Use of Cookies
Cookies and similar technology
The Site uses cookies, web beacons and similar technical tools to collect information about your access to the Site and the services we provide.
Cookies are pieces of information which include a unique reference code that a website transfers to your device to store and sometimes track information about you. A number of cookies we use last only for the duration of your web session and expire when you close your browser. Other cookies are used to remember you when you return to the Site and will last for longer. A web beacon is a small graphic image placed on a web page that is designed to allow us to monitor traffic on the Site or within electronic communications.
We use cookies to:
- remember that you have used the Site before; this means we can identify the number of unique visitors we receive to different parts of the Site. This allows us to make sure we have enough capacity for the number of users that we get and make sure that the Site runs fast enough;
- remember your login session so you can move from one page to another within the Site;
- store your preferences or your user name and password so that you do not need to input these every time you visit the Site;
- customise elements of the layout and/or content of the pages of the Site for you;
- collect statistical information about how you use the Site so that we can improve the Site; and
- gather information about the pages on the Site that you visit, and also other information about other websites that you visit.
Some of the cookies used by the Site are set by us, and some are set by third parties who are delivering services on our behalf such as our advertising partners who serve advertisements that they believe are most likely to be of interest to you, based on information about your visit to the Site and other websites (this information is anonymous in that it does not include your name, street address, email address or telephone number). For more information about this type of online behavioural advertising please visit:
The site of the Internet Advertising Bureau www.youronlinechoices.co.uk;
The Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) control page www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ or; www.aboutads.info/choices/ the Digital Advertising Alliance’s self-regulatory program for online behavioural advertising control page.
Most internet browsers accept cookies automatically, but usually you can alter the settings of your browser to erase cookies or prevent automatic acceptance if you prefer. If you choose not to receive our cookies, you may not be able to use some of the core features of the Site. You can learn more about cookies and how to reject cookies using different types of browser by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org.
We have enabled Google Analytics features for the Google Display Network.
Using the Ads Settings, visitors can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize Google Display Network ads.
We also encourage you to point visitors to Google Analytics’ currently available opt-outs for the web.
Teletext and third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to report how your ad impressions, other uses of ad services, and interactions with these ad impressions and ad services are related to visits to your site.
A). Our cookies
A description of the main cookies we use and of the general purpose we use these for is provided below:
| Cookie name | Purpose | Type & duration(i.e. session only or persistent) |
| _anonymousUserDetails | Remembers your login session so you can move from one page to another within the website. | Session expires after 20 minutes of inactivity. |
| .ASPXAUTH | This cookie is used to determine whether a user is authenticated. | At end of session. |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | This cookie is used to store and retrieve values for the user as they navigate through the site. | At end of session. |
| AWSELB | This cookie used to ensure visitors to the website stay on the same server they originally connected to. This makes caching more effective. | Session expires after 20 minutes of inactivity. |
| fbm_1*************9 | This cookie is used to allow the facebook login to the site. | Persistent 4 hours. |
| fbsr_1*************9 | This cookie is used to allow the facebook login to the site. | Persistent 4 hours. |
| P160777 | This cookie establishes the logged in status of the user. | Persistent 1 day. |
| policyAgreement | This cookie is used to gain consent to use cookies during the user journey on the site. | Persistent 6 months. |
| rsi_segs | This Cookie is used to allow Audience Science to store information that can be used to profile users anonymously to engage relevant audiences. | Session expires after 20 minutes of inactivity. |
| SearchCookie | This cookie is used to retain the search values of the searches that the user undertakes on the site. | At end of session. |
| Search_Overseas | This cookie is used to retain the search values of the searches that the user undertakes on the overseas section of the site. | At end of session. |
| Search_AllInclusive | This cookie is used to retain the search values of the searches that the user undertakes on the All Inclusive Holidays section of the site. | At end of session. |
| Search_Shorts | This cookie is used to retain the search values of the searches that the user undertakes on the City breaks section of the site. | At end of session. |
| showEmailPopup | This cookie is used to ensure that the newsletter signup popup between the search and results in only shown to the user once every 6 months. | Persistent 6 Months |
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Silverpop.com com.silverpop.iMA.page_visit |
This cookie anonymously tracks when a page has been visited. | At end of session. |
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Silverpop.com com.silverpop.iMA.session |
This cookie anonymously groups events and page visits by session. | Session expires after 20 minutes of inactivity. |
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Silverpop.com com.silverpop.iMAWebCookie |
This cookie stores user preference to accept Cookies. | Session expires after 20 minutes of inactivity. |
| Teletext.com | Registration – this user account cookie enables registered account holders to be presented with their customised account area. | Persistent 2 years. |
B). Third Party Cookies
Cookies are also set by third parties on the Site. More information about cookies placed by third parties and how to restrict or block their cookies can be accessed by following the link to their website.
