Cookie Policy
Club Travel Limited and Its Associated Websites
Published on: 01/05/2018
Updated on: 14/10/2025
Club Travel Limited and its associated companies fully respect your right to privacy.
This Cookie Policy applies to the operations of the following websites:
- www.clubtravel.ie
- www.go4less.ie
- www.budgettravel.ie
- www.budgetair.ie
- www.abbeytravel.ie
- www.escape2.ie
- www.magicjapantours.com
- www.breakaway.ie
- corporate.clubtravel.ie
- www.atlas.ie
Operated by: Club Travel Limited, a company registered in the Republic of Ireland under number 089890 and having its registered office at 30 Lower Abbey Street, Dublin 1.
Club Travel and its associated companies fully respect your right to privacy.
DATA PROTECTION: WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you with the best and most useful content to help improve your online experience.
We collect certain kinds of information about our users for these reasons:
- To provide personalised services unique to individual use.
- To help us to monitor and improve the services we offer.
- With user consent, to market services to individual users.
Visitors should be aware that each time they visit a website two general levels of information about their visit can be retained.
The first level comprises statistical and other analytical information collected on an aggregate and non-individual specific basis of all browsers who visit the site.
The second level comprises information that is personal or particular to a specific visitor who knowingly chooses to provide that information by accepting cookies. It is policy of this website to respect and protect the privacy of our customers and never wilfully disclose individually identifiable information about its customers to any third party without first receiving that Customer's permission.
No personally identifiable information is collected about you on this website, apart from information which you volunteer (for example by emailing us, using our online forms or by making an enquiry about content or services).
Our websites are not intended for children under the age of 16. In accordance with Article 8 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), if you are under 16 years of age, you must obtain consent from your parent or legal guardian before accepting cookies or providing any personal data through our websites. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 16 without such consent. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from a child without appropriate consent, we will take steps to delete that information.
This information will only be used by Club Travel Limited and its associated companies for:
- The purposes for which it was provided by you
- Verification purposes and statistical analysis
- To identify you as a customer
- To process your booking
- To verify credit or other charge card details
- To deliver relevant information to you in connection with your travel and any ancillary services which you may wish to avail of
Accordingly, our Privacy Notification will apply to our treatment of the information we obtain via our cookies.
WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are small pieces of information, stored in simple text files, placed on your computer by a website. Cookies can be read by the website on your subsequent visits. The information stored in a cookie may relate to your browsing habits on the web page, or a unique identification number so that the website can ‘remember’ you on your return visit.
Generally speaking, cookies do not contain personal information from which you can be identified, unless you have furnished such information to the website. This website uses cookies to track usage and help improve features and services of the site.
Statistical and analytical information from cookies provides us with general and not individually specific information about the number of people who visit this website; the number of people who re-turn to this site; the pages that they visit; where they were before they came to this site and the page in the page at which they exited. This information helps us monitor traffic on our website so that we can manage the site's capacity and efficiency. It also helps us to understand which parts of this site are most popular, and generally to assess user behaviour and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of the various areas of the site.
HOW WE USE COOKIES
We collect information on our users through registration and the use of the website, through cookies, where you choose to disclose data in postings, and when you enter sales promotion and competitions.
We use cookies for a number of reasons:
- Analysing how you use the website
- Recognising you when you've signed in
- Customer Functionality
By using the site you are agreeing to the use strictly necessary cookies and any other cookies you accept as described.
COOKIES WE USE
There are two types of cookie you may encounter when using this site;
First Party Cookies
These are our own cookies, created and controlled by us and used to provide information about usage of our site.
Third Party Cookies
These cookies created by other providers usually for advertising or tracking across different sites
The following is a listing of the main cookies used on our site together with brief details of the information they store and for what purpose. Strictly necessary cookies are required for the site to function and other categories are optional cookies that you can decline or accept.
