Cookie policy

For our website to distinguish you from other users of our website we use cookies. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website, monitor website traffic and also allows us to improve our site.

How do I manage my cookies?
You can use the below button to manage your cookie settings for our website at any time. Alternatively, you can set your browser to block cookies. Please check your browser for instructions on how to do this.

What are cookies?
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

What type of cookies are there?
We use the following cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website and use of its features such as accessing secure areas of our website. Without these cookies, we cannot provide services you might require like make an online booking.
Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of currency.
Advertising or Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website more relevant to your interests, it will also be used to place advertisements on other sites that you may visit. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. They are usually placed by advertising networks with our permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisation. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

How long are cookies stored for?
How long cookies are stored for depends on the type of cookie.

Session cookies are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site.

Persistent cookies remain in the cookie file of your browser for longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie).

What are my options?
You can choose no cookies other than strictly necessary cookies, or you can opt in to analytical or performance and/or functional and/or advertising cookies.

You can disable these strictly necessary cookies by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the website functions – without these cookies services you have asked for, like making an online booking or live chat, cannot be provided. See the links in the ‘Third party cookies’ section for information on how to change your browser settings.

If you do not make a choice, only strictly necessary cookies will be set.

Our cookies policy
The Explore site uses cookies to enhance your use of the site. Cookies used on our site are anonymous and contain no personal information or credit card details.

Our cookies identify your computer so that:

You do not have to give the same information several times during one task.
The website recognises that you have entered your username and password and you therefore do not have to input this information for every web page requested.
We can measure the number of users utilising specific services, so they can be made easier to use and we can ensure there is enough capacity to keep them fast.

If you choose not to accept cookies, you can continue to use the site but only to browse. You can turn off cookie settings, please refer to the 'How do I manage my cookies?' section above for instructions.

In addition, we do use some third party advertising cookies which allow us to display products similar to what you appear to be interested in. If you would prefer to opt-out of this, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp

For any further information please do not hesitate to email us at webmaster@explore.co.uk