Hot Tub Holiday’s Cookie Policy

About Cookies And How We Use Them On Hot Tub Holiday

What Are Cookies?

In computing terms a cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s memory – such as a hard drive for instance. You can tell your browser not to accept cookies. However, you should be aware that cookies allow web applications to respond to your specific browser and some web sites may not work correctly if you have cookies disabled. It is estimated that a huge percentage of website on the internet use cookies and you will no doubt have had many cookies saved onto your internet enabled device / computer in the past which will have benefitted you. Cookies are not new and in the main serve an important purpose.

Blocking, Deleting & Managing Cookies

You can easily block or delete cookies from all or some websites by using your browser settings. To learn more about the steps involved in doing so you can read this web page
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Again, just be sure you wish to delete or block cookies as this could alter your experience on the web when using certain websites.

Hot Tub Holiday makes use of cookies.

Cookies Which We Use:-

User experience: From time to time we may run certain tests on our site. This could involve showing different content and / or layout to different visitors. For instance we may show visitor 1 ‘page a’ with 2 images on it and a short headline and show visitor 2 ‘page a’ with 3 images on it and no headline. We do this to analyse how our users interact with our websites and helps us to decide on what improvements and amendments are to made. Data collected is anonymised and means you cannot be identified personally. The software used is from a 3rd party. To opt out, visit this URL (http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/opt-out.php) and enter follow the on screen instruction.

Analytics: We use an analytics package which sets use cookies to discover how you interact with our website. For instance, which page you visit and for how long. Data collected is anonymised and means you cannot be identified personally. The software used is from a 3rd party.
You can read more information about the cookies set by our analytics package, here.

Commission Tracking: Some accommodation which we list are from holiday providers who are able to remunerate this website should a visitor of our site go on to book accommodation. To do this, they or the network which they are part of, will set a cookie. This helps keep Hot Tub Holiday free to use.
Social Buttons: Third-party social sharing plugins for sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Google+ may use cookies to collect anonymous (browser type, location, page views) usage information.
Links to other websites

Our website does contain links to other websites of which may or may not be of interest to you. However, once you have used these links to 3rd party websites, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this cookie / privacy statement. To learn more about the cookie and privacy information of 3rd party sites you can read their own cookie / privacy policy.

Policy last updated 31/08/2012.