Strictly Necessary
|
Name |
Provider / Domain |
Expiration |
Description |
|
CookieScriptConsent |
.clubtravel.ie |
5 months 3 weeks |
This cookie is used by Cookie-Script.com service to remember visitor cookie consent preferences. It is necessary for Cookie-Script.com cookie banner to work properly. |
|
TESTCOOKIESENABLED |
www.premierleague.com |
51 seconds |
This cookie is used to determine if the user's browser supports cookies. |
|
ApplicationGatewayAffinityCORS |
www.clubtravel.ie |
Session |
This cookie is used in conjunction with load balancing, to ensure that client requests are directed to the same server for any browsing session, enhancing the user experience by promoting effective resource use. Specifically, the CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) version supports handling of requests across different domains. |
|
__cf_bm |
.glassdoor.com |
29 minutes 55 seconds |
This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. |
|
ApplicationGatewayAffinity |
www.clubtravel.ie |
Session |
This cookie is used to maintain user session affinity, ensuring that a user's requests within a session are sent to the same server for consistent interaction with the web application. |
Performance
|
Name |
Provider / Domain |
Expiration |
Description |
|
_ga |
.clubtravel.ie |
1 year 1 month |
This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. |
|
_gid |
.clubtravel.ie |
1 day |
This cookie is set by Google Analytics. It stores and update a unique value for each page visited and is used to count and track pageviews. |
|
_ga_47VQDZ2L99 |
.clubtravel.ie |
1 year 1 month |
This cookie is used by Google Analytics to persist session state. |
|
cee |
.capig.stape.org |
2 months 4 weeks |
This cookie is used to track user interaction and behavior on the website for improvement and analytics purposes. |
Targeting
|
Name |
Provider / Domain |
Expiration |
Description |
|
uid |
.adform.net |
1 month 4 weeks |
This cookie provides a uniquely assigned, machine-generated user ID and gathers data about activity on the website. This data may be sent to a 3rd party for analysis and reporting. |
|
_fbp |
.clubtravel.ie |
2 months 4 weeks |
Used by Meta to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers |
|
_gat_gtag_UA_113455_3 |
.clubtravel.ie |
49 seconds |
This cookie is part of Google Analytics and is used to limit requests (throttle request rate). |
|
test_cookie |
.doubleclick.net |
14 minutes 47 seconds |
This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to determine if the website visitor's browser supports cookies. |
|
_gcl_au |
.clubtravel.ie |
2 months 4 weeks |
Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services |
Unclassified
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Name |
Provider / Domain |
Expiration |
Description |
|
poptin_user_ip |
www.clubtravel.ie |
11 months 4 weeks |
|
|
poptin_session |
www.clubtravel.ie |
29 minutes 53 seconds |
|
|
poptin_c_visitor |
www.clubtravel.ie |
4 weeks 2 days |
|
|
poptin_referrer |
www.clubtravel.ie |
1 minute 59 seconds |
|
|
C |
.adform.net |
4 weeks 2 days |
|
|
_hjSession_1274306 |
.clubtravel.ie |
29 minutes 48 seconds |
|
|
_cfuvid |
.glassdoor.com |
Session |
|
|
_hjSessionUser_1274306 |
.clubtravel.ie |
11 months 4 weeks |
|
|
poptin_old_user |
www.clubtravel.ie |
2 days |
|
|
poptin_user_id |
www.clubtravel.ie |
11 months 4 weeks |
|
|
poptin_previous_url |
www.clubtravel.ie |
1 minute 50 seconds |
|
|
cf_clearance |
.clubtravel.ie |
11 months 4 weeks |
SITE PERFORMANCE COOKIES
This type of cookie remembers your preferences/settings for tools found on any Club Travel limited site, or the website of one of its associated companies.
ANALYTICS COOKIES
Every time a user visits our website, web analytics software provided by a third party generates an anonymous analytics cookie. These cookies can tell us whether or not you have visited the site before. Your browser will tell us if you have these cookies, and if you don't, we generate new ones. This allows us to track how many individual unique users we have, and how often they visit the site. Unless you are signed in to a Club Travel limited site, or the website of one of its associated companies, these cookies cannot be used to identify individuals; they are used for statistical purposes only. If you are logged in, we will also know the details you gave to us for this, such as username and email address.
We use Google to provide our analytics data. You can read more about how Google Analytics treats your data at: Google: Safeguarding your data.
You can also read Google’s full privacy policy.
