What are cookies?
As is common practice with almost all professional websites the Yacht4Less website ("site") uses cookies; cookies are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your user experience. This page describes what information cookies on the site gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored, however, this may downgrade your experience while browsing the site and the site's functionality for you.
For more information about cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.
Use of cookies on our website
Cookies are used to enhance your experience on www.yacht4less.com. The cookies we use do not track your personal information unless you explicitly choose to share this information with us.
Why we use cookies
- Functional Cookies are used for technical purposes to ensure that our site functions as expected, and to personalise your experience on the site, for example, keep track of the fact that you agreed to the use of cookies in your current or previous visit.
- Analytics Cookies are used to collect anonymous behavioural information about how visitors use the site, such as which are the most visited pages or how many views a page has. Statistical data of that kind help us improve the users' experience on the site and keep track of the success of our marketing campaigns.
- Third party cookies are used by third parties to collect behavioural data that Yacht4Less does not receive. Such anonymous data include your behaviour when you are browsing the site, and sometimes when you are on other websites, and are mainly used to help provide behavioural targeted advertising based on your preferences.
If you would like to not receive cookies automatically, you can adjust your browser settings so that it refuses cookies.
By accepting cookies when visiting www.yacht4less.com, you consent to cookies being used in accordance with this Cookie Policy.
You can change your mind at any time regarding your consent to our Cookie Policy.
Disabling cookies
You can prevent cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help section for instructions). Please kindly note, that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling functionality of specific features onwww.yacht4less.com. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
You can manage the cookies we use here.
The Cookies we set
Functional cookies
These cookies help make a website useable and are essential in helping you move around our site and use its features.
- Consent cookie: Exist only if you have accepted / consented to the use of cookies on this site so that we don’t ask you more than once for consent.
- Pop-up window cookies: In order for us to help you navigate the site and make sure you can find what you are looking for, we often use pop-up windows. We make sure that we do not repetedly display those pop-up windows if it comes to our attention that they are not useful to you. In order to achieve this we use cookies.
Analytics cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors use our site in order for us to improve our services and to enhance the user experience on our site. For this purpose, we use Google Analytics Services and Hotjar to help us understand how visitors use our site.
- _ga, _gid, _gat, G_ENABLED_IDPS: Google Analytics uses these cookies to collect data on where the user came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked and what search term was used.
- _hjid, _hjptid, __hstc, __hssrc, hubspotutk and other hotjar cookies: Hotjar uses these cookies and other technologies to collect data regarding our users’ behavior and their devices. Hotjar stores this information on our behalf in a pseudonymised user profile and is contractually forbidden to sell any of the data collected on our behalf.
Third party cookies
Cookies may be set by third party parties when you visit our site. Third party cookies do not intentionally collect personal data that can be used directly by third parties to identify an individual.
The third party companies that may set cookies on our site are:
- Google: To help Google partners manage their advertising and websites, Google offers many products, including AdSense, AdWords, Google Analytics. When you visit a page that uses one of these products, either on one of Google’s sites or one of our partners’, various cookies can be used. Google may use cookies for a number of purposes, such as to stop you from seeing the same ad over and over again, to detect and stop click fraud, and to show ads that are likely to be more relevant such as ads based on websites you have visited. Google's privacy policy can be found here.
- Hotjar: We use Hotjar in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimise our services. Hotjar is a technology tool that helps us understand our users’ experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our services with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behavior and their devices. This includes a device's IP address (processed during your session and stored in a de-identified form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), and the preferred language used to display our website. Hotjar stores this information on our behalf in a pseudonymized user profile. Hotjar is contractually forbidden to sell any of the data collected on our behalf. For further details, please see the `About Hotjar` section of Hotjar’s support site.
- ShareThis: ShareThis provides us with customisable sharing tools for our pages and aritcles which allows users of our site to share our content with their friends on social sites. ShareThis uses cookies to gather information regarding the browsing and sharing activities of the users. For further details, please see the `Privacy Policy` on ShareThis' site.
More Information
Our Cookie Policy provides you with an explanation of how we and our third party partners collect and use data from your device when you visit our website. Some of the cookies we use are essential for the functionality of our site.
If you are looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:
- Email: info@yacht4less.com
Ability to amend
Yacht4Less holds the right to update this Cookie Policy as required. This policy was last updated on 15 March 2020.