Cookie Policy
Last Updated: May 26, 2025
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how PathVoyage.net (“we,” “us,” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies on our website (PathVoyage.net), and what choices you have regarding cookies.
This policy should be read in conjunction with our Privacy Policy, which provides more comprehensive information about how we collect, use, and share your personal information.
1. What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They’re widely used to make websites work efficiently, provide a better Browse experience, and gather information for website owners.
Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies:
- Session Cookies: These are temporary cookies that remain on your device only until you close your web browser.
- Persistent Cookies: These remain on your device for a longer period or until you manually delete them. They help websites remember your preferences or actions over time.
Cookies can also be “first-party” or “third-party” cookies:
- First-Party Cookies: These are set by the website you are visiting (i.e., by PathVoyage.net).
- Third-Party Cookies: These are set by a domain other than the one you are visiting. This typically occurs when the website incorporates elements from other sites, such as images, social media plugins, or advertising.
2. How We Use Cookies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies for various purposes, including:
- Strictly Necessary / Essential Cookies: These cookies are essential for our Website’s operation and enable you to navigate and use its features. Without these cookies, services like logging into secure areas or adding items to a booking cart cannot be provided.
- Performance / Analytics Cookies: These cookies collect information about how you use our Website (e.g., which pages you visit most often, if you encounter error messages). This helps us understand and improve our Website’s performance. We use tools like Google Analytics for this purpose.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our Website to remember choices you make (e.g., your username, language, or region) and provide enhanced, more personalized features. They can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other parts of web pages that you can customize.
- Targeting / Advertising Cookies: These cookies deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They also limit the number of times you see an advertisement and help measure advertising campaign effectiveness. These cookies are usually placed by advertising networks with our permission. They remember that you have visited a website, and this information may be shared with other organizations, such as advertisers.
- Google Ads: We use Google Ads and other Google services (like Google Analytics) that may set cookies for advertising purposes. This allows Google and its partners to serve ads based on your visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.
- Social Media Cookies: These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or “like” button on our Website, or if you link your account or engage with our content on or through a social networking site.
3. Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies on our Website are set by third parties. These third parties include:
- Google Analytics: For website analytics and performance tracking.
- Google Ads / AdSense: For serving personalized advertisements.
- Payment Processors: To facilitate secure transactions.
- Social Media Platforms: If we embed social media feeds or sharing buttons (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Instagram).
- Other Potential Partners: Any other third-party services integrated into our site (e.g., booking engines, customer support chat widgets).
These third parties have their own privacy and cookie policies, which we recommend you review. We do not have direct control over the information collected by these third-party cookies.
4. Your Choices and Managing Cookies
You have several ways to manage your cookie preferences:
- Cookie Consent Banner: Upon your first visit to PathVoyage.net, you’ll see a cookie consent banner. This banner allows you to:
- Accept All Cookies: Consent to the use of all types of cookies.
- Decline Non-Essential Cookies: Only allow strictly necessary cookies.
- Customize Preferences: Select which categories of cookies (e.g., analytics, advertising) you wish to allow or block. You can change your preferences at any time by revisiting our Website and clicking on the “Cookie Settings” or similar link (often found in the footer).
- Browser Settings: Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can:
- Delete all cookies.
- Block all cookies.
- Allow only specific types of cookies.
- Receive a warning before a cookie is stored.
- Common browser guides:
- Opt-Out Tools for Advertising:
- Google Ads Settings: You can manage your personalized advertising preferences with Google at https://adssettings.google.com/.
- Network Advertising Initiative (NAI): To opt-out of interest-based advertising from many third-party advertisers, visit the NAI’s opt-out tool at http://optout.networkadvertising.org/.
- Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA): You can also opt-out through the DAA’s opt-out tool at http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
- Your Online Choices (Europe): For European users, visit http://www.youronlinechoices.com/ to manage your online behavioral advertising preferences.
5. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update our Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We’ll notify you of any changes by posting the new Cookie Policy on this page and updating the “Last Updated” date.
You’re advised to review this Cookie Policy periodically for any changes.
6. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact us:
- By email: [email protected]]
- By visiting this page on our website: https://pathvoyage.net/contact