Privacy – Cookies and EU GDPR
Privacy Statement: We use cookies to provide a better website experience. Some of the cookies we use are essential for the site to work.
We also use some non-essential cookies to collect information for making reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form. We also supply the option to turn off cookie use.
We do not collect, retain or process any personally identifiable information (PII), do not perform profiling and no details are ever passed on to third parties.
The information which we may collect is non – personally identifiable information, such as browser types, operating systems, pages visited, length of visit, ip addresses are anonymised and we use Google Analytics to collect such information in order to be able to improve our services. We keep this information for the shortest time allowed by their services – 14 months. The type of anonymous information collected are the numbers of visitors, the pages visited and so on. Google’s privacy statement as it relates to analytics and their other services can be found here.
We do not specifically target advertisements based on the information collected above. Where advertisements are provided on a web page, they are general advertisements related to the page content and not to the site visitor.
You can change the privacy settings in your browser to prevent this if you wish and further information may be found here.
Third Party Cookies / External Links
If you click on a link to a third party site, you may see a pop-up notice explaining that tracking cookies may be placed on your device and what your options are. Also cookies may be placed on your computer by for example the company supplying the holiday offers, such as TUI / First Choice, and which records information required for any purchase / transaction to take place. Where you have selected a particular holiday this cookie will be necessary to allow the transaction to proceed.
We are not responsible for coookies set by third parties, so please read their terms carefully – they may include targeted advertisements and cross-site tracking.
Their current notce read likes this:
“The website you just visited provides you with access to products, offers and services from brands you love. This website has partnered with us, CJ Affiliate/Conversant, for the use of our advertising and analytics technologies (including cookies). In other words, the website owner may earn a commission when you make a purchase from a brand they help connect you with. We use these technologies to collect data to better understand your browsing activity on this site and other third-party websites and apps. We use this data to serve you with interest-based advertising and for analytics purposes, and may share this data with our service providers for those same purposes.
By clicking “Continue to Site” or clicking the “X” to close this banner, you are providing consent to the use of advertising and analytics technologies (including cookies) on this site and other sites that work with us. If you wish to decline, click “Learn More” below.”
Useful links for CJ Affiliate / Conversant are their Privacy Policy and their Cookie Policy
Changing cookie settings / blocking cookies
You can choose to block cookies, the method depends on the web browser you are using. Internet explorer cookies are explained here, Firefox here and this link shows how to control cookies in most web browsers.
We respect your privacy!
If you have any questions or wish to contact us:
Further EU GDPR Information
We do not provide bulletin boards, discussion groups, contact forms etc. and comments are disabled on all posts / pages – we therefore do not collect any personally identifiable information via these methods.
We do not send direct marketing materials by post, email, text or phone and do not maintain email or address lists or other personally identifiable information.
If you contact us via email or social media we shall consider that as consent to reply to that email or message, which we will not share with third parties, unless you provide us with explicit consent to do so. We will use the information provided solely to reply to your query.
Who are we?
We are an independent travel website*. We love our holidays, and enjoy bringing you the holiday information which we hope will make your vacation an enjoyable one.
We do our best to ensure that the information is accurate, though please check the holiday companies website(s) for the latest prices, terms and conditions and any extra charges which may apply. Please also note that some holiday companies use “live pricing” to give you the latest price for a particular holiday and this may sometimes be slightly different to our published prices (perhaps more, perhaps less) the best deals are often snapped up quickly and are always subject to availability and some will be withdrawn when sold out – but we try and update as often as we can to make sure you get accurate information. Should you book a holiday, the contract is between you and the company concerned, though we’ll do our best to help if you have any questions.
* If you click through to a third party site and purchase something e.g. a holiday from them, we may receive a small commission for that referral.