Cookie policy

Find out how our website uses cookies to improve your browsing experience.

1. Introduction

Our website, https://www.visitnorthlincolnshire.com (hereinafter: "the website") uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience all technologies are referred to as "cookies"). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.

2. What are cookies?

A cookie is a small simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.

3. What are scripts?

A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.

4. What is a web beacon?

A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.

5. Cookies

5.1 Technical or functional cookies

Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website and, for example, the items remain in your shopping cart until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.

5.2 Statistics cookies

We use statistics cookies to optimize the website experience for our users. With these statistics cookies we get insights in the usage of our website. We ask your permission to place statistics cookies.

5.3 Marketing/Tracking cookies

Marketing/Tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage, used to create user profiles to display advertising or to track the user on this website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.

5.4 Social media

On our website, we have included content from Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to promote web pages (e.g. “like”, “pin”) or share (e.g. “tweet”) on social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. This content is embedded with code derived from Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and places cookies. This content might store and process certain information for personalized advertising.

6. Placed cookies

Essential cookies
Cookie Description Duration
visit_north_lincolnshire_cookie_consent Used to store the user's cookie consent preferences. 1 year 1 month 1 day
visit_north_lincolnshire_session Used to identify the user's browsing session. 2 hours
XSRF-TOKEN Used to secure both the user and our website against cross-site request forgery attacks. 2 hours
savedItems Used to store favourites to users browser. 1 year 1 month 1 day
Analytics cookies
Cookie Description Duration
_ga Main cookie used by Google Analytics, enables a service to distinguish one visitor from another. 2 years 2 months 2 days
_ga_FEDK6KQ3J7 Used by Google Analytics to persist session state. 2 years 2 months 2 days
_gid Used by Google Analytics to identify the user. 1 day
_gat Used by Google Analytics to throttle the request rate. 1 minute
_clck Persists the Clarity User ID and preferences, unique to that site is attributed to the same user ID. 1 year 1 month 1 day
_clsk Connects multiple page views by a user into a single Clarity session recording. 1 month 2 days
CLID Identifies the first-time Clarity saw this user on any site using Clarity. 1 year 1 month 1 day
ANONCHK Indicates whether MUID is transferred to ANID, a cookie used for advertising. Clarity doesn't use ANID and so this is always set to 0. 1 year 1 month 1 day
MR Indicates whether to refresh MUID. 1 year 1 month 1 day
MUID Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes. 1 year 1 month 1 day
SM Used in synchronizing the MUID across Microsoft domains. 1 year 1 month 1 day

7. Consent

When you visit our website for the first time, we will show you a pop-up with an explanation about cookies.

As soon as you select one of the options, you consent to us using the categories of cookies and plug-ins you selected in the pop-up, as described in this Cookie Policy. You can disable the use of cookies via your browser, but please note that our website may no longer work properly.

7.1 Manage your consent settings

If you would like to reset your cookie preferences for this website, please click the button below.

8. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies

You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed.

For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.

Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you visit our website again.

9. Your rights with respect to personal data

You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

  • You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.
  • Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data that is known to us.
  • Right to rectification: you have the right to supplement, correct, have deleted or blocked your personal data whenever you wish.
  • If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.
  • Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
  • Right to object: you may object to the processing of your data. We comply with this, unless there are justified grounds for processing.

To exercise these rights, please contact us. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority (the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)).

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