Cookies Policy
This Cookies Notice sets out how The Travel Chapter Limited uses cookies when you access The Original Cottages website or one of the locally branded websites.
The Travel Chapter may change its notice from time to time as required and keep it up-to-date by amending this document. You should check this document periodically to ensure that you are aware of any recent changes.
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What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file received and stored by your browser. Information in the cookie makes it possible for a website to recognise a visit by a specific browser installation and thus to send individualised information to this installation. A cookie can contain text, numbers, dates etc. but cookies used by us do not hold any personal information. A cookie is not a program and it cannot contain a virus.
What is meant by similar technologies?
'Similar technologies' refers to any mechanism in which information is stored or accessed on your device when you visit our websites, such as HTML5 Web Storage. Like cookies, these can contain simple data such as text, numbers, dates etc. but also cannot contain viruses. For simplicity's sake, these will henceforth be included under the umbrella term of 'cookies' despite being a distinct technology.
Cookies used on this website
We make a distinction between cookies sent by our website, (first party cookies) and those sent by the website of one of our partners, e.g. Google Analytics (third party cookies). In most browsers it is possible to define settings that independently control the acceptance of each type of cookie on the computer.
We use cookies for the following purposes:
- Necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our site. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our site, or complete online payments securely.
- Analytics and Performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our sites work, for example, by ensuring that users find what they are looking for easily.
- Targeting and Advertising cookies. These cookies record your visit to our sites, the pages you have visited on our sites and others, and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make the advertising displayed to you more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
We may share the information we collect from cookies with our third party advertisers and analytics teams i.e. Google, Facebook and Bing, where it may be combined with other information you've given to our website, or any of the brands within the Original Cottages Family.
A full listing of the cookies in use is available in the tables below.
What is the lifetime of a cookie?
A cookie’s lifetime varies depending on the purpose for which it has been created. Some cookies disappear as soon as the browser is shut down (temporary or session cookies) while others can live on for several months (permanent cookies). You can view the lifetimes of the cookies we set in the tables below.
Permanent cookies with a specified lifetime will have a new expiration date set each time the site to which the cookie is related is revisited.
HTML5 Web Storage objects can be split into two lifetimes, 'Session' or 'Local'. Objects in the session storage will be removed by the web browser when a user closes the tab or window that the object was created in. Objects in the local storage are persistent and not automatically removed by browsers as default. These objects however can be removed by website functions.
If you would like a full listing of the cookies in use plus their duration, please see the tables below.
How do I avoid cookies?
You can adjust your Cookies Settings at any time when using our website by opening the Cookie Control widget found in the bottom-left corner of the screen, or selecting here to open Cookie Control settings. Your Cookies Settings are per-website, so you may need to repeat this on some or all of the Original Cottages Family websites.
Alternatively, you can select a browser and set it to block some or all cookies, delete existing cookies from your computer’s hard disk drive or in some cases issue a warning before any new cookie is downloaded. Please consult your chosen web browser’s Help function for instructions on how to do this.
You can always force immediate deletion of the cookies on your computer either during, or at the end of, a browser session. Please consult your chosen web browser’s Help function for instructions on how to do this.
For further detailed information you may wish to visit https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/ which contains comprehensive sources of information on cookies and how to control them using a wide variety of browsers.
Full details of cookies on Original Cottages websites
The below tables detail all the potential cookies that can be used on the family of Original Cottages websites. Not all of these will be in use on each individual website, nor each individual session. For example, some cookies from our external advertising partners will only be set if you come to our website through one of their online adverts.
