Although Explore-Italy.co.uk does not collect any personal data you should be aware that advertisers on this site may use Cookies or Web Beacons. Our web hosting company also keeps log files. By using this site you agree to cookies being placed on your computer
Most Web site servers use log files. This includes internet service provider (ISP), internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, platform type, referring and exit pages and date/time stamp.
This information may be used to analyse traffic and user trends, administer the site, track a user's movement and to gather demographic information.
IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Cookies are small files that a website may place on your computer's hard drive to allow a website to identify you. The use of cookies is a common practice on many websites. For example, if you allow a website to remember your login name or password, the website places a cookie on your computer.
We may place cookies on your computer to allow us to identify you.
Cookies cannot read any other information on your hard drive.
We may use cookies to measure web traffic, to offer you certain services, and to customize your visit.
If you don't want to have cookies placed on your hard drive or would like to be notified when a a cookie is being placed on your computer system, your Internet browser may have tools to allow you to configure these options.
A web beacon, also referred to as a web bug, is a transparent image file that can be used to monitor your navigation around a website or a collection of sites or web pages.
Web beacons are commonly used by sites that utilise third-party services to monitor traffic and to analyse how visitors to a website interact with, and navigate, the content on the pages of a web site.
We may serve third party advertisements, such as Google adverts, that may use web beacons or cookies in the course of adverts being served by them onto our website, to ascertain how many times you have viewed an advertisement.
No personally identifiable information is provided to third party advertisers for cookie or web beacon use.
Privacy software is available that can be used to override web beacons.
We also may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google's DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements). This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests ('interest based targeting').
The advertisements served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history (For example, if you have been viewing sites about visiting Barbados, you may see Barbados hotel advertisements when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about football).
DART uses 'non personally identifiable information'. It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers.
You can opt-out of this ad serving on all sites using this advertising by visiting http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx