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WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are very small pieces of information that are created and stored on your computer, smart phone or tablet when you enter a website. On the Corus or Laura Ashley Hotels websites, we use cookies to improve and speed up your browsing experience by remembering if you have visited our website before.
For example, if you have left something in your basket, a cookie will allow our website to remember what this was so you don't have to start your shopping from scratch. We also use cookies to make personal recommendations to help with your purchasing decisions. They are perfectly safe for your device and will not store personal information such as your credit card details.
Most websites use cookies for the reasons mentioned above, but if you prefer to disable cookies on your device please view our 'Managing Cookies' section, which will explain how to disable them.
OUR COOKIE POLICY
On the Corus and Laura Ashley Hotels websites we use cookies to both improve and speed up your browsing experience. If cookies aren’t enabled on your device this may affect your browsing and shopping experience on the Corus and Laura Ashley Hotels websites. They are perfectly safe for your device and will not store any personal information such as your credit card details.
Let us explain what kind of cookies we use and why we use them...
Affiliate, Display banner cookies
Affiliate and Display cookies show us how you found our website and which website you came from. This helps us know which of our online marketing channels is most effective. They also allow us to reward our partners and external websites for directing you to us.
TagMan
TagMan's tag management system allows us to control the tags/pixels which are served on to our web pages, and the data passed into those tags or into TagMan reporting. The TagMan system uses browser cookies to track certain attributes of Internet users who have been exposed to our online marketing campaigns or have visited our websites. Sometimes we will advertise on 3rd party websites. TagMan cookies are used to help us and our advertisers see how effective our website and campaigns have performed, so that we can improve our site, our marketing campaigns and therefore provide you with a better and more personalised online shopping experience with Corus and Laura Ashley Hotels websites.
Examples of these advertisers include Google, Affiliate Window and Mediaplex. TagMan provide a global Opt-Out function, whereby a user can go to their website and switch off TagMan tracking: http://eu.tagman.com/index.php/consumerprivacy.html. If you opt out in this way for corushotels.com or lauraashleyhotels.com, you'll also be opting out from any other companies that use TagMan.
Banner Advertising
Both Corus and Laura Ashley Hotels websites use carefully selected 3rd parties in order to deliver banner advertising across various websites. In order to monitor the success of our advertising and improve it for our customers, we make use of cookies. We also use these cookies to create more relevant advertising for our customers and therefore create a more personalised experience. For example the content of our banners will change dependent on your last interaction with our site, directing you to different pages in order to streamline your user journey through showing you relevant content.
Google Analytics Tracking
Google Analytics use cookies to collect data that we analyse to help us improve customer experience on the Corus and Laura Ashley Hotels websites. The cookies provide important information such as the number of visitors and the time spent on specific pages and it can also help identify where there might be errors on the website. The information collected through these cookie do not identify people, they are defined themselves by a combination of a computer, a user account, and a browser. Google Analytics only uses 1st party cookies which means that all of the information collected will stay in the Corus and Laura Ashley Hotels website domain, information will not be passed to 3rd parties.
Mailchimp
The Corus and Laura Ashley Hotels websites use cookies in their email communications to personalise the email and track whether that communication has been opened and read, and whether the recipient has used the onward links contained in the email. This allows us to monitor and improve the relevance of our email communications.
MANAGING COOKIES
Enabling cookies will ensure you receive the optimum user experience from the Corus and Laura Ashley Hotels website and others. If you disable your cookies you will not be able to use all the functions of the sites
Amending your cookie settings is straightforward, amending your settings is different in different browsers, we’ve included instructions on amending your settings in the most popular browsers below.
To enable cookies
If you're not sure which browser you're using and you're using a Microsoft Windows based machine: click on 'Help' at the top of your browser window and select the 'About' option
And you're using an Apple machine: with the browser window open, click on the Apple menu and select the 'About' option
How to check cookies are enabled on windows platforms
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, 8 & 9
1. Select 'Tools' from the top menu of your browser and then select 'Internet options' , then click on the 'Privacy' tab
2. Ensure that your Privacy level is set to Medium or below, which will enable cookies in your browser
3. Settings above Medium will disable cookies
Mozilla Firefox
1. Select 'Tools' from the top menu of your browser and then select ‘Options’
2. Then select the Privacy icon
3. Click on Cookies, then select 'allow sites to set cookies'
Google Chrome
1. Select 'Tools' from the top menu of your browser and then select ‘Options’
2. Click the 'Under the Hood' tab, locate the 'Privacy' section, and select the 'Content settings' button
3. Now select 'Allow local data to be set'
Safari
1. Select the cog icon' from the top menu of your browser and then select ‘Preferences’
2. Select 'Security and, check the option that says 'Block third-party and advertising cookies'
3. Click 'Save'
How to check cookies are enabled for apple platforms
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 on OSX
1. Select 'Explorer' from the top menu of your browser and select 'Preferences' options
2 Scroll to the 'Cookies' option under Receiving Files
3. Select the 'Never Ask' option
Safari on OSX
1. Select 'Safari' from the top menu of your browser and select the 'Preferences' option
2. Click on 'Security' then 'Accept cookies'
3. Select the 'Only from site you navigate to'
Other browsers
If you are using a different browser please consult your product documentation, online help files or the browser manufactures website.
Additional information about cookies
If you'd like to learn more about cookies in general and how to manage them, visit www.aboutcookies.org/ (opens in a new window - please note that we can't be responsible for the content of external websites).
SECURITY & PRIVACY POLICY
The Corus and Laura Ashley Hotels websites use industry standard security methods to ensure that all the personal details you give us are not misused.
Is it safe to use my credit card over the internet?
The purchase area of our site is secure.
We utilise industry standard SSL technology (Secure Sockets Layer) to guarantee a safe and secure environment.
All sensitive information such as credit card details, names and addresses are encrypted. This means that information passed between your computer and our web site cannot be read even in the event it is intercepted by someone else.
Data Protection
Information provided by you online or otherwise will be processed by Corus Hotels Ltd and used to provide you with service and information with respect to your booking or booking enquiry.
We will only use your information for marketing purposes if you have given your consent.
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