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Cookie Policy
Last updated: 14 July 2026
1. What Are Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile phone) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites function properly, improve user experience, and provide information to website operators.
Cookies may be set by the website you are visiting ("first-party cookies") or by third-party services that the website uses, such as analytics or advertising platforms ("third-party cookies").
This Cookie Policy explains which cookies we use on gastrogallery.com (the "Website"), what they do, how long they last, and how you can manage your preferences.
2. How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for the following purposes:
- Essential operation — enabling core functionality such as page navigation, secure checkout, and session management.
- Preferences — remembering your language, currency, and login preferences.
- Analytics — understanding how visitors use our Website so we can improve it.
- Marketing — delivering and measuring the effectiveness of advertisements on platforms such as Meta, Google, Pinterest, and TikTok.
- Payment security — fraud detection and secure payment processing via Stripe.
3. Cookie Categories
We classify our cookies into four categories. Only strictly necessary cookies are set without your consent. All other categories require your explicit consent via our cookie consent banner.
3.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for the Website to function. They enable core features such as shopping cart management, user authentication, and payment processing. They do not require your consent under the ePrivacy Directive.
| Cookie Name | Provider | Type | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| session_id | Gastro Gallery | First-party | Session | Maintains your session while browsing the Website. Expires when you close your browser. |
| cart_session | Gastro Gallery | First-party | Session | Links your browser session to your shopping cart stored in our database. |
| cookie_consent | Gastro Gallery | First-party | 1 year | Stores your cookie consent preferences so the banner is not shown repeatedly. |
| __stripe_sid | Stripe | Third-party | 30 minutes | Session identifier for secure payment processing and fraud detection during checkout. |
| __stripe_mid | Stripe | Third-party | 1 year | Unique device identifier used by Stripe Radar for fraud prevention across sessions. |
3.2 Functional Cookies
These cookies enhance website functionality and personalisation. They remember your preferences so you do not have to set them each time you visit.
| Cookie Name | Provider | Type | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| language_pref | Gastro Gallery | First-party | 1 year | Remembers your preferred language setting. |
| currency_pref | Gastro Gallery | First-party | 1 year | Remembers your preferred currency for pricing display. |
| remember_me | Gastro Gallery | First-party | 30 days | Keeps you logged in across browser sessions when you select the "Remember me" option. |
3.3 Analytics Cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our Website by collecting anonymised data. They are only set after you have given your consent.
Google Analytics (GA4)
| Cookie Name | Provider | Type | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | First-party | 2 years | Assigns a unique client identifier to distinguish individual visitors across sessions. | |
| _ga_<container> | First-party | 2 years | Stores session state and event data specific to our GA4 property. | |
| _gid | First-party | 24 hours | Distinguishes users within a single day for session-level analytics. | |
| _gat | First-party | 1 minute | Throttles the rate of requests sent to Google Analytics to manage server load. |
Microsoft Clarity
| Cookie Name | Provider | Type | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _clck | Microsoft | First-party | 1 year | Stores a unique user identifier for Clarity to recognise returning visitors. |
| _clsk | Microsoft | First-party | 1 day | Groups page views into a single session recording for behaviour analysis. |
| CLID | Microsoft | Third-party | 1 year | Identifies first-time Clarity users across any website using Clarity. |
| ANONCHK | Microsoft | Third-party | 10 minutes | Checks whether the browser MUID identifier is transferred to another Microsoft cookie. |
| MR | Microsoft | Third-party | 7 days | Indicates whether to refresh the MUID cookie used for analytics. |
| MUID | Microsoft | Third-party | 1 year | Microsoft user identifier for cross-site analytics and performance measurement. |
| SM | Microsoft | Third-party | Session | Synchronises the MUID across Microsoft domains. |
Google Tag Manager
Google Tag Manager does not set cookies of its own. It is a tag management system that loads and manages the other analytics and marketing scripts listed in this policy. Its operation is governed by Google's privacy policy.
