Cookie Policy

1What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that a website places on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile phone) when you visit it. They are widely used to make websites work properly, improve performance, and provide information to the website owner.

Cookies cannot run programs or deliver viruses to your device. They are harmless data files. Think of them as a website’s way of remembering you — like a sticky note left on your browser that says “this person visited yesterday and had these preferences.”

Types of Cookie Storage

2Why We Use Cookies

Holiday Vibez uses cookies on www.holidayvibez.com for four primary purposes:

• To keep the website working properly — essential cookies ensure you can navigate pages, submit enquiry forms, and use core features without errors
• To understand how visitors use our site — analytics cookies help us see which pages are popular, where visitors come from, and how people interact with our content, so we can improve it
• To remember your preferences — functional cookies save your settings so you don’t have to re-enter them every time you visit
• To show you relevant advertisements — marketing cookies allow us to show Holiday Vibez ads on other websites and platforms to visitors who have shown interest in our packages

We do not use cookies to collect sensitive personal information such as payment card details, passwords, or health data. Any personal information you provide through our forms is handled under our Privacy Policy.

3Types of Cookies We Use

We use four categories of cookies. Three of these require your consent — which you can give or withdraw at any time through our cookie banner or browser settings.

4Cookies We Set — Full List

The following is a comprehensive list of cookies set by www.holidayvibez.com:

5Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies on our website are set by third-party services — external platforms whose code is embedded on our site. We do not control these cookies directly. Here is who sets them and how to manage your data with them:

6Our Cookie Consent Banner

When you visit www.holidayvibez.com for the first time — or after clearing your cookies — you will see our cookie consent banner. This is what it looks like:

What Each Option Does

Changing Your Consent

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by:

• Clicking the "Cookie Settings" link in the footer of any page on our website
• Clearing your browser cookies (which resets your consent and shows the banner again)
• Contacting us at holidays@holidayvibez.com to request your consent record be cleared

Your consent choice is stored in the hvz_cookie_consent cookie for 12 months. After 12 months, the banner will appear again and you will be asked to confirm your preferences.

7How to Control Cookies

You have several options for controlling cookies — from our consent banner to browser-level settings to third-party opt-out tools. Here is a complete guide:

7.1 Option 1 — Our Cookie Consent Banner

The simplest method. Use the banner or the Cookie Settings link in our footer to choose which categories of cookies you accept. This is specific to Holiday Vibez cookies and third-party cookies activated through our site.

7.2 Option 2 — Browser Settings

You can control all cookies — from all websites — through your browser settings. This allows you to block all cookies, block third-party cookies only, or clear existing cookies. See Section 8 for browser-specific instructions.

7.3 Option 3 — Industry Opt-Out Tools

Industry-wide advertising opt-out services allow you to opt out of behavioural advertising from multiple companies at once:

• Your Online Choices (Europe): youronlinechoices.com
• Network Advertising Initiative (USA): networkadvertising.org/choices
• Digital Advertising Alliance: optout.aboutads.info

These tools opt you out of targeted advertising across many platforms simultaneously. Note that opting out does not stop all advertising — it stops targeted advertising based on your browsing behaviour.

7.4 Option 4 — Platform-Specific Settings

For cookies set by specific platforms you use:

• Google: Manage personalised ads at adssettings.google.com
• Facebook/Instagram: Manage ad preferences at facebook.com/ads/preferences
• Google Analytics: Download the opt-out browser extension from tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

8Managing Cookies by Browser

Here is how to access cookie settings in the most commonly used browsers. Steps may vary slightly depending on your browser version:

9Do Not Track (DNT)

Some browsers have a "Do Not Track" (DNT) feature that sends a signal to websites requesting that they do not track your browsing activity.

Currently, there is no universally agreed-upon standard for how websites should respond to DNT signals. As a result, our website does not currently respond differently to DNT signals. We rely instead on our cookie consent banner — which gives you specific, informed control over each category of cookie — as a more transparent and effective mechanism for managing your tracking preferences.

If and when a standardised DNT framework is established and widely adopted, we will update this policy and our practices accordingly.

In the meantime, the most effective ways to prevent tracking on our site are to reject non-essential cookies via our consent banner or to use your browser’s private/incognito mode, which does not retain cookies after the session ends.

10Cookies & Your Privacy

Cookies and your personal privacy are closely linked. Here is how our cookie usage intersects with your privacy rights:

10.1 What Cookie Data We Can See

Our analytics cookies give us aggregated, anonymised information about how visitors use our site. We can see, for example, that 500 visitors viewed our Dubai packages page last week, that 60% came from mobile devices, and that the average visit lasted 4 minutes. We cannot identify who those 500 visitors were unless they submitted an enquiry form.

10.2 When Cookies Become Personal Data

Cookie data becomes personal data when it is linked to information you have provided — for example, if you submit an enquiry form. At that point, your browsing activity before and after the form submission may be linkable to your identity in our CRM system. This combined data is handled under our full Privacy Policy and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.

10.3 Your Rights Over Cookie Data

Where cookie data constitutes personal data under applicable law, you have the right to:

• Access information about what cookie data we hold about you
• Request deletion of cookie-related personal data
• Withdraw consent at any time by declining cookies or clearing your browser cookies
• Object to processing for marketing purposes

To exercise any of these rights, email us at holidays@holidayvibez.com. For a full description of your data rights, please see our Privacy Policy — Section 9.

10.4 Cookies and Children

Our website is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly use marketing cookies to target children. If a parent or guardian believes their child has interacted with our site and wishes us to delete any associated cookie data, please contact us immediately at holidays@holidayvibez.com.

11Updates to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time as we add new features to our website, integrate new third-party services, or in response to changes in law or industry practice. Common reasons for updates include:

• Adding a new analytics tool or marketing platform
• Removing a tool that is no longer in use
• Changes to how we configure existing tools
• Updates required by new privacy legislation
• Feedback from users about cookie clarity

When we make material changes to this policy, we will update the Last Updated date at the top. For significant changes — such as introducing a new marketing tracking platform — we will reset cookie consent preferences so that you are asked to re-consent under the updated terms.

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