Like most websites, experiencesnet.com (“us” or “Website”) uses cookies and similar technologies so that we facilitate your browsing in the most effective way, we are able to provide certain services to and gather some information about your navigation through our Website.
Further information about us and our data protection policy can be found here (Data Protection Policy).
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on the hard drive of your computer or any other electronic device you use to visit the Website. Cookies are unique to each web browser (web browsers including, e.g. Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer etc.) and contain information, relating to the websites you visit and the devices you use. Our policy also applies to any technology that stores or accesses information on the user’s device, including, for example, HTML5 local storage, Local Shared Objects and fingerprinting.
How do we use cookies?
The cookies that our Website uses can be divided into the following categories:
Α. Essential cookies
These cookies relate to the storage of (or access to) information either for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network or in order for us to provide a service explicitly requested by you. These cookies are exempt from the requirement of consent, which means that you cannot reject their use from us.
| Name | Source | Duration | Purpose |
| PHPSESSID | experiencesnet.com | Session | The cookie is native to PHP and it is used to establish a user session and to pass state data. |
| cookies.js | experiencesnet.com | Session | This cookie determines whether the visitor has accepted the cookie consent box. This ensures that the cookie consent box will not be presented again upon re-entry. |
| __cfduid | experiencesnet.com | 29 days | The _cfduid cookie helps Cloudflare detect malicious visitors to our Website and minimizes blocking legitimate users. It identifies individual clients behind a shared IP address and applies security settings on a per-client basis. It is necessary for supporting Cloudflare’s security features. |
These cookies are not essential, but they are important in order to improve your experience of using the Website. They provide a series of useful functions, like showing videos or sharing content on social media. Please note that some of these cookies are necessary to offer some of our services (see below cookies from Fareharbor).
| Name | Source | Duration | Purpose |
| GPS | youtube.com | 1 day | This cookie registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | youtube.com | 179 days | This cookie tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. |
| YSC | youtube.com | Session | This cookie registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
| yt-remote-cast-installed | youtube.com | Session | This cookie stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | youtube.com | Persistent | This cookie stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| yt-remote-device-id | youtube.com | Persistent | This cookie stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| yt-remote-fast-check-period | youtube.com | Session | This cookie stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| yt-remote-session-app | youtube.com | Session | This cookie stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| yt-remote-session-name | youtube.com | Session | This cookie stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
Booking an experience via our Website is technically feasible exclusively with the use of Fareharbor’s and Stripe’s platforms. Fareharbor is a company offering online activity and tour operator booking software, which is based in the Netherlands. Stripe offers online payment services for businesses, which is based in the USA.
More info is available in our Data Protection Policy.
When visiting the booking or Gift Card page, Fareharbor and Stripe use cookies and similar technologies for content personalization, audience measuring and other purposes, which are decided and set entirely by them.
Unfortunately, without accepting these cookies it is not possible to make a booking via our Website. These cookies are:
| Name | Source | Duration | Purpose |
| fh-content-language | fareharbor.com | Session | This cookie is used for language settings. |
| fh-preview-language | fareharbor.com | Session | This cookie is used for language settings. |
| fh-target-language | fareharbor.com | Session | This cookie is used for language settings. |
| fh-units-language | fareharbor.com | Session | This cookie is used for language settings. |
| csrftoken | fareharbor.com | 1 year | This cookie helps prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks.
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| _ga | fareharbor.com | 2 year | This cookie registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the Website. |
| _gid | fareharbor.com | 1 day | This cookie registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the Website. |
| fareharbor-uuid | experiencesnet.com | Persistent | This cookie is used by Google in order to track the use and improve the functionality of Google Maps. |
| persistentStorageIdentifier | fareharbor.com | Persistent | |
| _stripe_mid | fareharbor.com | 1 year | This cookie is set in order to make the transaction possible though Stripe. |
| _stripe_sid | fareharbor.com | 30 minutes | This cookie is set in order to make the transaction possible though Stripe. |
| m | m.stripe.com | 2 years | This cookie is set in order to make the transaction possible though Stripe. |
These cookies collect information about the way you use the Website, e.g. the pages you visit the most, the website from which your visit originated and other related information. These cookies collect aggregate, anonymous, statistical data which cannot be used to identify visitors individually. They are used for the sole purpose of analysing traffic and improving the Website performance.
