Last Updated – 13th Oct 2022
AmericanTraveldesk.com uses cookies on its flight search & booking service. By accessing or using this service you consent the use of cookies.
AmericanTraveldesk.com website including mobile site and mobile app including but not limited to iOS / Android uses first and third party cookies, both session and permanent, to make the website work properly, collect information about the traffic or remember user’s actions and preferences over time.
This Cookie Policy explains when and why cookies are used by AmericanTraveldesk.com
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text file that is placed on your computer or mobile devices to help ensure that you get the best possible experience when you visit a website. It allows the service or third-party to recognize you and make your next visit easier. Cookies can be “persistent” or “session “cookies.
Why does AmericanTraveldesk.com use Cookies?
Cookies allow us to serve you better and more efficiently. Cookies also allow ease of access, by logging you in without having to type your login name each time (only your password is needed); we may also use such cookies to display any advertisement(s) to you while you are on the Website or to send you offers (or similar emails – provided you have not opted out of receiving such emails) focusing on flights which may be of your interest. Cookies also allows us to improve the website’s content, punctuality and speed while their tracking ability also helps us to understand your likes and dislikes. It means it’s easy to respond quickly and adapt the site accordingly. Cookies help in remembering the information like your username, Cookies also helps us in offering you the latest deals and offers.
A cookie may also be placed by our advertising servers, or third party advertising companies. Such cookies are used for purposes of tracking the effectiveness of advertising served by us on any website, and also to use aggregated statistics about your visits to the Website in order to provide advertisements in the Website or any other website about services that may be of potential interest to you. The third party advertising companies or advertisement providers may also employ technology that is used to measure the effectiveness of the advertisements. All such information is anonymous. This anonymous information is collected through the use of a pixel tag, which is an industry standard technology and is used by all major websites. They may use this anonymous information about your visits to the Website in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of potential interest to you. No Personal Information is collected during this process. The information so collected during this process, is anonymous, and does not link online actions to a User
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies. Of course, by changing the options on your web browser or using certain software programs, you can control how and whether cookies will be accepted by your browser.
The important thing to remember is that whilst some cookies are used to track your use of our website, they cannot be ever used to identify you or anyone who has visited our website personally.
Automatic Logging of Session Data:
Each time you access our Website your session data gets logged. Session data may consist of various aspects like the IP address, operating system and type of browser software being used and the activities conducted by the User while on the Website. We collect session data because it helps us analyse User’s choices, browsing pattern including the frequency of visits and duration for which a User is logged on. It also helps us diagnose problems with our servers and lets us better administer our systems. The aforesaid information cannot identify any User personally. However, it may be possible to determine a User’s Internet Service Provider (ISP), and the approximate geographic location of User’s point of connectivity through the above session data.
Types of Cookies:
First-third party cookies
The cookies set by us are called “First-party cookies” and the ones set by our partners and suppliers are called “third-party cookies”. Usually, third-party cookies enable the visits to our website to see and interact with content such as videos and advertising which are provided to us by other companies.
Sessions and Persistent Cookies
Session cookies are the cookies that exist only for the length of time that you or any other customer visit our site and are deleted as soon as you close the browser. Persistent cookies which are also known as permanent cookies are the ones that remain stored on your browser and are ready for use the next time you visit our website.
Essential cookies
These cookies are required to help you access secure areas. These are essential because you can’t access the certain services and features without them, No information about your browsing habits is gathered by these cookies.
Social networking cookies
These cookies allow visitors like you to share our page and content through third-party social networking websites.
Analytics Cookies:
Analytics Cookies allow us to improve our services by collecting information about your use of the Service. We use these cookies to help improve how the website works. For example, Analytics Cookies show us statistics, which are the most frequently visited pages on the Service, help us record any difficulties you have with the Service. We can’t identify you personally through the use of these cookies, but third parties who provide these cookies may be able to.
Similar Technologies:
In addition to cookies, we may also use other similar tracking technologies on our services, such as pixel tags (also known as clear GIFs, pixels or web bugs), web beacons, eTags and local storage. We use these technologies to do things like store user settings viewing history, gather demographic information about our user base as a whole or track users’ movements around the Service, to serve interest-based ads, or to improve our understanding of things like site traffic, visitor behavior and promotional campaigns. Pixel tags are small blocks of code installed in or on a web page, mobile app, or advertisement and are a method for passing information from your device to a third party website. Web beacons are electronic files that allow a website to count users who have visited that page or to access certain cookies. Local storage, such as HTML 5, allows a website or mobile app to store and retrieve data on an individual’s device. eTags are tags used to analyze trends by us and our commerce partners.
By opting into Our Cookie Policy, you allow us to:
- Show you relevant content.
- Collect data so we can improve your website experience.
- Share information about your use of the website with third-party advertising and analytics partners.
- Offer you deals & discount coupons.
- Show your bundled savings.
What are your preferences and choices regarding cookies?
We understand that you may want to manage your cookies from time to time so here are some tips.
You can always change your cookie preferences or delete cookies altogether.
Browser settings allow you to choose whether or not to accept cookies or limit certain cookies. Most browsers also provide functionality that lets you review and erase cookies. If you use the Service without changing your browser settings, we will assume that you are happy to receive all cookies on the Service. Please be aware that if cookies are disabled, not all features of the Service may operate as intended.
If you don’t want the website to analyze your preference, booking of flights and the destination you are planning to visit, you can enable the cookies from web browser, delete or refuse cookies. For the same visit the help page of your browser.
Note: If you delete or set to refuse to accept the cookies, you might lose the valuable offer that we offer and some of the special features we offer to our customers. You might not be able to store your preferences and some of the pages might not be displayed properly due to the cookies policy. We use cookies for user behavior and experience and don’t use it for any other purpose. We also use it for sending promotional offers that we come up for flight bookings.
Does this Policy Change?
We may change this Cookie Policy at any time. Please take a look at the date at the top of this page to see when this Cookie Policy was last updated. Any changes in this Cookie Policy will become effective when we make the revised Cookie Policy available on the Service.
