1. Introduction
This Cookie Policy explains how ausgrandstays.com uses cookies and similar browser storage technologies. It should be read with our Privacy Policy. In short: this website sets no advertising or analytics cookies, and it uses a small amount of browser storage to function and to remember your choices.
2. What Cookies Are
Cookies are small text files that a website asks your browser to save on your device. They are commonly used to remember settings, keep people signed in, measure traffic or deliver advertising. They are sent back to the website that set them on later visits.
3. Cookies and Browser Storage
Browsers also provide other storage mechanisms, such as local storage, which keeps data until it is deleted, and session storage, which is cleared when you close the browser tab. This website uses local storage and session storage rather than traditional cookies. For simplicity, we refer to all of these as “storage” or “cookies” in this policy.
4. Why We Use Storage Technologies
We use storage for two reasons only: so that the age confirmation notice is not repeated on every page, and so that your cookie preferences are remembered between visits and respected on all pages.
5. Strictly Necessary Storage
Strictly necessary storage supports essential functions and cannot be switched off in our settings. It includes your age confirmation and the record of your cookie choices. The exact items are listed in the table below.
| Storage key | Type | Category | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
ags_age_confirmed | Local storage | Strictly necessary | Records that you declared you are 18 or older, with the date and time of the declaration, so the age notice is not shown on every page. | Until you clear your browser data. No automatic expiry. |
ags_age_status | Session storage | Strictly necessary | Set only if you select “I Am Under 18”, so that access remains restricted while the tab is open. | Until the browser tab is closed. |
ags_cookie_consent | Local storage | Strictly necessary | Stores your cookie choices for each category, a timestamp of the choice and a version number. | Until you clear your browser data or change your choices. No automatic expiry. |
6. Functional Preferences
Functional storage is used to remember optional interface preferences, such as a chosen display setting. At present, this website does not store any functional preferences. The category is included in our settings so that your choice will be respected if such features are added.
7. Analytics Cookies, If Implemented
Analytics technologies help website owners understand how a site is used. No analytics scripts are included on this website, and none are active. If we introduce analytics in future, they will load only after you have given permission in the cookie settings, and this policy will be updated first.
8. Marketing Cookies, If Implemented
Marketing cookies are used to deliver or measure advertising. No marketing or advertising technologies are present on this website. Should that change, they would be used only with your prior consent, and this policy would be updated.
9. Third-Party Content and Google Maps
Hotel pages offer an optional Google Maps embed, which is loaded only after you press the Load Interactive Map button. When loaded, Google may set cookies and collect information under its own policies, and we do not control them. Fonts and icons used on every page are fetched from Google Fonts and the cdnjs network, which receive technical information such as your IP address when your browser requests them, although we do not understand them to set cookies for this purpose.
10. Cookie Consent Preferences
On your first visit, after confirming your age, a banner offers three equal choices: Accept All, Reject Optional or Customise Settings. The settings window lets you choose by category. Your selection is saved in the ags_cookie_consent item and applied on every page.
11. Cookie Duration and Expiration
The items we create have no automatic expiry. They last until you delete them, until you change your choices, or, for session storage, until you close the tab. The duration of any cookie set by Google Maps once you load it is determined by Google.
12. Managing Cookies in Your Browser
Most browsers allow you to view, block and delete cookies and site data through their privacy or security settings. Clearing site data for ausgrandstays.com will remove the items listed above, and you will see the age notice and cookie banner again on your next visit. Blocking all storage may prevent the age confirmation from being remembered.
13. Withdrawing or Updating Consent
You can change your choices at any time. Use the button below or the Cookie Settings link in the footer of every page to reopen the settings window.
14. Changes to Cookie Practices
If we add new storage items or services, we will update the table above and the effective date, and, where required, ask for your consent before they are used.
15. Additional Information
The age confirmation on this website is a self-declaration. It is not a verification of identity. For more about how we handle personal information, see our Privacy Policy, and for support related to gambling, see Responsible Gambling.
16. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, please email [email protected] or visit our contact page.