Cookies

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, phone or tablet when you visit a website. They allow Stay in Wales to remember information about your visit, and to provide features which you may find useful.

Stay in Wales doesn't serve external advertising. Therefore no cookies for external advertising, nor for networks which track you across other websites, are saved on your device.

How we use cookies

We use two types of cookies: essential cookies and optional cookies.

Essential cookies

Essential cookies enable Stay in Wales to function correctly. They may be used to:

• Maintain your session while you move between pages;
• Protect forms and other website functionality against misuse;
• Remember whether you accepted or declined optional cookies; and
• Remember settings necessary to provide a feature you requested.

Essential cookies can't be disabled via our cookie settings, so the website may not work correctly without them. You can block them using your browser settings, but some this may prevent some functions of the website from working.

Optional cookies

Optional cookies are only used if you accept them. They allow us to:

• Remember properties you have added to your liked list;
• Remember properties you have recently viewed;
• Remember your language preference if you selected other than the default one;
• Record page views and interactions so that we can understand how the website is being used, and improve it.

The information collected is used only to operate and improve our websites. Any data we collect isn't shared with other parties.

Cookies and similar identifiers we may use

Cookie preference

This records whether you accepted or declined optional cookies. It is essential because it prevents us from repeatedly asking you to make the same choice.

Session identifier

This enables the website to maintain a session while you browse. It may also support security features and form submissions. It normally expires when your browser session ends.

Visitor identifier

If you accept optional cookies, a visitor identifier may be used to associate activity such as page views, liked properties and recently viewed properties with your browser.

It does not by itself contain your name, email address or other directly identifying information.

Language preference

This remembers the language you selected so that the website can continue to display in your chosen language on subsequent visits.

Liked properties

If you accept optional cookies, we use a cookie enabling us to know which properties you liked, so that you can find them again later.

Changing your cookie choice

Change your cookie choice at any time by selecting Cookie settings in the footer of any page. If you decide to decline optional cookies after having previously accepted them, any items saved to you 'liked' list will be lost, and accepting cookies again will not restore the list.

If you withdraw consent:

• We will stop using optional cookies for future activity;
• Optional cookies stored by this website will be removed where possible;
• We will stop associating subsequent page views and interactions with your visitor identifier; and
• Features which use optional cookies, such as your liked properties list, will longer be available.

Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before consent was withdrawn.

You can return to Cookie settings later and accept optional cookies again.

More information

If you have any questions about our use of cookies in this website, please contact us.