Privacy and cookie policy for CapeTowncheapflights
At CapeTowncheapflights, accessible from https://capetowncheapflights.com, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that are collected and recorded by CapeTowncheapflights and how we use it.
If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.
This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in CapeTowncheapflights. This policy does not apply to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.
Consent:
Please read this privacy policy carefully, by using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.
Who we are ?
CapeTowncheapflights is not an online travel agency (OTA) which sells travel-related products, instead, our service is simply a free search engine without any commission which was founded in 2019, Our website only allows you to search for travel products, if you would like to change or return your tickets or any questions about your booking please contact the vendor you purchased your ticket with, check your credit card statements to find out who charged your card, we will not be able to help you with this request and we do not store any booking information.
CapeTowncheapflights team owns and operates Capetowncheapflights.com through membership in affiliate network that includes the serious advertiser brands and the leading worldwide meta-search engines in the tourist market, large affiliate tools are inserted on our website such as (search forms, text links, banners, white labels) to make easy the searching and comparing for a lot of travel offers by travelers and redirect them to find tickets with the lowest price, in other hands our travel blog is a guide that includes tips can help peoples to find many of travel offers and discounts over the world (international travel tips).
Your Rights of Access /to be forgotten your personal information (Data Access/Data erasure):
We do not use the contact forms , email list..or any other e-marketing technology to collect your personal information such us your name , email address,phone number…etc , however if you email us through our email that appear on the contact us page and you provide us voluntary some personal information about you simply choose to Export/Erase your data from capetowncheapflights website and we respond as soon as possible , your privacy and rights are our priority .
What Information We Don’t Collect About You ?
Order and payment information:
Because you pay to an airline, hotel or travel agency directly, we have no visibility of your order information such a specific ticket bought, price paid, credit card number, etc.
Contact the vendor you purchased your ticket with if you have any questions about your booking – check your credit card statements to find out who charged your card. We do not store any booking information, We do not share or sell any personal information , however all our offers come from serious travel partners
Capetowncheapflights.com does not sell tickets – instead we are a search engine that simply finds the lowest-priced offers on various booking service partners. If you would like to book a ticket offer – don’t hesitate to use our search engine for free to find the cheapest ticket available.
What Information We Collect About You ?
We use “cookies” to collect information.You may disable or delete cookies from within your Internet browser application by accessing the security or privacy settings. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.
When you use or visit the Services, we collect information about your usage and activity using cookies, web beacons, and other technologies. Third parties may also view, edit, or set their own cookies. We and our third-party service providers, affiliates, and other business partners may also place web beacons for these third parties. The use of these technologies by third parties is subject to their own privacy policies and is not covered by this Policy
Cookies are files with small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and stored on your computer’s hard drive, for more information about cookies please read carefully our cookie policy .
Detailed information on the processing of Personal Data
Personal Data is collected for the following purposes and using the following services:
.Analytics
The services contained in this section enable the Owner to monitor and analyze web traffic These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
Google Analytics (Google Inc.)
Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Website, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.
Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
Personal Data collected: Cookies; Usage Data.
Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy – Opt Out .
Google DoubleClick DART Cookie
Google is one of a third-party vendor on our site. It also uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads to our site visitors based upon their visit to www.website.com and other sites on the internet. However, visitors may choose to decline the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy Policy at the following URL – https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
.Tag Management
This type of service helps the Owner to manage the tags or scripts needed on this Website in a centralized fashion.
This results in the Users’ Data flowing through these services, potentially resulting in the retention of this Data.
Google Tag Manager (Google LLC)
Google Tag Manager is a tag management service provided by Google LLC.
Personal Data collected: Cookies; Usage Data.
Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy .
.Traffic optimization and distribution
This type of service allows this Website to distribute their content using servers located across different countries and to optimize their performance.
Which Personal Data are processed depends on the characteristics and the way these services are implemented. Their function is to filter communications between this Website and the User’s browser.
