A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences, such as login, language, font size and other display preferences, over a period of time. This is sent to your browser and stored on your computer’s hard drive or tablet or mobile device.
When you visit our website, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technologies, such as tag pixels, or other web beacon. This is for many purposes such as to remember your safe search preferences, to make the ads to see more relevant to you, to count how many visitors we received to a page, to help you sign-up for our services, to protect your data or to remember your advertising settings.
More specifically, we use cookies and other tracking technologies for the following purposes:
assisting you in navigation;
assisting in registration to our events, login, and your ability to provide feedback;
analysing your use of our products, services or applications;
assisting with our promotional and marketing efforts (including behavioural advertising)
We have grouped cookies we collect into categories as per below table and grouped them:
a. as per their expiry period, into:
stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date)
will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed
b. as per their purposes, into:
Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.
Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.
Unclassified cookies are cookies that we are in the process of classifying, together with the providers of individual cookies.
Necessary Cookies
| Cookie: | Purpose: | Expiry Period: | Party: |
|---|---|---|---|
| rc::a | to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. | Persistent | Google (USA) |
| rc::c | to distinguish between humans and bots | Session | Google (USA) |
| CONSENT | to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website. | 2 years | Google (USA) |
| PHPSESSID | preserves user session state across page requests. | Session | SimplyBook.me |
| CookieConsent | Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain | 1 year | SimplyBook.me |
| SESS# | preserves users' states across page requests. | Session | SimplyBook.me |
| CONSENT | to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. | 2 years | Google (USA) |
| sb_line_token,
sb_token |
queue management, bot protection | session | Simplybook.me |
| sess_user_publicv2, sb_widget |
SESSION | session | Simplybook.me |
Statistics & Analytics
| Cookie: | Purpose: | Expiry Period: | Party: |
|---|---|---|---|
| sb_widget | remembers whether the user has minimised or closed chat-box or pop-up messages on the website. | Session | SimplyBook.me |
| NID | set by Google to set a unique user ID to remember user preferences | Persistent: 182 days | |
| vuid | used by Vimeo players to check if certain features or preferences have been selected by the user on websites with embedded videos from Vimeo. | Persistent: 1 year 11 months 29 days | Vimeo |
| wd | this cookie stores the browser window dimensions and is used by Facebook to optimise the rendering of the page. | 7 days |
Marketing cookies
| Cookie: | Purpose: | Expiry Period: | Party: |
|---|---|---|---|
| YSC | registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from Youtube the e user has seen. | Session | Youtube.com (USA) |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated Youtube videos. | 179 days | Youtube.com (USA) |
| yt-remote-device-id | stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Session | Youtube.com (USA) |
| ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY | stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Session | Youtube.com (USA) |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Session | Youtube.com (USA) |
| yt-remote-session-app | stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Session | Youtube.com (USA) |
| yt-remote-cast-installed | stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Session | Youtube.com (USA) |
| yt-remote-session-name | stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Session | Youtube.com (USA) |
| yt-remote-cast-available | stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Session | Youtube.com (USA) |
| yt-remote-fast-check-period | stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Session | Youtube.com (USA) |
| fr | used by Facebook to collect a unique browser and user ID, used for targeted advertising. | 2 months 29 days | Facebook (USA) |
| sb | Facebook browser identification, authentication, marketing, and other Facebook-specific function cookies. | 1 year 11 months 29 days | Facebook (USA) |
You have control over your cookies as most browsers allow you to refuse or accept cookies and to delete cookies. To be honest however, while you can block all cookies from our website, you may find difficulties in seeing and using all the features we have on our website.
It is a good idea to consider using cookie blocking technology and/or a Do Not Track feature in your web browser to empower yourself with controls over what aspects of your browsing history you make available to third parties.
This will vary between browsers and different versions - check the links below to be updated about blocking and deleting cookies based on your needs:
We may change this document at any time in order to reflect changes in the law or our practices. Keep an eye on our website for any updates. If we make any great changes to this document, we will inform you thereof.
Contact our dpo@simplybook.me if you have any questions about the use of cookies. The previous version of our Cookies Policy is here
v.2. - Effective 26/07/2022
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