Cookies

What are cookies?

Sometimes we will send small files to your computer to ensure that this website is functioning in the best possible way. These files are called “Cookies”. Most websites use cookies.

We also use cookies to get information about how the website is being used.

Cookies are small text files which is stored on your computer, mobile or tablet when you visit a website. The cookies help the website to remember your settings (for example username, language, text size and other settings) for a chosen period of time. The idea is that you shouldn’t have to change your settings every time you visit the website, or when you navigate between different websites.

What do we do with the cookies?

GOOGLE ANALYTICS

Google analytics is a Google tool for web analysis. This tool helps us to understand how our website is being used. It collects information about which pages are being visited, how long the visit lasts for, the number of visits on the website and what the source for the visit is (for example google search).

Your IP address is anonymised before it’s being sent to Google Analytics, so the information that is being sent doesn’t contain any information that can identify you as a user. We can therefore not trace actions back to individual users, but we can analyse the use of the website on a top line level.

The data which is retrieved is analysed by us so that we can improve the website to become more relevant and user friendly.

_ga

Cookie type: First Party Persistent cookie
Duration: 2 years from set/update

This cookie is typically written to the browser upon the first visit. If the cookie has been deleted by the browser operator, and the browser subsequently visits fjordtravel.no, a new __utma cookie is written with a different unique ID. In most cases, this cookie is used to determine unique visitors to fjordtravel.no and it is updated with each page view. Additionally, this cookie is provided with a unique ID that Google Analytics uses to ensure both the validity and accessibility of the cookie as an extra security measure.

_gid

Cookie type: First Party Persistent cookie
Duration: 24 hours from set/update

This cookie is used to distinguish users. Whereas _ga has a stable unique ID across pages, _gid has a different ID for each page set on, and a timestamp.  It is suggested that it has a specific purpose with tracking a users journey across pages.

_gat_UA-3208079-1

Cookie type: First Party Persistent cookie
Duration: 1 minute

Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be set as a cookie named _dc_gtm_UA-3208079-1.

_gac_UA-3208079-1

Duration: 90 days

Contains campaign related information about the visitor. We have connected our Google Analytics account with our Google AdWords account. AdWords will messaure conversions by reading this cookie. You can read more about this here:

https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/7521212

If you want to know more about how Google handles data, read the Google privacy policy.

Should you want to opt out of tracking, you can use this browser add-on: Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on

WORDPRESS

WordPress will set cookies for users that log into the wordpress backend to edit site content.
Ordinary vistors wil not recieve any wordpress cookies.

How can you control the cookies?

You can control and delete the cookies if you want to. Read more about how you delete cookies on aboutcookies.org. You can delete all the cookies on your computer, and you can adjust your browser settings so that your computer doesn’t download cookies. The consequence of this is that you have to change certain settings every time you enter a website, and that certain functions may not work.

You can in other words choose if you want to accept cookies on this website by adjusting your browser setting to accept or not to accept cookies.