| Name | Source | Duration | Purpose |
| _ga | 2 years | This cookie collects information on how visitors use the website and their storage duration is defined by Google’s usage policy. The specific cookies collect information in anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where the visitors came from, and the pages they visited within the site. We use the information to compile reports that help us improve our Website. | |
| _gid | 1 day | This cookie collects information on how visitors use the website and their storage duration is defined by Google’s usage policy. The specific cookies collect information in anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where the visitors came from, and the pages they visited within the site. We use the information to compile reports that help us improve our Website. | |
| _gat | 1 day | This cookie is used to throttle request rate. | |
| collect | Session | This pixel is used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behavior. | |
| mailchimp_landing_site | experiencesnet.com | 27 days | This cookie is used to register how the user entered the website.
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Information about Google Analytics service
The Website uses the Google Analytics service for statistical audience measuring, e.g. to estimate the number of unique visitors, to detect the most preeminent search engine keywords that lead to our Website webpage or to track down website navigation issues.
Google Analytics, which relies on the use of cookies, is the most popular service for the collection and analysis of data regarding the behaviour of visitors in websites. We use Google Analytics in order to process anonymous information so that we can improve our Website.
The Website utilises the “Anonymise IP” function, which is offered by Google as part of the Analytics service. With this specific function, access to your IP address is restricted to Google and it is anonymised while you are accessing our Website.
The cookies used to process certain information such as the time at which you accessed the Website, the type of browser you are using, the location from which you accessed it, as well as the frequency of your visits. At each visit to the Website, this anonymised data are transmitted to Google’s servers. Further information on Google’s use of cookies in the context of the Google Analytics service can be found here.
You have the option to entirely block the collection of your data by Google Analytics, by installing a plug-in on your preferred browser:
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
These cookies are used to track your behavior across websites and deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They remember that you have visited our Website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers.
| Name | Source | Duration | Purpose |
| IDE | doubleclick.net | 1 year | This cookie is used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the Website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. |
| NID | 6 months | This cookie registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID is used for targeted ads. | |
| test_cookie | doubleclick.net | 1 day | This cookie is used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies. |
DoubleClick
We use DoubleClick, a service provided by Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, “Google”). DoubleClick uses cookies to display ads tailored to users’ preferences. Cookies are used to recognize which ads have already been displayed in your browser and if you have accessed a site through an ad. According to Google, during this process, cookies do not record personal information and cannot be linked to such.
If you wish, you can generally prevent the storage of cookies that are necessary for this process through the settings of your browser. You can also select the types of Google ads that appear to you and turn off ads that appear based on your interests through the ad settings.
Alternatively, you can disable the use of cookies by third parties through the relevant service of Network Advertising Initiative. In this case, however, we and Google will continue to receive statistical information on the number of users who have visited the Website and when. If you do not want to be included in these statistics, you can use a suitable plug-in in your browser (for example the Ghostery plugin).
Due to the architecture of the World Wide Web, when you visit our Website, our server immediately records your IP address in special log files. Your IP address is considered “personal data”, even if we are not able to identify you based solely on that information. In addition, our log files also help us to record the type of browser and operating system you are using, as well as other information concerning your visit, such as the URL address from which you reached our page, the date and time of your visit.
This data is stored exclusively for the amount of time necessary to protect the security of our network, information and services from accidental events or illegal or malicious acts that compromise the availability, integrity and confidentiality of stored or transmitted personal data (e.g. avoiding “Denial of Service” (DoS) attacks).
You are able to adjust the installation of cookies at any time through the settings of the browser you use.
To manage and deactivate cookies, follow the instructions for each browser:
For any information about our cookies policy, please contact us at email address
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