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Welcome to Tourism Guides Cookie Policy. This document details what cookies are, how we use them, and how you can manage them when visiting our website, www.tourismguides.com (the “Site”).

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile) when you visit specific websites. They enhance the user experience by remembering your preferences and improving navigation of the site.

2. How We Use Cookies

At Tourism Guides, we use cookies for various purposes, including:
1. Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the Site to function properly. They enable you to navigate the Site and use its features. Without these cookies, some services cannot be provided.
2. Performance Cookies: These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Site when they are here. This helps us to understand which pages are most and least popular.
3. Functionality Cookies: These cookies help us recognise you when you return to our Site. This allows us to personalise content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences, such as language or region settings. By using the Site, you consent to our use of functionality cookies.
4. Targeting Cookies: These cookies record your experience on our Site, the pages you have visited and the links you have went through. We will use this information to make our Site more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

3. List of Cookies We Use

  • _ga: Used to distinguish users. This cookie is set when a user visits a website for the first time. It helps to calculate visitor, session, and campaign data for analytics reports.
  • _gat: Used to throttle request rates. This cookie limits the collection of data on high-traffic sites.
  • AMP_TOKEN: Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a client ID from the AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request, or an error retrieving a client ID from the AMP Client ID service.
  • _utmt: Used to throttle the request rate for the service, limiting the amount of data sent to Google Analytics.
  • utmc: Operates in conjunction with the utmb cookie to determine whether the user is in a new session or visit.
  • _gid: Used to distinguish users. It stores and updates a unique value for each page visited.
  • gac: Contains campaign-related information for the user. If you’ve linked your Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts, the Google Ads website conversion tags will read this cookie.
  • _utma: Used to distinguish users and sessions. It is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
  • _utmb: Used to determine new sessions or visits. It expires after 30 minutes of inactivity.
  • _utmz: Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site.
  • _utmv: Used to store visitor-level custom variable data. This cookie is updated whenever a custom variable is used.

4. How to Control Cookies

You can control and manage cookies through your browser settings. However, disabling certain cookies may affect your experience on our website.

6. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Cookie Policy, please contact us at: