--- title: "Cookie Policy | Gawergy Audio" description: "How Gawergy uses essential browser storage, analytics, marketing performance tools, YouTube embeds, and privacy choices." canonical_url: "https://gawergy.com/plugins/cookie-policy" md_url: "https://gawergy.com/plugins/cookie-policy.md" last_updated: "2026-09-09" date_published: "2026-09-07" --- # Cookie Policy Effective Date: October 7, 2026 ## Introduction This Cookie Policy explains how gawergy.com uses cookies, local storage, pixels, scripts, and similar browser technologies. Analytics and Marketing / Advertising technologies remain off unless you choose to enable them. Affiliate attribution is handled separately: it requires prior consent in designated prior-consent regions and otherwise runs unless you opt out. Essential storage and services you request may operate without optional consent. The homepage also includes a privacy-enhanced YouTube player, described below. You can accept, decline, or change your optional choices at any time through Privacy Choices in the footer. ## Essential storage and preferences Gawergy.com uses first-party browser storage to remember choices and preferences and to provide functions you request. Gawergy does not use these first-party preference values to track you across unrelated websites. | Storage key | Purpose | Duration | | --- | --- | --- | | `gawergy_trial_session` | Opaque, secure HTTP-only association for a requested trial/download/checkout. Optional campaign labels require Analytics or Marketing / Advertising permission and are stored separately on the server. | Up to 7 days; contains no email, trial code, raw trial ID, or campaign label. | | `gawergy-privacy-consent` | Remembers your Affiliate attribution, Analytics, and Marketing / Advertising choices and the applicable consent version. | Until you clear browser storage or Gawergy requires a new consent version. | | `gawergy-theme` | Remembers the light or dark appearance you selected. | Until you change it or clear browser storage. | | `gawergy-email-capture` | Prevents a dismissed or completed newsletter prompt from being repeatedly shown. | 14 days after dismissal. After a successful signup, the completed state remains until browser storage is cleared. | | `gclipper-announcement-v1.2.1` | Remembers when you dismiss the current G-Clipper Pro update announcement. | 24 hours after dismissal. | | `gawergy-downloads-unlocked` | Remembers that you completed the requested music-download unlock. | Until you clear browser storage. | These values are not controlled by the optional Analytics or Marketing / Advertising switches because they remember choices or provide interface behavior you request. When you choose to begin secure checkout, Lemon Squeezy may load technologies needed to display checkout, process payment, calculate applicable taxes, prevent fraud, and complete your purchase. This user-requested checkout connection works regardless of your optional settings and is separate from optional affiliate measurement. ## Analytics If you enable Analytics, gawergy.com loads Google Analytics and Vercel Web Analytics. Google Analytics helps measure page views, interactions, referral sources, approximate location, and general browser and device information. Under the current configuration, Google Analytics may use first-party cookies such as `_ga` and `_ga_` to distinguish users and sessions. Google documents a default expiration of up to two years for these cookies. Vercel Web Analytics helps measure page views, referrers, approximate location, operating system, browser, and device type. Vercel states that its Web Analytics does not use cookies and identifies daily visitors using a request-derived hash that resets after 24 hours. Analytics remains off unless you enable it. ## Affiliate attribution Lemon Squeezy powers the Gawergy affiliate program. Affiliate links may include an affiliate identifier in the page address. Gawergy uses coarse country and region information supplied by Vercel to decide whether prior consent is required before Lemon Squeezy affiliate tracking can initialize. Gawergy does not expose raw IP addresses to client code or store them merely to make this selection. Gawergy accepts safely formatted affiliate codes without maintaining its own affiliate allowlist. Lemon Squeezy remains the authority on whether a code belongs to an active affiliate. Before persistence is allowed, Gawergy can keep the current code only in page memory so it survives normal navigation within the site; reloading or closing the page clears that state. When Affiliate attribution is allowed, Gawergy stores the current code in a first-party cookie. A later safely formatted affiliate link replaces an older unverified candidate. Gawergy does not load Lemon Squeezy's affiliate tracking script or create a device fingerprint on Gawergy pages. When you request checkout, Gawergy passes the active code to Lemon Squeezy using its documented checkout URL parameter so Lemon can determine whether attribution applies. | Storage key | Purpose | Duration | | --- | --- | --- | | `gawergy_affiliate` | Stores the current safely formatted affiliate code when Affiliate attribution is allowed for your privacy regime and choices. | Up to 7 days, unless you withdraw consent or your browser removes it sooner. | | `ls_aff_ref` | Legacy Lemon Squeezy referral identifier retained only for returning visitors whose referral was captured before the current first-party code flow. | Up to 7 days from its original creation, unless you withdraw consent or your browser removes it sooner. | In prior-consent regions, Affiliate attribution stays off until you enable it. In other regions, it may run