What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your device by a web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer) that hold
information about your previous visits to our site. On returning to our site this stored information is fed
back to us allowing us to offer you a more personal browsing experience. By using our site you consent
to cookies being used in accordance with our policy. For more information on cookies, visit
www.ico.org.uk or www.dataprotection.ie
Why are we telling you this?
EU law requires website operators to ask for permission before using certain kinds of cookies. To ensure
you are completely aware of the types of cookies we use and to enable us to continue to bring you the
best possible browsing experience, we are giving you a detailed outline of the cookies we use and their
unique role in your browsing experience.
What cookies we use
Our website uses the following types of cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies – These technical cookies enable you to navigate our site and gain full access
to its features and secure areas. Without these cookies essential services, you have asked for, cannot be
provided.
Functionality cookies – These cookies remember choices you made on previous visits to our site such as
your username, language or region so we can provide enhanced, more personal features. They can also
be used to remember changes you’ve made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages you can
customise. Functionality cookies can also be used to provide services you have previously asked for such
as watching videos or commenting on a blog. The information collected by these cookies may be
anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other sites.
Performance cookies (Google analytics cookies) – These cookies remember information about how you
and other customers use our website. This gives us vital information such as which pages are visited
most often and if customers are receiving error messages from certain pages. The role of these cookies
is to allow us to analyse and improve the performance of our website ensuring you receive a consistent
look, feel and shopping experience. Performance cookies don’t collect any information that identifies
the customer and all information collected is aggregated and therefore anonymous.
Targeting or advertising cookies – These cookies are used to show you Partner Hotel advertisements on
other websites. This is called ‘retargeting’ and these cookies remember that you have visited our
website and the information is shared with other organisations such as third-party advertisers. Thirdparty advertisers, including Google, use first-party cookies (such as Google Analytics cookie) and thirdparty cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to inform, optimise, and serve advertisements
based on someone’s past visits to our Website. When one of these adverts is presented to you on a site
there will be a quick and easy way to click in and opt out of receiving further adverts.
Our Cookie Details
Name
Purpose
Type
Lifecycle
Google Analytics
__utma
for google analytics tracking
third party
2 years
__utmb
for google analytics tracking
third party
30 minutes
__utmc
for google analytics tracking
third party
expires at the end of the session
__utmz
for google analytics tracking
third party
6 months
Other Performance cookies
crm
to provide counts of new and repeat visits
first party
expires in two weeks
_qsst
For Qubit analytics tracking
third party
expires at the end of the session
_qst
For Qubit analytics tracking
third party
1 year
_qubitTracker
For Qubit analytics tracking
third party
1 year
_qubitTracker_s
For Qubit analytics tracking
third party
expires at the end of the session
Strictly Necessary
CSSID
to hold the session_id for this transaction
first party
expires at the end of the session
Functionality cookies
_qPageNum_fe_avvio
to track the latest page in the booking process
first party
expires at the end of the session
Managing Cookies
Can I disable cookies from your website?
It is possible to stop your browser accepting cookies from particular websites. However, disabling
cookies from our site will mean you lose a lot of functionality, which will have a detrimental impact on
your browsing experience and mean that you only have limited access to personalised areas of the site.
How to block or delete cookies
We have explained to you what cookies are and what they do, you can delete or disable cookies if you
want to and the links below will explain how to do this. It is possible to block some or all cookies, or
even to delete cookies that have already been set; but you need to be aware that you might lose some
of the functionality of the website by blocking strictly necessary cookies that are outlined above.
If you wish to restrict or block the web browser cookies set on your device, you can do this through your
browser settings; the Help function within your browser explains how to change these settings.
Microsoft Internet Explorer – How to delete cookies in Microsoft Internet Explorer
Google Chrome – How to delete cookies in Google Chrome
Firefox – How to delete cookies in Firefox
Safari – How to delete cookies in Safari
You can also visit www.allaboutcookies.org, which contains comprehensive information on how to
manage cookies on a wide variety of desktop browsers.