Last Updated: May 2024
Gigs ‘n’ Travel Cookies Policy
This policy provides information on the data we collect from you as a result of Cookies collected on our website.
Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding Cookies.
For further information on data collection, retention, and processing, please refer to our Privacy Policy.
Gigs ‘n’ Travel is a travel and live music focused blog, which provides you with travel inspiration, tips, ideas, and itineraries; as well as concert and festival reviews, insights, tips, and more. By using the Gigs ‘n’ Travel website (www.gigsntravel.com), the website will collect cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website.
What are Cookies?
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. A cookie is a small text file containing small amounts of information that are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a site and allow a site to recognise your device. These files are generally used to improve the user experience but may contain personal information about the user or their behaviour on the website.
Cookies can only retrieve the particular data they have previously been allowed to store on your hard drive or mobile browser. Cookies cannot access any other information about you from your device.
Why do we use Cookies?
Cookies do many different jobs, such as letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences and generally improving the user experience.
Cookies can help us to analyse the use of our websites and online content, and they can also facilitate/track the interaction on our websites and online content with social media (e.g., links to social media sites, like buttons, etc.).
Types of Cookies we use
We use a few different cookies that enable our website to improve your experience and help Gigs ‘n’ Travel assess what the users want and do not want.
- Session cookies – These cookies are temporary files, being wiped from your computer once the browser session is closed. Strictly necessary cookies are essential to navigate a website and use its features and functionalities. These cookies are classed as ‘Strictly necessary cookies’ under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Strictly necessary cookies like session cookies are exempt from the consent requirements underlined in the GDPR, as they do not gather any personal information about users. Therefore, Session cookies are GDPR compliant.
- Statistical cookies – These cookies collect information about how you use a website, like which pages you visited, which links you clicked on, and other user pathway analysis. None of this information can be used to identify you as it is all anonymised. These cookies are used for statistical purposes only, such as analysing and reporting visitor interactions with a website. The analytics software we use is called Google Analytics (GA4). Please see Goggle’s Google Analytics Privacy Policy for further information.
- Marketing cookies – These cookies are usually third-party persistent cookies that track visitor web activity to provide targeted advertisement. These cookies, unlike statistical cookies, are used to support online marketing by collecting information about the users to promote products through partners and other platforms. This might include a social media cookie that tracks users as the user visits other websites to provide targeted advertisements on social media platforms.
Does Gigs ‘n’ Travel use Cookies for marketing and analytics?
Yes, as we collect Statistical Cookies (which are also known as Performance Cookies, or Analytics Cookies), we may use information collected from our cookies to identify user behaviour. This helps us to update our website with relevant content and information based on user behaviour.
Gaining consent or Opting out of Cookie Collection
When visiting the website, you should be prompted to ‘Accept’ or ‘Deny’ for Cookies via a pop-up box named ‘Manage Cookie Consent’. You might not be prompted to accept or deny Cookie collection the following time you visit the Company’s website, unless you clear your browsing history, or visit the Company’s website using a private browser.
You also have the ability to delete cookies that have been installed in the cookie folder of your browser and should search for “cookies” in your “Help” function for information on where to find your cookie folder. Many web browsers offer to block third-party cookies within their privacy settings. Internet browsers like Safari and Firefox block all third-party cookies by default.
Unless you have adjusted your browser settings so that it will refuse cookies or refused cookies on our first page, our website will issue cookies when you log on to our site.
Reviews to this Policy
Please note that Gigs ‘n’ Travel might change this Cookies Policy at any time. It is always recommended that you check back regularly to see if any changes have been made to this policy. You can change your Cookie consent options at any time in the ‘Manage Cookie Consent’ box.
For further information on data collection, retention and processing, please refer to our Privacy Policy.