Cookies Policy
Introduction
This page, with our Privacy Policy, details our use of cookies on this website. By using this site you indicate that you accept this Cookies Policy and our Privacy Policy and you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these, please do not use this website. We may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure you are happy with any changes.
What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. We may link the information we store in cookies to any personal information you submit while on our website. Cookies save data about individual visitors to the website, such as the visitor's IP address, name, password, username, screen preferences, the pages of a website viewed by the visitor, and the advertisements viewed or clicked by the visitor.
What Do We Use Cookies For?
We use cookies to identify a visitor's browser, to anonymously track visits or to enhance the experience of the website. We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. A session ID cookie expires when you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. When a visitor revisits the website, we may recognize the visitor by the cookie and customise the visitor's experience accordingly.
Web Beacons
We employ a software technology called web beacons (a.k.a. clear gif, web bug, pixel, tag), that help us better manage content on our website by informing us what content is effective. Web beacons are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web users. Data collected can include IP addresses. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user's computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on Web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. We link the information gathered to our users’ or customers’ personal information to enable website tailoring, providing a better user experience, producing more relevant communications, achieving insights and internal reporting.
3rd Party Tracking
The use of cookies by our partners, affiliates, tracking utility company or service providers is not covered by this Policy. We do not have access or control over these cookies. Our third party partners employ web beacons, images, and scripts that help them better manage content on our website. We link the information gathered to our users’ or customers’ personal information to enable website tailoring, providing a better user experience, producing more relevant communications, achieving insights and internal reporting.
Behavioural Targeting / Re-Targeting
We partner with third party ad networks, including Facebook and Google, to either display advertising on our websites or to manage our advertising on other websites. Our ad network partners use cookies, web beacons and other technologies to collect both personally identifiable and non-personally identifiable information about your activities on this and other websites to provide you targeted advertising based upon your interests.
Third Party Cookies and Analytics
When you visit certain sections of our website and/or use our mobile application (if any), third parties may place cookies on your computer's browser and/or make use of web beacons to collect information. This information may include things such as your use of the website or mobile application, device and browser information and ad data. The information generated by the cookies and web beacons about your use of the website is transmitted to those third parties. This information is then used for the purpose of compiling statistical reports to enable us to measure and analyse the number of visits to the site and its pages, the average time spent on the site and the pages viewed; serving targeted advertising to you (including use to target advertising on other sites or applications based on your online activity); providing us with services and enhancing/improving our website, mobile application/s and the third party's technology products and services.
How To Manage Cookies and Targeted Advertising
There are a number of methods and tools visitors to our website can use to manage the how cookies are stored on their device and to restrict targeted advertising based on their browsing activities.
Using your browser settings to manage cookies
You can use your Internet browser to manage which cookies can be saved to your computer. You can remove existing cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser's "help" file. If you reject cookies, you may still have access to our website, but your ability to use some areas of our website, such as contests or surveys, may be limited. Instructions for amending cookie settings on popular browsers can be found:
Opting-out of targeted advertising
If you wish to not information on your activities used for the purpose of serving you targeted ads, you may opt-out by clicking Here and Here. Please note this does not opt you out of being served advertising. You will continue to receive generic ads or targeted ads where third parties do not honour opt-out capabilities.
Opting-out of Google Analytics
When you visit certain sections of the website, Google Analytics, a website analytics service provided by Google, Inc ("Google"), will place cookies on your computer's browser. The information generated by the cookies about your use of the website is transmitted to Google. This information is then used for the purpose of compiling statistical reports to enable us to measure and analyse the number of visits to the website and its pages, the average time spent on the site and the pages viewed. We will not (and will not allow any third party to) use Google Analytics to track or to collect any personal data of visitors to our website. We will not associate any data gathered via use of cookies with any personal data from any source as part of our use of Google Analytics.
For further information about Google Analytics please visit Here and for details of Google Analytics' Privacy Policy, please visit Here.
You may choose to opt-out of Google Analytics using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on which you may access at Gaptout.
Cookies used on this website
Information on the cookies and web beacons used on this website are provided below, with cookies separated by type based on their purpose.
