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Cookie Policy

Cookie Policy

Taupo DeBretts Spa Resort Cookie Policy

Cookies

Cookies are small text files placed on your device to store data that can be recalled by a web server in the domain that placed the cookie.  This data often consists of a string of numbers and letters that uniquely identifies your computer, but it can contain other information as well.  Some cookies are placed by third parties acting on our behalf.  We use cookies to identify the pages that are being used.  From the data provided by these cookies, we can analyse web page traffic and tailor our website to our customer's needs. This information is only used for the purpose of statistical analysis. 

Two kinds of cookies are used on our websites: session cookies and persistent cookies.  Session cookies are used to remember selections made in the booking process, giving you a more seamless booking experience on our websites. Session cookies are deleted automatically when you leave a website or close your browser.  Persistent cookies are used to help us identify customers when they return to our websites and help us remember certain information about customer preferences on our websites and customer online activity. Persistent cookies are stored on the user's computer or device and are not deleted when the browser is closed - these cookies must be 'manually' deleted if you want to remove them.

Our website also contains web beacons or other similar technologies, as described below.

Our Use of Cookies and Similar Technologies

We use cookies for several purposes, including:

  • Storing your Preferences and Settings. We use cookies to store your preferences and settings on your device, and to enhance your experiences. Saving your preferences with cookies prevents you from having to set your preferences repeatedly.  If you opt out of interest-based advertising, we store your opt-out preference in a cookie on your device.
  • Sign-in and Authentication. We use cookies to authenticate you.  When you sign into our website using your personal account, we store a unique ID number, and the time you signed in, in an encrypted cookie on your device. This cookie allows you to move from page to page within the site without having to sign in again on each page. You can also save your sign-in information so you do not have to sign in each time you return to the site.
  • Security. We use cookies to process information that helps us secure our products, as well as detect fraud and abuse.
  • Storing Information You Provide to a Website. We use cookies to remember information you shared. When you provide information to us, we store the data in a cookie for the purpose of remembering the information.
  • Social Media.  Our website includes social media cookies, including those that enable users who are logged in to the social media service to share content via that service.
  • Feedback.  We use cookies to enable you to provide feedback on a website.
  • Interest-Based Advertising. We use cookies to collect data about your online activity and identify your interests so that we can provide advertising that is most relevant to you. 
  • Showing Advertising. We use cookies to record how many visitors have clicked on an advertisement and to record which advertisements you have seen, for example, so you don’t see the same one repeatedly.
  • Analytics.  We use first and third-party cookies and other identifiers to gather usage and performance data.  For example, we use cookies to count the number of unique visitors to a web page and to develop other statistics about the operations of our website.
  • Performance.  We use cookies to understand and improve how our website performs.  For example, we use cookies to gather data that helps with load balancing; this helps ensure that our website remains up and running.

This website uses the following cookies:

  • Google Analytics:  This cookie allows us to see information on user website activities including, but not limited to page views, source and time spent on website. The information is depersonalised and is displayed as numbers, meaning it cannot be tracked back to individuals. This will help to protect your privacy. Using Google Analytics we can see what content is popular on our website, and strive to give you more of the things you enjoy reading and watching.
  • Google AdWords:  Using Google AdWords code we are able to see which pages helped lead to contact form submissions. This allows us to make better use of our paid search budget.
  • DoubleClick:  We use remarketing codes to log when users view specific pages, allowing us to provide targeted advertising in the future. You can manage/opt out here: http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

How to Control Cookies

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but provide controls that allow you to block or delete them. Please refer to your browser's privacy or help documentation to find Instructions for blocking or deleting cookies in your browser.

If you choose to block or turn off cookies on this website, preferences that are dependent on cookies will be lost. If you choose to delete cookies, settings and preferences controlled by those cookies, including advertising preferences, will be deleted and may need to be recreated.

Our Use of Web Beacons and Analytics Services

Some of our web pages contain electronic tags known as web beacons that we use to help deliver cookies on our website, count users who have visited our website. We also include web beacons or similar technologies in our electronic communications to determine whether you open and act on them.

In addition to placing web beacons on our own websites, we sometimes work with other companies to place our web beacons on their websites or in their advertisements. This helps us develop statistics on how often clicking on an advertisement on our website results in a purchase or other action on the advertiser's website.

Finally, our website may contain web beacons or similar technologies from third-party analytics providers, which help us compile aggregated statistics about the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns or other operations. These technologies enable the analytics providers to set or read their own cookies or other identifiers on your device, through which they can collect information about your online activities across applications, websites or other products. However, we prohibit these analytics providers from using web beacons on our sites to collect or access information that directly identifies you (such as your name or email address). You can opt out of data collection or use by some of these analytics providers by clicking the following links: