Most websites you visit will use cookies to improve your experience by enabling that website to 'remember' you, either while you are on the website or for the next time you visit. Some websites will also use cookies to enable them to target advertising based on your location and/or browsing habits.
Cookies are tiny text files stored on your computer when you visit a website. They can be useful in lots of different ways, such as storing your preferences and generally improving your experience of that website. Without cookies, each time you visit a new page, the website will think you are a new visitor. For example, if you are logged in, you will need to log in again each time you move to a new page of that website because the website will not 'remember' you.
Cookies are not able to harm your computer and no personally identifiable information is stored in the cookies we create. Your computer will only share the information stored in our cookies with our website - no other website can access that information.
We want to be absolutely honest and clear about the cookies we use and your privacy while using our website. We have provided details of how we use cookies and information on all of the cookies we use to allow you to make an informed decision about whether to continue allowing cookies while using our website. Please bear in mind that should you decide not to allow cookies while browsing audleytravel.com, you will lose certain functionality and features which may make our website less convenient to use.
We use cookies to collect and store information about your usage of our website and to perfom certain functions like remembering you when you come back to our site. For example, we use the information stored in our cookies combined with software such as Google Analytics, to understand how many people visit our website and at what time of day, what devices they use (e.g. a PC or an iPad), what browser they are using and which pages they look at. All of this information is used to improve the way our site works to make it a better experience for as many visitors as possible.
Our cookies do not store any personal information such as your name or address. However, if you'd prefer to restrict, block or delete cookies from audleytravel.com, or any other website, you can use your browser to do this. Each browser is different, so check the 'Help' menu of your particular browser (or your mobile phone's handset manual) to learn how to change your cookie preferences.
Here's a list of the main cookies we use, and what we use them for. You'll find information about 3rd party cookies on the next tab.
| Feature | Cookies used |
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Microsoft ASP.netThis is a random code used to allow our webserver to treat your visit as one session, rather than a series of single page views. |
ASP.NET_SessionId |
Navigating to a destinationThis value is set when a visitor uses the destinations drop-down on www.audleytravel.com to browse by map or using an A-Z list of countries. By remembering the visitors' choice, we can go straight to the right view next time. The value stored is either |
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The Travel PlannerThe Travel Planner is a feature on our site which allows visitors to save a place, hotel, excursion or itinerary to a list of plans. This is useful for researching a trip and can be sent to one of our specialists as the basis for a quotation. The value stored in the cookie is a unique random identifier used to group the pages saved by a visitor. |
travelPlannerToken |
Google AnalyticsWe use Google Analytics to measure how visitors arrive at our site (from an advert, another website, our magazine etc) and how they are using our website. We use the knowledge gained to improve the information we show and make it easier to find. All the data is completely anonymous. |
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AddThisAddThis is a 'social sharing' tool, which allows visitors to our site to 'like' pages on Facebook, share on Twitter or email to a friend. Using AddThis allows us to see which pages are popular. |
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LiveChatWe use a service called LiveChat to allow website visitors to chat with our country specialists on certain areas of the site. |
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OptimizelyOptimizely allows us to run A/B tests on our site. We can change a detail on a page, run the changed page alongside the original and measure which one leads to a better engagement with our visitors. This is regularly used for determining what text to show on buttons, what colour to make things or which picture leads to more clicks. |
optimizelyBuckets |
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ClickTaleClickTale allows us to 'watch' a visitor use our site, including mouse moves and how long is spent on a given page. This allows us to identify confusing or difficult pages. As with all cookies we use, the visitor is completely anonymous. |
WRUID |
We don't use any flash cookies on any of our sites.
When you visit our website you may notice some cookies that aren't related to Audley. We do have relationships with other carefully-selected and monitored third-party suppliers who may also set cookies during your visit. For instance, if we embed a video from YouTube into our website, YouTube may use cookies to store information on your video settings or how far through the video you have watched.
We don't control the setting of these cookies, so we suggest you check the third-party websites for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.
Some of the business partners that may set cookies on audleytravel.com include:
| Partner | Cookies used |
|---|---|
AddThisAddThis is a 'social sharing' tool, which allows visitors to our site to 'like' pages on Facebook, share on Twitter or email to a friend. Using AddThis allows us to see which pages are popular. |
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YouTubeWe use YouTube to embed our videos into our sites. When a visitor watches an embedded video, YouTube uses cookies to store some information. |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE |
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| LOGIN_INFO | |
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We work with carefully selected third party advertising networks, such as Google, to remind you of your visit to our website as you browse other, related websites. This is known as re-marketing and is based on cookie technology. Please note that these adverts are completely anonymous and no personal information is used to target these adverts. They are only shown to people who have previously visited our website and the number of times they are shown and the duration for which they are shown is restricted.
You can opt out of receiving these adverts by blocking cookies in your browser, but please be aware that blocking cookies completely will mean you lose certain functionality and features which may make our website less convenient to use.