What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, tablet, or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies allow websites to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size, and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.
How Grand Escapes Uses Cookies
At Grand Escapes, we use cookies to enhance your experience on our website, understand how our site is used, and improve our services. We use both first-party cookies (set by Grand Escapes) and third-party cookies (set by other companies) for various purposes, including:
- Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. They enable you to navigate our site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like shopping baskets or e-billing, cannot be provided.
- Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, such as which pages are visited most often and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how our website works.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. For instance, a website may be able to provide you with local weather reports or traffic news by storing in a cookie the region in which you are currently located. Functionality cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customize.
- Targeting or Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaigns. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organization.
Here’s a detailed overview of the specific cookies we use:
Cookie Name | Purpose | Type | Duration |
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sessionid | Maintains user session | Essential | Session |
csrftoken | Protects against cross-site request forgery | Essential | Session |
_ga | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | Performance | 2 years |
_gid | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | Performance | 24 hours |
language_preference | Remembers user's language preference | Functionality | 1 year |
ad_user_data | Tracks user behavior for advertising purposes | Targeting/Advertising | 90 days |
Managing Cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by using the mechanisms provided by your web browser. Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This can usually be done through the "options" or "preferences" menu of your browser. Keep in mind that disabling cookies may affect your experience on our website and you may not be able to access all of its features.
Here are links to instructions on how to manage cookies in some of the most popular web browsers:
You can also manage cookies through browser add-ons or extensions designed specifically for cookie management. Additionally, you can visit www.allaboutcookies.org for comprehensive information on how to manage and disable cookies.
Please note that disabling certain cookies may prevent you from accessing certain parts of our website or using certain functionalities.
Updates to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We encourage you to review this Cookie Policy periodically for any updates. The date of the latest revision will be indicated at the top of this page.
Any changes to this Cookie Policy will become effective when we post the revised Cookie Policy on our website.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies, please contact us at:
Grand Escapes42 Oak Street, Suite 200
Asheville, NC 28801
Phone: (828) 555-0123
Email: info@grandescapes.com