1. WHAT IS A COOKIE?

• A cookie is a piece of information stored on your computer’s hard drive — if you agree to this — which records how you move your way around a website. Agreeing to cookies means when you revisit that website you can be presented with tailored options based on the information stored about your last visit. Cookies can also be used to analyse traffic and for advertising and marketing purposes.
• Cookies are used by nearly all websites and do not harm your system.

We are required to obtain your consent for all non-essential cookies used on our website. You can block cookies (including essential cookies) at any time by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block essential cookies, you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

Cookies can be set by us (“first party cookies”) or by selected other companies who place cookies on our site to enable features or functionality to be provided on or through the website you are using, such as advertising, interactive content and analytics (“third party cookies”). The third parties that set these third party cookies can recognise your device both when it visits our website and also when it visits certain other websites or services. These service providers are subject to confidentiality provisions with us to restrict their use and collection of any personal data. However, please note that we do not control these third party cookies and we suggest you read the third parties’ privacy policies.

2. HOW DO WE USE COOKIES:

• We use cookies to track your use of our website. This enables us to understand how you use the site and track any patterns you create while visiting our site. This helps us to respond better to what you might need when we develop our products and services as well as our website.
• Cookies are either…
  • Session cookies: these are only stored on your computer during your web session and are automatically deleted when you close your browser. They usually store an anonymous session ID allowing you to browse a website without having to log in to each page, but they do not collect any personal data from your computer.
  • Persistent cookies: these are stored as a file on your computer and remain there when you close your web browser. The cookie can be read by the website that created it when you visit that website again.

3. COOKIES CAN BE CATEGORISED AS:

• Strictly necessary cookies: these are essential to enable you to use the website effectively, such as when buying a product or service. Without these cookies, the services available to you on our website cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or for remembering where you have been on the internet.
• Performance cookies: these cookies enable us to monitor and improve the performance of our website. For example, they allow us to count visits, identify traffic sources, and see which parts of the site are most popular.
• Functionality cookies: these cookies allow our website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced features. For instance, we may be able to provide you with news or updates relevant to the services you use. They may also be used to provide services you have requested, such as viewing a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect is usually anonymised.
• Targeting cookies: these cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website more relevant to your interests.
• Social Media cookies: These cookies are set by a range of social media services that we have added to the site to enable you to share our content with your friends and networks. They are capable of tracking your browser across other sites and building up a profile of your interests. This may impact the content and messages you see on other websites you visit. If you do not allow these cookies you may not be able to use or see these sharing tools.
• Other tracking technologies: We and our third party partners may use other, similar technologies from time to time like web beacons, pixels (or “clear gifs”) and other tracking technologies. These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognise when someone has visited our website or, in the case of web beacons, opened an e-mail that we have sent them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users within our website, to understand whether you have come to our website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to serve targeted advertisements to you and others like you, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of marketing campaigns. While you may not have the ability to specifically reject or disable these tracking technologies, in many instances these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly; accordingly, in those instances, declining cookies will impair functioning of these technologies.
• First and third party cookies: First party cookies are cookies set by our website.

4. WE MAY USE COOKIES TO:

• Analyse our web traffic using an analytics package. Aggregated usage data helps us improve the website structure, design, content and functions.
• Identify whether you are signed in to our website. A cookie allows us to check whether you are signed in to the site.
• Test content on our website. For example, 50% of our users might see one piece of content, the other 50% a different piece of content.
• Store information about your preferences. The website can then present you with information you will find more relevant and interesting.
• To recognise when you return to our website. We may show your relevant content, or provide functionality you used previously.

Cookies do not provide us with access to your computer or any information about you, other than that which you choose to share with us. You can change the settings on your browser to prevent cookies being stored on your computer without your explicit consent.

5. YOUR PREFERENCES:

You can alter your cookie preferences at any time. Please refresh your page to ensure that the new settings have taken effect. You can also control your cookie settings through your web browser.

You can opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all the websites you visit, by going to http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

If you have any questions about the cookies that we use, feel free to contact us at hello@lovetraveladventures.co.uk