COOKIES

What are cookies?

Cookies are small files which a website may put on your computer or mobile device when you first visit a site or page. The cookie will help the website to recognise your device the next time you visit. Cookies serve many functions. For example, they can help us to remember your username and preferences, analyse how well our website is performing, or even allow us to recommend content we believe will be most relevant to you.

Cookies contain personal information – i.e. your username if you log into My European Tour. Most cookies do not collect information that identifies you, and will instead collect more general information such as how users arrive at and use our websites, or a user’s general location.

What cookies does the Site use?

We use the following type of cookies on the Site:

·       Strictly necessary cookies – these are cookies that are required for the operation of the Site. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of the Site or make use of My European Tour or to use any of the retail functions on the Site.

·       Analytical/performance cookies – they allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the Site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way the Site works, for example, by ensuring that users are easily finding what they are looking for.

·       Functionality cookies – these allow us to recognise users who return to the Site and remember Site personalisation choices.

·       Targeting cookies – we also use cookies which record users’ visits to the Site and which enable us to present content which we think will be of particular interest to you.

In particular, we use the following individual cookies:

You can block the download of cookies or remove/disable them (including the cookies we use) by altering the privacy settings on your web browser. However be aware that if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of the Site. More detail on how to disable cookies is available at www.allaboutcookies.org

Cookie	Purpose
_xcla	This stores a user’s consent to allow cookies
_chartbeat2_chartbeat4 _chartbeat5 _cb_ls	This is used for real team website traffic reporting/performance monitoring
myETFTeam	This records information to a logged-in user’s Fantasy Tour team
myET	This records information related to logged-in users and is used to determine whether a user is logged in
.ASPXAUTH	This is used to provide session-based authentication for MyET website
ETBrowserCheck	This is used to record if a user is using IE6 or lower
etLang	This records a user’s choice when he/she is presented with the option to browse the site in a local language
_gat_webTrack_gat_mobilelegTracker _gat_langSiteTracker _gat _ga	These are Google Analytics (Legacy) cookies
_utma_utmb _utmc _utmt _utmv _utmz	These are Google Universal Analytics cookies
_unam	This is used by the ShareThis social sharing widget
_gads	This is used by Double Click for publishers by Google

How to block or disable cookies

SECURITY OF INFORMATION

We take the security of your personal information seriously. When you submit your credit card details, we use industry standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology to guard your information. In addition, we have security procedures in place to protect our customer database from loss and misuse, and only allow access to it when absolutely necessary, and then under strict guidelines as to what use may be made of the personal information contained within it. However we cannot guarantee that any data transmission over the Internet is completely secure.

This DCT contains links to other digital communication tools. We are only responsible for the privacy practices on this site. We recommend that you check the privacy and security policies and procedures of each and every other digital communication tool that you visit.