Cookie Policy

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that a website downloads onto your device when you visit it. They let us remember information about your visit (language, preferences) or measure how people use the site. UK data protection law (PECR regulation 6) and the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) require us to inform you and, in some cases, to ask for your consent.

2. Who owns the site?

GRE2JAZZ S.L., company number B10785392, registered at Calle Portalón, 7, 05690 Los Llanos de Tormes (Ávila), España. Contact: info@clubgre2jazz.com.

3. Types of cookies we use

3.1 Technical cookies (necessary) — always on

These cookies are essential for the site to work. They do not require your consent under the UK GDPR or the ICO. We use them for:

• Session and CSRF: identifying you temporarily during your visit to prevent request-forgery attacks on the forms.
• Banner preference: remembering your decision about analytics and marketing cookies (LocalStorage: gre2jazz_consent_v1).

3.2 Analytics cookies — require your consent

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand which content works best and to improve the site. Configuration:

• Anonymised IPs (anonymize_ip enabled)
• No data shared with Google Signals
• No data shared for advertising purposes
• Data retention: 14 months (the shortest allowed)
• "Consent Mode v2" with a default of denied: if you do not accept analytics, Google only receives aggregated and modelled signals, not individual data

Cookies used by GA4:

3.3 Marketing cookies — require your consent

Two things sit behind this choice:

• Google advertising flags: accepting marketing sets the ad_storage, ad_user_data and ad_personalization flags of Google Consent Mode to granted. Those flags only ever reach Google if you also accept analytics, because our analytics tag is the only thing on this site that loads Google at all. We run no advertising network and show no ads, so no ad script and no ad cookie is loaded either way.
• Stay22 (accommodation map): on gig, festival and venue pages and hotel guides we show a Stay22 map of the location with hotels and flats near the venue. That map is an iframe that loads content from Stay22 (with its own cookies) and only appears if you accept marketing or click to open it yourself; otherwise you will only see a notice. If you book through it, we may earn a small commission at no cost to you.

4. Third-party cookies — we do not control them

Some of the services listed above belong to third parties (Google and Stay22) that may process your data on their own servers, in many cases in the US. These international transfers rely on the UK-U.S. Data Bridge or on standard contractual clauses approved by the UK Information Commissioner's Office.

Separately — and this happens whatever you choose in the banner — some pages show photographs, album artwork, a player and a map that are fetched straight from other companies' servers. We set no cookie of our own for these, but your browser contacts those servers directly, so they receive your IP address, your browser details and the address of the page you are on, and they may set their own cookies under their own policies:

• Deezer and Apple Music — album artwork in musicians' discographies.
• Wikimedia Commons — musician photographs.
• TheAudioDB and AllMusic — further musician photographs where the others have none. We link no policy for them because the page they publish for it does not resolve.
• YouTube — musician portraits taken from channel images. No video player is embedded.
• Spotify — the artist player on musician pages, which is a frame served by Spotify.
• CARTO and OpenStreetMap — the map tiles on the general map page. The map draws itself when it scrolls into view, without a click.

We use no Meta pixel, no Facebook or Instagram embed and no ticketing affiliate network. Earlier versions of this policy said we did: that came from a shared template and was never true of this site.

See their policies:

• Google (analytics and YouTube): policies.google.com/privacy
• Stay22: stay22.com/privacy
• Spotify: spotify.com — privacy policy
• Deezer: deezer.com/legal/personal-datas
• Apple: apple.com — privacy policy
• Wikimedia Foundation: foundation.wikimedia.org
• CARTO: carto.com/privacy
• OpenStreetMap Foundation: osmfoundation.org

5. How to manage your cookies

When you first arrive you see a banner at the bottom with three options: Accept all, Reject all or Customise.

You can change your decision at any time using theManage cookies button, which appears both here and in the footer.

You can also block or delete cookies directly from your browser. Each browser has its own way of doing this:

• Chrome
• Firefox
• Safari
• Edge

6. Renewing consent

Under ICO guidance, consent for analytics and marketing cookies should be refreshed at reasonable intervals. On our site we do this every 12 months to be more conservative with your privacy.

7. Changes to this policy

If we change this policy the "Last updated" date will change and, if the changes affect your previous consent, we will show you the banner again.

8. Contact

For any query about cookies or privacy: info@clubgre2jazz.com.