None of the information stored by this website enables Blue Chip Holidays to identify individual site users without their approval. However, Blue Chip Holidays do use cookies for essential site functions, user experience features, and providing users with information that may be of interest to them.
A full list of the Blue Chip Holidays cookies, and their functions, is included below:
| Cookie name |
Description |
| JESESSIONID |
This is a simple token used to identify your unique session on the website, this allows us to provide a great user experience, whilst maintaing user anonymity. Examples of use include maintaining the integrity of your session while transacting information with a website (accessing secure areas, forms submissions etc) |
| BALANCEID |
Load Balancer: This cookie is used by our load balancer to identify the server that is active for your request. It's purpose is to improve the performance of the website. This is an essential cookie to the operation of the site that is always set by the load balancer and does not store any personal information. |
| favourite_id |
This cookie allows user to store favourite properties in the Shortlist feature on the website |
| display_results |
This cookie allows the system to remember a user's choice when choosing between search results display options |
| _utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmz |
Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to monitor traffic levels, search queries and visits to this website. Google Analytics stores IP address anonamously on its servers in the US, Google does not associate your IP address with any personally identifiable information. These cookies enable Google to determine whether you are a return visitor to the site, to track the pages that you visit during your session, and let us know which channel you used to find the site |
| cmTPSet, CoreID6, CMAVID, _clogin |
Core Metrics: We use Core Metrics to monitor traffic levels, search queries and visits to this website. Core Metrics stores IP address anonamously on its servers in the US, and Core Metrics does not associate your IP address with any personally identifiable information. These cookies enable Core Metrics to determine whether you are a return visitor to the site, to track the pages that you visit during your session, and let us know which channel you used to find the site |
| adtiV, adiVi, adiLP |
AdInsight: We use AdInsight to monitor how users found the website, and how this affects call volume to our call centre |
| datr, Isd |
Facebook: There are areas of our site that allow users to be directed to their Facebook login and share information with their friends, these cookies facilitate this. This site does not automatically log you into Facebook and does not record / monitor your Facebook login details. |
| id, conversion | Google Advertising: these cookies allow Google to display our advertising to you on websites you subsequently visit. This information is not used to serve any third party advertising. |
Anonymity and Personal Information
Every file request that occurs on our web servers is saved as a log file and analysed. The log files only capture the IP address of each user and do not record any personal details or information. The servers recognise and log each IP address automatically. Analysis of the combined log files is carried out to help us monitor the usage of our site.
The results of any analysis may be accessed by Blue Chip Holidays staff and partner agencies to enable them to calculate the performance of the website and monitor user behaviour throughout. Other than the ways stated above, Blue Chip Holidays will never identify individual site users.
Please note, however, that log entries with generally be created in your network service provider or ISP systems when you access pages on our website. With this information, it may be possible to recognise the computer equipment that was used to gain access to a particular page on the website. Any monitoring of this nature will be performed by the network services provider and is beyond the control of Blue Chip Holidays.
Blue Chip Holidays will not make any attempt to monitor, track or recognise individual site users except for cases where it’s suspected that an attempt has been made to access the systems without authorisation. Blue Chip Holidays may make efforts to identify any user suspected of attempting to access computer systems and our web services without authorisation.
In order to use this website, users must allow Blue Chip Holidays to track anyone suspected of trying to access without authorisation using its access logs. Blue Chip Holidays store all log file data securely and we do not allow access to this information to third parties.