Considering the widespread distribution of this system, it is difficult to determine the locations to which the contents that may contain Personal Information User are transferred.
Cloudflare (Cloudflare)
Cloudflare is a traffic optimization and distribution service provided by Cloudflare Inc.
The way Cloudflare is integrated means that it filters all the traffic through this Website, i.e., communication between this Website and the User’s browser, while also allowing analytical data from this Website to be collected.
Personal Data collected: Cookies; various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy .
Do we disclose personal information to third parties?
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information.
Cookie Policy:
About this cookie policy :
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them. You should read this policy to understand what cookies are, how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used and how to control the cookie preferences.
What are cookies ?
Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. The cookies are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make the website more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.
How do we use cookies ?
As most of the online services, our website uses cookies first-party and third-party cookies for a number of purposes. The first-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.
The third-party cookies used on our websites are used mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.
How we use the cookie information ?
Like any other website, CapeTowncheapflights uses “cookies”.to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page , in the table (Cookie declaration) : you can find the categories of cookies used by our domain provider Capetowncheapflights.com also via Google tag manager (Necessary and statistics/Analytics cookies)
The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors
We use the Cookie information in various ways, including :
- Understand the traffic flow and patterns of travel in connection with our website;
- Understand the pages of our Service that are visited, the time and date of visits, the time spent on those pages and other statistics
- Understand the total number of visitors to our Website on an ongoing basis and the types of internet browsers (e.g. Firefox, Chrome or Internet Explorer) and operating systems (e.g. Windows or Mac OS) used by our visitors;
- Find and prevent fraud.
by the way, the analytics software typically records information in server logs from your browser to provide a better search experience for users, This information doesn’t enable us to personally identify you.
You have the option to opt-out of cookies :
Because we respect your right to privacy, you can choose not to allow some types of cookies on the Cookie Consent banner . Click on the different category headings under show details to find out more and change our default settings. You have the option to opt-out of these cookies, However, blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience of the site and the services we are able to offer.
Data Anonymized in google tag manager (Analytics cookies):
The analytics cookies are anonymized and don’t enable us to personally identify you e.g: we are enabling the IP anonymization by adding a new variable in GTM tag, So when the IP data is received by the Analytics, Google will anonymize /mask the last 3 digits that are automatically deleted before any data storage or processing takes place.
How Can I control the cookie preferences?
You can manage your cookies preferences by clicking on the “Settings” button and enabling or disabling the cookie categories on the popup according to your preferences.
Should you decide to change your preferences later through your browsing session, you can click on the “Privacy & Cookie Policy” tab on your screen. This will display the consent notice again enabling you to change your preferences or withdraw your consent entirely.
In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. To find out more out more on how to manage and delete cookies, visit wikipedia.org, www.allaboutcookies.org.
How to Manage Cookies by Browser?
You may change the security settings of your web browser in order to stop your device receiving and storing cookies, to allow receiving and storing cookies from selected websites you trust, or to be notified before receiving cookies. You may disable or delete cookies from within your Internet browser application by accessing the security or privacy settings. However, if you do not accept cookies, However, that these settings may have negative effects on the web sites usability, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.
Browser manufacturers usually provide help pages relating to cookie management in their products. Please see below for more information:
- Google Chrome Browser
- FireFox Browser
- FireFox (iOS) Browser
- FireFox (Android) Browser
- Internet Explorer Browser
- Microsoft Edge Browser
- Safari (Desktop) Browser
- Safari (Mobile) Browser
- Opera Mobile Browser
Third-Party Cookies and Privacy Policies:
There are various pages on our website where third parties provide applications of their own cookies to track the success of their services (applications) or customize applications for you. Due to how these cookies work, we cannot access the cookies, nor can the third parties access the data in cookies used by us. Some pages of our website may also contain embedded content and these third-party sites may set their own cookies.
Third-party ad servers or ad networks use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on CapeTowncheapflights, which are sent directly to users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to provide a better search experience for users and to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.