automatically until you opt out. You can change Affiliate attribution through Privacy Choices. Disabling it removes accessible referral browser state and prevents Gawergy from adding the referral to later checkout URLs. Clearing browser storage, private browsing, blockers, and other browser or platform privacy controls may shorten or prevent attribution. Attribution is designed for same-browser purchases; cross-device attribution is not guaranteed, and Gawergy does not restore affiliate referrals from trial or order records. ## Marketing / advertising If you enable Marketing / Advertising, gawergy.com may load Meta Pixel. Consented ad clicks may use a first-party Meta click cookie for up to 90 days. A consented G-Clipper checkout also uses an opaque, secure, HTTP-only consent-session cookie for up to 24 hours to support verified server-side purchase measurement through Meta Conversions API. Matching identifiers and the consented browser user agent are usable for at most 24 hours and are removed after delivery, terminal failure, or withdrawal. Expired data is no longer usable and is deleted during scheduled cleanup. The server Purchase event includes the real browser user agent unhashed, as Meta requires. It does not include customer email, name, or raw IP address. The user agent is not put in checkout URLs, browser storage, client attribution responses, or logs and is not used for fingerprinting or unrelated analytics. Meta Pixel helps Gawergy understand whether promotions lead to visits, interactions, or purchases. Meta may receive information about the page, referral source, browser, device, and actions measured through the Pixel. Meta may set or read identifiers under its own policies. Marketing / Advertising remains off unless you enable it. When your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, Gawergy keeps Marketing / Advertising off. ## Trial attribution and follow-up Requested trial downloads and checkout can use the opaque first-party trial session described above. With Analytics or Marketing / Advertising permission, bounded campaign labels and first/signup touch timestamps are recorded separately from advertising matching identifiers. Trial matching for Meta Lead and StartTrial requires Marketing / Advertising consent, remains off under GPC, and is usable for at most seven days. Full Analytics and Marketing / Advertising withdrawal clears optional campaign fields from the temporary session while retaining its opaque operational binding; one permitted category can retain campaign attribution, but only Marketing / Advertising permits Meta matching. GPC blocks both trial campaign and matching capture. Fresh opt-in uses a new touch. Withdrawal, suppression, conversion, or expiry stops matching; expired records are deleted by scheduled cleanup. This trial flow does not change the separate 24-hour Purchase matching flow. Campaign records already associated with a trial follow the Privacy Policy retention criteria. Marketing email opt-in is a separate unchecked choice. It does not enable browser advertising technologies. Opaque checkout association tokens expire within 30 days, and encrypted email action links within 45 days. ## External video The homepage loads an embedded YouTube player through YouTube's privacy-enhanced `youtube-nocookie.com` domain. The player does not autoplay. Because the player is embedded on the homepage, the browser may connect to YouTube or Google when the player loads, before playback begins. That connection may disclose your IP address, browser or device information, and the page origin or referrer. YouTube or Google may use browser storage or process additional information under their own policies. Playing the video does not change your Affiliate attribution, Analytics, or Marketing / Advertising choices and does not enable Google Analytics, Vercel Analytics, Meta Pixel, or Lemon Squeezy affiliate measurement. ## Changing your choices Use Privacy Choices in the footer to accept, decline, or change Affiliate attribution, Analytics, and Marketing / Advertising. When you withdraw a previously enabled category, gawergy.com stops loading that optional category for future activity and attempts to remove related browser storage that the site can access. The page may reload where necessary to stop technology that has already loaded. Gawergy.com cannot directly remove storage controlled exclusively by another domain. You may also manage that storage through your browser or the relevant provider. Clearing browser storage may remove your saved privacy choices, theme preference, newsletter-prompt state, and other saved site preferences. Gawergy honors Global Privacy Control for Marketing / Advertising. GPC does not automatically enable or disable the independent Affiliate attribution or Analytics choices, and it does not prevent the homepage's privacy-enhanced YouTube player from loading. Your versioned optional choice remains in your browser until you clear it or Gawergy requires a new consent version. ## Provider information and changes Third-party technologies, storage names, and durations may change. The descriptions in this policy reflect the configuration documented or verified as of the Effective Date. If Gawergy adds a materially different optional provider or purpose, the website may request a new privacy choice. ## More information See the [Privacy Policy](https://gawergy.com/plugins/privacy-policy) for more information about data use, service providers, privacy rights, and contact details. For privacy questions, email [gawergyaudio@atomicmail.io](mailto:gawergyaudio@atomicmail.io). ## Sitemap See the full [Gawergy.com sitemap](https://gawergy.com/sitemap.md).