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Cookie Policy for Cottage With a Hot Tub

Cookie Policy Information

Our site uses cookies. If you carry on using our site we will assume you consent to us using cookies in this way. You can browse and book your holiday with confidence. No cookies on this website capture a user's name or other information that would identify the user personally. They merely identify a computer or other device. All information collected by cookies on this website is aggregated and therefore anonymous.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file that may be placed on your device when you visit our sites. When you next visit our sites the cookie allows us to distinguish you from other users.

There are two broad categories of cookies:

1. Persistent cookies

Persistent cookies remain on your device until deleted manually or automatically.

2. Session cookies

Session cookies remain on your device until you close your browser when they are automatically deleted.

Your right to refuse cookies and what happens if you refuse them You can refuse cookies by activating the relevant setting on your browser.

Cookies we use and why we use them

1. Essential cookies

Essential cookies are technical cookies that are required for the operation of our sites. Without essential cookies our sites can't operate properly. Essential cookies include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas.

2. Performance cookies

Performance cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our sites and to see how visitors move around them. This helps us to improve the way our sites work by enabling us to tailor our sites to the way visitors use them. The information we collect from performance cookies is aggregated which means that we cannot identify you from it.

3. Experience cookies

Experience cookies allow our sites to remember the choices you make. Our sites use experience cookies to provide you with enhanced and personalised features. For example, we use information collected through what are known as 'web-analytic' cookies to compare the choices you make to those of our other customers so that we can learn from those choices. Information collected by experience cookies cannot track your browsing activity when you leave our sites to browse other sites.

4. Marketing cookies

Marketing cookies record your visits to our sites, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We use this information to make our sites and the advertising displayed on them more relevant to your interests. For example sometimes we use marketing cookies to limit the number of times that you see an advert. Sometimes we share information about your browsing activity, (which we have collected from cookies), with our advertising partners. They may use this information to advertise products, which may interest you, on other sites.

This website uses both first party and third party cookies.

We have decided to categorise cookies used on our website based on the UK International Chamber of Commerce's cookie guide, as follows:

- Cookies 'strictly necessary' for functionality of this website's platform. These cookies are essential in order to enable users to move around this website and use its features.

- 'Performance' cookies which collect information about how users navigate this website, for instance which pages users access most frequently. They identify how users interact with our website, find out which pages seem to hold people up, which pages are not used often, which pages take a long time to load, what pages users tend to visit and in what order. All of this helps us to refine and develop our website to try and make them more usable when a user visits us again in future.

- 'Functionality' cookies which allow this website to remember choices you make.

- 'Targeting or advertising' cookies used to deliver adverts relevant to an identified machine or other device (not a named or otherwise identifiable person) which are tailored to interests associated with the website activity tied to that machine or device. These cookies are also used to limit the number of times a user sees an advertisement as well as to help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They may also remember that this website has been visited from a device and share that information with marketing organisations. The marketing cookies on this website are operated by third parties with our permission. Marketing cookies are used to monitor from which advertising source a user was directed towards our website, so that we know whether it is worth us investing in that particular advertising source.

We use Essential Cookies, Performance Cookies, Experience Cookies and Marketing Cookies

Google

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited ('Google'). Google Analytics uses 'cookies' (as described above and in particular, the navigation analytics cookie described in the table) to help us analyse how the site is used. The information generated by those cookies about your use of this website and your current IP-address will be transmitted by your browser to and will be stored by Google on servers in the United States and other countries. Google will use this information on our behalf for the purpose of evaluating your use of this website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to us. The IP address collected through Google Analytics will not be associated with any other data held by Google. You may choose not to opt-in to permit use of the Google cookies and thereafter you can prevent that use by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website (see Section 9 above). You may also stop the transmission of information generated by the cookies about your use of this website and of your IP address to Google, by downloading and installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Google also displays adverts for our website on third party websites.

Google will use cookies to display adverts on those third party websites which may take into account a user's prior visits to this website.

You may reject or delete the Google advertising cookie ie you may opt out of Google's interest-based advertising program by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page.

We combine data collected by Google Analytics, with data about our adverts that have been shown using the Google Display Network or DoubleClick for Advertisers, to understand how anonymous users interact with this website after seeing our adverts. We do this to analyse and optimise our advertising campaigns.

Does the policy apply to linked websites?

Our websites may contain links to other websites. This cookie policy only applies to this website so when you link to other websites you should read their own cookie policies.

Updating our Cookie Policy

We regularly update our policy on cookies. This privacy policy was last updated in June 2012

Who can I contact if I have queries about this cookie policy?

Please contact us if you have any questions about our cookie policy or information we hold about you. Click here to contact us.