Use of cookies by hotel Relais il Chiostro di Pienza
You are advised that hotel Relais il Chiostro di Pienza uses cookies or other tracers on its website www.relaisilchiostrodipienza.
These tracers may be installed on your device depending on the preferences that you expressed or may express at any time in accordance with this policy.
1. Why have a cookies policy?
With a view to provide information and ensure transparency, hotel Relais il Chiostro di Pienza established this policy so that you can learn more about:
● The origin and purpose of the information processed when you browse www.relaisilchiostrodipienza.
● Your rights with regard to cookies and other tracers used by hotel Relais il Chiostro di Pienza.
2. What is a cookie?
Cookies and other similar tracers are packets of data used by servers to send status information to a user’s browser and return status information to the original server through this same browser.
The status information can be a session identifier, a language, an expiration date, a response field or other types of information.
During their validity period, cookies are used to store status information when a browser accesses various pages of a website or when the browser returns to this website at a later point.
There are different types of cookies:
● Session cookies, which are deleted as soon as you exit the browser or leave the website
● Persistent cookies, which remain on your device until their expiration or until you delete them using the features of your browser
3. Why use cookies?
We use cookies and other tracers primarily for the following purposes:
Cookies strictly necessary for browsing the www.relaisilchiostrodipienza.
● Manage authentication of website visitors and the associated security measures, and ensure proper functioning of the authentication module
● Optimize the user experience and facilitate browsing, in particular determining “technical routes” for browsing
● Store information regarding the “cookies” information banner seen by website visitors who then continue to browse the website after agreeing to accept cookies on their device
Implement security measures (for example, when you are asked to log in again for content or a service after a certain period of time, or to ensure basic operation of www.relaisilchiostrodipienza.
Cookies for features intended in particular to:
● Adapt www.relaisilchiostrodipienza.
● Store specific information that you enter on www.relaisilchiostrodipienza.
● Allow you to access your personal pages more quickly by storing the login details or information that you previously entered
Cookies for visitor tracking are aimed at improving the comfort of users by helping us understand your interactions with www.relaisilchiostrodipienza.
Advertising cookies are intended to (i) offer you, in advertising spaces, relevant, targeted content that may be of interest to you (best offers, other destinations, etc.) based on your interests, browsing behavior, preferences, and other factors, and (ii) reduce the number of times that the advertisements appear.
Affiliate cookies identify the third-party website that redirected a visitor to www.relaisilchiostrodipienza.
Social network cookies, set by third parties, allow you to share your opinion about and content from www.relaisilchiostrodipienza.
The social network applications on www.relaisilchiostrodipienza.
We recommend that you read the policies of these social networks to familiarize yourself with how they use the browsing information they may collect, especially with regard to advertising. These policies must specifically allow you to make choices on these social networks, particularly by configuring your user accounts for each of them.
4. Consent
The installation of certain cookies is subject to your consent. Also, when you first visit the www.relaisilchiostrodipienza.
This process is supported by means of an information banner on the homepage of the www.relaisilchiostrodipienza.
You can change your mind at any time using the various methods described in section “Deleting and/or blocking cookies”.
5. Deleting and/or blocking cookies
You have several options for deleting cookies and other tracers.
Browser settings
Although most browsers are set by default to accept cookies, you can, if you desire, choose to accept all cookies, always block cookies, or choose which cookies to accept based on their senders.
You can also set your browser to accept or block cookies on a case-by-case basis before they are installed. Your browser also allows you to regularly delete cookies from your device. Remember to configure all the browsers in your different devices (tablets, smartphones, computers, etc.).
Regarding management of cookies and your preferences, configuration varies for each browser. This is described in the Help menu of your browser, as well as how to edit your preferences with regard to cookies. For example:
● For Microsoft Edge™:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/microsoft-edge-browsing-data-and-privacy-bb8174ba-9d73-dcf2-9b4a-c582b4e640dd
● For Safari™: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac
● For Chrome™: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647
● For Firefox™: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-websites-storing-cookies-site-data-firefox
● For Opera™: https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/#cookies
Saving a cookie to your device depends on your wishes, which you can exercise and change at any time and free of charge using the settings offered by your browser software.
If your browser is set to accept cookies on your device, the cookies embedded in the pages and content that you view may be temporarily stored in a dedicated space on your device. They can only be read by their issuer.
However, you can set your browser to block cookies. Keep in mind that if you set your browser to block cookies, some features, pages and spaces on www.relaisilchiostrodipienza.
Specialized advertising platforms
Several professional advertising platforms also give you the option to accept or block cookies used by companies that are members. These centralized mechanisms do not block the display of ads; they simply prevent the installation of cookies that tailor ads to your interests.
For example, you can visit the website http://www.youronlinechoices.com to prohibit the installation of these cookies on your device. This website is offered by digital advertising professionals brought together within the European Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA) and managed in France by Interactive Advertising Bureau France.