What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

Consent and blocking of the use of cookies on the Gaga web site

By navigating away from the home page of the Gaga web site and continuing to use the Gaga web site, you are consenting to our use of the Cookies described in this Cookie Policy.

If you do not consent to Gaga using Cookies or, having previously consented to our use of Cookies, you decide to block such use then please read the next section of this Cookie Policy entitled “Blocking our Use of Cookies”.

Blocking our Use of Cookies

You can block our use of Cookies at any time by activating the settings in your web browser. Please visit All About Cookies where you can find comprehensive information on cookie management for a wide variety of web browsers.

What Happens if I Block Cookies?

If you choose to withhold consent to Gaga's use of Cookies, or subsequently block Cookies that you previously consented to, some aspects of the Gaga web site may not work properly and you may not be able to access all or part of our Gaga web site.

How do we use cookies?

We use technologies, such as cookies, to customise content and advertising, to provide social media features and to analyse traffic to the site. We also share information about your use of our site with our trusted social media, advertising and analytics partners.

Session Cookies

We use Cookies to allow the Gaga web site to uniquely identify a user’s browsing session on the Gaga web site and to allow us to coordinate this information with data from our Gaga web site server.

Analytics

We use Google’s “analytics” Cookies which, in conjunction with our web server’s log files, allow us to identify unique, but anonymous users. These Cookies can also calculate the aggregate number of people visiting our Gaga web site, the date and time of a user’s visit to the Gaga web site, the pages a user has viewed and the time spent by users at the Gaga web site. This helps us gather feedback so that we can improve the Gaga web site and better serve our users.

Further information on each Cookie is set out below.

Cross platform advertising and user recognition

We also use Cookies provided by Facebook. These Cookies operate in different ways but they are both used in connection with Gaga advertising served to a user of the Gaga web site on Facebook, the recognition of such users and the devices used by the user to access Facebook and the Gaga web site.

Further information on each Cookie is set out in the table below.

Third party web sites and platforms

Your use of third party web sites and platforms such as Facebook, and the privacy practices of these platforms, are governed by separate terms, conditions and policies for which Gaga is not responsible. You should review Facebook’s terms, conditions and policies where you will find more details on how information about you is used on their platforms and how you can set your privacy preferences.    

You can find more information about the individual Cookies we use and the purposes for which they are used in the table below:

How to control cookies

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

Most of our cookies expire within 30 days, although our analytics cookies may persist for 1 year.