Cookies are small text files that Core Sport places on your device to keep the site secure, remember your settings, and measure how visitors move through our pages. A cookie itself is not a program — it cannot read your hard drive or install software. It simply stores a short identifier or preference value that our servers can recognize on your next visit.
We also use closely related technologies alongside cookies: local storage, session storage, and small tracking pixels embedded in emails or pages. These technologies serve the same broad goal as cookies, so this policy treats them together unless stated otherwise.
What Categories of Cookies Does Core Sport Use?
Our cookie use falls into four categories, matching the classification set out in our privacy policy.
- Essential and Security Cookies: These keep your session logged in, protect forms against cross-site attacks, and load pages over an encrypted connection. The site cannot function safely without them, so they run automatically and do not require consent.
- Performance and Analytics Cookies: These measure page load speed, traffic sources, and which guides get read most often. Data collected here is aggregated and stripped of direct identifiers before our team ever reviews it.
- Functional and Preference Cookies: These remember interface choices — display language, preferred odds format, time zone, and whether you dismissed a notice already. Losing these means re-selecting the same settings on every visit.
- Targeting and Advertising Cookies: Approved partners use these to avoid showing you the same ad repeatedly and to measure whether a referral link led to a completed signup elsewhere. These only activate once you accept them in our cookie banner.
How Long Do Cookies Stay on My Device?
Retention depends on the cookie type. Session cookies expire the moment you close your browser tab. Persistent cookies linked to preferences or analytics typically remain for 30 days to 24 months, after which your browser deletes them automatically unless you visit again and reset the clock. Advertising cookies set by third parties follow that partner's own retention schedule, usually between 30 and 395 days.
Does Core Sport Use Third-Party Cookies?
Yes. A handful of vetted partners place their own cookies through our pages: analytics providers that measure traffic patterns, and advertising networks that track referral performance on outbound links to sportsbook operators. We do not control these third-party cookies directly, and each partner publishes its own privacy notice covering exactly what it collects. We select partners that support standard opt-out mechanisms and industry consent frameworks.
Why Does a Cookie Banner Appear on My First Visit?
Canadian privacy law and international frameworks like the GDPR require explicit consent before non-essential cookies load. Our banner lets you accept all categories, reject everything but essential cookies, or open granular settings and toggle each category individually. Your choice is itself stored in a small essential cookie so we don't ask again on every page.
What Happens If I Block or Delete Cookies?
Blocking essential cookies breaks core functionality: you'll be logged out on every page load, forms may fail to submit, and live odds widgets may stop refreshing correctly. Blocking analytics or preference cookies has no effect on core browsing — you simply lose personalization and we lose visibility into which guides need improvement. Blocking advertising cookies means you'll still see ads, just less tailored ones, and outbound referral tracking may misattribute your visit.
The live odds boards and bet-slip previews on this site pull data through the same session mechanism that essential cookies protect. If your browser strips cookies mid-session — common with aggressive privacy extensions — expect odds tables to freeze on stale prices or the search box to stop returning results until you refresh the page with cookies re-enabled.
Do You Honor Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control Signals?
We read Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals sent by supporting browsers and extensions, and we treat a GPC signal as an automatic opt-out of targeting and advertising cookies, equivalent to rejecting that category in our banner. Legacy "Do Not Track" headers are inconsistently implemented across browsers, so we do not rely on them alone, but a GPC signal takes effect immediately without needing to reopen the cookie panel.
How Do I Manage Cookies in My Browser?
- Chrome: Settings → Privacy and Security → Third-Party Cookies, where you can block all or allow only first-party cookies.
- Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Enhanced Tracking Protection, with Standard, Strict, and Custom modes.
- Safari (macOS / iOS): Preferences or Settings → Privacy → Prevent Cross-Site Tracking, or Block All Cookies for a stricter setting.
- Edge: Settings → Cookies and Site Permissions → Manage and Delete Cookies and Site Data.
Most mobile browsers expose the same controls under their own Privacy or Site Settings menu. Clearing cookies logs you out of every site you were signed into, not just ours, so save any unsaved work first.
What Specific Cookies Run on Core Sport?
Naming the actual cookies makes this policy useful rather than decorative. Here is what typically sits in your browser after a visit.
- Session and authentication cookies: A signed session token keeps you logged in between page loads. It expires the moment you close the browser or after roughly 30 minutes of inactivity, whichever comes first. Without it, every click would ask you to sign in again.
- Load-balancer and routing cookies: Our hosting infrastructure sits behind multiple servers. A small routing cookie pins your session to one server for consistency, preventing odds widgets from flickering between slightly out-of-sync data feeds.
- CSRF-protection tokens: A rotating token embedded in forms confirms that a submission actually originated from our site, not a forged request from elsewhere. This is essential and never optional.
- Analytics cookies: These assign a random, non-identifying visitor ID and log which pages you viewed, how long you stayed, and which link you clicked to leave. The ID resets if you clear cookies or switch browsers — we can't reconnect it to you personally.
- Preference cookies: Separate small values store your chosen odds format (decimal, fractional, American), interface language, and time zone, matching the settings described in our privacy policy. Each one is a simple key-value pair, nothing more.
- Consent-record cookie: Once you make a choice in the banner, we store that decision in a cookie lasting 12 months so the banner doesn't reappear on every visit within that window.
Do the Mobile Apps Track Me the Same Way?
Not exactly — apps use device-level identifiers instead of browser cookies. On iOS, our app requests permission through Apple's App Tracking Transparency (ATT) prompt before accessing the IDFA (Identifier for Advertisers); declining that prompt disables cross-app ad tracking entirely while leaving core betting functions untouched. On Android, the app reads the Google Advertising ID, which you can reset or opt out of inside your device's Google Settings at any time. Neither identifier is a cookie in the technical sense, but we treat both under the same consent and retention principles set out here.
How Long Is My Consent Choice Remembered, and Across Which Devices?
Your consent selection is tied to the browser and device you made it on, not to your account. Logging in on a second device or a different browser triggers a fresh consent banner there, because we have no reliable way to link an anonymous pre-login cookie choice across devices. Once you're logged in, your account-level marketing preferences (covered separately in the privacy policy) do travel with your account, but the cookie banner itself is local to each browser profile. Clearing your browser's site data, switching to a private/incognito window, or reinstalling the app resets this local memory and shows the banner again.
Do You Use Cookies for Age or Identity Verification?
No. Core Sport is an independent review and comparison site, not a wagering operator, so we never collect government ID, banking details, or age-verification data through cookies. Any identity checks you complete happen on a licensed sportsbook's own domain once you follow an outbound link, governed by that operator's separate cookie and privacy policy.
Will This Cookie Policy Change?
We update this page whenever we add a new analytics tool, swap an advertising partner, or adjust retention periods. Material changes get a visible notice on this page along with a revised effective date. Continued use of the site after an update means you accept the revised terms; if you disagree, adjust your cookie settings or stop using the site.
Who Do I Contact About Cookie Questions?
Reach our data protection team at [email protected] for questions about specific cookies, opt-out requests our banner doesn't cover, or clarification on a third-party partner's tracking practice. See our full privacy policy for how we handle any personal data collected alongside cookie identifiers.