Cookie Policy (EU)

Last updated: 3 October 2026

Who operates this website?

GuitarGangsters.net is operated by Heat & Smoke AB, Swedish organisation number 559188-3169, Muraregatan 42, 265 33 Åstorp, Sweden. Questions about cookies can be sent to hello@guitargangsters.net.

What cookies do

Cookies are small pieces of information saved by your browser. Related browser storage and scripts can also remember choices or enable a service. This page explains the consent-preference cookies and Google Analytics cookies associated with the site’s current configuration.

Your cookie choices

Our Complianz consent panel offers Accept, Deny and View preferences. In View preferences you can choose statistics separately. Consent-preference storage is used to remember your decision.

Google Analytics is configured to wait for statistics consent. Declining statistics leaves that Analytics tag blocked. If you change your choice to deny statistics after previously accepting it, reload any pages that were already open so the changed choice applies to their Analytics tag.

You can reopen the panel using Manage consent on the website, or use the control below.

Change or withdraw cookie consent Current status: AcceptedCurrent status: Denied

Consent-preference cookies

The following first-party cookie names are used by Complianz to record choices on GuitarGangsters.net. Their configured lifetime is 365 days. A cookie that remembers a rejection is not an advertising profile.

• cmplz_functional: records the functional category.
• cmplz_preferences: records the preferences category where used.
• cmplz_statistics: records your statistics choice.
• cmplz_marketing: records your marketing category choice; this cookie is a preference record.
• cmplz_consented_services: records service-specific choices where used.
• cmplz_policy_id: records the version of the cookie information associated with the choice.
• cmplz_banner-status: remembers the consent panel’s status.

Google Analytics cookies

The statistics integration uses Google Analytics 4, with Measurement ID G-56R8Z7LTCN, after statistics consent. It helps us understand page visits, traffic sources and how readers use the site.

• _ga: distinguishes browsers using a pseudonymous identifier.
• _ga_56R8Z7LTCN: stores session-related state for this Analytics property.

Google documents a default lifetime of two years for these cookie types. Actual expiry can be affected by Google tag settings and browser restrictions, and is shown in your browser’s cookie information. Cookie expiry is separate from how long reports or event data remain in Google Analytics. Read Google’s explanation of Analytics cookies and our Privacy Policy.

Cookies from earlier visits can remain in a browser until they expire or are removed. You can delete them in your browser settings. Google AdSense has not been activated on this site.

External content and administrative access

Following a link to another website brings you under that website’s cookie practices. If third-party content is loaded within a page, that provider may receive technical information and use its own storage technologies. Review the provider’s information when deciding whether to load its content.

Editors who sign in to WordPress may also receive login, security and administrative-preference cookies. An editorial login is not required to read the public articles.

Browser controls and privacy questions

Your browser can block or remove cookies independently of the site’s panel. Removing consent-preference cookies may cause the panel to ask for your choice again. Blocking all cookies can affect functions that need to remember a choice or a login.

For information about personal data, your rights and how to contact the controller, see the Privacy Policy or our Contact page.