. The email address may be used to contact visitors in order to thank them for the rating/review/analysis, however, the address will not be shared with third parties and visitors will not be receiving marketing emails or any kind of other emails without their approval.
How is the information shared?
The website does not share the above information with third parties.What are cookies?
Cookies are text files with short messages that web servers pass to the internet browser when users access a website. More precisely, the internet browser stores each message in a small file called cookie.txt and sends it back to the server. Cookies last for different lengths of time depending on what they are used for.
If the user would like to find more about cookies, Top 100 Bookmakers advises the visit to www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
What cookies is the website using, and why?
Top 100 Bookmakers uses:
1/ Essential and strictly necessary cookies that are crucial to ensure the proper function of the website.
2/ Analytical, performance and operational cookies to support user's experience and enhance on-site browsing and navigation. 3/ Functionality, tracking and targeting cookies to analyze site usage and traffic (to identify trusted web traffic, to preserve user session state across page requests), to assist in marketing efforts, but also to understand how users interact with the website, possibly linked to third parties (see below).The enumerated cookies don't collect any information that could identify the user, unless voluntary information is provided to Top 100 Bookmakers. All data collected is anonymous and is only used to help improve on-site experience.
Top 100 Bookmakers uses first-party cookies (served by the website itself), but also third-party cookies, which are serviced by others. These cookies are used, also, after the user is redirected to Top 100 Bookmakers partners' websites and can only be read by them. In these cases, and for more information, the user should visit each partner's Privacy Policy for their specific terms and conditions.
Some specific cookies used by Top 100 Bookmakers are:
1/ Google Analytics
This service is used in order to view analytics related to the traffic received on the website. More exactly, to see how the website performs regarding the number of visitors, countries of the visitors, the time spent by the visitors on the website, the source of the traffic (organic, referral, direct), etc. This serves as a tool for analyzing the performance of the website and understanding how the website is used. This feature is not possible without cookies which can monitor each visit. This information is not used to identify individuals. Visitors can find information about the Google Analytics security and privacy principles by visiting support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245/.
2/ StatCounter
This web tracking software/service is used to track the website traffic: how many visitors the website received, the number of page views, sessions, website pages popularity, which were the entry pages, which were the exit pages, which keywords visitors used when visiting the website, etc. This serves as a tool meant to analyze the performance of the website and understand how the website is used. This process is not possible without cookies which monitor each visit. This information is not used to identify individuals. Visitors can find information about the Statcounter privacy principles by visiting statcounter.com/about/legal/.
Managing cookies
Depending on the internet browser that visitors use on their computer or mobile device, there are different options manage the cookies. The configurations can be used to block, disable or even delete cookies, to accept and enable cookies, to choose to be alerted every time a cookie is offered by a website's server, to manage site-specific cookies, and others. Most internet browsers automatically accept cookies, but the user can easily modify the browser settings to keep control over them. However, by doing so, users may block some options or functions of the website, that will limit and worsen the overall user experience of the provided service features.
Below is information about how users can manage cookies, depending on their preferred internet browser. For instructions on how to disable cookies on internet browsers that are not noted below, please consult de information that the browser itself provides.
Chrome
support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416/
Firefox
support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cookies-information-websites-store-on-your-computer/
IE
support.microsoft.com/en-nz/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies/
Safari
support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/14.0/mac/11.0/
Opera
help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/
More information about online privacy and the steps users can take to protect their privacy, can be seen this website and in further instructions provided by each browser.
Links and banners to other websites
The website may contain links or banners leading to other similar or related websites, however, once visitors click on those and leave the top100bookmakers.com website, we are no longer in control over other websites and we are not responsible for the privacy of any information visitors deliver or that is collected on those websites. This privacy policy refers only the top100bookmakers.com website.
Top100bookmakers.com reserves the right to update or change this Privacy Policy at any time, therefore we encourage visitors to regularly check this page in order to be aware of any changes that may occur.
