The Hideout Hiraeth Cookies Policy

At www.thehideouthiraeth.com, we use cookies on our websites and mobile applications to make sure your experience is as perfect as it can be. But we also want to be sure you understand what kind of data we are gathering when you book accommodation or experiences with us and how you are always in control.

What is a cookie anyway?

When you return to browse the same website in the future, the data stored in the cookie can be retrieved by the website to notify the website of your previous activity so it can deliver a more user-friendly service – for example, remembering previous purchases or account login details. Cookies were designed to be a reliable mechanism for websites to remember the state of the website or activity the user had taken in the past. This can include clicking particular buttons, logging in, or a record of which pages were visited by the user.

When you return to browse the same website in the future, the data stored in the cookie can be retrieved by the website to notify the website of your previous activity so it can deliver a more user-friendly service – for example, remembering previous purchases or account login details. Cookies were designed to be a reliable mechanism for websites to remember the state of the website or activity the user had taken in the past. This can include clicking particular buttons, logging in, or a record of which pages were visited by the user.

Perhaps most importantly, authentication cookies are the most common method used by web servers to know whether you are logged in or not, and which account you are logged in under. Without such a mechanism, the website would not know whether to send a page containing sensitive information, or require you to authenticate yourself by logging-in.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website

Types of cookies we use

Like most websites, The Hideout Hiraeth’s online channels and applications (apps) collect some information about you (e.g., information on IP addresses, browsers, internet service providers, referring pages, exit pages, operating systems, date stamps, timestamps, and clickstream data). This information won’t be linked to any other information we collect about you unless you have consented to it. Both we and our third-party tracking partners use browser storage, app storage, cookies, pixels, beacons, scripts and tags to analyse trends, administer our sites, track user movement through our sites and collect demographic information about our overall user base. We may receive reports on these from our third-party tracking partners on an individual and aggregate (i.e., anonymous) basis and those partners may combine that information with other information they have collected from you. At www.thehideouthiraeth.com , we use the following varieties of cookies to optimise your website experience:

• Required cookies
• Functional cookies
• Functionality cookies
• Advertising cookies

These cookies are a mixture of first party cookies, which we set ourselves, and third party cookies, which are set by other websites.

What our cookies do

We use cookies across our websites and mobile applications to provide the following functions

• Personalization – For example, your language preference is remembered.
• Session management – To ensure that your session is routed to the correct system within the The Hideout Hiraeth infrastructure for the duration of your visit.
• Usage Tracking – The Hideout Hiraeth uses Google Analytics solution to provide analysis of a users’ ongoing usage of the website. This facilitates ongoing improvements to the website.
• Multivariate testing – We can display multiple versions of a page to you to assess which generates the best customer experience for you.
• Advertising – Display advertising content depending on location, language, and your past browsing history.

Required Cookies

We use a number of cookies which are required in order to allow you to access our websites, to move between pages and to receive services which you have requested. These cookies are required to enable core site functionality and are therefore always enabled. These cookies will remember your selected country and language, track your movement on and usage of our site for statistical purposes and store whether you are logged in or not. We won’t ask for your consent to place these cookies because we have a legitimate purpose for setting them.

Functional Cookies

We use functional cookies which are entirely optional and allow us to remember your preferences and experiences on our sites. For example, cookies save you the trouble of selecting your language or currency every time you access the website and recall your customisation preferences. We also use functional cookies to analyse how our visitors use our websites and to monitor website performance. This allows us to provide a high quality experience by customising our offering and quickly identifying and fixing any issues that arise. For example, we might use performance cookies to keep track of which pages are most popular, which method of linking between pages is most effective, and to determine why some pages are receiving error messages.

Performance Cookies

We utilise other cookies to analyse how our visitors use our websites and to monitor website performance. This allows us to provide a high quality experience by customising our offering and quickly identifying and fixing any issues that arise. For example, we might use performance cookies to keep track of which pages are most popular, which method of linking between pages is most effective, and to determine why some pages are receiving error messages.

Advertising Cookies

The Hideout Hiraeth, our partners, and our advertisers use cookies to display advertisements that we believe are relevant to you and your interests. Third Party advertisers and partners may analyse data they collect about your use of the The Hideout Hiraeth website, through first and third-party cookies, in order to serve adverts to you on the The Hideout HIraeth website or on other third party websites. We also work with advertisers in order to display The Hideout Hiraeth adverts on third party websites, based on cookies set on your visit to the The Hideout Hiraeth website. Advertisers may also use information about your previous web activity to tailor the adverts which are displayed on the The Hideout Hiraeth website. Advertising cookies may also be used to track your responses to particular adverts, which helps advertisers to ensure that you see the most relevant advertisements in future, both on The Hideout Hiraeth websites and on third party websites. Those partners (e.g., Facebook and Google) may combine that information with other information they have collected from you.

How to manage cookies

The cookies are placed on your device. This means that we cannot delete them for you. You must do that yourself in the way prescribed by your specific device. If you are on a website operated by www.thehideouthiraeth.com , you can also avoid cookies being placed by adjusting the browser settings in your device. If you are using an app published by The Hideout Hiraeth, please note that cookies set in an app work in a different way and you will have to control this via your device directly. Real browser cookies are set to expire. Similar types of technologies like local storage on your device do not have expiration built-in but must be deleted by you. We have linked to instructions on how to adjust/delete cookies on some of the more common devices below.

If you do not want your browser to accept cookies, you can turn off the cookie acceptance option in your browser settings. For further information about how to turn off cookie acceptance please refer to the “Help” function in your browser.

If you would like to opt out of the Google Analytics features mentioned above, details of how to opt-out are available here.

Please note that disabling cookie support may prevent this website from functioning properly and you may not be able to fully utilise all of its features and services.

Please find examples of guides on how to block cookies and how to remove cookies in the various browsers for PCs and Macs:

Internet Explorer
Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
Opera
Safari
Microsoft Edge
Samsung Browser

GRIEVANCE REDRESSAL

Any complaints, abuse or concerns with regards to content and or comment or breach of these terms shall be immediately informed to the designated Grievance Officer as mentioned below via in writing or through email to contact@thehideouthiraeth.com