Cookies are small pieces of text sent as files to your computer or mobile device when you visit most websites. Cookies may be delivered by us (first party cookies) or delivered by a third-party partner or supplier (third-party cookies). Cookies are either session cookies or persistent cookies. Session cookies enable sites to recognize and link the actions of a user during a browsing session and expire at the end of each session. Persistent cookies help us recognize you as an existing user and these cookies are stored on your system or device until they expire, although you can delete them before the expiration date.
We use cookies for a number of reasons, including to:
- Help us improve your experience when visiting our sites
- Fulfill transactions and ensure our sites perform as intended
- Remember your preferences, such as language, region, or currency
- Provide you with relevant advertising and analyze performance of the ads
- Enable you to return to previous travel searches
- Identify errors on our sites
- Help with data protection and potentially detect and investigate malicious of fraudulent activity
- Help us understand traffic to our site, including time and date of the visit, time and date of the last visit, and other information
- Analyze how well our sites are performingTypes of Information Collected by Cookies – The types of information that we collect through cookies include:
- IP address
- Device ID
- Viewed pages
- Browser type
- Browsing information
- Operating system
- Internet Service Provider
- Whether you have responded to, or interacted with, an advertisement
- Referring or referred links or URLs
- Features used and activities engaged in on our sites and in our apps
See the Categories of Personal Information We Collect and Use section in more information on what types of information are collected automatically.Types and Functions of CookiesEssential CookiesCertain cookies are required or “essential” and must be enabled for our Website and App to function. Examples of this functionality include: allowing you to navigate our sites and allowing us to recognize returning users so that actions such as logging in and managing your bookings are secure. You are not able to opt out of essential cookies.Other Types of Cookies
We also use other types of cookies to make our site engaging and useful to you:- Functional Cookies. These cookies enable our Website and Apps to remember your preferences such as preferred language, settings, shopping cart content, and previous searches. We use these cookies to enhance and personalize your experience on our sites.
- Performance Cookies. These cookies are used to identify and collect information on how users use our Website or Apps, in order to measure and improve the overall performance of our sites. Performance cookies allow us to track (in aggregate) how visitors use our sites, including details about how long visitors spend on each page of our website, the number of clicks made on a given page, search words used, and users mouse movements and scrolling activity. The information collected is used by us determine the effectiveness of our advertising, identifying technical issues with the website, and to improve our services, including your experience.
For analytics, our third-party service providers may use cookies to perform their services and may combine the information that they collect about you on our sites with other information that they have collected. This Cookie Statement does not cover such third-parties’ use of your information.How can you manage your cookies?You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies whenever you like, but please remember if you do choose to reject cookies, your access to some of the functionality and areas of our site may be restricted.Do-Not-Track Signals and Similar Mechanisms.Some web browsers may transmit “do-not-track” signals to sites with which the browser communicates. Because of differences in how web browsers incorporate and activate this feature, it is not always clear whether users intend for these signals to be transmitted, or whether users are even aware of them. Participants in the leading Internet standards-setting organization that is addressing this issue are in the process of determining what, if anything, sites should do when they receive such signals. We currently do not take action in response to these signals. If and when a final standard is established and accepted, we will reassess our sites’ responses to these signals and make appropriate updates to this Cookie Statement.