cookies policy

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site.

  • First party cookies are cookies set by the website you’re visiting. Only that website can read them. In addition, a website might potentially use external services, which also set their own cookies, known as third-party cookies.
  • Persistent cookies are cookies saved on your computer and that are not deleted automatically when you quit your browser, unlike a session cookie, which is deleted when you quit your browser.

When you visit this website, you will be prompted to accept or refuse cookies.

The purpose is to enable the site to remember your preferences (such as user name, currency, etc.) for a certain period of time.

That way, you don’t have to re-enter them when browsing around the site during the same visit.

Cookies can also be used to establish anonymised statistics about the browsing experience on our sites.

 

How do we use cookies?

 

Shore2Shore-Excursions (Shorexc) website mostly use “first-party cookies”. These are cookies set and controlled by Shorexc, not by any external organisation.

However, to view some of our pages, you will have to accept cookies from external organisations (third-party cookies).

The types of first-party cookie we use are to:

  • Store visitor preferences
  • Make our websites operational

 

Third-party cookies

 

Performance & Analytics Cookies: These cookies collect anonymous information on how a User browses the Website, where they have been, when they have returned, where they came from, to determine why the User has visited the Website and other statistical information, as well as to improve how the service works.

Company Information Purpose More information
Google Analytics What pages Users have visited, browsing time, where the User came from, location... Statistical information on how the User found the web page, what they look at and if the website is working correctly See

These third-party services are outside of the control of Shorexc. Providers may, at any time, change their terms of service, purpose and use of cookies, etc.

 

How can you manage cookies?

 

You can manage/delete cookies as you wish - for details, see aboutcookies.org.

Removing cookies from your device

You can delete all cookies that are already on your device by clearing the browsing history of your browser. This will remove all cookies from all websites you have visited.

Be aware though that you may also lose some saved information (e.g. saved login details, site preferences).

Managing site-specific cookies

For more detailed control over site-specific cookies, check the privacy and cookie settings in your preferred browser

Blocking cookies

You can set most modern browsers to prevent any cookies being placed on your device, but you may then have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site/page. And some services and functionalities may not work properly at all (e.g. profile logging-in).