Travel Places Cookie Policy
SUMMARY
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.
WHAT ARE 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.
WHO SETS THE COOKIE?
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.
CONTROLLING YOUR COOKIES
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 to adjust your browser settings to accept, delete or reject cookies, please see www.allaboutcookies.org.
COOKIES USED IN THE NORMAL OPERATION OF THIS WEBSITE
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. These are as follows:
Product Name |
Cookie Name |
Purpose |
Persistent or Session* |
Retention |
JESSIONID (HTTP) |
Preserves users states across page requests |
Session |
Browser close |
*This website cannot function properly without this cookie.
COOKIES FOR MEASURING USE OF SERVICES
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-party companies:
Product Name |
Cookie Name |
Purpose |
Persistent or Session* |
Retention |
Google Analytics |
_ga (HTTP) |
Registers a unique ID in Google Analytics that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website |
Persistent |
2 years |
Google Analytics |
_gat (HTTP) |
Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate |
Session |
Browser close |
Google Analytics |
_gid (HTTP) |
Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
Session |
Browser close |
*Session Cookies are operational only for the duration that you are accessing a website. Once you close your browser, the cookie is deleted.
You can read more about how Google Analytics processes your individual data here.
Product Name |
Cookie Name |
Purpose |
Persistent or Session* |
Retention |
google.com |
ads/ga-audiences |
Used by Google Adwords to re-engage visitors that are likely to have a genuine or prolonged interest in our services |
Session |
Browser close |
facebook.com |
fr |
Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
Persistent |
3 months |
facebook.com |
tr |
Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how you are using travelplaces.co.uk |
Session |
Browser close |
youtube.com |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE |
Estimates your bandwidth on pages with YouTube videos, in order to optimise there experience. |
Persistent |
179 days |
*Session Cookies are operational only for the duration that you are accessing a website. Once you close your browser, the cookie is deleted.
CHANGES TO THE COOKIE POLICY
This cookie policy was last updated in May 2018.
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.