Last Updated: October 15, 2026
Effective Date: October 15, 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how GigTry uses cookies, local storage, and similar technologies, and how you control them. It complements our Privacy Policy.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. Similar technologies include local storage and session storage in your browser. We use "cookies" in this policy to refer to all of these.
2. Consent Management (How to Control Cookies)
When you first visit, a consent banner lets you choose:
- Accept All - enables analytics, marketing, and functional cookies
- Reject All - keeps only strictly necessary cookies
- Manage preferences - toggle each category individually
Your choice is stored locally on your device. You can change it at any time by opening the Cookie Preferences panel (linked from the Cookie Policy page and our footer), and we re-ask for consent every 180 days. Non-essential cookies are denied by default - nothing beyond strictly necessary storage is set until you agree. This is the standard required in the EU/EEA and UK, and we apply it worldwide.
3. Categories of Cookies We Use
3.1 Strictly Necessary (Always Active)
These are required for the site to function and do not require consent:
- Session and authentication cookies - keep you logged in securely after you sign in
- Security cookies - CSRF protection and abuse/fraud prevention
- Consent record - remembers your cookie choices (stored in your browser's local storage)
- Load balancing and delivery - hosting-level technical cookies on gigtry.com
3.2 Analytics (Consent-Based)
Only set after you accept analytics cookies:
- Google Analytics 4: _ga (up to 2 years), _ga_[container-id] (up to 2 years) - help us understand aggregate usage so we can improve tools and pages
- GA4 is loaded in Consent Mode v2 with all non-essential storage denied by default. If you decline, GA4 receives only cookieless, aggregate measurement pings and no analytics identifier is set on your device
3.3 Marketing (Consent-Based)
Only set after you accept marketing cookies:
- Campaign and advertising measurement, if and when we run paid campaigns
- Currently denied by default and set only with your explicit opt-in
3.4 Functional (Consent-Based)
Only set after you accept functional cookies:
- Preference features such as the support chat widget (which also waits for functional consent before auto-opening)
4. Third-Party Cookies
Some pages embed services that may set their own cookies under their own policies:
- Stripe (checkout.stripe.com) and PayPal (paypal.com) - when you pay, their hosted checkout pages may set fraud-prevention and session cookies. We do not control these; see Stripe's and PayPal's cookie policies
- Google (googletagmanager.com) - the GA4 tag loads from Google's servers; analytics identifiers are only stored on your device after analytics consent
5. Browser Controls
In addition to our banner, you can block or delete cookies in your browser settings (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge all provide per-site controls). Blocking strictly necessary cookies may break login and checkout. Clearing cookies does not delete data we hold as a data controller - see the Privacy Policy for your data rights.
6. Do Not Track
There is no industry-standard response to "Do Not Track" signals. Our consent banner, not DNT, is the way to control non-essential cookies on GigTry.
7. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy as our cookie usage changes. Material changes will be reflected on this page with an updated "Last Updated" date, and we will re-request consent where the change requires it.
8. Contact
For questions about our use of cookies, contact us at privacy@gigtry.com.