1. What is a cookie
A cookie is a small piece of data or message that is sent from an organisation’s web server to your
web browser and is then stored on your hard drive. Cookies can’t read data off your hard drive or
cookie files created by other sites, and do not damage your system.
2. Different Categories of cookies
- Essential cookies: These make our websites work. They remember what dates you want to stay with us, what sort of room you want and that you are logged in to your account. They also allow us to collect information about your use of our websites and apps, enabling us to improve the way they work.
- Performance cookies: Performance cookies also allow us to see if there are any technical issues on our websites and if you are experiencing any issues using our websites. They also allow us to look at usage statistics and performance. We use Google Analytics to help us understand how you use our services. For more information on Google Analytics, please visit Google’s website.
- Functional cookies: These cookies collect information about the language you have requested the site display content in, remembering your username (if log-in features are set on a website) so you can log-in more quickly, text size, location you are in and generally allow us to customise your experience. Nobody likes having to repeat themselves and these cookies help with that.
- Advertising cookies: Allow us and other advertisers to show you the most relevant products, offers, and advertisements on our websites and third-party sites, or through emails or other message platforms. For example, some Advertising Cookies help our service providers and other advertisers select advertisements that are based on your interests, including those expressed or inferred by visits to our websites or apps or across other websites, online services, and apps over time. Others help prevent the same advertisement from continuously reappearing for you. These types of cookies also help us provide you with content on the Site that is tailored to your interests and needs. Advertising Cookies also include Social Plug-In Cookies: Social Plug-In Cookies are used to share content from any of our websites with members and non-members of social media networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Pinterest. These cookies are usually set by the social networking provider, enabling such sharing to be smooth and seamless.
- Analytics Cookies: Such cookies collect information about your use of our websites and enable us to improve the way they work. Analytics cookies simply assess how you interact with our website as an anonymous user (the data gathered does not identify you personally). These cookies give us aggregated information that we use to monitor site performance, count page visits, spot technical errors, see how users reach our websites, and measure the effectiveness of advertising (including emails we send to you). We also use technology to determine how people who phone us arrived on our website again either from a search engine or by just clicking on an advert. This is to help us to identify how people heard about us.
- Visitor statistics cookies: Cookies are used to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our websites, what type of technology do they use, for example Windows or Mac, which enables us to identify should the case be that our site is not working as expected. We are also able to identify how long the visitor spends on the site and what pages they choose to look at.
3. Cookies used by our website
| Cookie Type | Cookie Name | Purpose |
| Google Analytics | utma_utmb_utmc_utmz | These cookies are used to monitor the performance of our site. We use the information to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visits to our site, where visitors have come from to the site and the pages they visited.To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout |
We only use cookies to monitor the performance of our website and to improve user experience.
If you choose not to accept our cookies, some of the features of our site may not work as well as we intend.You can reset your browser so as to refuse any cookie or to alert you to when a cookie is being sent. To find out more about cookies, including what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
