Retention
Consent cookies live for twelve months, after which the banner re-appears. Analytics cookies expire twelve months after your last visit — a reader who returns each month resets that timer. Outbound-affiliate cookies belong to the partner operator and last for whatever period they publish in their own notice, typically thirty to ninety days.
On shared devices, use the browser's private-browsing mode to keep cookies away from the shared profile. Everything on Nordicslots works in private-browsing mode, including the cookie banner; the only downside is that we will ask about consent again the next time you open a private-browsing session, which is by design. If you accepted cookies once and now regret the choice, the same Cookie settings link resets everything: analytics cookies are removed from your device on the next page load, and the consent cookie is rewritten with the refusal decision. From that point on the banner will not reappear for twelve months, unless you clear your browser storage manually. Everything described here also applies to mobile browsers — the retention periods are identical across devices, and there is no separate mobile tracker.
Which we use
On Nordicslots you will meet three groups of cookies: strictly necessary (consent choice, session), analytics (anonymised page views with IP truncation), and outbound-affiliate (set on the partner's domain when you follow a Sign up button). We do not set marketing, social or profiling cookies of our own on the reading pages, and the analytics cookies expire after twelve months of inactivity.
If you use a privacy-focused browser (Brave, Firefox with strict tracking protection, Safari's Intelligent Tracking Prevention) some of the analytics cookies will not be set at all. That is fine — the site works without them. The strictly-necessary cookie is set for everyone because it stores your consent choice, without which the banner would appear on every page. If you have questions about a specific cookie, check the browser's site-info panel (the padlock icon next to the address bar) — every cookie set on the current page is listed there with its name, expiry and origin. The names we use are prefixed with ns_ so that they are easy to spot; anything without that prefix has been set by a partner during an outbound click and belongs to that partner's cookie notice, not to ours.
Analytics
Analytics on Nordicslots run under first-party names and record aggregated events — which article was read, how long the reader stayed, which internal link was followed. IP addresses are truncated before storage, and events are joined only at the article level, never at the individual reader level. Nothing here fuels an advertising audience or an external data broker; the goal is editorial, not commercial.
We publish the analytics vendor and its configuration on request. If you would like to opt out of analytics without deleting all cookies, use the Cookie settings link in the footer and set analytics to off; the strictly-necessary cookie will remain, but the analytics ones will be removed on the next page load. We use a single analytics tool with IP truncation turned on at the collector, which is the practical way to keep event data anonymous. The tool sees which article you read and how long you stayed, but it does not see who you are; there is no cross-site profile, no advertising audience, and no re-identification through logged-in accounts. If you accept analytics cookies today and change your mind tomorrow, the Cookie settings link in the footer is the switch that turns them off.
What cookies are
Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your device to remember choices between visits. Nordicslots uses them sparingly: one strictly-necessary cookie for consent, a handful of first-party analytics cookies, and — only when you click through to a partner — cookies set by that partner. We do not embed third-party advertising trackers on the reading pages of this site, and we never sell reader-level data to anyone.
Modern browsers make cookie management fairly transparent. In Firefox, Chrome or Safari you can inspect the cookies a page has set by opening the address bar's site-settings icon; in the browser's settings you can also clear or block cookies per site. On mobile the same controls sit in the per-site permissions panel. Cookies were introduced in the 1990s so that websites could remember state between page loads — a shopping cart or a language choice, originally. Today they still do that, but modern browsers give you fine-grained control over which cookies get accepted and for how long. For a reader-facing information site the useful cookies are few: consent, session, and anonymised analytics — that is what we set and what we describe on this page. There is a whole industry of cross-site tracking cookies out there; you will not meet any of them on the reading pages of this site.