ABOUT US OUR CLIENTS SERVICES CONTACT TRAVEL PROFESSIONALS +44(0) 1245 459 900 Home Cookie Policy COOKIE POLICY This Cookies Policy sets out the basis on which we, Resort Marketing International Ltd, use cookies and similar technologies on or in relation to our website, www.resort-marketing.co.uk (our website). This Cookies Policy is effective from 1st May 2018. Essential cookies are automatically placed on your computer or device when you access our website or take certain actions on our website. Non-essential cookies and other technologies are only placed on your computer or device if you have consented to us doing so. For information on the difference between essential and non-essential cookies, see the section below entitled About cookies. For information on how you consent and how you can withdraw your consent to us placing non-essential cookies and other technologies on your computer or device, see the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies. Contents About cookies List of cookies used Non-essential cookies How to accept or reject cookies Copyright, credit and logo About cookies What are cookies? Cookies are small data files sent by a website s server to a web browser, processor memory or hard drive and stored there. They can be used for a range of different purposes, such as customising a website for a particular user, helping a user navigate a website, improving that user s website experience, and storing that user s preferences and login information. Essential and non-essential cookies Cookies can be classified as either essential or non-essential . Essential cookies: these are cookies that are either: used solely to carry out or facilitate the transmission of communications over a network; or strictly necessary to provide an online service (e.g. our website or a service on our website) which you have requested. Non-essential cookies: these are any cookies that do not fall within the definition of essential cookies, such as cookies used to analyse your behaviour on a website ( analytical cookies) or cookies used to display advertisements to you ( advertising cookies). Session and persistent cookies Cookies can be classified as either session or persistent , depending on how long they last after they are placed on your browser. Session cookies: session cookies last for as long as you keep your browser open. They expire when you close your browser. Persistent cookies: persistent cookies expire at a fixed point in time or if you manually delete them from your browser, whichever occurs first. First and third party cookies Cookies can be classified as first party or third party . First party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by our website domain. Third party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by third party website domains. If you require further information about cookies in general, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org List of cookies used We use the following cookies on or in relation to our website: Name of Cookie Essential or Non-essential? Type of cookie First or Third party? Session or Persistent? Expiry Time Purpose _ga Non-essential Analytical First party Persistent 2 years Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. _gat Non-essential Load Balancing First Party Session End of browser session Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate _gid Non-essential Analytical First Party Session End of browser session Google Analytics cookie that registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. analytics Non-essential User preferences First Party Persistent 3 months Remembers the Users preferences on whether they want the analytic cookies stored and used on their computer CMS cookies We use the following cookies when signed into the CMS (Content Management System) Name of Cookie Essential or Non-essential? Type of cookie First or Third party? Session or Persistent? Expiry Time Purpose bypassStaticCache Essential CMS cookie for Administrative users First Party Session End of browser session CMS administration utilises Stages for content creation and approval before the content is published to the live website; when a CMS administrative user is reviewing new content in the Draft version of the website, the bypassStaticCache cookie is set to ensure that the user is reviewing the latest content. PHPSESSID Essential Session cookie First Party Session End of browser session Preserves user session state across page requests. PastMember Non-essential CMS cookie for Administrative users First Party Persistent 90 days This cookie is set at registration and/or login. It is set to denote that a user who is, or was, logged in. The function that sets this cookie also updates the LastVisited timestamp in the registered user s record. As the cookie has a 90 day duration, if 90 days have elapsed between registration and login or between logins, the cookie will disappear and be reset the next time the user logs in. Non-essential cookies We use the following types of non-essential cookies on our website: Analytical (or performance) cookies Targeting (or advertising) cookies Analytical (or performance) cookies Analytical (or performance) cookies track and gather data about what a user does on a website. These cookies are not essential for our website or its functionality to work. We use the following analytical cookies on our website: We use Google Analytics cookies on our website. Google Analytics cookies help us understand how you engage and interact with our website, including how you came to our website, which pages you visited, for how long and what you clicked on, your location (based on your IP address). The Google Analytics cookies used on our website are: _ga, _gat and _gid. These cookies include session and persistent cookies. For further details on these cookies, please see the table in the section above entitled List of cookies used More information Google Analytics cookies are classified as first party cookies as they are set by our website domain, although Google collects and processes information from our use of Google Analytics. To find out more about how Google handles information collected from Google Analytics, see Google Analytics privacy policy, which is available here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245 For information on how Google uses data from cookies it uses, please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ How to opt in or out from analytical cookies See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies To opt out of Google Analytics tracking across all websites in general, you can do so here: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout Processing information about you contained in or obtained from analytical cookies Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from analytical cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Legitimate interests: analysing how individuals use our website to help us improve our website and business. For further information on how we use the information gathered from our use of analytical cookies, including profiling, please see the section entitled Our use of automated decision making and profiling in our privacy policy, which is available here: http://www.resort-marketing.co.uk/privacy-policy More information For information about the cookies Google uses in relation to the above, see the Advertising section on the Types of cookies used by Google page in Google s cookies policy, which is available here: https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/types/ For information about how Google uses data from cookies for its own purposes, please visit the following link www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ How to accept or reject cookies There are a number of different ways in which you can accept or reject some or all cookies. Some of the main methods of doing so are described below: You are welcome to block the use of some or all of the cookies we use on our website. However, please be aware that doing so may impair our website and its functionality or may even render some or all of it unusable. You should also be aware that clearing all cookies from your browser will also delete any cookies that are storing your preferences, for example, whether you have accepted cookies on a website or any cookies that are blocking other cookies. You can find more detailed information about cookies and adjusting your browser settings by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org Accepting or rejecting cookies Cookie control tool You can accept or reject non-essential cookies by using our cookie management tool. Click on the cog in the bottom left corner of the screen to change your preferences. Browser settings You can accept or reject some or all cookies (for example, blocking all third party cookies) by adjusting your browser settings. If you do not know how to do this, the links below set out information about how to change your browser settings for some of the most commonly used web browsers: - Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en-GB - Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-browsing-search-download-history-firefox?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Clear+Recent+History - Microsoft Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/278835/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer - Apple Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH5042?locale=en_US Some browsers, such as Chrome and Firefox, allow you to change your settings to browse in incognito mode, limiting the amount of data placed on your machine and automatically deleting any persistent cookies placed on your device when you finish your browsing session. There are also many third party applications which you can add to your browser to block or manage cookies. Existing cookies To clear cookies that have previously been placed on your browser, you should select the option to clear your browsing history and ensure that the option to delete or clear cookies is included when you do so. Google Adsettings You can manage and opt out of personalisation of advertisements by Google by visiting Google s ad settings page here https://adssettings.google.com/ and by: - unticking the button entitled Also use Google Account activity and information to personalize ads on these websites and apps and store that data in your Google Account ; and - switching the Ads Personalisation setting off (i.e. by ensuring the switch at the top of the page is set to the left/grey and not the right/blue). Alternatively, you can install a free browser plugin here: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996 Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the browser add-on which is available here: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout Copyright, credit and logo This Cookies Policy is based on a template provided by GDPR Privacy Policy. For further information, please visit https://gdprprivacypolicy.org The copyright in this Cookies Policy is either owned by, or licensed to, us and is protected by copyright laws around the world and copyright protection software. All intellectual property rights in this document are reserved. Where we display the GDPR Privacy Policy logo on our website, this is used to indicate that we have adopted a privacy policy template provided by GDPR Privacy Policy as the basis for this Privacy Policy. 2019 © Resort Marketing International Cookie Policy Privacy Policy Terms & Conditions