1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device by websites that you visit. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

At Highlander Whisky Tours, we use cookies to ensure our booking system functions correctly and to help us understand how visitors use our website so we can improve the “Highland experience” online.

 

2. How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below:

• Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are essential for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our site or use our “Book Now” system.

• Analytical/Performance Cookies: These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding the tour information they need easily.

   

• Functionality Cookies: These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

• Targeting/Third-Party Cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We may use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests in whisky and Scottish travel.

3. Third-Party Cookies

In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third-party cookies you might encounter through this site:

• Google Analytics: To help us understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit.

• Payment Processors: When paying your deposit via PayPal or an online invoice, these providers may set cookies to facilitate the transaction and ensure security.

• Social Media: We use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with our Instagram or Facebook pages. For these to work, the social media sites will set cookies through our site.

 

4. Managing Your Cookies

You can choose to enable or disable cookies in your internet browser. Most browsers also allow you to choose whether you wish to disable all cookies or only third-party cookies.

• By default, most internet browsers accept cookies, but this can be changed.

• For further details, please consult the “Help” menu in your internet browser or visit aboutcookies.org.

Please Note: If you choose to disable cookies, some parts of our website (particularly the booking and payment functions) may not function correctly or as intended.

 

5. More Information

Hopefully, that has clarified things for you. As was previously mentioned, if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not, it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.