This cookie policy (the “Cookie Policy”) describes what cookies are and how they’re being used by the Twin Sables Safaris website (“Website”) and any of its related products and services (“Services”).
This Cookie Policy is a legally binding agreement between you (“User”, “you” or “your”) and this Website owner (“Owner”, “we”, “us” or “our”).
It is important to understand:
- the types of cookies that we use
- the information that we collect using cookies
- how that information is used
It also describes the choices available to you regarding accepting or declining the use of cookies. For further information on how we use, store and keep your data secure, see our Privacy Policy.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of data stored in text files that are saved on your computer or other devices when websites are loaded in a browser. They are widely used to remember you and your preferences.
Type of Cookies
Cookies are divided into three categories:
- Duration – how long cookies endure
- Purpose – what purpose cookies have
- Provenance – the origin or beginning of a cookie
Each of these cookies is divided into further sub-types of cookies:
Duration Cookies
- Session Cookies are created only temporarily in your browser’s subfolder while you are visiting a website. The session cookie is deleted once you leave the website.
- Persistent Cookies will remain in your browser’s subfolder and will only be activated again if you visit the same website that created that particular cookie. This cookie will not reside in your subfolder indefinitely, but will only stay there for the time duration that is set within the cookie.
Purpose Cookies
- Strictly necessary cookies are essential cookies that allow you to browse a website and use its features. These are cookies like shopping carts that allow online shops to hold your items while you are shopping online.
- Preference cookies allow a website to remember the particular choices that you have made concerning that website. This could be preferences such as language, username and login, etc.
- Statistics cookies are used on a website to find out how users use a particular website. These cookies gather information about what pages you visited and how long you were on the website. This type of info is anonymous and the user will not be identifiable. Only the user’s engagement with the website is recorded.
- Marketing cookies are the ones that try and figure out what kind of advertisement you should be shown. They are also typical third-party cookies.
Provenance Cookies
- First-Party Cookies are put directly on your browser by the website that you visit.
- Second Party Cookies are put on your browser by a third party when you visit a website. This is normally done by tracking, analytical or advertising systems.
What type of cookies do we use?
Necessary cookies
Necessary cookies allow us to offer you the best possible experience when accessing and navigating through our Website and using its features. For example, these cookies let us recognize that you have created an account and have logged into that account to access the content.
Functionality cookies
Functionality cookies let us operate the Website and Services following the choices you make. For example, during future visits we will recognize your username and remember how you customized the Website and Services.
Analytical cookies
These cookies enable us and third-party services to collect aggregated data for statistical purposes on how our visitors use the Website. These cookies do not contain personal information such as names and email addresses and are used to help us improve your user experience of the Website.
Social media cookies
Third-party cookies from social media sites (such as Facebook, Twitter, etc.) let us track social network users when they visit or use the Website and Services, or share content, by using a tagging mechanism provided by those social networks.
These cookies are also used for event tracking and remarketing purposes. Any data collected with these tags will be used following our and social networks’ privacy policies. We will not collect or share any personally identifiable information from the user.
Advertising cookies
Third parties who advertise on the Website e.g. advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services may also use cookies, over which we have no control.
These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies such as cookies for affiliate marketing – these cookies support the operation of the Website and we wouldn’t be able to invest in high-quality content for you to consume without them.
What are your cookie options?
If you don’t like the idea of cookies or certain types of cookies, you can change your browser’s settings to delete cookies that have already been set and to not accept new cookies.
Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or do not accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features that the Website and Services offer.
Changes and amendments
We reserve the right to modify this Cookie Policy or its terms relating to the Website and Services at any time, effective upon the posting of an updated version of this Cookie Policy on the Website.
When we do, we will revise the updated date at the bottom of this page. Continued use of the Website and Services after any such changes shall constitute your consent to such changes.
Acceptance of this Cookie Policy
You confirm that you have read this Cookie Policy and have familiarized yourself with the content thereof. By accessing the Website and using the Services, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Cookie Policy failing which you will not be entitled to access or use this Website or Services in any manner whatsoever.
Contacting us
For more information, you can contact us at dtwinsables@gmail.com.
This Cookie Policy was last updated on 14 July 2023.