Cookies in Use on Our Website
Our website uses cookies, as most all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you browse websites.
Our cookies help us:
- Make our website work as you'd expect
- Remember your settings during and between visits
- Improve the speed/security of the site
- Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook and Twitter
- Continuously improve our website for you
- Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer our services we provide at the prices we do)
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
- Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
- Pass data to advertising networks
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
Granting us permission to use cookies
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser – Internet Explorer, Chrome etc) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are satisfied with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site, and many others will not work as you would expect.
More about our Cookies
Website Function Cookies
Our own cookies
We use cookies to make our website work including:
- Making our shopping basket and checkout work
- Remembering if you have accepted our terms and conditions
- Showing you which pages you have recently visited
- Allowing you to add comments to our site – via the Blog
- Alerting you to errors possibly made on our forms
There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site or blog.
Third party functions
Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Our site includes the following which use cookies:
- Hotel Booking Engine (http://www.navarinoservices.com/cookies.html)
- You Tube (https://www.youtube.com/static?template=privacy_guidelines)
Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties
Social Website Cookies
So you can easily “Like” or share our content on the likes of Facebook and Twitter we have included sharing buttons on our site.
Cookies are set by:
- AddThis – They provide us with lots of sharing buttons all in one neat package.
You can access their privacy policy here - http://www.addthis.com/privacy/privacy-policy
The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.
Affiliate Cookies
We have a number of partners who promote our hotels and instead of paying for advertising; we pay them commissions on sales. Cookies are required to allow us to reward these partners and these cookies are usually provided by specialist companies (known as affiliate networks).
Neither us, nor the networks, or the partner advertising or recommending our services are able to identify you personally. We ask you to support us by allowing these cookies which ultimately help us to offer you the service we do at the price we do. LateRooms.com, Booking.com
Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn't working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These analytics programs also tell us if, on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.
We use:
- Google Analytics
This information is really useful to us, but if you would like to opt out, you can do so at http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Turning Cookies Off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here). Please note however that doing so will likely limit the functionality of our site and also a large proportion of the world's websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites.
