Cookie Policy
We (Euro Travel Coach LLC) use cookies to help our site (https://www.eurotravelcoach.com) run effectively and provide the best experience for visitors.
If you would like to find out more about cookies please visit www.allaboutcookies.org or www.aboutcookies.org, which explain how cookies work and how you can manage their use.
We use the following types of cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our site to enable you to move around our site and use its features. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our site. Without these cookies our site does not work properly.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognize you when you return to our site and enable us to remember the choices you make when using our site. For example, if you have a service in your cart and then leave our site, the item will still be in your cart when you return.
- Analytical/performance cookies. These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. We only use these cookies to improve how our website works.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we used on our site and the purposes for which we use them in the tables below.
A: Functional and strictly necessary cookies created by Squarespace to allow users to access key features on our site include:
Cookie Name |
Duration |
Purpose |
Crumb |
Session |
Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF). CSRF is an attack vector that tricks a browser into taking unwanted action in an application when someone’s logged in. |
RecentRedirect |
30 minutes |
Prevents redirect loops if a site has custom URL redirects. Redirect loops are bad for SEO. |
CART |
2 weeks |
Shows when a visitor adds a product to their cart |
hasCart |
2 weeks |
Tells Squarespace that the visitor has a cart |
Locked |
Session |
Prevents the password-protected screen from displaying if a visitor enters the correct site-wide password. |
SiteUserInfo |
3 years |
Authenticates a visitor who logs into a customer account |
SiteUserSecureAuthToken |
3 years |
Authenticates a visitor who logs into a customer account |
squarespace-popup-overlay |
Persistent |
Prevents the Promotional Pop-Up from displaying if a visitor dismisses it |
squarespace-announcement-bar |
Persistent |
Prevents the announcement bar from displaying if a visitor dismisses it. |
B: Analytical/performance cookies created by Squarespace and Google Analytics include:
Cookie Name |
Duration |
Managed by |
Purpose |
__utma |
Persistent unless you clear your cookie cache. |
Google Analytics |
Used to distinguish users and sessions. |
__utmb & __utmc |
_utmb is triggered from when you first visit our site and expires when you close your browser. A timestamp of 30 minutes must pass before Google cookie __utmc expires. Given__utmc cannot tell if a browser or website session ends. Therefore, if no new page view is recorded in 30 minutes the cookie is expired. |
Google Analytics |
These cookies work in tandem to calculate visit length |
__utmz |
6 months |
Google Analytics |
Determines where on the internet a visitor arrived from |
__utmv |
Persistent |
Google Analytics |
Used for segmentation & data experimentation |
ss_cid |
2 years |
Squarespace |
Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site |
ss_cvr |
2 years |
Squarespace |
Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site |
ss_cvisit |
30 minutes |
Squarespace |
Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site |
ss_cvt |
30 minutes |
Squarespace |
Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site |
ss_cpvisit |
2 years |
Squarespace |
Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site |
ss_cookieAllowed |
30 days |
Squarespace |
Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing Analytics cookies on their browser if a site is restricting the placement of cookies |
For more information on Google Analytics cookies, please refer to https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/cookie-usage.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
For more information on Squarespace cookies, please refer to https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001264507
You can set your browser to not accept cookies, but this may limit your ability to use our services. Squarespace sites do not respond to DNT:1 signals from browsers.
You can also opt out of receiving interest-based ads from certain ad networks here (or if located in the European Union, here).
Please note that third parties (e.g. providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies. Therefore, if you take the opportunity to share content from our site through our social buttons (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc), you should be aware that these sites are likely to collect information about your online activities. We have no control over this. We suggest that you check the privacy policies (if any) of such third party websites for more information about their use of your information and/or how to opt out or delete such information.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding our cookie policy, please feel free to contact us via telephone at 254-485-9700 or via email at chelsea@eurotravelcoach.com.