WHAT ARE COOKIES

As is common practice with almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies if you agree. Cookies are tiny files that are stored on users’ browser or the hard drive of users’ computers. This page describes what information they gather and how we use it. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored.

For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.

THE COOKIES WE SET

We use the following cookies:

1) Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our site. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to sign into secure areas of our website (which prevents you from having to sign in every time you visit a new page) and to remember your order between pages so that we can process it properly.

2) Functionality cookies. These cookies are used to recognize users when they return to a website. They enable the personalization of content and recognition of users and user preferences.

3) Analytical/ performance cookies. These types of cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our site and to see how visitors move around our site when they are using it. This assists us in improving the way our site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

4) Targeting cookies. These cookies record a user’s visit to a website, the individual pages visited and the links followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests, and to serve you with targeting online advertising on third party websites. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

THIRD PARTY COOKIES

Third parties (including for example, advertising networks, analytical providers and social network platforms) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/ performance cookies and targeting cookies. If a targeting cookie is set by a third party which also monitors traffic on other sites, this type of cookies may also be used to track a user’s movements across different sites and to create profiles of their general online behaviour.

Below is information about cookies used by some third parties:

GOOGLE ANALYTICS

Our website uses Google Analytics’ cookies to provide us with information about how users of our website engage with and use our website. Google may use a set of cookies to collect information and report website usage statistics without personally identifying individual visitors to Google. The main cookie used by Google Analytics is the ‘__ga’ cookie. These cookies sit within the Analytical/ performance cookies category above.

See more information about how Google uses your data at google.com/policies/privacy/partners. You hereby consent to the storing and access of these cookies by Google in this way.

MIXPANEL

We use Mixpanel (www.mixpanel.com) in order to learn how our customers use our website so that we can continue to improve its functionality. In order to provide this service, Mixpanel collects information and data about how our customers use our website by using cookies. Again, these cookies sit within the Analytical/ performance cookies category above.

You hereby consent to the use of these cookies by Mixpanel for tracking purposes and to the collection and sharing of such data for this purpose.

DISABLING COOKIES

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this website.

If you do not consent to the use of Google Analytics’ cookies, you must opt-out using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on located at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

If you do not consent to the use of Mixpanel’s cookies, you must opt-out of Mixpanel by visiting mixpanel.com/optout/.

If you use a new computer or browser or erase, alter or upgrade your browser’s cookie file, please note that any opt-out add-ons may be cleared and you may have to opt-out again.

MORE INFORMATION

Hopefully that has clarified things for you. However if you are still looking for more information, then you can contact us at use.lodgify.com/contact-us