EXC Tours

1.1 What Are Cookies?

Our website, https://exc.tours/ (the "Website"), uses cookies and similar technologies (like web beacons or pixels) to enhance your browsing experience, analyze website traffic, enable essential functionalities, and potentially personalize content and advertising.

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website.25 They allow the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size, and other display preferences) over a period, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.26

1.2 How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for various purposes 27:

To make our Website work: Some cookies are essential for the operation of our Website, enabling core functionalities like navigation, security, and processing your tour bookings.
To improve our Website: We use analytics cookies to understand how visitors interact with our Website, which pages are most popular, and identify areas for improvement. This data is typically aggregated and anonymous.
To remember your preferences: Functionality cookies allow our Website to remember choices you make (like language preference) to provide a more personalized experience.
To facilitate payments: Our payment processor, Stripe, uses cookies necessary for processing payments securely and preventing fraud.5
For marketing (if applicable): We may use targeting cookies to show you relevant information or offers based on your interests.

1.3 Types of Cookies We Use

We use the following categories of cookies on our Website 26:

Category	Purpose	Examples (Illustrative)	Duration	Consent Required?
Strictly Necessary	Essential for website navigation, security, booking process functionality, and payment processing via Stripe.	Session ID cookies, security tokens, Stripe essential cookies	Session/Persistent	No
Performance/Analytics	Collect anonymous data on website usage to help us understand user behavior and improve the site.	Google Analytics (_ga, _gid)	Persistent	Yes (Opt-in)
Functionality	Remember user choices and preferences (e.g., language, region) to enhance user experience.	Language preference cookie	Persistent	Yes (Opt-in)
Targeting/Advertising	[If used] Track browsing activity to deliver relevant advertising or marketing content.	Persistent	Yes (Opt-in)
Third-Party	Set by domains other than exc.tours, such as Stripe (for payments/fraud) or Google Analytics.	Stripe (__stripe_mid, elements_session 5), Google Analytics	Session/Persistent	Varies (See Above)

This table provides transparency required by regulations 25 and helps users make informed choices about consent.26

1.4 Your Consent Choices

When you first visit our Website, a cookie banner will appear requesting your consent to use non-essential cookies.25 You have the following choices 27:

Accept All: Agree to the use of all cookies (Necessary, Performance, Functionality, and Targeting/Third-Party as applicable).
Reject All: Reject all non-essential cookies. Only Strictly Necessary cookies will be used.
Customize Preferences: Choose which categories of non-essential cookies you wish to accept.

Strictly Necessary cookies do not require your consent as they are essential for the Website to function properly.27 By continuing to use our site after making your choices, you agree to our use of cookies as described in this notice and your selected preferences. Providing clear "Reject" and "Customize" options alongside "Accept" aligns with best practices, particularly under GDPR, ensuring consent is freely given and specific.27

1.5 How to Manage Cookies

You can change your cookie preferences at any time after your initial choice. Look for a "Cookie Settings," "Privacy Settings," or similar link, typically found in the website footer, to access the consent management tool and adjust your preferences.27

Additionally, 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. You can set your browser to block certain cookies, clear existing cookies, or alert you when cookies are being sent. However, please note that blocking Strictly Necessary cookies may impact the functionality of our Website.

For more information on how to manage cookies in popular browsers, you can visit the browser developer's websites.

1.6 Third-Party Cookies

Please note that some cookies on our Website are placed by third-party services that appear on our pages, such as Stripe for payment processing and Google Analytics for website statistics.25 We do not have control over these third-party cookies.

These third parties have their own privacy and cookie policies, which we recommend you review:

Stripe: 5
Google Analytics: [Link to Google's Privacy/Cookie Policy]
[List any other significant third parties setting cookies]

1.7 Updates to this Notice

We may update this Cookie Notice from time to time to reflect changes in technology or legislation. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated "Last Updated" date.

1.8 Contact Us / More Information

For more detailed information about how we handle your personal data, please read our full [Link to Privacy Policy page]. If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please contact us using the details provided in our Privacy Policy.