Daniel Castle Hotel

Cookies Policy

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website.

They help the site function properly, remember your preferences, and understand how visitors interact with it.

Some cookies are essential. Others help us improve your experience.

2. How we use cookies

We use cookies to:

  • Ensure the website works correctly
  • Remember your preferences
  • Understand how visitors use the site
  • Improve our services and content
  • Show relevant ads and offers

3. Types of cookies we use

Essential cookies

These are necessary for the website to function properly. They allow basic features such as:

  • Page navigation
  • Secure access to certain areas
  • Booking or form functionality

Without these cookies, the website cannot operate correctly.

Analytics cookies

These help us understand how visitors interact with the website. We use:

  • Google Analytics

These cookies collect information such as:

  • Pages visited
  • Time spent on the site
  • General location (approximate, not precise)
  • Device and browser type
  • How you arrived at the site (e.g. from a search engine, an advertisement or a link on another site)
  • Scrolling, clicks on external links, downloads, use of forms
  • How far you got in the booking process, and the value of a completed booking

This data does not include your name, but it is linked to an identifier stored in a cookie, so a returning visit can be recognised. Google does not store your full IP address. If you are signed in to your Google account and have enabled personalised ads, Google may link this data to your account. If you enter an email address or phone number in our forms, Google may receive it in an irreversibly encoded form, to measure the effectiveness of our advertising.

Marketing cookies

These help us deliver relevant ads and measure campaign performance. We use:

  • Meta Pixel (Facebook Pixel)

These cookies may:

  • Track your interaction with our website
  • Help us show you relevant ads on platforms like Facebook or Instagram
  • Measure the effectiveness of our advertising

Functionality cookies

These allow the website to remember your choices, such as:

  • Language preferences
  • Previously entered information (where applicable)
Language choice
Set by: this website
Purpose: remembers your chosen language
Duration: 1 year
Cookie choice
Set by: this website
Purpose: remembers what you consented to
Duration: until you delete it
Booking basket
Set by: this website
Purpose: the rooms and dates you selected
Duration: until you close the browser tab (at most 1 day)
_ga, _ga_…
Set by: Google
Purpose: distinguishes visitors (Analytics)
Duration: 2 years
_fbp, _fbc
Set by: Meta
Purpose: ad measurement (Marketing)
Duration: 90 days

4. Third-party cookies

Some cookies are placed by third-party services we use, including:

  • Google Analytics
  • Meta (Facebook / Instagram)
  • Mailchimp (for newsletter interactions, where applicable)

These providers may process data according to their own privacy policies.

5. Your consent

When you first visit our website, you will be asked to choose your cookie preferences.

You can:

  • Accept all cookies
  • Reject non-essential cookies
  • Customize your preferences

You can change or withdraw your choices at any time using the “Cookie settings” link at the bottom of every page, or on this page.

6. Managing cookies

You can control or disable cookies through your browser settings.

Please note:

  • Disabling certain cookies may affect how the website functions

For more information, you can visit: www.allaboutcookies.org

7. Data protection

Any personal data collected through cookies is processed in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

8. Updates to this policy

We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time. The latest version will always be available on our website.

Cookies Policy | Castle Hotel Daniel