Urban Canvas Tours: Cookies Policy
This Cookies Policy explains how Urban Canvas Tours ("we," "us," or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies on our website, urbancanvastours.co.uk (the "Website"). This policy is designed to provide you with clear and comprehensive information about our use of cookies and your rights in relation to them.
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your computer after you close your browser and are used to remember your preferences and settings for future visits. Session cookies are temporary and are deleted when you close your browser.
How We Use Cookies
Urban Canvas Tours uses cookies for a variety of purposes, including:
- Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the Website to function properly. They enable you to navigate the site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like shopping baskets or e-billing, cannot be provided.
- Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use our Website, such as which pages are visited most often and if they receive error messages. This helps us to improve the way our Website works. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our Website to remember choices you make (such as your language or region) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other parts of web pages that you can customize.
- Targeting or Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaigns. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers.
- Analytics Cookies: These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website, providing information about areas visited, time spent on the website, and any issues encountered, such as error messages. This helps us to improve the performance of our website. We primarily use Google Analytics for this purpose.
Types of Cookies We Use
The following table provides more detailed information about the cookies we use on our Website:
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Type | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | Maintains user session across pages. | Essential | Session |
| _ga | Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users. | Analytics | 2 years |
| _gid | Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users. | Analytics | 24 hours |
| cookieConsent | Records user's consent to cookie usage. | Functionality | 1 year |
| lastViewedLocation | Remembers the last location a user viewed on our locations page to personalize the experience. | Functionality | 30 days |
Your Cookie Choices
You have the right to choose whether or not to accept cookies. You can exercise this right by setting your preferences in the Cookie Consent Manager on our Website or by modifying the settings in your browser. However, please note that if you disable cookies, some features of our Website may not function properly.
Cookie Consent Manager
Upon your first visit to our Website, you will be presented with a Cookie Consent Manager that allows you to accept or reject different categories of cookies. You can change your preferences at any time by clicking on the "Cookie Settings" link in the footer of our Website.
Browser Settings
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can usually find these settings in the "Options" or "Preferences" menu of your browser. Here are links to instructions on how to manage cookies in some popular browsers:
Please note that disabling cookies in your browser may affect the functionality of our Website and other websites you visit.
Third-Party Cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use third-party cookies on our Website. These cookies are placed by third-party service providers, such as Google Analytics, and are used to track your browsing activity across different websites. We have no control over these cookies and are not responsible for their privacy practices. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of these third-party service providers to learn more about their use of cookies.
Changes to This Cookies Policy
We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. We will post any changes to this policy on our Website and update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about our use of cookies.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about our Cookies Policy, please contact us at:
Urban Canvas Tours
Data Protection Officer: Eleanor Vance
12 Colston Street, Bristol, BS1 5BB
Phone: 0117 922 2345
Email: [email protected]
For more information about our data protection practices, please see our Privacy Policy.
Effective Date: October 26, 2023
Last Updated: October 26, 2023