Third parties generally use this information for geographic or preference targeting,
The use of these technologies by third parties is subject to their privacy policies and is not covered by this Policy.
CapeTowncheapflights.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers
Third-Party links and Advertising Partners :
Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us, including links to websites of our travel partners, our group companies, and other business partners (including advertisers). We have no control over these third party websites, We are not responsible or liable for the privacy or business practices of any third party websites linked to our Services, including those of our group companies. Your use of third parties’ websites linked to our Services is at your own risk, So If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party sites or services.
Our Travel Partners
Link to privacy policy of third party service providers used by our website
- GO TRAVEL UN LIMITED Partner–Hotel services
- GO TRAVEL UN LIMITED Partner– Airline services
- GetyourGuide Partner-Tourism places services
Cookie Declaration :
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):
We are a Data Controller of your information.
CapeTowncheapflights legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Information we collect and the specific context in which we collect the information:
- CapeTowncheapflights needs to perform a contract with you
- You have given CapeTowncheapflights permission to do so
- Processing your personal information is in CapeTowncheapflights legitimate interests
- CapeTowncheapflights needs to comply with the law
CapeTowncheapflights will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. If you wish to be informed what Personal Information we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.
In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:
- The right to access, update or to delete the information we have on you.
- The right of rectification.
- The right to object.
- The right of restriction.
- The right to data portability
- The right to withdraw consent
You Can Revoke/change the Cookie consent given for the first time:
According to GDPR Article 7.3 and Article 29 Data Protection Working Party (WP29)’s updated Guidelines on transparency under Regulation 2016/679 (wp260rev.01) it has to be as easy for the website user to withdraw a consent as it was to give it in the first place. It should be clear to the website user – at the time when the user is asked for consent regarding the use of his personal data – that the consent can be withdrawn at any time.
You can at any time change or withdraw your consent
Please state the date and time when you contact us regarding your consent.
Your consent applies to the following domains: capetowncheapflights.com
How we respect your rights if you email and provide us voluntary some personal information about you :
We do not use the contact forms , email list..or any other e-marketing technology to collect your personal information such us your name , email address,phone number…etc , however if you email us through our email that appear on the contact us page and you provide us voluntary some personal information about you simply choose to Export/Erase your data from capetowncheapflights website and we respond as soon as possible , your privacy and rights are our priority .
CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information) :
Applicable only to visits from California
Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:
Request that a business that collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.
Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.
Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
How we respect your rights when we using cookies:
Capetowncheapflights.com do not sell, rent ,or share your personal information to anyone , the information collected through cookies it’s anonymized and used without identifying you personally .
We respect also your rights by offering a cookie notice bar with a link (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)
You can at any time change or withdraw your consent
Please state the date and time when you contact us regarding your consent.
Your consent applies to the following domains: capetowncheapflights.com
How we respect your rights if you email and provide us voluntary some personal information about you :
We do not use the contact forms , email list..or any other e-marketing technology to collect your personal information such us your name , email address,phone number…etc , however if you email us through our email that appear on the contact us page and you provide us voluntary some personal information about you simply choose to Export/Erase your data from capetowncheapflights website and we respond as soon as possible , your privacy and rights are our priority .
What types of cookies do we use?
The cookies used on our website are grouped into the following categories (Fisrt party cookies and Third party cookies)
The below list details the cookies used in our website.
