Cookies Policy

This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers.

What Cookies do?

Cookies are of different types and can do different things. They can track website visitors, remember their settings for everyday use, they can store users preferences, but generally they are there to improve the user experience on that particular website. These cookies will store some information like digits, numbers, our site name and our partners site names using cookies on our website and a unique identifier, all these just to recognise the user every time it comes to our website and to give you the best experience without any errors. Also, cookies can be of two types. They are First Party Cookies that are created by the website you visit (we do not have our own First Party Cookies) or in many cases will be Third Party Cookies created by the partners of the website you visit who run different content on that particular page.

Cookies can be also stored temporarily during a single session and after will be permanently deleted like the Session Cookies, they can be stored on your personal computer or device for a longer period (a year or more and is usually about remembering your activity on the website) like the Persistent Cookies or they can be Flash Cookies used by Adobe Flash Player and by the websites who use their services.

How and why do we use Cookies on our website?

Most cookies we use are helping us to recognise your activity on our website, so that you or the browser doesn’t need to set up your preferences every time you come on our website, but the server and cookies will recognise you from the first visit. We use cookies to remember you and your preferences any time you are using our website and its services. We also use cookies from Third Party Companies (see below) to help you navigate easier throughout our website and to enable some widgets and other features we use. But generally, the most important cookies we use, are for statistics and will not identify you as an individual. It will help us to analyse the behaviour of our visitors and to improve the performance of our website and provide you with the best user experience and they will help us personalise the newsletters, better organise the website and the information it contains.

What Cookies we use on our website and who are the main partners that set Third-Party cookies on worldlifetimejourneys?

Initially, the platform we use, will send WordPress cookies to remember you as a user and to track your behaviour on the website. Cookies such as remembering the products and services or the holidays that you wish to buy from us can also be sent from the website.

But besides these, the most important cookies we use are the Tracking and Advertising Cookies provided by our main partner Google who helps us a lot in improving our website image and services. The cookies they set-up are through Google Analytics service which help us to analyse how our users use this website. This service will provide us with statistical information which remains anonymous, with the IP address from which the website was accessed, operating system, browser type, the country, region or city the user is coming from and all these to help us see how many page views we have, how many users and which are the regions and countries most of them are coming from and the browsers our visitors are using most frequently to navigate on the site.

Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google which utilises the data collected for tracking and examination purposes when a visitor uses www.worldlifetimejourneys.com. With its help we can see the reports made by Google and the activities of a user which can be used and shared by other Google Services. These cookies are processed in USA and help to personalise our website and the advertisements. All cookies from Google that we store once you accept them, will not be passed to other Google services other than the ones we use. You can read more about Google’s Privacy Policy Here.

(http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/)

You must know that you can stop any cookies by setting up your browser preferences or regarding to Google you can stop the cookies and the information they store simply by downloading and installing a very useful tool called Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on which you can find at http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Regarding the Advertisements Cookies that we use (not always present), Google is usually placing and storing unique ad-serving cookies on your computer hard-drive or device which they use after in order to create personalized adverts and will use the user activity information to serve ads and to improve the advertising network. For us is important to use these services for a better user experience and to keep the website well working.

Besides Google, our main cookie partner, we also use some very important widgets, plugins and services for us which are provided by different other partners who can store their own cookies on your personal device. You will find also:

  • A weather widget on most of our destinations pages, to help you see the daily weather forecast in different holiday locations and destinations provided by Accuweather.
  • Sharing social media buttons widgets/plugins to help you share on different platforms our holiday packages, travel services and products at your wish.
  • Other social media buttons to like or follow us on different social platforms.
  • A comment/review box at the end of every holiday package, travel service or product pages we publish in order to help you leave your comments/reviews/feedback in regards with that specific holiday, service or product.
  • Security cookies such as a SSL Certificate or other security measures for processing payments that are highly important for the online bank transactions which are extra protected.
  • Video cookies from the video platform YouTube (all the time when you play a video from our website).
  • Flash cookies that will be connected to playing videos and they require you to have a Flash Player installed.
  • A currency converter widget provided by today, to help you quickly convert your money into the destination country of your holiday.

All these partners can set-up and store their own cookies at any time on our website and send them to your device due to our partnership, but we opted for all these widgets and services just because we want to give you the best user experience and to help you choose your holidays and lifetime journeys in the best and quickest possible way. This website will not share your personal information and will not pass on any cookies to any third party companies except the partners that we work with.

By using our website and its services you accept to give us some personal information and you accept cookies (Cookie Consent appears on the website and send a cookie as well) to be stored temporarily or persistently on your personal computer or device. Without accepting the cookies that we use or by modifying these in any way, the website www.worldlifetimejourneys.com might not work properly for you.

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