Cookie Policy
About cookies
We use cookies and similar technologies, such as tags and pixels (“cookies”), to personalise and improve your customer experience as you use our website. Cookies are small data files that allow a website to collect and store a range of data on your desktop computer, laptop or mobile device. Cookies themselves don't hold personal information, but they are unique to you. In many cases, we would not be able to link the information we collect by using a cookie back to you as an individual. We do not use cookies to collect sensitive information.
Your consent
By continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our placing cookies on your computer in order to analyse the way you use our website. Please read this cookie policy carefully for more details about the information we collect when you use this website.
What cookies do we use and why?
The cookies used on our site are categorised as follows:
· Strictly Necessary;
· Analytical and Performance; and
· Targeting/Advertising.
Strictly Necessary
“Strictly Necessary” cookies are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, to book your stay at the Villa Lazuli or make use of e-billing services. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided. Please note that these cookies do not gather any personal information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you’ve been on the internet.
We use these Strictly Necessary cookies to:
· remember the information you have entered on the contact form and on the booking request form;
· remember the services you have requested when you get to the booking page; and
· make sure you connect to the right service on our website when we make any changes to the way our website works.
Accepting these cookies is a condition of using the website, so if you prevent these cookies we can’t guarantee your use of our website or how the security on our website will perform during your visit.
Analytical and Performance
“Analytical and Performance” cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. These cookies do not collect any information that could identify you and are only used to help us improve how our website works, understand what interests our users, and measure how effective our advertising is.
We use Analytical and Performance cookies for:
· web analytics: to provide statistics on how our website is used;
· ad response rates: to see how effective our advertisements are, including those pointing to our sites;
· affiliate tracking: to provide feedback on an anonymous basis to partners that one of our visitors also visited their website. This can include details of any products purchased;
· error management: to help us improve the website by measuring any errors that occur; and
· testing designs: to test different designs of our website.
By using our site, you accept the use of “Analytical and Performance” cookies. Accepting these cookies is a condition of using the website, so if you prevent them we cannot guarantee how our site will perform for you.
Targeting/Advertising
“Targeting/Advertising” cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website more relevant to your interests. They are linked to or integrated with services provided by third parties, such as ‘Like’ buttons and ‘Share’ buttons. Third parties provide these services in return for recognising that you have visited our website.
We use Targeting/Advertising cookies to:
· link to social networks like Facebook or Instagram, who may subsequently use information about your visit to target advertising to you on other websites;
· if the device used to access our website is being shared with several people, the person viewing advertising content might not be the person who visited our website; and
· all of these cookies are managed by third parties, and you may refer to the third parties’ own website privacy notifications for further information.]
By using our site, you accept the use of “Targeting/Advertising” cookies. However, if you prefer, you can opt out of these (please see below).
Third-Parties Cookies
Some of these cookies are managed by third parties, namely our third-party service providers who help us track and analyse statistical usage and volume information from our website users. The use of these cookies will help us improve the user experience, manage our website content and analyse how our users navigate and utilise the website.
These third-parties may also use cookies for research and marketing purposes. If you prefer not to accept these cookies, you can set your browser to reject them by amending your browser's cookie settings or to alert you before one is placed.
Your choices when it comes to cookies
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit:
· https://www.aboutcookies.org/ ; or
· http://www.allaboutcookies.org/
You can use your browser settings to accept or reject new cookies and to delete existing cookies. You can also set your browser to notify you each time new cookies are placed on your computer or other devices.
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.
Once you have given us your consent to the use of cookies, we shall store cookies on your computer or device. If you wish to withdraw your consent at any time, you will need to delete our cookies using your internet browser settings. Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after one (1) year.