1. What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They help the website recognize your device and store information about your preferences or past actions.
2. How We Use Cookies
Our website uses cookies to ensure basic functionality, analyze website traffic, and display our integrated social media content. Specifically, we embed an Instagram feed on our website to showcase images from our horse riding trails in Las Alpujarras.
3. Types of Cookies Used on This Website
- Technical / Necessary Cookies: These are essential for the website to function correctly and cannot be switched off in our systems. They do not store any personally identifiable information.
- Third-Party Behavioral & Social Media Cookies (Instagram/Meta): Because we embed an Instagram grid, Meta Platforms, Inc. places cookies on your browser when you view these sections. These cookies track user behavior, deliver personalized advertisements on their platforms, and measure the effectiveness of social media interactions.
1. Necessary / Essential Cookies
These cookies are strictly required to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, you cannot refuse them without impacting how our site functions.
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| cookieadmin_consent | Used to store CookieAdmin WordPress Plugin's consent information | Session |
2. Functional / Preference Cookies
These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our website but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality (like videos or user preferences like language selections) may become unavailable.
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| wordpress_test_cookie | Cookie set by WordPress to check if the cookies are enabled on the browser to provide appropriate user experience to the users | Session |
3. Analytics / Performance Cookies
These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our website for you in order to enhance your experience.
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| _ga_8KGVR043EY | Used by Google Analytics to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is used to calculate visitor, session, and campaign data for the website’s analytics reports. | 397 days |
| _ga | Used by Google Analytics to maintain and persist session state data. It tracks specific user behaviors, page paths, and interactions during an active browsing session across the website. | 397 days |
4. Marketing / Advertising Cookies
These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.
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4. International Data Transfers
The third-party cookies used by the Instagram widget may involve data transfers to the United States (Meta Platforms, Inc.). By accepting these cookies through our cookie banner, you consent to this processing under Meta’s independent privacy policy.
5. How to Manage and Disable Cookies
You can choose to accept or reject cookies through the cookie consent banner that appears when you first visit our website. Alternatively, you can modify your internet browser settings to block or delete cookies entirely:
6. Updates to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our website’s functionality or relevant data protection legislation.
7. How to Change or Withdraw Your Consent
You can review, modify, or completely withdraw your cookie consent selections at any time. To change your choices, simply click the floating “Cookie Settings” icon located in the bottom corner of your screen/browser window to re-open our consent banner. Alternatively, you can clear your browser’s cache and cookies, which will automatically force the website to ask for your preferences again upon your next visit.