Cookie Notice

Cookies

To make our websites work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your computer or device. Most websites do this too. Our website is:

www.stbreladesbayhotel.com

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that our website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit one of our sites. It enables our website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

How do we use cookies?

We use cookies and other technologies to ensure everyone who uses our website has the best possible experience. Cookies also help us keep your account safe. By agreeing to this cookie policy, you are agreeing to the use of cookies and similar technologies for the purposes we describe in this policy.

What types of cookie are there, and which ones do we use?

There are two types of cookie:

• Persistent cookiesremain on a user’s device for a set period of time specified in the cookie. They are activated each time that the user visits the website that created that particular cookie.
• Session cookiesare temporary. They allow website operators to link the actions of a user during a browser session. A browser session starts when a user opens the browser window and finishes when they close the browser window. Once you close the browser, all session cookies are deleted.

Cookies also have, broadly speaking, four different functions and can be categorised as follow: ‘strictly necessary’ cookies, ‘performance’ cookies, ‘functionality’ cookies and ‘targeting’ or ‘advertising’ cookies.

Strictly necessary cookies are essential to navigate around a website and use its features. Without them, you wouldn’t be able to use basic services like viewing other pages etc. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you’ve been on the internet.

Examples of how we use ‘strictly necessary’ cookies include:

• Setting unique identifiers for each unique visitor, so site numbers can be analysed.
• Navigation of the website pages

Performance cookies collect data for statistical purposes on how visitors use a website; they don’t contain personal information such as names and email addresses and are used to improve your user experience of a website.

Here are some examples of how we use performance cookies:

• Gathering data about visits to the website, including numbers of visitors and visits, length of time spent on the site, pages clicked on or where visitors have come from.
• For comparison with other websites using data collected by industry-accepted measurement and research companies.

Information supplied by performance cookies helps us to understand how you use the website; for example, whether or not you have visited before, what you looked at or clicked on and how you found us. We can then use this data to help improve our services.  We generally use independent analytics companies to perform these services for us and when this is the case, these cookies may be set by a third-party company (third party cookies).

Preference cookies allow users to customise how a website looks for them: they can remember usernames, language preferences and regions, and can be used to provide more personal services like local weather reports and traffic news.

Here is an example of how we use functionality cookies:

• Remembering if you’ve been to the site before so that messages intended for first-time users are not displayed to you.

Advertising and targeting cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you but can also limit the number of times you see an advertisement and be used to chart the effectiveness of an ad campaign by tracking users’ clicks. They can also provide security in transactions. They are usually placed by third-party advertising networks with a website operator’s permission but can be placed by the operator themselves. They can remember that you have visited a website, and this information can be shared with other organisations, including other advertisers. They cannot determine who you are though, as the data collected is never linked to your profile.

How to control cookies

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

Cookies on our websites are used for:

Category	Name of Cookie	Purpose	Expiration
Necessary	_smVID	Necessary for the sign-up function on the website.  This function is provided by Sumo.com	29 days
	catAccCookie	Determines whether the visitor has accepted the cookie consent box.  This ensures that the cookie consent box will not be presented again upon re-entry.	29 days
	debug	Unclassified at this time	Persistent
Preference	_smSessionld	Necessary for the sign up function of the website	1 day
Statistics                       Statistics	_ga	This helps us count how many people visit the website by tracking if you’ve visited it before	2 Years
	_gat	This is used to manage the rate that page view request are made	10 Minutes
	_gid	Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data	2 Years
	­_smToken	This cookie is used to determine if the visitor is logged in or not	1 year
	collect	Used to send data to Google Analytics about visitors device and behaviour	Session
	route	Registers statistical data on visitor’s behaviour on the website	Session
	triptease-identity-data	Contains a visitor ID – This is used to identify the visitor upon re-entry to the website	1 day
	triptease-session-id		1 day
	triptease-user-id		5 years
Marketing                                       Marketing	_fbp	Used by facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bibbing from third parties	3 months
	ads/ga-audience	Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on visitor’s online behaviour across websites	Session
	associate-segment	Unclassified at this time	Session
	bito	Sets a unique ID for the visitor that allows third party advertisers to target the visitor with relevant advertisement. This pairing service is provided by third party hubs.	1 year
	checkforpermission	Determines whether the visitor has accepted the cookie consent box	1 day
	NID	Registers a unique ID Google uses to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language (e.g. English), how many search results you wish to have shown per page (e.g. 10 or 20), and whether or not you wish to have Google’s Safe-Search filter turned on.	6 months
	fr	Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products from third party advertisers	3 months
	rc::a	Used to distinguish between humans and bots.	Persistent
	rc::b		Session
	rc::c		Session
	tr	Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products from third party advertisers	Session
	tt-domain-user-id	Collects information on visitor’s behaviour on multiple websites	5 years
Unclassified Category       Unclassified Category	persstate	Unclassified Unclassified	1 day
	tt_bw_id		Persistent
	tt_message_engine_latest_visit_info		Persistent
	TT_SESSION		Session