Cookie policy

Last updated March 19, 2020

This Cookie Policy explains how The Hotel Guru ("Company", "we", "us", and "our") uses cookies and similar technologies to recognise you when you visit our website at https://www.thehotelguru.com, ("Website"). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their website work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

Cookies set by the website owner are called "first party cookies". Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third party cookies". Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g. like advertising, interactive content and analytics). The parties that set these third party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other website.

Why do we use cookies?

We use first and third party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Website to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Online Properties. Third parties serve cookies through our Website for advertising, analytics and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.

The specific types of first and third party cookies served through our Website and the purposes they perform are described below (please note that the specific cookies served may vary depending on the specific Online Properties you visit):

Essential website cookies:

These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features.

Name: PHPSESSID#
Purpose: Used by PHP to identify a current user's session. Its activity expires when a session is ended.
Provider: www.thehotelguru.com
Service: PHP View Service Privacy Policy
Country: United States
Type: http_cookie
Expires in: session

Name: __cfduid
Purpose: Used by Cloudflare to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address, and apply security settings on a per-client basis. This is a HTTP type cookie that expires after 1 year.
Provider: .thehotelguru.com
Service: CloudFlare View Service Privacy Policy
Country: United States
Type: server_cookie
Expires in: 1 month

Analytics and customisation cookies:

These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Website are being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our website for you.

Name: _ga
Purpose: It records a particular ID used to come up with data about website usage by the user. It is a HTTP cookie that expires after 2 years. Provider: .thehotelguru.com
Service: Google Analytics View Service Privacy Policy
Country: United States
Type: http_cookie
Expires in: 1 year 12 months 4 days

Name: _gat#
Purpose: Enables Google Analytics regulate the rate of requesting. It is a HTTP cookie type that lasts for a session. Provider: .thehotelguru.com
Service: Google Analytics View Service Privacy Policy
Country: United States
Type: http_cookie
Expires in: 1 minute

Name: _gid
Purpose: Keeps an entry of unique ID which is then used to come up with statistical data on website usage by visitors. It is a HTTP cookie type and expires after a browsing session.
Provider: .thehotelguru.com
Service: Google Analytics View Service Privacy Policy
Country: United States
Type: http_cookie
Expires in: 1 day

Advertising cookies:

These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.

Name: fr
Purpose: Used by Facebook to collect a unique browser and user ID, used for targeted advertising.
Provider: .facebook.com
Service: Facebook View Service Privacy Policy
Country: Ireland
Type: server_cookie
Expires in: 3 months

Name: _fbp
Purpose: Facebook tracking pixel used to identify visitors for personalized advertising.
Provider: .thehotelguru.com
Service: Facebook View Service Privacy Policy
Country: United States
Type: http_cookie
Expires in: 3 months

Social networking cookies:

These cookies are used to enable you to share pages and content that you find interesting on our Website through third party social networking and other website. These cookies may also be used for advertising purposes.

Name: at-lojson-cache-#
Purpose: Used by the social sharing plugin Addthis to store various data of the plugin temporarily.
Provider: www.thehotelguru.com
Service: Addthis View Service Privacy Policy
Country: United States
Type: html_local_storage
Expires in: persistent

Name: loc
Purpose: Is a geolocation cookie, which is used to help providers determine how users who share information with each other are geographically. Persistent that stays for 90 days
Provider: .addthis.com
Service: AddThis View Service Privacy Policy
Country: United States
Type: http_cookie
Expires in: 1 year 1 month

Name: na_id
Purpose: Sets a unique user id to track a user on a site. Persistent cookie that stays for 730 days
Provider: .addthis.com
Service: Addthis View Service Privacy Policy
Country: United States
Type: http_cookie
Expires in: 1 year 24 days

Name: _at.hist.#
Purpose: Stores the user’s usage history for use by the social sharing platform AddThis. This history information collected by the cookie is from the AddThis sharing widget. This is a HTML local storage cookie type that is persistent.
Provider: www.thehotelguru.com
Service: AddThis View Service Privacy Policy
Country: United States
Type: html_local_storage
Expires in: persistent

Name: bt
Purpose: Set by addthis social sharing plugin to allow for content sharing on sites
Provider: .addthis.com
Service: Addthis View Service Privacy Policy
Country: United States
Type: server_cookie
Expires in: 1 year 24 days

Name: uvc
Purpose: Set by addthis social sharing plugin to allow for content sharing on sites
Provider: .addthis.com
Service: Addthis View Service Privacy Policy
Country: United States
Type: http_cookie
Expires in: 1 year 1 month

Name: __atuvc
Purpose: Used by addthis sharing widget to show the share count of an article on the client side in order to make sure the user sees the updated count if they share a page and return to it before the share count cache is updated
Provider: www.thehotelguru.com
Service: Addthis View Service Privacy Policy
Country: United States
Type: http_cookie
Expires in: 1 year 1 month

Name: personalization_id
Purpose: Used on sites that share Twitter content and with Twitter share plugin. Persistent cookie that is set for 730 days
Provider: .twitter.com
Service: Twitter View Service Privacy Policy
Country: United States
Type: server_cookie
Expires in: 1 year 12 months 4 days

Name: ouid
Purpose: Used by AddThis to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. It is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in their site. Expires in 1 year.
Provider: .addthis.com
Service: AddThis View Service Privacy Policy
Country: United States
Type: http_cookie
Expires in: 1 year 24 days

Name: bt2
Purpose: Used by the social sharing platform AddThis to keep a record of parts of the site that has been visited in order to recommend other parts of the site Provider: .addthis.com
Service: Addthis View Service Privacy Policy
Country: United States
Type: http_cookie
Expires in: 8 months 16 days

Name: __atuvs
Purpose: Used by addthis sharing widget to show the share count of an article on the client side in order to make sure the user sees the updated count if they share a page and return to it before the share count cache is updated

Provider: www.thehotelguru.com
Service: Addthis View Service Privacy Policy
Country: United States
Type: http_cookie
Expires in: 30 minutes

Name: di2
Purpose: Allows website visitors to share content on website across popular social media networks. It expires after 2 years.
Provider: .addthis.com
Service: AddThis View Service Privacy Policy
Country: United States
Type: http_cookie
Expires in: 1 year 24 days

Do you serve targeted advertising?

Third parties may serve cookies on your computer or mobile device to serve advertising through our Website. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other website in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services that you may be interested in. They may also employ technology that is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements. This can be accomplished by them using cookies or web beacons to collect information about your visits to this and other sites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services of potential interest to you. The information collected through this process does not enable us or them to identify your name, contact details or other details that directly identify you unless you choose to provide these.

How often will you update this Cookie Policy?

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.

The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.

Where can I get further information?

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us at sales@thehotelguru.com.