Necessary cookies
| Provider | Name | Type | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Civic Cookie Control | CookieControl | First-party cookie | This is a cookie set by Civic Cookie Control that stores the cookie preferences on your system. | 1 year |
| Livechat | __lc_cid | First-party cookie | This is a cookie set by Livechat Inc. that facilitates the livechat function. | 2 years |
| __lc_cst | First-party cookie | This is a cookie set by Livechat Inc. that facilitates the livechat function. | 2 years | |
| Drupal | has_js | First-party cookie | This is a cookie set by Drupal which identifies browser capabilities. | Session |
| sf_redirect | First-party cookie | This is a cookie set by Drupal which controls website redirects in certain conditions. | Session | |
| Drupal.webform.† | HTML5 local storage object | This is a local storage object set by Drupal which maintains the 'open/closed' appearance of a particular webform on a particular page for returning visits. | Persistent | |
| Drupal.history.<userid>.<pageid> | HTML5 local storage object | This is a local storage object set by Drupal upon logging into an account, used by the system to associate a user with the last page they have interacted with. | Persistent | |
| Original Cottages | __rv | First-party cookie | This is a cookie set by us that collects information about recently viewed properties on your system. | 1 year |
| __tw | First-party cookie | This is a cookie set by us that collects information about wishlisted properties on your system. | 1 year | |
| actorid | First-party cookie | This is a cookie set by us that defines a numeric identifier for our customer account authentication. | 1 year | |
| actortype | First-party cookie | This is a cookie set by us that categorises a user for our customer account authentication. | 1 year | |
| customerid | First-party cookie | This is a cookie set by us that defines a numeric identifier for our customer account records. | 1 year | |
| SESS* | First-party cookie | This is a prefix of cookies set by us that controls the website session. | 23 days, or upon logging out of your customer account | |
| buildDate | HTML5 local storage object | This is a local storage object used for development purposes which stores a timestamp of the latest code build. | Persistent | |
| lgtmfex | HTML5 local storage object | This is a local storage object that controls the auto-logout of a user who has logged into their customer account on our website. | Persistent | |
| recent_searches | HTML5 local storage object | This is a local storage object that records any recent searches performed by a user, so that functionality can be offered that allows the user to resume a search they had previously made. | Persistent | |
| zendeskloader_hasOpened | HTML5 local storage object | This is a local storage object that records whether a visitor has engaged with the Zendesk Web Widget in order to keep it loaded as they use the website. | Persistent | |
| Google reCAPTCHA | _grecaptcha | HTML5 local storage object | This is a local storage object set by the Google reCAPTCHA plugin to prevent automated and malicious activity on the website. | Persistent |
| SagePay | JSESSIONID | Third-party cookie | This is a cookie set by SagePay that facilitates the secure payment function. | Session |
| NCS_WJQ-mjwf.* | Third-party cookie | This is a prefix of cookies set by SagePay that facilitates the secure payment function. | Session |
* denotes a wildcard of a randomly generated alphanumeric string.
† denotes a dynamic string in reference to specific page/webform's context.
Analytics and Performance cookies
| Provider | Name | Type | Purpose | Lifetime | Opt-out |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics | _ga | First-party cookie | This is a cookie set by Google Analytics that facilitates the Google Analytics service. | 2 years | Open Cookie Control settings |
| _gid | First-party cookie | This is a cookie set by Google Analytics that facilitates the Google Analytics service. | 24 hours | Open Cookie Control settings | |
| _gat | First-party cookie | This is a cookie set by Google Analytics that facilitates the Google Analytics service. | 1 minute | Open Cookie Control settings | |
| _dc_gtm_UA-* | First-party cookie | This is a prefix of cookies set by Google Analytics that facilitates the Google Analytics service. | Session | Open Cookie Control settings | |
| _ga_* | First-party cookie | This is a prefix of cookies set by Google Analytics that facilitates the Google Analytics service. | 2 years | Open Cookie Control settings | |
| _gac_gb_* | First-party cookie | This is a prefix of cookies set by Google Analytics that facilitates the Google Analytics service. | 90 days | Open Cookie Control settings | |
| _gac_UA-* | First-party cookie | This is a prefix of cookies set by Google Analytics that facilitates the Google Analytics service. | 90 days | Open Cookie Control settings | |
| _gat_UA-* | First-party cookie | This is a prefix of cookies set by Google Analytics that facilitates the Google Analytics service. | 1 minute | Open Cookie Control settings | |
| _gali | First-party cookie | This is a cookie set by Google Analytics that facilitates the Google Analytics service. | 30 seconds | Open Cookie Control settings |
* denotes a wildcard of a randomly generated alphanumeric string.
