Cookie Policy

Here at Travel Places Ltd (“Travel Places”, or “we”, “us”) we use cookies on our website so that we can monitor how our website is used, improve your experience, and ensure it’s working the way it should. When you accept cookies, this helps make travelplaces.co.uk better by remembering your preferences, customising content or ads, and enhancing your experience with our services, insight and analysis.

This policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how we use your personal data.

If you have any queries about the way we use your personal information or cookies, please contact our Privacy Compliance Officer at privacy@travelplaces.co.uk.

Our website (www.travelplaces.co.uk) uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

Cookies are small, often encrypted, text files, which are stored on your computer when you visit a website. Cookies are set when you visit a website that uses cookies and may be used to keep track of pages visited on travelplaces.co.uk, help you continue where you left off or remember your preferences, such as language settings. Cookies can’t harm your computer.

Cookies ensure a consistent and efficient experience for users of the site. A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer’s hard disk so that the website can remember who you are, either for a single visit or for multiple visits.

Two types of cookies are used on this web site – session cookies, which are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site, and persistent cookies, which remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie).

Cookies will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the “lifetime” of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number.

Cookies allow us to obtain information regarding users of our site which essentially helps us to provide you with a better user experience and tailor our services to your individual needs. We may collect information such as your IP address, online activity, web browser details and online activity. We will not however collect or store any of your passwords or other highly sensitive data.

By using our website with your browser settings adjusted to accept all cookies, we will take this to mean that you want to use our products and services, and that you consent to our use of cookies and other technologies as described in this Cookies Policy.

First party cookies – These are set by the website that you are visiting and can only be read by that website.

Third party cookies – These are set by an organisation other than the owner of the website. This cookie might be for the purpose of website measurement, to assist with market research, or to improve site functionality.

You can manage your cookies using the settings in your web browser.

Cookies relate to each device, and therefore if you’re accessing the same webpage from multiple devices (such as on a laptop or phone), you will need to set your cookie preferences for each device. If you say no to advertising cookies on your phone, you may still get these adverts on your laptop for example.

You are able to configure your browser to block all cookies from travelplaces.co.uk if you wish. However, if you disable cookies, you may find this affects your ability to use certain parts of our website. For more information about cookies and instructions on how to adjust your browser settings to accept, delete or reject cookies, please see www.allaboutcookies.org.

Essential Cookies help our website to work properly in its day-to-day operations. Without them some of your experience on the website would be restricted. These cookies do not contain personal data and are not disclosed to third parties or used for advertising or promotional purposes.

By understanding how people use the website we can improve the content and functionality provided, thereby improving your experience. ‘Performance cookies’ collect information about how you use this website such as the content you are interested in, the pages you visit and if you experience any errors. These cookies do not collect any information that could identify you personally.

We use a number of different methods of gathering this data, including services provided by the following third- companies.

Session Cookies are operational only for the duration that you are accessing a website. Once you close your browser, the cookie is deleted.

This cookie policy was last updated in May 2022.

Any changes we make to this cookie policy will be posted on this page. If changes are significant, we may choose to notify you by email or to clearly indicate on our home page that this policy has been updated.

Most browsers have options that allow the visitor to control whether the browser will accept cookies, reject cookies, or notify the visitor each time a cookie is sent. You may elect to reject or block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. You may find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:

Google Chrome
Microsoft Edge
Mozilla Firefox
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Opera
Apple Safari
To find information relating to other browsers or where the links provided above are no longer in use or active, please visit the browser developer’s website.

However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire in accordance with the timescales set out in the table above.

To find out more information about cookies, including hot to see what cookies have been set, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.