Cookie Policy
Cookie notice
Last updated: 13th June 2024
Here at On The Beach, we like to give you perks wherever possible, in order that we can provide you with a great experience booking your next jolly we use cookies.
Cookies are small files that are placed on your computer, tablet or mobile device by us. This information can then be sent back to us and recorded as you move around our website. For example, you may search for a holiday and we might use a cookie to remember this for you so when you back to the search, it is there for you without having to enter lots of details all over again.
Cookies are unique to the browser you are using and you have control over whether you accept many of the cookies that we use.
So, what types of cookies do we use?
There are different types of cookies each performing different functions. We do not list the actual cookies used here because they can change. However, you may contact us (see below) if you want more information on the actual cookies used and you may also use one of many products that will report on website cookies being used at the time of checking.
Our cookies fall broadly into three categories.
Essential/functional cookies. These are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you carry out searches, log into secure areas of our website and make payments. Functional cookies are used to recognise your preferences on the site and to enable us to optimise our service to you. We do not ask for your consent to place these cookies are they essential to the running of our website and our ability to provide you with holiday information and to make bookings. Part of our essential and functional cookies are cookies which we place to enable Ryanair, one of our airline partners, to ensure they have the right information for your booking. These cookies are only relevant when a Ryanair flight is selected. The cookies are variously used to track users anonymously between Ryanair internal sites, store preferences for the website, and identify devices for enhanced security.
Analytical/performance cookies. These allow us to gain an insight into how visitors use our website, so we can improve it. We are able to count the number of visitors and review which pages they visit. We also use these cookies to monitor which marketing activities are generating activity to our website. You may refuse to have these cookies placed. It does not stop our website providing the services you expect but it does stop us from better understanding how our customers use our site and to enable us to make positive changes for your benefit.
Marketing / Social Media / Third Party cookies. These cookies may be used by us, social networking sites, other third-party suppliers and/or advertisers to record your visits to our website and enable interaction with you once you have left our website. The information obtained is used to personalise any adverts that you see for our products, whether they appear on our website or on third party websites.
During your booking journey, you may, depending on your package choice, interact with the domain of an On the Beach business partner in order to finalise your booking. Data collected through strictly necessary cookies on our partner websites will be used by our partners only and will not be shared with OnTheBeach. Currently, this process only applies to our business partner Ryanair. For more information, please see Ryanair's Privacy Policyand Ryanair's Cookie Policy.
How can you manage cookies?
We use a cookie management system called CIVIC to manage our cookies and allow you consent or dissent to the cookies that are placed on your device. When you use our site you can see the cookie banner and options and take actions to control cookies as you wish. You may also use a commercial tracker manager in your browser, if you wish to manage cookies operations at the browser level.
Our cookies
Cookie name | 1st/3rd party | Duration | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
mkt | 3rd | 1 year | Essential | Enables browser to remember the market for a specific user. |
rid | 3rd | 1 year | Essential | Used to identify unique devices for enhanced security. |
rid.sg | 3rd | 1 year | Essential | Used to identify unique devices for enhanced security. |
storage_preferences | 3rd | Session | Functional | Stores the preference of the cookie categories for the Ryanair website. |
fr-correlation-id | 3rd | 1 year | Functional | Tracks an anonymous session between internal Ryanair Services. |
_ga | 3rd | 1 year | Functional | Google Universal Analytics – Ryanair – Used to distinguish users by assigning a random number as an identifier. Used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for analytical reporting. |
_gid | 3rd | 1 year | Functional | Google Universal Analytics – Ryanair – generates and stores a unique value for each page visit. |
u_allocation | 1st | 1 year | Essential | Internal cookie used for testing purposes to distinguish live and test operations. Not identifiable. |
remember_token | 1st | 1 year | Essential | Internal cookie used for testing purposes to distinguish live and test operations. Not identifiable. |
otb_variant | 1st | 1 year | Essential | Internal cookie used for testing purposes to distinguish live and test operations. Not identifiable. |
cf_bm | 1st | 1 year | Functional | Non-identifiable. Bot detection cookie (Cloudflare). |
cf_clearance | 1st | 1 year | Functional | Non-identifiable. Stores proof of challenge to enable access to services. |
datadome | 1st | 1 yeah | Functional | Bot detection. Non-identifiable. |
__exponea_time2__ | 1st | 1 hour | Functional | Timestamp offset between browser and server time. |
_gat_business | 1st | 1 year | Functional | |
Otb_ga_session_id | 3rd | Session | Analytical | Session Google Analytics cookie. |
_gid | 3rd | 1 day | Analytical | Store and count page views identify user for 24 hours. |
xnpe_[project_token] | 3rd | 1 year | Analytical | Bloomreach engagement to identify sessions – server side. |
__exponea_etc__ | 1st | 1 year | Analytical | Bloomreach engagement to identify sessions – client side. |
_uetsid | 3rd | 1 year | Marketing | Bing – store and track visits across websites. |
_uetvid | 3rd | 1 year | Marketing | Bing – store and track visits across websites. |
MUID | 3rd | 1 year | Marketing | Microsoft Clarity – store and track visits across websites. |
_ga_* | 3rd | 1 year | Marketing | Google Analytics – store and count page views. |
fr | 3rd | 1 year | Marketing | Facebook ad cookie |
_ctuid | 3rd | 2 years | Marketing | Clicktripz ID cookie |
ctConversion | 3rd | 1 month | Marketing | Clicktripz conversion cookie |
How can you contact us?
If you have any questions about this cookie notice or wish to exercise any of your data protection rights, please contact our Data Protection Officer at:
Email: [email protected]
Post: Should be sent for the attention of the Data Protection Officer to:
On the Beach, Aeroworks, 5 Adair Street, Manchester, M1 2NQ