Cookie Policy

Club Travel/HRG

Published on: 03/05/18

Updated on: 26/04/2018

Club Travel Limited and its associated companies fully respect your right to privacy.

This Cookie Policy applies to the operations of the following websites;

www.clubtravel.ie; www.go4less.ie; www.budgettravel.ie; https://usa.budgettravel.ie; www.budgetair.ie; www.abbeytravel.ie; www.escape2.ie; www.hotelinstyle.com; www.eurasiatravel.ie; www.clubtravelhrg.com; www.flightpixie.co.uk; www.esta-usa.ie; www.etavisa-australia.ie; http://www.skylinetravel.ie/

Operated by: Club Travel Limited, a company registered in the Republic of Ireland under number 089890 and having its registered office at 30 Lower Abbey Street, Dublin 1.

Club Travel and its associated companies fully respect your right to privacy.

Data Protection: What information do we collect?

Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you with the best and most useful content to help improve your online experience.

We collect certain kinds of information about our users for these reasons:

1.      To provide personalised services unique to individual use.

2.      To help us to monitor and improve the services we offer.

3.      With user consent, to market services to individual users.

Visitors should be aware that each time they visit a website two general levels of information about their visit can be retained.

The first level comprises statistical and other analytical information collected on an aggregate and non-individual specific basis of all browsers who visit the site.

The second level comprises information that is personal or particular to a specific visitor who knowingly chooses to provide that information. It is policy of this website to respect and protect the privacy of our Customers and never wilfully disclose individually identifiable information about its Customers to any third party without first receiving that Customer's permission.

No personally identifiable information is collected about you on this website, apart from information which you volunteer (for example by emailing us, using our online forms or by making an inquiry about content or services).

This information will only be used by Club Travel Limited for:

·         The purposes for which it was provided by you;

·         Verification purposes and statistical analysis;

·         To identify you as a customer

·         To process your booking

·         To verify credit or other charge card details

·         To deliver relevant information to you in connection with your travel and any ancillary services which you may wish to avail of

Accordingly, our Privacy Notification will apply to our treatment of the information we obtain via our cookies.

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of information, stored in simple text files, placed on your computer by a website. Cookies can be read by the website on your subsequent visits. The information stored in a cookie may relate to your browsing habits on the web page, or a unique identification number so that the website can ‘remember’ you on your return visit.

Generally speaking, cookies do not contain personal information from which you can be identified, unless you have furnished such information to the website. This website uses cookies to track usage and help improve features and services of the site.

Statistical and analytical information from cookies provides us with general and not individually specific information about the number of people who visit this website; the number of people who re-turn to this site; the pages that they visit; where they were before they came to this site and the page in the site at which they exited. This information helps us monitor traffic on our website so that we can manage the site's capacity and efficiency. It also helps us to understand which parts of this site are most popular, and generally to assess user behaviour and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of the various areas of the site.

How we use Cookies

We collect information on our users through registration and the use of the website, through cookies, where you choose to disclose data in postings, and when you enter sales promotion and competitions.

We use cookies for a number of reasons:

1. Analysing how you use the website
2. Recognising you when you´ve signed in
3. Customer Functionality

By using the site you are agreeing to the use of cookies as described.

Cookies we use

There are two types of cookie you may encounter when using this site;

First Party Cookies

These are our own cookies, controlled by us and used to provide information about usage of our site.

The following is a listing of the main cookies used on our site together with brief details of the information they store and for what purpose;

Site Performance Cookies

This type of cookie remembers your preferences/settings for tools found on any Club Travel limited site.

Analytics Cookies

Every time a user visits our website, web analytics software provided by a third party generates an anonymous analytics cookie. These cookies can tell us whether or not you have visited the site before. Your browser will tell us if you have these cookies, and if you don't, we generate new ones. This allows us to track how many individual unique users we have, and how often they visit the site. Unless you are signed in to an Club Travel limited site, these cookies cannot be used to identify individuals; they are used for statistical purposes only. If you are logged in, we will also know the details you gave to us for this, such as username and email address.

We use Google to provide our analytics data. You can read more about how Google Analytics treats your data at: Google: Safeguarding your data.

You can also read Google’s full privacy policy.

Registration Cookies:

When you register with a Club Travel limited site, we generate cookies that signal whether you are signed in or not. Our servers use these cookies to work out which account you are signed in with, and if you are allowed access to a particular service. It also allows us to associate any comments you post with your username. If you have not selected 'keep me signed in,' your cookies get deleted when you either close your browser or shut down your computer. While you are signed into this site, we combine information from your registration cookies with analytics cookies, which we could use to identify which pages you have seen on a Club Travel limited site.

Third Party Cookies

These are cookies found in other companies’ internet tools which we are using to enhance our site, for example Facebook or Twitter, have their own cookies, which are controlled by them.

Some of these third parties use their own anonymous cookies to track how many people have seen a particular ad, or to track how many people have seen it more than once. Visitors should be aware that Club Travel Limited is unable to control the use of cookies or the resulting information by other third parties such as advertisers or parties hosting data. These cookies cannot be used to identify an individual; they can only be used for statistical purposes, for example, in providing you with advertisements that are more relevant to your interests.

The companies that generate these cookies have their own privacy policies and Club Travel limited has no access to read or write these cookies, other than allowing them to be served, we have no role to play in these cookies at all (although we may use statistical information arising from these third party cookies and provided to us by third parties, to improve the targeting of advertisements to users of the website). These third-party advertising cookies may be used by those third parties to anonymously target advertising to you on other websites, based on your visit to a Club Travel limited site.

If you would like to disable "third-party" cookies generated by advertisers or providers of targeted advertising services, you can turn them off by going to the third party's website and getting them to generate a one-time "no thanks" cookie that will stop any further cookies being written to your machine. The following are links to the main third-party advertising, analytics, survey and commenting platforms we use, each of which provides instructions on how to do this:

Advertising: n trackers

Site Analytics: n trackers

Customer Functionality: n trackers

Essential: n trackers

Social media: n tracker

How to manage your cookies

CONTROLLING COOKIES WITHIN YOUR BROWSER

Most browsers and devices offer settings that allow you to choose whether browser cookies are set and to turn-off and/or delete them. For more information about these controls, visit your browser or device's help material. Certain parts of the Club Travel limited services may not work properly if you have disabled browser cookie use and you might see more pop-ups and other intrusive advertising, as we won't be able to limit what you see using cookies. You will, however, still be able to view editorial content.

Browser help pages relating to cookie settings

Browser manufacturers provide help pages relating to cookie management in their products. Please see below for more information.

• Internet Explorer
• Google Chrome
• Mozilla Firefox
• Safari (Desktop)
• Safari (Mobile)
• Android Browser
• Opera
• Opera Mobile

For other browsers, please consult the documentation that your browser manufacturer provides.

Find out more about the use of cookies on http://www.cookiecentral.com

If you are primarily concerned about third party cookies generated by advertisers, you can turn these off by going to http://www.youronlinechoices.com/ie/

You can also visit the trade body representing these advertising bodies for more information on how to opt out of these cookies:

http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp

Changes to this Statement

If there are updates to the details of this Cookie Policy, we will post those changes and update the revision date at the top of this document, so you will always know what information we collect online, how we use it, and what choices you have.