Cookies Policy
1. Introduction
The www.auntbetty.com website (the "Aunt Betty Site") is operated by Flight Centre Travel Group Limited trading as Aunt Betty (hereafter “we", "us", "our", "Flight Centre"), a company incorporated in Australia. This page, with our Privacy Policy, details our use of cookies on the Aunt Betty Site. By using the Aunt Betty Site, you indicate that you accept this Cookies Policy and our Privacy Policy and you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these, please do not use the Aunt Betty Site.
We may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure you are happy with any changes.
2. What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We may link the information we store in cookies to any personal information you submit while on our website. Cookies save data about individual visitors to the website, such as the visitor's name, password, username, screen preferences, the pages of a website viewed by the visitor, and the advertisements viewed or clicked by the visitor.
3. What Do We Use Cookies For?
At Flight Centre, we use cookies to identify a visitor’s browser, to anonymously track visits or to enhance the experience of the website.
We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. A session ID cookie expires when you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. When a visitor revisits the website, we may recognize the visitor by the cookie and customise the visitor's experience accordingly. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help” file.
If you reject cookies, you may still have access to our website, but your ability to use some areas of our website, such as contests or surveys, may be limited.
Web Beacons / Gifs
We employ a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons), that help us better manage content on our website by informing us what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on Web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. We do not tie the information gathered by clear gifs to our customers’ personal information.
3rd Party Tracking
The use of cookies by our partners, affiliates, tracking utility company or service providers is not covered by this Policy. We do not have access or control over these cookies. Our third party partners employ clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs), images, and scripts that help them better manage content on our website. We do not tie the information gathered to our customers’ or users’ personal information.
Behavioural Targeting / Re-Targeting
We partner with third party ad networks to either display advertising on our websites or to manage our advertising on other websites. Our ad network partners use cookies, Web beacons and other technologies to collect non-personally identifiable information about your activities on this and other websites to provide you targeted advertising based upon your interests.
If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you targeted ads, you may opt-out by clicking Here and Here. Please note this does not opt you out of being served advertising. You will continue to receive generic ads or targeted ads where third parties do not honour opt-out capabilities
4. Third Party Cookies and Analytics
4.1 When you visit certain sections of our website and/or use our mobile application, third parties may place cookies on your computer’s browser and/or make use of web beacons to collect information. This information may include things such as your use of the website or mobile application, device and browser information and ad data. The information generated by the cookies and web beacons about your use of the website is transmitted to those third parties. This information is then used for the purpose of compiling statistical reports to enable us to measure and analyse the number of visits to the site and its pages, the average time spent on the site and the pages viewed; serving targeted advertising to you (including use to target advertising on other sites or applications based on your online activity); providing us with services and enhancing/improving our website, mobile application and the third party’s technology products and services.
4.2 Our current providers, and information regarding their data practices and how to opt out, include the following:
4.2.1 Google Analytics: When you visit certain sections of the website, Google Analytics, a website analytics service provided by Google, Inc (“Google”), will place cookies on your computer’s browser. The information generated by the cookies about your use of the website is transmitted to Google. This information is then used for the purpose of compiling statistical reports to enable us to measure and analyse the number of visits to the website and its pages, the average time spent on the site and the pages viewed. We will not (and will not allow any third party to) use Google Analytics to track or to collect any personal data of visitors to our website. We will not associate any data gathered via use of cookies with any personal data from any source as part of our use of Google Analytics. For further information about Google Analytics please visit www.google.com/analytics and for details of Google Analytics’ Privacy Policy, please visit http://www.google.com/intl/en)ALL/privacypolicy.htmlALL/privacypolicy.html). You may choose to opt-out of Google Analytics using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on which you may access at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.
4.2.2 Criteo is a company specialising in targeted advertising. For further information about Criteo, please visit www.criteo.com and for details of Criteo’s Privacy Policy, please visit www.criteo.com/us/privacy-policy. For information on how to disable Criteo services and/or to opt out of Criteo, you can visit http://www.criteo.com/privacy/ and use the opt-out feature.
4.2.3 AdRoll is a retargeting company. For further information about AdRoll, please visit www.adroll.com and for details of AdRoll’s Privacy Policy, please visit https://www.adroll.com/en-AU/about/privacy. You may choose to opt out from receiving targeted advertisements from AdRoll by visiting the NAI website opt-out page here: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ or the DAA opt-out page here: http://www.aboutads.info/ or, for EU users, the EDAA opt-out page here: http://youronlinechoices.eu/
4.2.4 We have engaged Inspectlet, Inc. to provide website analytics services, including the analysis of activities of visitors to this website. Inspectlet’s authorised use of cookies and other tracking technologies enable it to have access to personal information of visitors to this website. For further information about Inspectlet, please visit http://www.inspectlet.com. Such access to and use of personal information is governed by Inspectlet’s Privacy Policy, available at http://www.inspectlet.com/legal#privacy. If you have any queries regarding Inspectlet’s Privacy Policy, contact Inspectlet by email at [email protected], marking the message “Attention: Privacy Policy”.
4.2.5 Optimizely is a company which provides website analytics services. For further information about Optimizely, please visit www.optimizely.com and for details of Optimizely’s Privacy Policy, please visit https://www.optimizely.com/privacy/. You may choose to opt out from Optimizely tracking by visiting https://www.optimizely.com/opt_out/ and following the instructions to generate an opt out URL for the Aunt Betty Site.
5. Managing Cookies Usage
5.1 You may block the installation of cookies by certain settings provided by your browser software; we would like to inform you however that in this case you may not be able to have full access to all Aunt Betty Site functions. Furthermore, you can prevent the compilation of data (including your IP address) through cookies and website use by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available through the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
5.2 If you have any concerns about material which appears on the Aunt Betty Site, please contact us at [email protected].
Last updated: 24 October 2016