| Cookie | Type | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Necessary | |||
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-marketing | First party | 1 year | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The purpose of this cookie is to check whether or not the user has given the consent to the usage of cookies under the category 'Marketing'. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-preferences | First party | 1 year | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The purpose of this cookie is to check whether or not the user has given the consent to the usage of cookies under the category 'Preferences'. |
| visitorId | Third Party | 1 year | Preserves users states across page requests. |
| SESS# | First Party | Session | Preserves users states across page requests. |
| CookieConsent | First Party | 1 year | Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics | First Party | 1 year | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The purpose of this cookie is to check whether or not the user has given the consent to the usage of cookies under the category 'Analytics'. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-uncategorized | First Party | 1 year | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin .The purpose of this cookie is to check whether or not the user has given the consent to the usage of cookies under the category 'uncategorized'. |
| __cfduid | First Party | 4 weeks | The cookie is set by CloudFare. The cookie is used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address d apply security settings on a per-client basis. It doesnot correspond to any user ID in the web application and does not store any personally identifiable information. |
| viewed_cookie_policy | First Party | 11 months | The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | First Party | 1 year | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary | First Party | 1 year | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Non Necessary". |
| Analytics | |||
| _sp_root_domain_test_# | First party | Expiry: Session | Session cookies |
| _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | First Party | Persistent Type: HTML Local Storage | Determines if the user's navigation should be registered in a certain statistical place holder. |
| _hjid | First Party | Persistent Type: HTML Local Storage | Sets a unique ID for the session. This allows the website to obtain data on visitor behaviour for statistical purposes. |
| _gid | First Party | 1 day | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages viisted in an anonymous form. |
| _gat_gtag_UA_168203627_1 | First Party | 1 minute | Google uses this cookie to distinguish users. |
| __gads | First Party | 1 year | This cookie is set by Google and stored under the name dounleclick.com. This cookie is used to track how many times users see a particular advert which helps in measuring the success of the campaign and calculate the revenue generated by the campaign. These cookies can only be read from the domain that it is set on so it will not track any data while browsing through another sites. |
| _ga | First Party | 2 years | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, camapign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assigns a randoly generated number to identify unique visitors. |
| user_id | Third Party (tp.media) | 29 years | Registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. |
| Preferences | |||
| _sp_id.9f40 | Third Party | 2 years | These cookies help us to customise your preferences, such as which language you prefer and what your communications preferences are or to fill out forms on our faster. |
| nuid | Third Party | 1 year | Hotel Search Widget Cookie ,These cookies help us to customise your preferences, such as which language you prefer , and what your communications preferences are or to fill out forms on our faster. |
| auid_tp | Third Party | 17 years | These cookies help us to customise your preferences, such as which language you prefer and what your communications preferences are or to fill out forms on our faster. |
| _sp_ses.9f40 | Third Party | 30 minutes | These cookies store the ID of a user’s session (Session cookies) |
| shmarker | Third Party | 29 years | These cookies help us to customise your preferences, such as which language you prefer and what your communications preferences are or to fill out forms on our faster. |
| Marketing | |||
| pagead/landing | third party (google.com) | Session | Collects data on visitor behaviour from multiple websites, in order to present more relevant advertisement – This also allows the website to limit the number of times that they are shown the same advertisement. |
| pagead/landing | third party (doubleclick.net) | Session | Collects data on visitor behaviour from multiple websites, in order to present more relevant advertisement - This also allows the website to limit the number of times that they are shown the same advertisement. |
| _gcl_au | third party Google | 3 months | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. |
| test_cookie | third party (doubleclick.net) | 1 day | Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies. |
| visitor_id | Third Party | Expiry: Persistent Type: HTML Local Storage | This is a Targeting/Advertising first party persistent cookie by GetYourguide partner |
| partner_id | Third Party | Expiry: Persistent Type: HTML Local Storage | This is a Targeting/Advertising first party persistent cookie by GetYourguide partner |
| auid | Third party | 17 years | This cookie is used to measure the efficiency of advertisement on websites. |
| trace_id | Third Party | 29 years | This cookie used to measure the efficiency of advertisement on websites. |
| test_cookie | Third Party | 11 months | This cookie is set by doubleclick.net. The purpose of the cookie is to determine if the users' browser supports cookies. |
Children’s Privacy
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”).We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us. If we discover that a child under 18 has provided us with Personal Information, we will delete such information from our servers immediately.
Changes To This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at team@capetowncheapflights.com