Cookie Policy

European Union e-Privacy Directive.

The Gay Beach Guide, Travel Gay Asia & Travel Gay Europe Cookie Policy.

 

EU privacy rules require ALL websites that are marketed to people within the European Union to have a Cookie Policy.  Our site is marketed to a global audience and therefore has to comply with this requirement.

 

USE OF OUR SITE SIGNIFIES YOUR CONSENT TO OUR USE OF COOKIES.

 

Introduction

Virtually all websites use cookies.  These are small text files stored by your browser on your computer. Cookies are used for many different reasons, including remembering whether you have visited our site before and to help us work out how many new visitors we get each day.

 

Cookies do not include personal information about you – for example your name.

 

This policy explains how Cookies are used by Travel Gay Asia, Travel Gay Europe and The Gay Beach Guide (“the Websites”) and how you can control Cookies used by us.

 

Our Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy applies to all Websites operated by Out4You Limited  and any website or service that is operated on our behalf by a third party.

This Cookie Policy forms an integral part of our Terms and Conditions of Use.

Your use of our Website signifies your agreement to this Cookie Policy.

We will notify you of any changes to our Cookie Policy by updating this page. We reserve the right to amend this Cookie Policy from time to time and any changes will become effective as soon as we publish them on this page. Your continued use of the Website signifies your acceptance of all changes.

 

Our Use Of Cookies

We may collect information using Cookies automatically when you visit the Website. Cookies allow us to identify your computer and find out details about your last visit.

You can choose to not allow Cookies, although this may affect your experience our our Website.

The information stored by Cookies will not personally identify you, but will includes information about your computer (such as its operating system, IP address, general location, type of browser) and your use of our Website.

Browsers usually accept Cookies automatically.  You can change the settings of your browser to delete Cookies or stop automatic acceptance. Please be aware that if you turn off Cookies then this setting will apply to all Websites – not just ours.

 

The following types of Cookie are used on this site.

 

Personalisation and Analytic Cookies

These cookies are used to recognise repeat visitors to the Website and in conjunction with other information we hold to attempt to record specific browsing information (that is, about the way you arrive at the Website, pages you view, options you select, information you enter and the path you take through the Website). These are used to help us give you the best possible viewing experience and help us to understand usage patterns of our site. In addition we use Cookies to limit the number of times you can vote using our ‘Thumbs Up’ button and use of our ‘Email Me’ facility.

 

Third Party Cookies

Social sharing, video, hotel booking systems, advertisers and other services we integrate in our Website are run by third parties. These third party systems may also place cookies on your computer.  Here is a list of some third parties that we integrate and information on their use of Cookies.

 

Facebook’s data use policy: http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/your-info-on-other

Twitter’s privacy policy: https://twitter.com/privacy

YouTube video player cookie policy: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/faq/#toc-cookies

GD Star Ratings http://www.gdstarrating.com/privacy-policy/

Agoda  http://www.agoda.com/info/agoda_privacy.html

Hotels.com http://www.hotels.com/customer_care/privacy.html

Tradedoubler.com http://www.tradedoubler.com/uk-en/privacy-policy/

Mailchimp  http://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/

 

Site Management Cookies

These are used to maintain your session on the Website. For instance, where our websites run on more than one server, we use a Cookie to ensure that you are sent information by one specific server.

These Cookies cannot be turned off individually but you could change your browser setting to refuse all Cookies if you do not wish to accept them.