REGISTRATION COOKIES
When you register with a Club Travel limited site, or the website of one of its associated companies, we generate cookies that signal whether you are signed in or not. Our servers use these cookies to work out which account you are signed in with, and if you are allowed access to a particular service. It also allows us to associate any comments you post with your username. If you have not selected 'keep me signed in,' your cookies get deleted when you either close your browser or shut down your computer. While you are signed into this site, we combine information from your registration cookies with analytics cookies, which we could use to identify which pages you have seen on a Club Travel limited site, or on the website of one of its associated companies.
THIRD PARTY COOKIES
These are cookies found in other companies’ internet tools which we are using to enhance our site, for example Facebook or Twitter, have their own cookies, which are controlled by them.
Some of these third parties use their own anonymous cookies to track how many people have seen a particular ad, or to track how many people have seen it more than once. Visitors should be aware that Club Travel Limited and its associated websites is unable to control the use of cookies or the resulting information by other third parties such as advertisers or parties hosting data. These cookies cannot be used to identify an individual; they can only be used for statistical purposes, for example, in providing you with advertisements that are more relevant to your interests.
The companies that generate these cookies have their own privacy policies and Club Travel limited and its associated websites has no access to read or write these cookies, other than allowing them to be served, we have no role to play in these cookies at all (although we may use statistical information arising from these third party cookies and provided to us by third parties, to improve the targeting of advertisements to users of the website). These third-party advertising cookies may be used by those third parties to anonymously target advertising to you on other websites, based on your visit to a Club Travel Limited website or one of its associated websites.
If you would like to disable "third-party" cookies generated by advertisers or providers of targeted advertising services, you can turn them off by going to the third party's website and getting them to generate a one-time "no thanks" cookie that will stop any further cookies being written to your machine.
HOW TO MANAGE YOUR COOKIES
CONTROLLING COOKIES WITHIN YOUR BROWSER
Most browsers and devices offer settings that allow you to choose whether browser cookies are set and to turn-off and/or delete them. For more information about these controls, visit your browser or device's help material. Certain parts of the Club Travel limited services may not work properly if you have disabled browser cookie use and you might see more pop-ups and other intrusive advertising, as we won't be able to limit what you see using cookies. You will, however, still be able to view editorial content.
Browser help pages relating to cookie settings
Browser manufacturers provide help pages relating to cookie management in their products. Please see below for more information.
- Microsoft Edge
- Google Chrome
- Mozilla Firefox
- Safari (Desktop)
- Safari (Mobile)
- Android Browser
- Opera
- Opera Mobile
For other browsers, please consult the documentation that your browser manufacturer provides.
Find out more about the use of cookies on http://www.cookiecentral.com
If you are primarily concerned about third party cookies generated by advertisers, you can turn these off by going to http://www.youronlinechoices.com/ie/
You can also visit the trade body representing these advertising bodies for more information on how to opt out of these cookies:
http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp
CHANGES TO THIS STATEMENT
If there are updates to the details of this Cookie Policy, we will post those at the bottom and update the revision date at the top of this document, so you will always know what information we collect online, how we use it, and what choices you have.
GOOGLE ANALYTICS IP ANONYMIZATION
We use Google Analytics 4 (GA4) for website analytics. GA4 is configured to anonymize IP addresses, ensuring that no personally identifiable information is stored or processed through this service.
GEO-TARGETING
We use Google Analytics 4 (GA4) for website analytics. GA4 is configured to anonymize IP addresses, ensuring that no personally identifiable information is stored or processed through this service.
THIRD-PARTY COOKIE BLOCKING AND DATA STRATEGY
Third-party cookies are blocked until explicit consent is provided. Club Travel is actively transitioning to first-party data strategies and contextual advertising to align with browser privacy standards and GDPR compliance.
CONSENT AUDIT LOGS
Our Consent Management Platform (CMP) maintains detailed audit logs of user consent preferences. These records are securely stored for a minimum of 5 years to meet GDPR accountability requirements.
CHILDRENS CONSENT
Our websites are not intended for children under the age of 16. In accordance with Article 8 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), if you are under 16 years of age, you must obtain consent from your parent or legal guardian before accepting cookies or providing any personal data through our websites. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 16 without such consent. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from a child without appropriate consent, we will take steps to delete that information.