When you use
any of our services on www.giottus.com, our mobile
sites or mobile applications, we may collect information using cookies. This
information is used to provide you with a more personalised
service and so we can continuously improve our products. Visiting Giottus' websites with your browser settings adjusted to
accept cookies tells us that you want to use Giottus
products and services and that you consent to our use of cookies and other
technologies to provide them to you as described in this notice and in
our Privacy
Policy.
Cookies and how we use
them?
A Cookie, also
known as an HTTP cookie, web cookie, or browser cookie, is alphanumeric
identifier that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your web
browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and to provide
services. For information on the controllers of your personal information, see
our Privacy
Policy.
Any sensitive
information in these cookies are encoded so that only Giottus can interpret the information stored on them. The
cookies are placed for the following purposes:
1. Recognize you as a Giottus customer.
2. Keeping a track of the session to facilitate your future use of the
site and to identify if you join a registration pipeline.
3. Collect information about your computer to mitigate risk and help
prevent fraud,
4. Collect User information including App usage, visits to the App or
website and other User generated information
5. Customize your experience, content, and advertising, and
6. Measure promotional effectiveness.
7. Conducting research and diagnostics to improve Giottus'
content, products and services.
8. Giottus also collects information that your
browser sends whenever User visits its site. This information may include
information such as the device’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address (with
replaced last byte), browser type, browser version, the pages of Giottus site that User visits, the time and date of visit,
the time spent on those pages and other statistics.
How do I manage my cookie
preferences?
Should you
decide to prevent cookies from being stored in your browser, please note that
you may not be able to use some of the key features on our website.
However, you will still be able to make basic hotel searches.
If you would
like to monitor or prevent cookies from being set in your browser, you can
modify your browser settings to receive notifications whenever cookies are
being used or to completely block the storage of cookies. You may also
delete cookies that are already stored in your browser. Where to find
these settings depends on your browser. Using your browser’s “Help” section,
you will be able to locate these settings.
More information about cookies
i)
First party cookies
A type of cookie that is
set by the site the user is visiting and can only be read by that site.
ii)
Third party cookies
Third
parties may place cookies on this Giottus site. The
information practices of these third parties are not covered by our Privacy
Policy or this Cookies page. Please contact them directly for more information
about their privacy practices. Also, as described above, you may modify the
settings in your browser to notify you when you receive a new cookie and
disable cookies altogether.
iii)
Session cookies
Session cookies are
temporary cookies that are stored in the user’s browser until they close their
browser window – at which point the session cookies are cleared.
iv)
Persistent cookies
Persistent cookies are used
for repeat visitors and are kept in the user’s browser for a set period of
time (usually a year or longer). These cookies are not cleared when the
browser is closed. This type of cookie is used to recall user preferences so
that every time a site is visited, the user’s preferred settings are
automatically provided.