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(1) Website Function Cookies

Our own cookies

We use cookies to make our website work including:

- Making our booking process and checkout work
- Remembering your search settings
- Remembering if you have accepted our terms and conditions
- Remember your language settings
- Identify & remember your user settings, when you access the partner/retailer portal with a user login

The following functional cookies are being set for this purpose:

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- Favorite
- LocalizationCode
- GNInfoBubbleHasBeenShown
- ipcmCountry
- ClientID
- User

There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.

(2) Social Website Cookies

So you can easily like or share our content on the likes of Facebook, Google+ and Twitter we have included sharing buttons as social plug-ins on our site.

The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.

Facebook (datr, lu) / Google+ (BEAT):

We as Dot Holiday have no influence over the content of the plug-in or the information sent to Facebook and/or Google. More information on the purpose and scope of the data processed as well as your rights and the privacy settings available to protect your private sphere may be found in the Data Use Policy of Facebook and Google at

- Facebook policy
- Google privacy

(3) Use of Web Analytics Tools:

Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies

We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. to identify when our site isn't working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called web analytics programs also tell us if, on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend. We use Google Analytics including the following cookies provided by them:

- Google Analytics:

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NOTE: Please note that Dot Holiday use the Google Analytics extension "_anonymizeIp()" so that your IP address is truncated to exclude any possibility of directly identifying you personally.

and we also use:

- Optimizely
- SnapEngage to offer you support via an Offline form

(4) Advertising Cookies (Third Party Cookies)

Cookies are widely used in online advertising. Neither us, advertisers or our advertising partners can gain personally identifiable information (like your name, address, email address or phone number) from these cookies.

You can learn more about online advertising at //www.youronlinechoices.com . You can opt-out of almost all advertising cookies at //www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices although we would prefer that you didn't as ultimately adverts help keep much of the internet free. It is also worth noting that opting out of advertising cookies will not mean you won't see adverts, just simply that they won't be tailored to you any longer.

You can also review our partners' privacy policies and opt out of their targeting advertising individually by visiting these websites:

- DoubleClick
- Google Conversion Tracking
- Right Media - Privacy Policy owned by Yahoo!
- Criteo - Privacy Policy
- Smart Ad Server – Privacy Policy
- AppNexus – Privacy Policy
- Metalyzer – Privacy Policy
- Nextperformance – Privacy Policy
- Mediamind – Privacy Policy

Please note that the above is not an exhaustive list.

(5) Remarketing Cookies

You may notice that sometimes after visiting a site you see increased numbers of adverts from the site you visited. This is because advertisers, including ourselves pay for these adverts. The technology to do this is made possible by cookies and as such we may place a so called Remarketing cookie during your visit. We use these adverts to offer special offers etc to encourage you to come back to our site. Don't worry we are unable to proactively reach out to you as the whole process is entirely anonymised. You can opt out of these cookies at anytime as explained below, or you could get further information directly from our remarketing partner(s):

- Criteo – Privacy Policy
- DoubleClick – Privacy Policy

(6) Affiliate Cookies

We have a number of partners who promote our service on a success-only basis (i.e. instead of paying for advertising, we pay them commissions on sales). Cookies are required to allow us to reward these partners and these cookies are usually provided by specialist companies (known as affiliate networks). Neither us, the networks, or the partner advertising or recommending our services are able to identify you personally. We ask you to support us by allowing these cookies which ultimately help us to offer you the service we do at the price we do. Our affiliate cookies are provided by:

- Tradetracker – Privacy Policy
- AffiliateFuture – Privacy Policy
- Tradedoubler – Privacy Policy

Turning Cookies Off / How to refuse or opt out of cookies

Most browsers are set by default to accept cookies automatically. You can however switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies automatically. Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our's and a large proportion of the world's websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites

More information about cookies, including how to block them or delete them, can be found at AboutCookies.org.

It may be that you concerns around cookies relate to so called "spyware". Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software.

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The necessary cookies help make the website usable, activating basic functions like the website navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function correctly without these cookies.

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The preferences cookies allow advanced functionalities to work, and a more personalised usage of the website. For example, it tells us about the webpages that have been visited so you have easier access to what you are looking for.

Statistics

The cookies statistics help the owners of the website understand how visitors interact with the website, compiling information in an anonymous way.

Marketing

The marketing cookies are used to track the website visitors. The intention is to show relevant and attractive adverts for the individual user, and therefore, of more value to the editors and third party advertisers.

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