1. What cookies are
Cookies are small text files a website stores in your browser. Related technologies, such as local storage and session storage, let a site remember small pieces of information between pages or visits. Together they keep a site working, secure and convenient. This Policy forms part of, and should be read with, the Privacy Policy.
Cookies may be session cookies (temporary, removed when you close the browser) or persistent cookies (stored for a set time or until you delete them). We use them to provide the service you request and for security, and, only with your consent, for analytics.
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When you first visit the website, a cookie banner lets you choose “Essential only” or “Accept”. Essential cookies and storage, needed for the site to work and for security, are used on the basis of our legitimate interest and the provision of a service you expressly request. Google Analytics runs only after you choose “Accept”; you can change or withdraw that choice at any time with the “Cookie settings” link in the footer. Your choice is remembered so the banner is not shown again unnecessarily.
↑ Back to contents3. What technologies this site uses
Warsaw Glitch uses a small set of essential cookies and browser-storage entries, and, only if you agree in the banner, Google Analytics 4. We do not use advertising trackers and we do not build profiles of visitors: analytics is used in aggregate, to see which pages are read and how people reach the site. If you decline, no analytics cookie is set. Our hosting provider's Vercel Web Analytics counts page views in aggregate without cookies and without storing anything in your browser. Display fonts are self-hosted, so loading the site does not set third-party font cookies. Trailers (Vimeo, YouTube) and maps (Google Maps) load only after you click them. The full list is below.
↑ Back to contents4. Cookie and storage inventory
| Name | Type | Category | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| wg_consent | Cookie | Essential | Remembers your cookie-banner choice. | Up to 12 months |
| _ga | Cookie | Analytics (consent) | Google Analytics 4: tells returning visits apart from new ones. | Up to 2 years |
| _ga_<ID> | Cookie | Analytics (consent) | Google Analytics 4: keeps the session state for this property. | Up to 2 years |
| NEXT_LOCALE | Cookie | Essential / preference | Remembers your language (English or Polish). | Up to 1 year |
| LOCALE_PINNED | Cookie | Essential / preference | Set when you switch the language yourself, so the site stops choosing it by your location. | Up to 1 year |
| wg_gtv | Cookie | Essential | Keeps access to the GLITCH TV area after entering the access code. Set only on request. | 30 days |
| wg-seen / wg-push | sessionStorage | Essential | Prevent replaying the intro and carry page-transition state. | Session |
| wg-dock | sessionStorage | Preference | Remembers the radio player state. | Session |
| wg-gt:<address> | sessionStorage | Essential | Plays the animated page title only once per page in a session. | Session |
| wg-press-wszystkie | sessionStorage | Preference | Keeps the full news list on /press expanded when you come back from an article. | Session |
| wg-zen | localStorage | Preference | Remembers Zen mode, which stops the animations on the site. | Until you delete it |
| wg-czat-pamiec | localStorage | Functional (consent) | Remembers your conversation with the chat assistant (the last 20 messages and short notes: the first name if you gave it, and topics you asked about). Written only after you accept cookies in the banner and stays only in your browser. It is sent to the server only as part of your current question to the assistant; the server does not store the whole conversation (see the chat section of this policy). | Until you delete it or withdraw consent |
| wg-czat-zgoda | localStorage | Strictly necessary | Stores that you accepted the chat privacy policy: the policy version and the date. Needed for the chat to work; it is not used for analytics or advertising and never leaves your browser. Without it the chat asks for consent again. | Until you delete it or the policy changes |
| wg-wybornik-* | localStorage | Preference | Only on the internal programme planning page: keeps your picks and notes. | Until you delete it |
| Service Worker (sw.js), wg-offline-v3 | Service Worker / Cache Storage | Essential | Registered on the first visit. It stores a single offline page shown when you have no connection; it does not store the site's pages or files. | Until the site replaces it or you clear site data |
| Vercel Web Analytics | Script, no cookies | Statistics (no cookies) | Counts page views in aggregate from our hosting provider. It sets no cookies and stores nothing in your browser. | Nothing stored |
| Vimeo, YouTube, Google Maps | External frame | External (on click) | Trailers and maps load only after you click “Play trailer” or “Show map”; until then no request goes to these services. Once loaded, the service may set its own cookies under its own policy. | Set by the provider |
5. Essential, preference, analytics and marketing
Essential cookies and storage are needed for the site to work, for example to remember your cookie choice and language and to run page transitions, and cannot be switched off without breaking core features. Preference storage remembers minor choices, such as the radio player state. Analytics cookies come from Google Analytics 4 and are loaded ONLY after you accept them in the banner; until then the script is not fetched at all. You can change or withdraw consent at any time with the “Cookie settings” link in the site footer; withdrawing it stops analytics at once and removes the Google Analytics cookies (_ga, _ga_*). This site uses no marketing cookies.
↑ Back to contents6. Managing cookies and browser controls
You can change your banner choice (the “Cookie settings” link in the footer) or clear and block cookies and storage in your browser settings at any time. Blocking essential cookies may stop parts of the site from working, such as your saved language. If you follow a link to an external service (e.g. the submission platform or our social channels), that service may set its own cookies under its own policy; this Policy covers only the Warsaw Glitch website. We will update this Policy if our use of cookies changes; the date at the top of the page shows the last update. Questions: contact@warsawglitch.com.
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