Category: Necessary
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Cookie details |
Type |
Expiry |
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Name: LPVisitorID Source: va.v.liveperson.net Purpose: Identifies a browser as long as cookie is not deleted. |
HTTP |
Session based |
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Name: LPSessionID Source: va.v.liveperson.net Purpose: Current active (or last) monitoring session |
HTTP |
Session based |
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Name: BIGipServer Source: tags.affiliatefuture.com Purpose: Manages sessions on load balanced servers, to ensure user requests are routed consistently to the correct server. |
HTTP |
Session based |
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Name: login_idle_session_timeout, login_service_login_newrelic_com_tokens ei_client_id, __ar_v4, ajs_user_id, gcl_au, _fbp, nr_growth-production, __qca, mkto_trk, _ga, __adroll_fpc, ajs_group_id, intercom-id-cyym0u3i, ajs_anonymous_id, _gcl_aw, TSNGUID, optimizelyEndUserId Source: New Relic Purpose: New Relic is used to ensure that the website is working as expecting. Part of this relies on monitoring page load times for users and reporting when the service drops below a certain level. Individual users cannot be identified using NewRelic cookies. |
HTTP |
Session based |
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Name: Consent Source: www.google.com Purpose: The purpose of this cookie is to get visitors consent to collect browsing and personal data and inform users on the use of cookies while browsing. |
HTTP |
Session based. |
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Name: SID Source: www.google.com Purpose: These cookies are used to identify users, track users’ activity and store users’ preferences. |
HTTP |
Session based |
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Name: JSESSIONID Source: nr-data.net Purpose: This is used to monitor session counts for an application. |
HTTPF |
Session based |
Category: Statistics
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Cookie details |
Type |
Expiry |
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Name: OTZ Source: www.google.com Purpose: Aggregate analysis of website visitors |
HTTP |
Session based |
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Name: _ga Source: http://www.topdeck.travel Purpose: This cookie is from Google Analytics. - It is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. |
Text |
2yrs |
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Name: NID Source: www.google.com Purpose: The NID cookie contains 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 SafeSearch filter turned on. |
HHTP |
2yrs |
Category: Marketing
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Cookie details |
Type |
Expiry |
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Name: _gcl_au Source: www.google.com Purpose: Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services
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HTTP |
3 months |
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Name: __atuvc Source: http://www.topdeck.travel Purpose: AddThis social sharing widget which enables visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. It stores an updated page share count. |
HTTP |
1 year |
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Name: _fpb Source: http://www.topdeck.travel Purpose: Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers
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HTTP |
3 months |
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Name: _gcl_au Source: http://www.topdeck.travel Purpose: Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services
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HTTP |
3 months |
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Name: _gid Source: http://www.topdeck.travel Purpose: This cookie assigns a specific visitor ID, when the visitor interacts with ads or content from the website - this allows the website to target the visitor with similar ads or content. |
HTTP |
1 year |
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Name: _gad Source: www.googlesyndication.com Purpose: Used by Google Double Click for Publisher for banner tracking. |
HTTP |
1 year |
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Name: ANID Source: Google AdWords Purpose: These are cookies that Google AdWords use to monitor performance of advertising and serve adverts to visitors based on the websites they've previously visited |
HTTP |
2years |
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Name: SAPISID,APISID,SIDCC, HSID, 1P_JAR,SSID Source: www.google.com Purpose: This DoubleClick cookie is generally set through the site by advertising partners and used by them to build a profile of the website visitor's interests and show relevant ads on other sites. This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device. The main purpose of this cookie is: Targeting/Advertising |
HTTP |
2yrs |
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Name: fr Source: www.facebook.com Purpose: Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. For more information about Facebook cookies visit |
HTTP |
3mnths |
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Name: DSID Source: doubleclick.net Purpose: This cookie is used for re-targeting, optimisation, reporting and attribution of online adverts.
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HTTP
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2weeks |
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Name: IDE Source: dobuleclick.net Purpose: This cookie is used for re-targeting, optimisation, reporting and attribution of online adverts. |
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2mnths |
Category: Unclassified
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Cookie details |
Type |
Expiry |
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Name: LPVID Source: http://topdeck.travel Purpose: This cookie enables us to add on line chat functionality to communicate directly with our visitors. It is a unique visitor identifier. |
HTTP |
Session |
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Name: LPSID Source: http://topdeck.travel Purpose: This cookie captures current active (or last) monitoring session |
HTTP |
Session based |