Targeting and Advertising Cookies
| Provider | Name | Type | Purpose | Lifetime | Opt-out |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bing Ads |
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First-party cookie | These are cookies set by Bing Ads to facilitate advertising and remarketing through the Bing advertising network. For information about how Bing will use your personal data if you consent to these cookies, see Microsoft's Privacy & Terms. |
1 day 16 days 90 days |
Open Cookie Control settings |
| Bing Ads |
MUID MUIDB |
Third-party cookie | These are cookies set by Bing Ads to facilitate advertising and remarketing through the Bing advertising network. For information about how Bing will use your personal data if you consent to these cookies, see Microsoft's Privacy & Terms. |
2 years 2 years |
https://about.ads.microsoft.com/en-gb/resources/policies/opt-out-of-the-microsoft-advertising-optimization-program |
| Bing Ads |
_uetsid_exp _uetvid _uetvid_exp _uetsid |
HTML5 local storage object | These are storage objects set by Bing Ads to facilitate advertising and remarketing through the Bing advertising network. For information about how Bing will use your personal data if you consent to these storage objects, see Microsoft's Privacy & Terms. |
Persistent Persistent Persistent Persistent |
Open Cookie Control settings |
| Google Ads |
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Third-party cookie | These are cookies set by Google Ads to facilitate advertising and remarketing through the Google advertising network. For information about how Google will use your personal data if you consent to these cookies, see Google's Privacy & Terms. |
20 years, 1 month 30 days 1 year 2 years |
https://adssettings.google.co.uk/ |
| DoubleClick (Google Ads) |
APISID HSID SAPISID SID SSID id IDE NID test_cookie DSID |
Third-party cookie | These are cookies set by DoubleClick to facilitate advertising and remarketing through the Google advertising network. For information about how Google will use your personal data if you consent to these cookies, see Google's Privacy & Terms. |
2 years 2 years 2 years 180 days 180 days 360 days 390 days 180 days 1 day 180 days |
https://adssettings.google.co.uk/ |
| AdSense (Google Ads) |
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First-party cookie | These are cookies set by AdSense to facilitate advertising and remarketing through the Google advertising network. For information about how Google will use your personal data if you consent to these cookies, see Google's Privacy & Terms. |
90 days 90 days |
Open Cookie Control settings |
| Facebook Ads | _fbp | First-party cookie | These are cookies set by Facebook Advertising to facilitate advertising and remarketing through the Facebook advertising network. For information about how Facebook will use your personal data if you consent to these cookies, see Facebook's Privacy & Terms. | 90 days | Open Cookie Control settings |
| Facebook Ads |
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Third-party cookie | These are cookies set by Facebook Advertising to facilitate advertising and remarketing through the Facebook advertising network. For information about how Facebook will use your personal data if you consent to these cookies, see Facebook's Privacy & Terms. |
2 years 90 days 2 years |
https://en-gb.facebook.com/policies/cookies/ |
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Third-party cookie | These are cookies set by LinkedIn to facilitate advertising and remarketing through the LinkedIn network. |
2 years 1 day 30 days 2 years Session 1 year |
https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out | |
| atdmt.com (Facebook) |
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Third-party cookie | These are cookies set by atdmt.com to facilitate advertising and remarketing through the Facebook advertising network. For information about how Facebook will use your personal data if you consent to these cookies, see Facebook's Privacy & Terms. |
90 days 2 years |
https://en-gb.facebook.com/policies/cookies/ |
Comments and Feedback
Please email any questions, concerns, or comments you have about our Cookies Policy to DPO@travelchapter.com.
Y Gorau O Gymru is a trading name of The Travel Chapter Limited. The Travel Chapter Limited is registered in England and Wales. Registered office Travel Chapter House, Gammaton Road, Bideford EX39 4DF. Company No. 02431506. Vat reg: 143053210.
