COOKIES POLICY
Last update 8th of august 2019
1 Types and uses
We use own and third party cookies to improve navigation, provide the service and obtain website usage statistics
What is a cookie and what does it do?
A cookie is a text file send to the web browser, mobile or tablet used to store and retrieve information of the navigation. For example remembering your user name and password, or the language of the visited web.
Types of cookies?
According who is managing them:
· Own cookies: sent to you browser from our devices or web domains
· Third party cookies: sent to your browser from a computer or web domain not handled by us, but handled by other entity like Google.
Regarding the activated period there are:
· Session Cookies: remaining in the cookies file in your browser till you exit the website, this way none of them stays in your device
· Persistent Cookies: They remain in your device and our web reads them each time you access. These cookies no longer work after a certain period.
Finally and according the purpose we have:
· Technical Cookies: They improve the browsing and functionality of the web.
· Customization Cookies; Allowing access to the service with certain predefined features based in a series of criteria
· Cookies used by Imperial Travel:
We use cookies on certain spaces of the Website. The cookies are files storing information on your hard disc or on your web browser. The cookies help us explore which sections of the website are the most popular, since they allow us to see which pages our visitors enter and how much time they spend there. By analysing such data, we can conform our website to the needs of the users, and as a result, we can enhance diversity of the user experience.
When you visit our website, the system may automatically collect certain technical information which does not allow the identification of the visitor, for instance the name of another website which have navigated you to the specific site or the location of the access to the website or searches carried out on the website. Collection of such information helps us explore searching habits preferred by the users of our website, without using personal data. Such information will only be used for internal purposes. The anonymous or general data, by which the person of user cannot be identified, are not qualified as personal data; therefore they do not fall under the scope of this Policy.
You can set your browser so that it will accept or reject each cookie or notify you if any cookie is placed on your computer. The web browsers differ from one another, to this end please use the menu “Help” in your browser if you intend to change the cookie settings. For instance, in the case of Microsoft Internet Explorer you can delete or disable the cookies by choosing the option “Tools/Internet Settings” and you can alter your security settings. The Website has been created for operation with using cookies, therefore disabling cookies may affect the functionality of the Website and impede the use all the advantages and functions of the Website by you.
The Website and the communication, resulted from its use and/or registration on it, may contain promotional e-mails and electronic images which are known as “web beacon”. The web beacons function in conformity with cookies, and they can be used for the following, among others:
· count the users visiting the website;
· monitor your activity in relation to a specific e-mail or whether you have clicked a link, where, for instance, the terms of entry into a contest can be found;
· Allow to conclude how successful a marketing campaign or a contest has been;
· they lay the foundation to the extent of the interest arisen by certain elements of the website, according to certain criteria;
· they determine how the advertisements and contents contribute to the sales results; or
· they help us assess how popular a certain product or service is and how the interest is divided between the various products and services of the Company.
List of third party cookies used by Imperial Travel:
Google Analytics: Their cookies (_ga,_gat and redirected) allows to count user visits in the web and how and when these visits occur.
In any case, you can disable the Google Analytics cookies from here
Google Maps: Their cookies (NID,OGPC) allow remembering the preferances like level of zoom, and checking how the users uses maps in other webs.
Google: These cookies (NID or CONSENT) allows to customize the adds out of Google or store information like preferred language when showing search results
You Tube: Their Cookies (CONSENT, YSC and PREF) measures for example when a video is viewed, liked and shared.
Doubleclick: Their cookies (IDE e id) allow to improve the eventual adds that may be included and focus the content to be relevant.
Wikimedia: Thei cookies (CP and WMF) allow to detect the number of unique that have accessed the contect
Placehold.it: Their cookie allows to show sample pictures
More information about the cookie type that Google uses in their multiple services
2- How to configure and disable the cookies
You can allow, block or erase the installed cookies in your device from your web browser. If you don’t allow cookie installation from your device, maybe your browsing experience is affected. Bellow you will find how to configure cookies in each web browser:
- Safari