COOKIE POLICY

MONARCH PURSUITS

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites and services that you visit or access. They are widely used to make websites and services work and function with greater efficiency, and to provide information about our users experience during use of, or interaction with, our Website, Services and advertisements.

Some cookies last only for the duration of your web session and expire when you exit your browser; other cookies may last for longer than your web session, including after you exit your browser, for example by remembering you when you return to our Website.

The cookies that you may encounter using our Website are:

FUNCTIONAL COOKIES:

A cookie is stored for the duration of your visit to our website when you check availability on any product. This cookie passes information about which products you are perusing, which date you will travel, and number of persons as you journey through the purchase process.

Our Birdseed Chat widget may store a cookie while you interact with us on our website to preserve the chat content during your conversation.

ADVERTISING AND SOCIAL MEDIA COOKIES:

We may collect cookies to allow us to better understand our customers through data analysis which also enables us to present you with re-targeted advertising based on your previous interactions with our Website. Importantly collecting cookies is not the same as collecting Personal Data; cookies will not collect personal information such as your name, email address, postal address, or telephone number.

Our Website includes code snippets provided by social media companies such as Facebook and Instagram that can sense if you are already logged into a given social media account so you can easily share our content with other social media users via that account. These code snippets read cookies set previously by the social media company while you are logged in and using those services. We can not access any of your Personal Data via those cookies.

We embed videos from our Vimeo channel. You Tube may set cookies on your computer once you click on the Vimeo video player.

UNIVERSAL ANALYTICS:

As is normal on most websites we use Google Analytics to aggregate the usage data of our Website visitors. Primarily Google Analytics uses cookies to count the number of unique visitors to a web page or service or to our blog and to develop other statistics about the operations of our Website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve our Website.

SERVICE COOKIES:

We use the CloudFlare CDN to provide faster and more secure distribution of our Website. Cloudflare may use cookies to ensure that our content is served from the fastest and closest server to you and that our Website are always online and that the load on one web server is not too great thereby spoiling your use.

YOU CAN TURN OFF COOKIES ON YOUR COMPUTER

By default most web browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer) accept cookies. However, most also allow you to either block them or to be notified of their presence. Instructions on how to do this is in the privacy or help documentation of the browser itself. You can find out much more about cookies at www.aboutcookies.org

For more information please feel free to contact us at: enquiries@monarchpursuits.com or by mail to Monarch Pursuits, 60 Cashel Street, Christchurch 8013, New Zealand – Attn: Cookies.

REVISIONS TO OUR COOKIE POLICY

We may amend this Cookie Policy from time-to-time. When we make updates, changes or revisions, they will be effective when we post the updated Cookie Policy to our site. We will keep a copy of our previous policies on request.