Cookie Policy
The Travel Corporation
Cookie Policy
Last updated: 29 June 2022
Contents
Please click on a link below to jump to a specific paragraph:
- About this policy
- About us
- Cookie Law
- Types of cookies and purpose
- Cookies placed on your browser
- How to disable cookies?
- Rejecting cookies
- Further information
- Contacting us
- About this policy
This Cookie Policy (“Policy”) describes The Travel Corporation collection, use, and retention of the cookies present on the website.
Cookies are simple text files that help coordinate [The Travel Corporation]’s website servers and your browser to display the full range of features offered by us. These features include hassle-free automatic logins and authentication, shopping cart functionality, third party ad serving, ad management, preference setting, audience measurement and statistics, tracking our visitors’ journey until our partners’ websites, language setting, among others.
We require your consent to process cookies, unless you provide us with your personal information, for instance for registration, placing an order, or complete online forms. In this case, we may collect, store and use your personal information in accordance to our Privacy Policy. We encourage you to read this document. - About us
This is the cookie policy of The Travel Corporation (referred to as "we", "us" or "our"). We are incorporated under the laws of Guernsey, Channel Islands. Our incorporation number is 50768 and our incorporation address or registered office is Travel House, Rue du Manoir, St Peter Port, Guernsey, GY1 2JH, Channel Islands. We are a member of ABTA (Y181X) and licensed by the Civil Aviation Authority (10148).
- Cookie Law
This Cookie Policy is to inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit and browse our website and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
Your personal data and the way we collect online identifiers through cookies and other tracking technologies are regulated by the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (also known as GDPR), the Directive on privacy and electronic communications 2002/58/EC (also known as the ePrivacy Directive) amended by the Directive 2009/136/EC (also known as the Cookie Directive). For the purposes of the provision of our services, we also comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018.
In summary, to comply with the law, we need to give clear information about what the cookies are used for, why, and obtain consent from you, the user. These are the objectives this Policy is set out to achieve.
- Types of cookies and purpose
Cookies are small text files placed on your device by the websites that you visit. Cookies allow websites to work appropriately, and they also collect some data to improve your experience on the website. You can choose to allow or block cookies, as described in section 4 of this Cookie Policy.
What types of cookies do we collect?
Necessary
Necessary, or essential, cookies help make our website usable by enabling basic functions like navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without this type of cookies. These cookies may include our own cookies or third party cookies such as Google Analytics.
Statistics
Statistics cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
Marketing
Marketing cookies enable us to track users across our website as well as some third-party websites. This helps advertisers display content that is more relevant to individual users and more valuable to publishers or advertisers. These cookies may be set by third party websites such as Facebook, YouTube, Google.
Name |
Retention |
Function |
Necessary (7) |
||
_RequestVerificationToken |
session |
Helps prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks. |
AWSALBCORS |
6 days |
Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience. |
google.com consent |
2 years |
Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website. |
youtube.com consent |
2 years |
Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website. |
CookieConsent |
1 year |
Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain |
rc::a |
persistent |
This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. |
rc::c |
session |
This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. |
Statistics (5) |
||
_ga |
2 years |
Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
_ga_# |
2 years |
Used by Google Analytics to collect data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. |
_gat |
1 day |
Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate |
_gid |
1 day |
Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
collect |
session |
Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behavior. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. |
Marketing (10) |
||
ads-ga/audiences |
session |
Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor's online behaviour across websites. |
visitor_info1_live |
179 days |
Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. |
YSC |
session |
Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY |
persistent |
Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video |
yt-remote-cast-installed |
session |
Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video |
yt-remote-connected-devices |
persistent |
Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video |
yt-remote-device-id |
persistent |
Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video |
yt-remote-fast-check-period |
session |
Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video |
yt-remote-session-app |
session |
Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video |
yt-remote-session-name |
session |
Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video |
- How to change your cookie settings?
You can decide which types of cookies to allow our website to place on your device by turning individual cookie types on or off in the cookie banner displayed to you upon your first visit. If you would like to reset those settings from your browser, please follow the below guidance for the commonly used browsers. Please note blocking all cookies in your browser settings will block necessary cookies as well, which may impact the website behaviour and disable some functionality.
- Internet Explorer:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/278835/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer
- Firefox:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-turn-do-not-track-feature
- Chrome:
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en-GB
- Safari:
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH5042?locale=en_GB
- Opera:
https://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/privacy/
In addition, Google Analytics gives you the option to install an opt-out browser add-on for Internet Explorer 11, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera:
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
- Rejecting cookies
Please note that disabling or rejecting the use of cookies on our website may result in some pages becoming inaccessible or not functioning properly. - Further information
Several websites explain how cookies work, offering more detail, such as www.aboutcookies.org, and www.allaboutcookies.org. (we have no affiliation with these websites). - Contacting Us
If you have any questions about our Cookie Policy or about how we process your personal data, including any complaints, please contact us either by e-mail to privacy@ttc.com, telephone on 01 481 714337, or by post to Travel House, Rue du Manoir, St Peter Port, Guernsey, GY1 2JH, Channel Islands.