Cookies

Last changed on 1 December 2025.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site.

• First party cookies are cookies set by the website you’re visiting. Only that website can read them. In addition, a website might potentially use external services, which also set their own cookies, known as third-party cookies.
• Persistent cookies are cookies saved on your computer and that are not deleted automatically when you quit your browser, unlike a session cookie, which is deleted when you quit your browser.

Every time you visit the GT.Social website, you will be prompted to accept or refuse cookies.

The purpose is to enable the site to remember your preferences (such as user name, language, etc.) for a certain period of time.

That way, you don’t have to re-enter them when browsing around the site during the same visit.

Cookies can also be used to establish anonymised statistics about the browsing experience on our sites.

How do we use cookies?

GT.Social mostly use “first-party cookies”. These are cookies set and controlled by our servers, not by any external organisation.

However, to view some of our pages, you will have to accept cookies from external organisations.

The 3 types of first-party cookie we use are to:

• store visitor preferences
• make our websites operational
• gather analytics data (about user behaviour)
• Visitor preferences

These are set by us and only we can read them. They remember:

• if you have agreed to (or refused) this site’s cookie policy
• if you have already replied to our survey pop-up (about how helpful the site content was) – so you won't be asked again

We use cookies and similar tools (collectively, cookies) for the purposes described below.

Operational Cookies : We use cookies to provide our services, for example:

• Recognising you when you sign-in to use our services
• Recognising if you are a Prime member and providing other customised features and services.
• Displaying features, products, and services which might be of interest to you.
• Keeping track of items stored in your shopping basket.
• Preventing fraudulent activity.
• Improving security.
• Keeping track of your preferences such as currency and language.

We also use cookies to understand how customers use our services so we can make improvements. For example, we use cookies to conduct research and diagnostics to improve GT.Social’s content, products, and services, and to measure and understand the performance of our services.

Advertising Cookies: We also use cookies to serve certain types of ads, including for products and services not available on GT.Social and for certain ads relevant to your interests.

Approved third parties may also set cookies when you interact with GT.Social services. Third parties include search engines, providers of measurement and analytics services, social media networks, and advertising companies. Third parties use cookies in the process of delivering ad content, including ads relevant to your interests, to measure the effectiveness of their ads, and to perform services on behalf of GT.Social.

To learn more about how GT.Social provides interest-based ads, please visit the Interest-Based Ads notice. To adjust your interest-based ad preferences, please go to the Advertising Preferences page. You can see which approved third parties use cookies and manage how they use cookies by visiting our Cookie Preferences page.

Additional Information

Operational cookies will remain on your browser for 13 months from your last visit to our services, except for cookies used to remember your privacy settings (such as Advertising Preferences), which may remain on your browser for up to 5 years. Other cookies remain on your browser for 13 months after you provide us with your consent to use these cookies.

You can manage cookies by visiting our Cookie Preferences page. We will apply your cookie preferences to the GT.Social service and the browser on which you made your choice and on any other browser where you are signed in. If you are not signed in, we may need to ask you for your choice again. Some mobile operating systems may further limit the use of cookies and similar technologies; your choices do not override those more limited settings on such mobile devices.

Alternatively, the settings on your browser will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, how to disable and remove cookies, and when cookies will expire.

Operational cookies allow you to take advantage of some of GT.Social's essential features. If you block or otherwise reject operational cookies through your browser settings some features and services may not work. For example, you will not be able to add items to your shopping basket, proceed to checkout, or use any GT.Social services that require you to sign in. You may also need to manually adjust some of your preferences every time you visit one of our services.

See our Privacy Notice for more information about the types of information we gather.