Cookie Policy
Whenever you use our online services, including our applications, cookies and other tracking technologies can be used in various ways, like making the beachcomber-hotels.com website work, to analyze traffic, or for advertisement purposes. These technologies are either used by us directly, or by our business partners, including third-party service providers and advertisers we work with. If you want to learn more about what a cookie is, how they are used and what your choices are, you can read more here.
- What's a cookie?
- How are cookies used?
- What're your options?
A cookie is a small amount of data that is placed in the browser of your computer or on your mobile device. So-called “first-party cookies” are cookies served by the entity operating the domain through which the cookie is served.
Beachcomber-hotels.com’s own cookies are therefore “first-party cookies." In case we allow others to service cookies through the beachcomber-hotels.com website, these cookies are so-called “third-party cookies."
In addition, there is a difference between session cookies and permanent cookies.
Session cookies only exist until you close your browser. Permanent cookies have a longer lifespan and are not automatically deleted when you close your browser. We strive to serve cookies or allow the serving of cookies with a maximum lifespan of 2 years. Only in exceptional circumstances, like for security purposes and where absolutely necessary, will a cookie have a longer lifespan than that.
In addition, other tracking technologies are used that are similar to cookies. These can include web beacons (also known as pixel tags, web bugs, or gifs), or tracking URLs. A web beacon is a tiny graphic image of just one pixel that can be delivered to your computer as part of a web page request in an app, in an advertisement, or in an HTML email message. Pixels can be used to retrieve info from your device, like your device type or operating system, IP address, and time of visit. They're also used to serve and read cookies in your browser. Tracking URLs are used to understand from what referring website the beachcomber-hotels.com website is used. All these technologies together are referred to in this Cookie Statement as “cookies."
Cookies are used for different purposes. They allow you to be recognized as the same user across the different pages of a website, between websites, or when you use an app. The types of info that we collect through cookies include IP address; device ID; viewed pages; browser type; browsing info; operating system; internet service provider; timestamp; whether you have responded to an advertisement; the referring URL; and features used or activities engaged in within the website/apps.
Our website use cookies for different purposes:
Strickly Necessary Cookies:
We try to give our visitors an advanced, user-friendly website that adapt automatically to their needs and wishes. To achieve this, we use technical cookies to show you our website, to make them function correctly, to create your user account, to sign you in, and to manage your bookings. These technical cookies are absolutely necessary for our website to function properly.
Functional Cookies:
We also use functional cookies to remember your preferences and help you use our website efficiently and effectively. We use these cookies to remember your language preference as well as your registration info so that you don’t have to retype your login credentials each time you visit our site. Passwords will, always be encrypted. These functional cookies aren't strictly necessary for the functioning of our website, but they add functionality and enhance your beachcomber-hotels.com experience.
Analytics Cookies:
We use these cookies to gain insight into how our visitors use beachcomber-hotels.com. This means we can find out what works and what doesn't, optimize and improve our websites or apps, understand the effectiveness of advertisements and communications, and ensure we continue to be interesting and relevant. The data we gather can include which web pages you've viewed, which referring/exit pages you've entered and left from, which platform type you've used, which emails you've opened and acted upon, and date and timestamp info.
It also means we can use details about how you interacted with the site, like the number of clicks you make on a given page, your mouse movements and scrolling activity, the search words you use, and the text you enter into various fields. We use analytics cookies as part of our online advertising campaigns to learn how users interact with our website after they have been shown an online advertisement.
Commercial Cookies:
We use third-party cookies to display personalized advertisements on our websites and on other websites. This is called “retargeting,” and it's based on browsing activities like the destinations you've been searching for, the accommodations you've viewed, and the prices you've been shown.