| Name | Purpose/ typical content | Type & duration | How to reject or delete this cookie |
| Addthis | Addthis set cookies to deliver advertisements that are relevant to your interests or behaviour online such as visiting a particular advertisers website and products. | Persistent up to 3 years. | www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-out |
| Admeld.com | This Google owned company uses cookies to serve advertising and deliver and report on ads served on the website. The cookie also tracks what advertisments the user has seen and how often. | Persistent 1 year. | www.admeld.com/opt-out |
| Adnxs.com | This cookie is used to identify web browsers and store data for advertising purposes, including interest-based advertising, to store ad delivery and reporting data, to track users’ responses to ads, for server load-balancing and similar technical purposes. The Platform uses non-unique cookies to store users’ opt-out choices. | Non-personally identifiable information is stored in non-aggregated form for up to 12 months. Aggregated data is used for reporting and analysis, and may be stored in the Platform for up to 2 additional years. | appnexus.com/en/company/platform-privacy-policy#choices |
| Audience Science | The cookie collects, measures and segments user interests from their web behaviour on this and other website and delivers interest based advertising based on the user's market segment. |
Persistent Between 2 and 5 years. |
www.audiencescience.com/privacy |
| Bluekai.com | Bluekai uses non-personally identifiable cookies and pixel tags to collect and store Preference Data. | Persistent 6 months (NB also Pixel gif with life of 6 months). | bluekai.com/consumers.php#optout |
| Clicktale | ClickTale uses cookies to anonymously follow users path through the site to track a users behaviour on pages, essentially to see where users click. | Persistent 365 days. | www.clicktale.net/disable.html |
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Doubleclick (Google) id |
This cookie is used to serve advertising, deliver and report on ads served on the website. The cookie also tracks what advertisments the user has seen and how often. | Persistent 2 years. | www.doubleclickbygoogle.com/ |
| The facebook cookies are used to let Facebook know you are logged in to Facebook, to help you use social plugins and share buttons. | Persistent up to 2 years. | www.facebook.com/help/365596123604315 | |
| Flashtalking.com | This cookie is used to deliver advertisements that are relevant to your interests or behaviour online such as visiting a particular advertisers website and products. | Persistent 2 years. | www.flashtalking.com |
| Google Analytics | These cookies collect statistics on visitors to the site, where vistors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. This helps us to understand how people use the site and to make improvements to our site. | Persistent 2 years. | tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout |
| Invitemedia.com | Invitemedia uses cookies in conjunction with Web beacons in order to help make online advertisements you see more relevant to you. They also use cookies and web beacons so that they can measure the success of their online advertising campaigns, and the campaigns of their Clients. | Persistent up to 180 days. | assets.invitemedia.com/opt-out.html |
| Mathtag.com | MathTag.com is a domain used by MediaMath to place cookies, on behalf of its customers, on the computers of visitors to our selected customer’s websites and who may view our customer’s display advertisements. | Persistent up to 3 years. | www.mediamath.com/privacy-policy/ |
| Sensic.com | This is a Google AdSense Third party vendor. As such they set cookies to deliver advertisements that are relevant to your interests or behaviour online such as visiting a particular advertisers website and products. | Persistent 5 months. | www.sensic.net/index2.html |
| Smartadserver.com | This cookie is used to serve advertising and deliver and report on ads served on the website. The cookie also tracks what advertisments the user has seen and how often. |
Persistent 2 years (NB also Pixel Gif with life of 9 years). |
www.smartadserver.com/privacy-policy |
| Tubemogul.com | Cookies are used by Tubemogul to collect, measure and segment user interests from their web behaviour on this and other websites to deliver interest based online video advertising based on the user’s market segment. | Persistent 10 years. | www.tubemogul.com/compliance/privacy-policy/ |
| Twitter.com | Twitter use cookies to better understand how you interact with their Services. | At end of session. | twitter.com/privacy |
| Webtrends | Webtrends uses cookies for a variety of purposes such as remembering your preferences, and measuring your activity on Webtrends’ websites. | Persistent 10 years. | webtrends.com/terms-policies/cookie-policy |
| Yieldmanager.com | Ad.yieldmanager.com is a tracking cookie that tracks you across websites, thus recording your user behaviour. | 19/01/2038 | ad.yieldmanager.com/opt-out |
The DoubleClick DART cookie is used by Google in the ads served on publisher websites displaying AdSense for content ads. When users visit an AdSense publisher’s website and either view or click on an ad, a cookie may be dropped on that end user’s browser. The data gathered from these cookies will be used to help AdSense publishers better serve and manage the ads on their site(s) and across the web.
- Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site.
- Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet.
- Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
The following is a list of sources of third party AdSense ads. This list as of time of viewing, may not be up to date as Google may add others in the future, To see the latest list provided by Google, please visit Google Adsense Third Party Vendors.
In addition to cookies we use the following similar technologies in respect of your use of the Site:
- Pixel Gif’s – these are small image files that are placed within the body of our newsletters so we can understand whether these are read and if particular content in the newsletter is of interest. This way we can improve the relevance of the content of our communications to our readers;
- Flash cookies – We may use Adobe Flash Player to display video or image content. It may not be possible to block or restrict flash cookies using your browser setting, however information on how to control flash privacy and security settings is available from the Adobe website at: www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/security
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