Cookie Policy
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, or other device when you visit a website. Cookies help websites function correctly, improve user experience, and provide information about how the site is used.
Cookies can be:
- Session cookies, which are deleted when you close your browser; or
- Persistent cookies, which remain on your device for a set period or until deleted.
How We Use Cookies
Waterside Holiday Group uses cookies to:
- Ensure our websites function correctly.
- Improve website performance and usability.
- Understand how visitors interact with our websites.
- Support security and fraud‑prevention measures.
- Personalise content and offers where appropriate.
- Analyse our traffic and marketing effectiveness.
We do not use cookies to collect information that directly identifies you, such as your name, postal address, or email address.
Types of Cookies We Use
Strictly Necessary Cookies - These cookies are essential for our websites to operate and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually set in response to actions you make, such as navigating pages, managing cookie preferences, or accessing secure areas of the website.
Without these cookies, parts of the website may not function properly.
Performance and Analytics Cookies - These cookies allow us to understand how visitors use our websites, for example which pages are visited most often and how users move around the site. This information helps us to improve website performance and user experience.
Analytics data is aggregated and does not directly identify individual visitors.
Targeting, Marketing, and Social Media Cookies - Where used, these cookies help us understand the effectiveness of our marketing and may be used to show relevant content or offers. They may also result in information about your use of our website being made available to advertising and analytics partners via cookie‑based technologies, who may combine it with other information you have provided to them or that they have collected from your use of their services.
Social media cookies may be set by social media services that we have added to our websites to enable content sharing or interaction with social networks. Where used, these cookies may allow social media platforms to recognise your device and potentially track your browsing activity across other websites. This information may be used by those platforms to build a profile of your interests and display relevant content or advertising.
These cookies are only set where you have provided appropriate consent. If you do not allow these cookies, social sharing tools or embedded social media content may not function as intended.
Functional Cookies - Functional cookies enable enhanced functionality and personalisation, such as remembering preferences or choices you have made.
These cookies may be set by us or by third‑party services whose functionality we use on our websites.
Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies used on our websites are set by third‑party services that appear on our pages or support website functionality, analytics, or marketing activities.
We do not control these cookies directly.
Where third‑party cookies are used, the relevant third party is responsible for how they process information collected through those cookies. We recommend that you review the relevant third party’s privacy and cookie information to understand how they use cookies and how you can manage your preferences.
Managing your Cookie Preferences
When you first visit our website, you will be presented with a cookie banner giving you the option to:
- Accept all cookies.
- Decline all non‑essential cookies.
- Manage your cookie preferences.
You can change or withdraw your consent at any time by selecting “Manage Cookies,” which remains accessible on our website.
You can also control cookies through your browser settings. Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect website functionality and your user experience.
Consent
With the exception of strictly necessary cookies, cookies will only be placed on your device with your consent, in accordance with the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR).
You may withdraw or update your consent at any time via the cookie management controls.
Relationship to Our Privacy Policy
This Cookie Policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how we process personal data collected through cookies and similar technologies.
For more information, please see Section 17 (Cookies) of our Privacy Policy.
Contact Us
If you have questions about our Cookie Policy, please contact us at:
Email: dataprotection@watersideholidays.co.uk
Address: Waterside Holiday Group, Bowleaze Cove, Weymouth, Dorset, DT3 6PP
Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, regulation or how we use cookies. The most recent version will always be available on our website.