Below is a summary of cookies set by beachcomber-hotels.com.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
- beachcomber-hotels.com
| Name | Party | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCHSessionID | Beachcomber-Hotels | This a technical cookie that allows us to uniquely identify you when you are using this website. | Session |
| userHasSawMauritianResidencyAgreementPopup | Beachcomber-Hotels | This cookie capture if the user has seen the Mauritian resident pop-up. | 2 Weeks |
| ccode | Beachcomber-Hotels | This cookie is used to store the user country which is used to display contextualized content and rates. | 1 Year |
| lcode | Beachcomber-Hotels | This cookie is used to store the user preferred language which is used to display contextualized content. |
1 Year |
- starling.crowdriff.com
| Name | Party | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
| AWSALB | Crowdriff | Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience. | 1 Week |
| AWSALBCORS | Crowdriff | Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience. | 6 Days |
- crowdriff.com
| Name | Party | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
| _fbp | Crowdriff | To store and track visits across websites. |
3 Months |
| _ga | Crowdriff | They collect information on how visitors use our site and the duration of their storage is determined by Google's policy of use. These cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, the origin of the visitors and the pages visited within the Site. We use the information to compile reports that help us improve our website. |
2 years |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | Crowdriff | This cookie is used to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. |
Session |
| _gcl_au | Crowdriff | Keeps track of how many times you have visited our pages so that we can see how many users visited for the first time and how many users visit our pages more frequently. We can also see where you come from (search engine, links etc.) and which pages you have visited on our website. |
20 Years |
| __hstc | Crowdriff | So store time of visit. |
13 months |
| _hjFirstSeen | Crowdriff | This is set to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether this was the first time Hotjar saw this user. It is used by Recording filters to identify new user sessions. | Session |
| hubspotutk | Crowdriff | To store and track a visitor's identity. |
13 months |
| _gid | Crowdriff | They collect information on how visitors use our website and the duration of their storage is determined by Google's usage policy. These cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, the origin of the visitors and the pages visited within the Site. We use the information to compile reports that help us improve our website. |
2 Years |
| __hssrc | Crowdriff | Session | |
| _hjid | Crowdriff | To store a unique user ID. |
1 Year |
Functional Cookies
- beachcomber-hotels.com
| Name | Party | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
| _hjTLDTest | Beachcomber-Hotels | When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed. | Session |
- facebook.com
| Name | Party | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
| presence | To store and track if the browser tab is active. | Session | |
| spin | Facebook advertiser cookies are used for reporting on social campaign. | 1 Day |
- twitter.com
| Name | Party | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
| personalization_id | This cookie is set by Twitter when a user accepts Twitter cookies. Twitter uses this cookie for behavioural advertising and analytics. |
2 Years | |
| ct0 | This cookie is set by Twitter when a user accepts Twitter cookies. Twitter uses this cookie for behavioural advertising and analytics. |
5 years | |
| guest_id | This cookie is set by Twitter when a user accepts Twitter cookies. Twitter uses this cookie to distinguish users. |
2 years | |
| at_check | This cookie is set by Twitter when a user accepts Twitter cookies. Twitter uses this cookie to check if cookies are enabled in a user’s browser. | Session | |
| mbox | This cookie is set by Twitter when a user accepts Twitter cookies. Twitter uses this cookie for behavioural advertising and analytics. |
2 years |
Analytics Cookies
- beachcomber-hotels.com
| Name | Party | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
| _fbp | Beachcomber-Hotels | Facebook - To store and track visits across websites. |
3 Months |
| _ga | Beachcomber-Hotels | Google - They collect information on how visitors use our site and the duration of their storage is determined by Google's policy of use. These cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, the origin of the visitors and the pages visited within the Site. We use the information to compile reports that help us improve our website. |
2 Years |
| _gat | Beachcomber-Hotels | Google - to read and filter requests from bots. |
1 minute |
| _gat_UA-* | Beachcomber-Hotels | Google - Google Analytics cookie to throttle the request rate. |
1 minute |
| _gid | Beachcomber-Hotels | Google - They collect information on how visitors use our website and the duration of their storage is determined by Google's usage policy. These cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, the origin of the visitors and the pages visited within the Site. We use the information to compile reports that help us improve our website. |
2 Years |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | Beachcomber-Hotels | Hotjar - This cookie is used to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. | Session |
| _hjFirstSeen | Beachcomber-Hotels | This is set to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether this was the first time Hotjar saw this user. It is used by Recording filters to identify new user sessions. | Session |
| _hjid | Beachcomber-Hotels | To store a unique user ID. |
1 Year |
| _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | Beachcomber-Hotels | Hotjar - This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that user is included in the data sampling defined by your site's pageview limit. |
30 Minutes |
- facebook.com
| Name | Party | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
| _fbp | To store and track visits across websites. |
3 Months |
Commercial Cookies
- doubleclick.net
| Name | Party | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
| DSID | DoubleClick | To store user preferences. |
2 Weeks |
| IDE | DoubleClick | To provide ad delivery or retargeting. |
2 Years |
| RUL | DoubleClick | Used to track interactions with this website. |
2 Years |
- facebook.com
| Name | Party | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
| c_user | The c_user cookie contains the user ID of the currently logged in user. |
3 Months | |
| datr | These cookies allow users to share content with Facebook contacts. Users will also be able to see if their Facebook friends "liked" some content on the Web site in the past. Cookies will also send some non-personal data to Facebook to gather aggregate information about how people interact with sites using the similar button. |
