INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and allows us to improve our site. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
· Strictly necessary cookies.
These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
· Analytical/performance cookies.
They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
· Functionality cookies.
These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
· Targeting cookies.
These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.
The table below explains the cookies we use and why.
Cookie Title/Name
dps_site_id
Purpose and function
It helps improve the speed and performance of a website by identifying the correct server for the user's session.
It's used to direct a user to the specific server cluster that is best suited to handle their request.
It maintains session information and can be used to maintain user state across multiple page requests.
Where it's used
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Purpose and function
Its main purpose is to count how many times a user has visited a site during a single session, which is crucial for the website's functionality and analytics.
It is a component of the cookie banner system that allows users to manage their cookie preferences, which is required by law in many regions.
It is considered a "necessary" cookie, meaning it's essential for the site to work correctly, and does not track you for other purposes.
It is a session cookie, meaning it is deleted once you close all your browser windows.
A small, necessary file used by a website's consent management platform to count user sessions and manage cookie consent preferences. It is a necessary cookie, not a security threat, and is typically deleted when the browser is closed.
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control and we cannot accept any liability for the third party’s compliance with its legal obligations. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
Thoughful Travel is a trading style of Number Fifteen Travel Limited, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 15872480) Kingsway House, 40 Foregate St, Worcester WR1 1EE