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cookiesWe always want to deliver luxury in everything we do which is why we want to ensure you have an easy, quick and reliable experience whilst using the Worldwide Journeys website. To help us do this, we use Cookies (and not the delicious biscuit type).

 

Some cookies are essential for websites to work and others remember things about you to give you a better and more enjoyable experience online. They are small files which are stored on your computer when you visit a website however cannot be used to identify you personally and are not harmful to your computer.

Our cookies and what they do...

    • Essential Cookies

      Essential Cookies help our website to work properly and without them you wouldn’t be able to use some of the features on the site due to your experience being restricted.

      Essential Cookies help our website to work properly and without them you wouldn’t be able to use some of the features on the site due to your experience being restricted.

      Product Name Cookie Name Features Persistent or Session Retention
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      Cookies for website info

      We’re constantly improving our website based on what our visitors do and the pages you look at. These cookies record anonymous information about visits and clicks on each web page.

      We’re constantly improving our website based on what our visitors do and the pages you look at. These cookies record anonymous information about visits and clicks on each web page.

       

      Performance cookies collect information about how you use the website such as the content you are interested in, the pages you visit and if you experience any errors. These cookies do not collect any information that could identify you personally. We will use this data to:

       

      • Analyse how our website is used, visitor demographics and reach (including your location details).
      • Monitor the effectiveness of our online and offline advertising.
      • Help us improve the website by measuring any errors that occur.
      • Test different designs of our website.
      • Allows us personalise information to you so you only ever see adverts relevant to what you are actually interested in on other websites.

       

      Product Name Cookie Name Features Persistent or Session Retention
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      Coremetrics (1st party domain) CoreID6 Stores visitor ID number Persistent 20 years
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      Google Analytics __utma Tracks Unique Visitors Persistent 2 years
      Google Analytics __utmb/__utmc Tracks Time on Site/Entrances Session Session + 30 mins
      Google Analytics __utmz Tracks Source/Keyword/Referrer Persistent 6 months
      Infinity Tracking ictf_master Stores the unique Visitor Reference Persistent 10 years
      Infinity Tracking ictf_il Contains per Installation tracking source cache Persistent 11 years
      Infinity Tracking ictf_in Contains per Installation number replacement source cache Persistent 12 years
      Infinity Tracking ict_0 Contains 3rd party tracking and number replacement source cache Persistent 13 years
      Infinity Tracking ict_master Stores the unique Visitor Reference Persistent 14 years
      DoubleClick Floodlight Tag
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      		 Used for tracking DoubleClick campaign activity
      		Persistent
      		 1-90 days
      DC Storm
      		  _#srchist Stores the history of traffic sources the user has arrived to the site by  Persistent 1000 days
      DC Storm
      		  _#sess Stores information about the session
      		  Persistent 1000 days
      DC Storm
      		  _#vdf Stores the visit definition – ts type, number of visits, expiry
      		  Persistent 1000 days
      DC Storm
      		  _#uid Stores a user identifier (only within a site)
      		  Persistent 1000 days
      DC Storm
      		  _#slid Unique sale ID
      		  Persistent 1000 days
      DC Storm
      		  _#clkid Unique identifier for a click generating a landing
      		  Persistent 1000 days
      DC Storm
      		  _#lps Flags that the last page was secure and therefore has no referrer
      		  Session 20 minutes
      DC Storm
      		  _#tsa Stores the referrer details to avoid duplicate Landing events
      		 Session
      		 10 minutes
      DC Storm
      		  _#env Flags whether the environment variables (screen size, browser etc) need to be collected again
      		 Persistent
      		 30 days
      DC Storm
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      		 Session
      		 20 minutes
      DC Storm
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      		 10 minutes
      DC Storm
      		  stcs[#] N/A Session
      		 30 days
      DC Storm
      		  tst N/A Persistent
      		 1 day

      Cookies that save your settings

      We are always working on improving your experience on the Worldwide Journeys website so we use cookies which save your settings, such as the last holiday you searched for so you can find it easily the second time. These cookies will save you time and enhance your experience whilst using the website.

      We are always working on improving your experience on the Worldwide Journeys website so we use cookies which save your settings, such as the last holiday you searched for so you can find it easily the second time. These cookies will save you time and enhance your experience whilst using the website.

       

      Functional cookies relate to the way you use our website and your own personal settings which allow us to improve the service we offer to you. We will use this data to:

       

      • Remember your last searched holiday.
      • Allow you to carry information across pages of our website to avoid having to re-enter information.
      • Allow you to access stored information if you have registered or booked with us. .
      Product Name Cookie Name Features Persistent or Session Retention
      www.virginholidaysjourneys.co.uk JSESSIONID Contains Vyre session ID Session Browser close

More information on cookies…

What are persistent cookies?

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What are session cookies?

Session cookies allow websites to link the actions of a user during a browser session. They may be used for a variety of purposes such as remembering what a user has put in their shopping basket as they browse around a site. These session cookies expire after a browser session so will not be stored longer term. For this reason session cookies may sometimes be considered less privacy intrusive than persistent cookies.

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