2 Years | |
| dpr | This cookie is used by Facebook for performance. |
1 Week | |
| fr | These cookies allow users to share content with Facebook contacts. Users will also be able to see if their Facebook friends "liked" some content on the Web site in the past. Cookies will also send some non-personal data to Facebook to gather aggregate information about how people interact with sites using the similar button. |
4 Months | |
| sb | These cookies allow users to share content with Facebook contacts. Users will also be able to see if their Facebook friends "liked" some content on the Web site in the past. Cookies will also send some non-personal data to Facebook to gather aggregate information about how people interact with sites using the similar button. |
2 Years | |
| wd | These cookies allow users to share content with Facebook contacts. Users will also be able to see if their Facebook friends "liked" some content on the Web site in the past. Cookies will also send some non-personal data to Facebook to gather aggregate information about how people interact with sites using the similar button. |
7 days | |
| xs | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
3 months |
- google.com
| Name | Party | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
| __Secure-3PSIDCC | Google Inc. | Targeting cookie. Used by for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising. |
2 Years |
| __Secure-3PSID | Google Inc. | Builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalized ads through retargeting. |
2 Years |
| __Secure-3PAPISID | Google Inc. | Builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalized ads through retargeting. |
2 Years |
| __Secure-1PSID | Google Inc. | Builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalized ads through retargeting. |
2 Years |
| __Secure-1PAPISID | Google Inc. | Builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalized ads through retargeting. |
2 Years |
| SSID | Google Inc. | This domain is the property of Google Inc. Google is mainly known as a search engine but the company offers a wide range of products and services. However, the main source of revenue is advertisement. Google comprehensively tracks user movements – both via its own products and websites as well as with the help of multiple technologies embedded in millions of websites all around the world. Most of the data these services collect is used to identify the interests of internet users. Based on these interest profiles, advertising space is sold to companies. For pages on which customer advertisements appear, these are coordinated with the content of the pages. |
24 Months |
| SIDCC | Google Inc. | Security cookie to protect a user's data from unauthorized access. |
3 Months |
| SID | Google Inc. | Google uses cookies such as NID and SID to individualise advertisement in Google products such as Google Search. We use these cookies to collect information on, for example, your most recent searches, your previous interactions with advertising material provided by an advertiser or your search results, as well as your visits to the websites of advertisers. This means we can provide you with individualised adverts on Google. |
2 Years |
| SEARCH_SAMESITE | Google Inc. | This cookie is used to prevent the browser from sending this cookie along with cross-site requests. |
5 Months |
| SAPISID | Google Inc. | This domain is the property of Google Inc. Google is mainly known as a search engine but the company offers a wide range of products and services. However, the main source of revenue is advertisement. Google comprehensively tracks user movements – both via its own products and websites as well as with the help of multiple technologies embedded in millions of websites all around the world. |
2 Years |
| NID | Google Inc. | Google uses cookies such as NID and SID to individualise advertisement in Google products such as Google Search. We use these cookies to collect information on, for example, your most recent searches, your previous interactions with advertising material provided by an advertiser or your search results, as well as your visits to the websites of advertisers. This means we can provide you with individualised adverts on Google. |
1 Year |
| HSID | Google Inc. | They contain digitally signed and encrypted files of a user's Google Account ID and the most recent login time. The combination of these two cookies allows us to exclude many types of attack, such as attempts to hide the content of the forms you fill in on websites. |
2 Years |
| APISID | Google Inc. | Saves user preferences and information whenever they visit websites that contain a Google service. |
2 Years |
| ANID | Google Inc. | Lists ads on Google sites based on recent searches. |
20 years |
| AID | Google Inc. | Other Google properties, like YouTube, can also use these cookies to show you more relevant ads |
6 Months |
| 1P_JAR | Google Inc. | These cookies are used to collect site statistics and track conversion rates. |
1 Month |
| OTZ | Google Inc. | “OTZ” is a cookie used by Google Analytics that provides an aggregate analysis of Website visitors. |
2 Years |
- triptease.io
| Name | Party | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
| triptease-session-id | Triptease | This cookie identifies the user session for Triptease. |
8 Hours |
| triptease-user-id | Triptease | This cookie identifies the user ID for Triptease. |
1 Hour |
To learn more about cookies and how to manage or delete them, just visit allaboutcookies.org and the help section of your browser. In the settings for browsers like Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox or Chrome, you can set which cookies to accept and which to reject. Where you find these settings depends on your browser – use the "Help" function in your browser to locate the settings you need.
If you decide not to accept certain technical and/or functional cookies, you might not be able to use some functions on our website. We currently don't support “Do Not Track” browser settings. In case a common standard has been developed that defines what exactly will be meant by “Do Not Track” browser signals, we'll review Cookie Statement again.
Advertising: When it comes to online advertising and marketing companies, we strive to work with companies that adhere to industry standards and codes of conduct.
Analytics: In order to control the collection of data for analytical purposes through Google Analytics from certain browser types, you may want to visit the following link: Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on (only for desktop).
If you have any questions, suggestions, or comments about this Cookie Statement, send an email to privacy@beachcomber.com. Our Cookie Statement may also be amended from time to time – so visit this page regularly to stay up to date.