This notice covers the public website at betplayground.co.uk — specifically the static pages served from the public nginx container (such as the home page, the privacy policy, the terms, the community guidelines, and the public status page).
The Bet Playground iOS app is covered separately by the Privacy Policy.
Summary: This website does not use cookies. It does not run third-party analytics, advertising, or tracking scripts of any kind. If your browser shows no cookies set after visiting any page on betplayground.co.uk, that is by design.
Why we don't use cookies
The website is intentionally a thin static front-end:
The privacy policy, terms of service, and community guidelines are static HTML rendered from canonical Markdown source files.
The public status page polls our /health endpoint and renders an ok/warn/bad indicator client-side.
The ACME (Let's Encrypt) renewal endpoint is a static path served from disk.
None of these need session state, user identification, or behavioural analytics, so we don't include the JavaScript or cookies that would collect them.
What we do collect — server-side request logs
The web server keeps standard HTTP access logs for security and abuse-detection purposes. Each request line includes:
The requester's IP address
The User-Agent header
The HTTP method and path requested
The HTTP status code
The timestamp
The bytes served
Logs are retained for 30 days in CloudWatch Logs (AWS eu-west-2), then automatically deleted. They are used solely to:
Investigate suspected abuse (e.g. brute-force attempts on app API routes, content scraping at unusual volumes).
Triage availability incidents.
Comply with lawful requests where required.
We do not use these logs for marketing, advertising, behavioural profiling, or any commercial analysis. They are not shared with third parties except where compelled by lawful process.
What we do not do
No cookies — first-party or third-party.
No localStorage / sessionStorage for tracking purposes.
No tracking pixels (no 1×1 GIFs from Facebook, Google, or anywhere else).
No browser fingerprinting.
No advertising scripts. No Google Ads, no Facebook Pixel, no affiliate trackers.
No third-party analytics on the website. No Google Analytics, no Plausible, no Cloudflare Web Analytics. (The iOS app uses PostHog Cloud EU for product analytics with a user-toggleable opt-out — see the Privacy Policy. The website does not.)
No social embeds that load third-party JavaScript.
No CDN with shared cookies. The site is served directly from our EC2 instance via nginx and Let's Encrypt; no Cloudflare / Akamai / similar with cross-site cookies in front of it.
What this means for you
You do not need to make any cookie choices on this site. There is no cookie banner because there is nothing to accept or decline.
If you visit the website with cookies disabled, the site will work identically to visiting it with cookies enabled.
Changes to this notice
If we ever introduce cookies, third-party analytics, or any other form of client-side tracking on betplayground.co.uk, we will:
Update this notice with the date and the specific change.
Add a cookie banner with an explicit consent flow before any non-essential cookie is set, where required by UK / EU PECR regulations.
Update the Privacy Policy to reflect the new third-party data recipients.
We have no plan to do so. The deliberate absence of tracking is part of the harm-reduction positioning — visitors looking up our terms or our status shouldn't be surveilled while they're doing it.
Contact
For questions about this notice or about how the website is built: