Cookie Notice

Essential : Required for security, forms, account access and core website functions.

Analytics: Help us understand website use, performance and where improvements are needed.

Marketing : May help measure campaigns and provide relevant communications where permitted.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small files or pieces of information placed on your browser or device when you visit a website.

They can help a website:

function properly and securely;
remember your settings or preferences;
understand how visitors use the website;
identify and troubleshoot errors; and
measure the effectiveness of advertising or promotional campaigns.

GPC may also use similar technologies such as pixels, tags, scripts, local storage and other website measurement tools.

Not every technology used on the GPC website identifies you personally. Some information may relate only to your device, browser or website activity. However, certain technical information may constitute personal information when it can identify or be linked to an individual.

2. Your Cookie Choices

Essential Cookies

Some cookies and similar technologies are necessary for the GPC website to work properly.

These may be used for purposes such as:

website security • account access • forms • session management • fraud prevention • payment-related functionality • remembering your privacy choices

Because these technologies are required to provide core website functionality, they may not be available for disabling through GPC’s cookie-preference controls.

Optional Cookies

Where applicable, GPC may also use cookies for:

Preferences • Analytics & Performance • Marketing & Campaign Measurement

Where consent is required for an optional technology, GPC will use it in accordance with your cookie choices and applicable privacy requirements.

You may change your preferences at any time through:

Cookie Settings

Changing your cookie preferences will not normally prevent you from accessing the public areas of the GPC website, although some optional features may work differently.

3. Types of Cookies We May Use

Category	What It Does
Strictly Necessary	Supports essential website functions, security, forms, sessions, account access and fraud prevention.
Preferences	Remembers choices such as language, display settings or privacy preferences where available.
Analytics & Performance	Helps GPC understand website visits, page views, interactions, errors and performance so we can improve the website and user experience.
Marketing & Campaign Measurement	Helps measure whether GPC advertising or promotional campaigns are reaching and engaging users and, where permitted, supports more relevant marketing.

Typical Duration

Some cookies operate only during your browser session and are deleted when the session ends.

Others may remain for a limited period so the website or service provider can remember settings or measure activity over time.

The exact duration depends on the particular technology and its configuration.

4. Technologies and Service Providers

Depending on the services active on the GPC website and your privacy choices, GPC may use technologies provided by third parties.

These may include:

Website & Functionality Providers

Technologies associated with WordPress, Elementor, website hosting, security, caching and website functionality.

Google Technologies

GPC may use Google Tag Manager and related Google measurement technologies to manage website tags and understand website activity where configured and permitted.

Meta Technologies

GPC may use Meta Pixel or related campaign-measurement technologies to understand the effectiveness of GPC advertising and marketing campaigns where configured and permitted.

Payment and Transaction Technologies

When you make a payment or interact with checkout functionality, GPC or its approved payment provider may use technologies necessary to process, secure and confirm the transaction.

Payment providers may have their own privacy and cookie practices.

Third-party providers may process information such as:

IP address, device or browser information, website activity, referral source, interaction data and campaign information, depending on the relevant technology.

The technologies active during a particular visit may vary based on the website configuration, your device, your location and your cookie choices.

5. Marketing and Advertising Cookies

Where enabled and permitted, marketing technologies may help GPC understand:

whether a person visited GPC after seeing an advertisement;
which campaigns generated website visits or interactions;
which website pages were viewed after an advertisement;
whether an advertising campaign resulted in a relevant website action; and
aggregate campaign performance.

These technologies help GPC understand which advertising is useful and improve future campaigns.

GPC does not sell your personal information.

Your use of GPC is not dependent on agreeing to optional marketing cookies where those cookies are not necessary to provide the service you requested.

6. Analytics

Analytics technologies help GPC understand how visitors interact with the website.

For example, GPC may measure:

pages visited • time spent on the website • navigation between pages • device/browser type • approximate traffic source • website errors • general website performance

GPC uses this information to improve website usability, understand which information visitors find useful and identify technical problems.

Where required, analytics technologies will operate according to your applicable cookie preferences.

7. Managing or Withdrawing Your Cookie Preferences

You can review or change your cookie choices through the Cookie Settings option available on the GPC website.

You may also be able to restrict or delete cookies using your browser settings.

Please note that disabling strictly necessary technologies through your browser may affect website functionality, including forms, login functions or other services.

Where processing is based on consent, withdrawal of consent will apply going forward and will not make previous lawful processing invalid.

The NPC recognises an individual’s right to object to certain processing based on consent or legitimate interest, including direct marketing and profiling in applicable circumstances.

8. Third-Party Websites

The GPC website may contain links to:

GPC Partner websites, social-media platforms, payment providers and other external services.

When you leave the GPC website and interact directly with another website or service, that organisation may use its own cookies or similar technologies.

GPC does not control the cookie practices of independent third-party websites.

We recommend reviewing the relevant third party’s privacy and cookie information before providing personal information directly to them.

9. Personal Information and Cookies

Where information collected through cookies or similar technologies constitutes personal information, GPC processes that information in accordance with the GPC Privacy Policy and applicable Philippine privacy law.

GPC follows the principles of:

Transparency • Legitimate Purpose • Proportionality

The Philippine Data Privacy Act and its implementing rules require personal information processing to have a lawful basis and to be adequate, relevant and not excessive for the stated purpose

10. Changes to This Cookie Notice

GPC may update this Cookie Notice when:

website technologies change • service providers change • our use of cookies changes • applicable privacy requirements change

The latest version will always display the current Last Updated date.

Where a material change affects how personal information is processed or how consent is used, GPC will provide additional notice or obtain updated consent where required.