When you visit, access, or use our services, we may use cookies and other tracking technologies to deliver and improve the Site, and to display relevant content, products, services and advertising. This Cookie Policy explains these technologies, including cookies, pixels, and web beacons, and how you can control them.

By using the Site, you agree that we can use these technologies as described in this Cookie Policy. If you have any further queries or requests, please contact Forbes Travel Guide Customer Support.

What is a cookie?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device. They are widely used in order to make websites work or work in a better, more efficient way. For example, they can recognize you and remember important information that will make your use of a website more convenient (e.g., by remembering your user preferences).

What cookies do we use?

We may use cookies and similar tools to relate your use of the Site to personal information obtained about you.

Below we list the different categories of cookies we may use on the Site.

• Strictly Necessary Cookies. These cookies are essential to the Site in order to facilitate our log-in process and enable you to move around it and to use its features. Without these cookies, we may not be able to provide certain services or features, and the Site will not perform as smoothly for you as we would like.
• Functionality Cookies. Functionality cookies allow us to remember the choices you make while browsing the Site and to provide enhanced, personalized content and features. For example, functionality cookies allow us to customize a certain webpage, remember if we have asked you to participate in a promotion, and remember other services you request, like watching a video or commenting on a blog. In order to permit your connection to the Site, our servers receive and record information about your computer, device, and browser. Such information may include your IP address, browser type, and other software or hardware information. If you access the Site from a mobile or other device, we may collect a unique device identifier assigned to that device ("UDID"), geolocation data, or other transactional information for that device.
• Security Cookies. Security cookies help us to enable security features to protect our users and site integrity.
• Analytics Cookies. Analytics cookies, sometimes called performance cookies, enable us to understand and improve the way the Site and associated plugins perform. Analytics cookies collect information about how you use the Site, for instance, which pages you go to most. The information allows us to see the overall patterns of usage on the Site and help us record any difficulties you have with the Site.

How do third parties use cookies on the site?

In some circumstances, we may work with third parties to provide services on our Site. For example, we use analytics services supported by third-party companies, who generate analytics cookies on our behalf. We may not have access to these cookies, although we may use statistical information arising from the cookies provided by these third parties to customize content and for the other purposes described in this policy. These companies may also transfer this information to other parties where required to do so by law, or where such other parties process the information on their behalf.

How can you control cookies?

You may refuse to accept cookies from the Site at any time by activating the setting on your browser, which allows you to refuse cookies. Further information about the procedure to follow in order to disable cookies can be found on your Internet browser provider’s website via your help screen. You may wish to refer to http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html for information on commonly used browsers.

Please note that by disabling or blocking any or all cookies, some features of the Site may not operate as intended, or you may not have access to features or personalization available through the Site.

Last modified: August 13, 2020