Cookie policy and preferences

Use of cookies by Apulia Praia Hotel

We inform you that the Apulia Praia Hotel uses cookies or other markers on its website www.apuliapraia-hotel.com.

These bookmarks may be installed on your device depending on the preferences you have chosen or which you may choose at any time in accordance with this policy.

1. Why have a cookie policy?

In order to provide information and ensure transparency, the Apulia Praia Hotel has established this policy so that you can learn more about:

  • The origin and purpose of the information processed when browsing
    apuliapraia-hotel.com.
  • Your rights in relation to cookies and other markers used by the Apulia Praia Hotel

2. What is a cookie

Cookies and other similar tags are packets of data used by servers to send state information to a user’s browser and return state information to the original server via that same browser.
State information can be a session identifier, language, expiration date, response field, or other types of information.
During the validity period, cookies are used to store state information when a browser accesses various pages of a website or when the browser returns to this website at a later time.

There are different types of cookies:

  • Session cookies, which are deleted once you exit your browser or website
  • Persistent cookies, which remain on your device until they expire or until you delete them using your browser’s features

3. Why use cookies?

We use cookies and other tags primarily for the following purposes:

Strictly necessary cookies to browse www.apuliapraia-hotel.com and the ability to use all its features, intended in particular for:

  • Manage the authentication of website visitors and the respective security measures, as well as the proper functioning of the authentication module
  • Optimize the user experience and facilitate navigation, in particular by determining “technical routes” for navigation
  • Storing information about the “cookies” information banner seen by site visitors who then continue to browse the site after agreeing to accept cookies on their device

Implement security measures (for example, when you are asked to log in again to access content or a service after a certain period or to ensure the basic operation of www.apuliapraia-hotel.com and the use of its main technical resources, (such as performance monitoring and browsing errors, user session management, etc.))

Cookies for features intended, in particular, to:

  • Adapt www.apuliapraia-hotel.com to your device’s display preferences (language, currency, display resolution, operating system used, configuration and settings for displaying web pages based on the device you are using and your location, etc.)
  • Store the specific information you enter on www.apuliapraia-hotel.com to facilitate and personalize your subsequent visits (including displaying the visitor’s name and surname if the visitor has a user account)
  • Enabling you to access your personal pages faster by storing login data or information you previously entered

Visitor monitoring cookies aim to improve users’ comfort, helping us to understand their interactions with www.apuliapraia-hotel.com (most visited pages, applications used, etc.); these cookies can collect statistics or test different ways of displaying information, to improve the relevance and usability of our services.

Advertising cookies are intended to (i) offer you, in advertising spaces, specific relevant content that may be of interest to you (best offers, other destinations, etc.) based on your interests, browsing behavior, preferences and other factors, and (ii) reduce the number of times ads appear.

Affiliate cookies identify the website of other entities that redirected a visitor to www.apuliapraia-hotel.com.

Social network cookies, set by third parties, allow you to share your opinion and content on www.apuliapraia-hotel.com on social networks (for example, the “Share” or “Like” application buttons for social networks).

The social network applications at www.apuliapraia-hotel.com, as mentioned above, may, in some cases, allow social networks to identify the visitor, even if the application button is not clicked. This type of button can allow a social network to follow your navigation www.apuliapraia-hotel.com, simply because your account on the social network in question is activated on your device (open session) while you browse.

We recommend that you read the policies of these social networks to familiarize yourself with how they use the browsing information they collect, especially with regard to advertising. These policies must specifically allow you to make choices on these social networks, in particular configuring the user accounts for each of them.

4. Consent

The installation of certain cookies is subject to your consent. Furthermore, when you visit www.apuliapraia-hotel.com for the first time, you are asked if you agree with the installation of this type of cookie, which is only activated after acceptance.

This process is supported by an informative banner on the home page of www.apuliapraia-hotel.com, which informs you that, by continuing to browse, you agree to the installation of cookies that require consent on your device.

You can change your mind at any time using the various methods described in the “Delete and/or block cookies” section.

5. Delete and/or block cookies

You have several options for deleting cookies and other bookmarks.

Browser settings

Although most browsers are set by default to accept cookies, you can, if you wish, choose to accept all cookies, always block cookies or choose which cookies to accept based on their sender.

You can also configure your browser to accept or block cookies on a case-by-case basis before they are installed. Your browser also allows you to regularly delete cookies from your device. Remember to configure all browsers on your different devices (tablets, smartphones, computers, etc.).

Regarding the management of cookies and your preferences, the configuration varies for each browser. This procedure is described in the Help menu of your browser, as is the procedure for editing your cookie preferences. For example:

Saving a cookie on your device depends on your intention, which you can exercise and change at any time and free of charge, using the settings offered by your browser software.

If your browser is configured to accept cookies on your device, cookies embedded in the pages and content you view may be temporarily stored in a dedicated space on your device. These can only be read by your issuer.

However, you can set your browser to block cookies. Remember that if you configure your browser to block cookies, some resources, pages and spaces on www.apuliapraia-hotel.com will not be accessible, and we cannot be held responsible in that case.

Specialized advertising platforms

Several professional advertising platforms also offer the option to accept or block cookies used by member companies. These centralized mechanisms do not block the display of ads; they only prevent the installation of cookies that customize advertisements according to your interests.

For example, you can visit http://www.youronlinechoices.com to prohibit the installation of these cookies on your device. This website is offered by digital advertising professionals gathered in the European Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA) and managed in France by the Interactive Advertising Bureau France.