The Cavendish Hotel Limited Cookie Policy
Whenever you visit our website, we may collect information using cookies. When you first visit our website, we will tell you about our cookies and, where necessary, ask for your consent to use them.
What Are cookies?
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree.Cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users of our website and remember information about your visit, like your preferred language and other settings. This information allows us to make your next visit easier and the site more useful to you.
How Long do cookies last?
This depends on the type of cookie we set:
- Session cookies: Temporary cookies that only exist for the period you access the website. Once you close your browser they will be automatically deleted from your device. Session cookies help us remember your movements from page to page, therefore avoiding having to re-enter information, for example.
- Persistent cookies: Remain on your device after you have visited the website and are not deleted when the browser is closed. Persistent cookies can retain your preferences and allow those preferences to be used in future visits to the site.
Which Cookies do we use and why?
When you use our website via a web browser, we may use the following categories of cookies:
1. Strictly necessary cookies:These cookies are essential for the operation of our website. For example, we need cookies to complete a reservation on our booking engine, if these cookies are switched off you cannot complete a booking. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or to track your browsing activity on other websites.
2. Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about the way visitors use our website, for example which pages visitors go to most often and whether error messages are showing on certain pages. This data enables us to make improvements to our website and fix errors. These cookies do not collect information that can identify you directly.
3. Functionality Cookies: These cookies remember choices that you make on ourwebsite and enable us to personalise our content for you and make sure your settings are remembered correctly when you return to the website (e.g. language settings). These cookies do not track your browsing activity on other websites or gather information about you that could be used for marketing.
4. Targeting And Advertising cookies: These cookies collect information about your browsing habits to enable us to make our advertising more relevant to you. We also use these cookies to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and help us measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns.
We make use of third-party applications and services to enhance the experience of website visitors. These include social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter (using sharing buttons), or embedded content i.e. content from YouTube and Vimeo. As a result, these third parties may set cookies to track your online activity. We have no direct control over the information that these third parties collect using these cookies, but you can set your preferences by following the links to those third parties’ pages in the table below.