COOKIE POLICY
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WHAT ARE COOKIES
Like a trail map that helps you navigate a new landscape, cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, or other device when you visit our website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and provide information to the website owners, helping to create a better experience for you.
Cookies are not programs and cannot contain viruses or malware.
HOW WE USE COOKIES
At Himalayan Outdoor Project, we use cookies to enhance your journey with us, from your first click to your return from the mountains. Specifically, we use cookies for the following purposes:
- Essential Cookies: These are crucial for the basic functions of our website, such as navigating pages, accessing secure areas (like your booking dashboard), and processing payments. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
- Performance and Analytics Cookies: These cookies allow us to understand how visitors interact with our site by collecting anonymous data. This helps us improve how our website works, for example, by ensuring that users find what they are looking for easily. We primarily use Google Analytics for this purpose (see details below).
- Functionality Cookies: These remember choices you make (such as your preferred language or the region you are browsing from) to provide a more personalized and convenient experience during your current and future visits.
- Targeting/Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.
OUR USE Of GOOGLE ANALYTICS
To understand how our visitors use the site and to discover areas for improvement, we use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc.
- What it does: Google Analytics uses performance cookies to collect information about:
- How many visitors come to our site.
- How visitors find and navigate our site (e.g., from search engines, social media, etc.).
- Which pages are most and least popular.
- How much time visitors spend on the site.
- Data Anonymization: We have configured Google Analytics to anonymize your IP address before it is stored or processed by Google. This means you cannot be personally identified from this data.
- Data Sharing: We do not allow Google to use or share our analytics data for any other purpose.
- Opt-Out: You can learn more about Google Analytics and your privacy by visiting Google’s Safeguarding Data page. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics tracking across all websites you use by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
TYPES OF COOKIES WE USE
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Strictly Necessary
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These are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas for booking or make payments.
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Performance
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These allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and see how they move around our site. This includes cookies set by Google Analytics. This helps us improve the way our site works.
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Functionality
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These are used to recognize you when you return to our site. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
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Targeting
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These cookies record your visit to our site, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.
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Third-Party Cookies
Please note that throughout your journey on our site, you may also encounter cookies set by third-party services. These include, but are not limited to:
- Google Analytics: As described in detail above.
- Meta (Facebook) Pixel: To measure the effectiveness of our advertising and to show you relevant ads on Facebook and Instagram based on your interactions with our site.
- YouTube: If we embed videos on our site, YouTube may set cookies to track viewing behavior and preferences.
These third-party cookies are subject to the respective privacy policies of these external services.
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You can manage your cookie preferences at any time. When you first visit our website, you will see a cookie consent banner that allows you to accept or reject non-essential cookies (like those for Analytics and Targeting).
You can also control and/or delete cookies as you wish through your browser settings. You can delete all cookies that are already on your device and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. However, if you do this, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site, and some services and functionalities may not work.
For more detailed control, you can visit www.allaboutcookies.org for comprehensive information on how to manage cookies on a wide variety of browsers.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
The Himalayan Outdoor Project may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will post any changes on this page and update the “Last Updated” date at the top.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please do not hesitate to contact us:
Himalayan Outdoor Project
Email: info@himalayanoutdoorproject.com
Website: https://himalayanoutdoorproject.com/contact