INFORMATION ABOUT COOKIES

WHAT IS A COOKIE?

Many websites you visit use cookies to refine your user encounter by authorising that website to 'recall' you, either for the time of your visit (using a 'session cookie') or for continuous visits (using a 'persistent cookie'). Cookies are of several uses, such as allowing you to steer through pages in an orderly fashion, keeping your favourites in priority so that they are easily trackable and usually enhancing your encounter with our website you. Cookies make communication between you and the website quicker and simpler. If a website doesn't utilise cookies, it would think you are a new visitor each time you go to a new page on the site – for instance, when you put in your login details and proceed to another page it won’t recognize you and it won't be able to keep you logged in. A couple of websites would also utilise cookies to authorize them to mark their advertising or marketing messages constructed for instances, on your position and/or browsing routines. However, if you are hesitant about how much space cookies occupy or if it feels like a breach of privacy then you opt-out of cookies and similar technologies via the settings of the browser or device you are using to access our services. Internet browsers such as Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Opera and Edge have settings that allow you to control the way your information is collected and shared. These browsers allow you to delete your cache of cookies, and adjust your preferences for future use so that your data is not accessible by us or any third party’s who may gather information about your likings. For more information visit https://www.aboutcookies.org.

WHAT IS IN A COOKIE?

A cookie is an uncomplicated text file that is kept on your computer or mobile device by a website’s server and only that server would be able to recover or read the contents of that cookie. Every cookie is distinctive to your web browser. It would hold some unidentified details like a distinctive identifier and the site name and some digits and numbers. It permits a website to recall stuff like your likings or what’s in your shopping cart.

TYPES OF COOKIES.

Cookies come in various flavours:

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF COOKIES?

Cookies make the communication amid users and web sites quicker and simpler. Without cookies, it will be very hard for a web site to permit a visitor to pack up a shopping cart or to recall the user's likings or registration details for a future visit. Web sites utilise cookies mostly due to the reason that they save time and make the browsing encounter more orderly and entertaining. Web sites frequently utilise cookies for the aim of accumulating statistical details about their users. Cookies allow web sites to observe their users' web surfing routines and study them for marketing reasons (for instance, to discover which merchandise or services they are fascinated in and send them selected advertisements).

ARE COOKIES DANGEROUS?

No. Cookies are tiny sections of text. They are not computer programs, and they can't be executed as code. Also, they cannot be utilised to dispersed viruses, and current types of both Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape browsers permit users to place their own restrictions to the number of cookies saved on their hard drives.

CAN COOKIES THREATEN USERS' PRIVACY?

Cookies are kept on the computer's hard drive. They cannot enter the hard drive - so a cookie can't read other data saved on the hard drive, or get a user's e-mail address etc. They only hold and convey to the server as much data as the users themselves have revealed to a particular web site. A server cannot place a cookie for a section that it is not a member of. Despite this, users quite frequently find in their computer files cookies from sites that they have never viewed. These cookies are normally set by companies that market internet advertising for the benefit of other web sites. Consequently, it might be possible that users' data is passed to third party web sites without the users' awareness or agreement, such as data on surfing routines. This is the most famous reason for people refusing or been afraid cookies

Your Data. Your Choice, and that's why you also have the option of opting out of Interest-Based Advertising to ensure that your information does not get tracked.

HOW TO DELETE COOKIES.

All current types of famous browsers offer users a standard of control over cookies. Users could assign their browsers to receive or decline all, or specific, cookies. Many browsers offer specific ad-blocking software, extensions or tools that will help you disable or block all existing cookies, iOS or Android users can also control how information is used for certain purposes such as advertising through your device settings.

Users could also assign their browsers to block them every time a cookie is provided. If you have a different browser type, please get in touch with us. You could also control Adobe Local Shared Objects on your computer, also famous as LSOs or Flash cookies, but not with your browser. As an alternative, Adobe's website provides tools to control Flash cookies on your computer. Users of the Firefox browser could also get an add-on to notice and delete Flash cookies.

Please also be mindful that we make every attempt to appreciate your selection, but there is the chance that not all cookies would be apprehended. You can find more information about how to control and restrict your exposure to online interest-based advertising and other cookies across the world wide web at http://optout.aboutads.info , NAI consumer opt-out page , and http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk. You can use these services to opt-out of the majority of interest-based advertising used by us as well as other websites.

Still quizzical about this policy or in need of more information about the cookies used on our website, feel free to contact us at dataprotection@travelcenter.uk