3.4 Marketing and Advertising Cookies
These cookies are used to deliver relevant advertisements on third-party platforms and to measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. They are only set after you have given your consent.
Meta Pixel (Facebook / Instagram)
| Cookie Name | Provider | Type | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _fbp | Meta | First-party | 90 days | Unique browser identifier used to track visits and attribute actions to advertising campaigns on Facebook and Instagram. |
| _fbc | Meta | First-party | 90 days | Stores the Facebook Click Identifier (fbclid) when a visitor arrives from a Meta advertisement. |
Google Ads
| Cookie Name | Provider | Type | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _gcl_au | First-party | 90 days | Stores a unique identifier to attribute conversions to Google Ads campaigns. | |
| _gcl_aw | First-party | 90 days | Stores the Google Click Identifier (gclid) when a visitor arrives from a Google advertisement. |
Pinterest Tag
| Cookie Name | Provider | Type | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _pin_unauth | First-party | 1 year | Groups actions for visitors who cannot be matched to a Pinterest user. Contains a unique identifier. | |
| _derived_epik | First-party | 1 year | Stores a match identifier when the Pinterest Tag identifies a visitor through enhanced matching without cookies. | |
| _pinterest_ct_ua | Third-party | 1 year | Third-party equivalent of _pin_unauth, used for cross-site conversion tracking. |
TikTok Pixel
| Cookie Name | Provider | Type | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ttp | TikTok | First-party | 13 months | Unique identifier used to measure and optimise TikTok advertising campaigns and attribute conversions. |
| _tt_enable_cookie | TikTok | First-party | Session | Indicates that TikTok tracking is active in the current browser session. |
4. Cookie Consent
When you first visit our Website, a cookie consent banner is displayed, allowing you to accept or decline non-essential cookies. You may:
- Accept all cookies — all categories are activated.
- Reject all non-essential cookies — only strictly necessary cookies are set.
- Customise your preferences — choose which categories (functional, analytics, marketing) to enable or disable.
You can change your preferences at any time by clicking the cookie settings link in the footer of our Website. Non-essential cookies will only be set after you have given your explicit consent. If you decline consent, the corresponding scripts will not load, and no tracking cookies from those categories will be placed on your device.
Our cookie consent banner is developed as a custom solution and is designed to comply with the GDPR, the ePrivacy Directive (2002/58/EC), and the Danish implementation of these regulations.
5. Managing Cookies via Browser Settings
In addition to our cookie consent banner, you can control cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to:
- View which cookies are currently stored on your device
- Delete individual or all cookies
- Block cookies from specific websites or all websites
- Set your browser to notify you when a cookie is being set
Please note that disabling or deleting cookies may affect the functionality of our Website. In particular, strictly necessary cookies are required for the checkout process, and blocking them may prevent you from completing a purchase.
For instructions on managing cookies in popular browsers, visit:
- Google Chrome: chrome://settings/cookies
- Mozilla Firefox: about:preferences#privacy
- Safari: Preferences > Privacy
- Microsoft Edge: edge://settings/privacy
6. Third-Party Privacy Policies
The third-party services listed in this policy are governed by their own privacy policies. We encourage you to review them:
- Google: https://policies.google.com/privacy
- Meta (Facebook/Instagram): https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy
- Microsoft (Clarity): https://privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement
- Pinterest: https://policy.pinterest.com/privacy-policy
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/privacy-policy
- Stripe: https://stripe.com/privacy
7. International Data Transfers
Some of the third-party cookies listed above transmit data to servers located outside the European Economic Area (EEA), particularly in the United States. Where such transfers occur, we rely on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs), or other appropriate safeguards as described in our Privacy Policy.
For detailed information about international data transfers, please refer to Section 6 of our Privacy Policy.
8. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the cookies we use, the services we integrate, or applicable legal requirements. The updated version will be published on our Website with a revised "Last updated" date. We encourage you to review this page periodically.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us:
SimonHolst
Algade 61A, 2, 5500 Middelfart, Denmark
Email: info@gastrogallery.com
Contact person: Simon Holst