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Financial Protection

ATOL ProtectedProtected By ABTOT

All the flights and flight inclusive holidays on this websiteare financially protected either by ABTOT or the ATOL scheme.

When you pay for something protected by the ATOL scheme you will be supplied with an ATOL Certificate. Please ask for it and check to ensure that everything you booked (flights, hotels and other services) is listed on it.

Please see our booking conditions for further information.

Cookies are small text files stored on your computer when you visit certain web pages. At Travel Butlers we use cookies to remember you when you return to our site, to analyse where people are visiting our site from, and to help with our online bookings process. Cookies are not harmful to your computer, and you can read more about how we protect your data in our  Privacy Policy.

Some of these cookies are essential to make this site work properly and to allow you to make your travel enquiry or booking. Other types of cookie help us to provide you with a better experience when you browse our site, allow us to improve our site and the way we provide our service to customers, or are used to provide you with information or offers from Travel Butlers that may be of interest to you.

Some of the cookies we commonly use are listed below. This list is not exhaustive, but it is intended to illustrate the main reasons we typically set cookies. If you visit our website, the site may set some or all of the following cookies:

Necessary Cookies

Necessary cookies enable core functionality. The website cannot function properly without these cookies, and they can only be disabled by changing your browser preferences.

NameProviderPurposeExpiryType
ASPSESSIONID# travelbutlers.com Preserves users states across page requests. Session HTTP Cookie
cookieconsent_status travelbutlers.com Stores the user's cookie consent state for travelbutlers.com 1 year HTTP Cookie
props,offers,regions, ItineraryNumbers travelbutlers.com Used to store contents of your wishlist Session HTTP Cookie
lhnJWT, lhnAutoInviteShown, lhnRefresh travelbutlers.com Required by live chat. Session HTTP Cookie

Performance And Analytics Cookies

The performance and analytical cookies we use collect information in an anonymous form and help us to improve our website by reporting anonymous information on its usage. We do not store any personally identifiable information as part of this process.

Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). The information generated by the cookie about your use of our website will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Your data is collected and stored in an anonymous format, and your full IP address is never stored in a database or written to disk. 

Further information about Google’s privacy policy may be obtained from http://www.google.com/privacy.html.

Google Analytics collects information anonymously. It reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit our site – for more information on opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites you use, visit Google.

NameProviderPurposeExpiryType
_ga travelbutlers.com Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. 2 years HTTP Cookie
_gat travelbutlers.com Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate Session HTTP Cookie
_gid travelbutlers.com Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. Session HTTP Cookie

Social Network Cookies

This website uses AddThis to provide social media sharing buttons on blog articles and elsewhere. If you share our content through social media, for example by liking us on Facebook, following or tweeting about us on Twitter, or giving us a '+1' via Google Plus, AddThis and the social networks will record that you have done so and may set a cookie for this purpose.

NameProviderPurposeExpiryType

__atuvc,

travelbutlers.com

Updates the counter of a website's social sharing features. AddThis.

13 months

HTTP Cookie

__atuvs

travelbutlers.com

Ensures that the updated counter is displayed to the user if a page is shared with the social sharing service, AddThis.

Session

HTTP Cookie

at-rand

travelbutlers.com

Used by the social sharing platform AddThis

Persistent

HTML Local Storage

bt2

addthis.com

Used by the social sharing platform AddThis to keep a record of parts of the site that has been visited in order to recommend other parts of the site

255 days

HTTP Cookie

di2

addthis.com

Used by the social sharing platform AddThis

1 year

HTTP Cookie

impression.php/#

facebook.com

Used by Facebook to register impressions on pages with the Facebook login button.

Session

Pixel Tracker

loc

addthis.com

Geolocation, which is used to help providers determine how users who share information with each other are geographically located (state level).

13 months

HTTP Cookie

uid

addthis.com

Creates a unique, machine-generated user ID. AddThis, which is owned by Clearspring Technologies, uses the user ID to make it possible for the user to share content across social networks and provide detailed statistics to various providers.

1 year

HTTP Cookie

uvc

addthis.com

Detects how often the social sharing service, AddThis, encounters the same user.

13 months

HTTP Cookie

xtc

addthis.com

Registers the user's sharing of content via social media.

13 months

HTTP Cookie

Marketing Cookies And Other Third Party Cookies

This website uses the Google AdWords remarketing service to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Travel Butlers website. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.

You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.

NameProviderPurposeExpiryType

ads/ga-audiences

google.com

Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor's online behaviour across websites.

Session

Pixel Tracker

collect

google-analytics.com

Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels.

Session

Pixel Tracker

IDE

doubleclick.net

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.

1 year

HTTP Cookie

NID

google.com

Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user's device. The ID is used for targeted ads.

6 months

HTTP Cookie

PREF

youtube.com

Registers a unique ID that is used by Google to keep statistics of how the visitor uses YouTube videos across different websites.

8 months

HTTP Cookie

test_cookie

doubleclick.net

Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies.

Session

HTTP Cookie

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

youtube.com

Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.

179 days

HTTP Cookie

YSC

youtube.com

Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.

Session

HTTP Cookie

Managing cookies

You can use your browser settings to accept or reject new Cookies and to delete existing Cookies. You can also set your browser to notify you each time new Cookies are placed on your computer or other device. You can find more detailed information about how you can manage Cookies at the All About Cookies and Your Online Choices websites.

If you choose to disable some or all Cookies, you may not be able to make full use of our Websites. For example, you may not be able to add items to your shopping basket, proceed to checkout, or use any of our products and services that require you to sign in.

Where we display personalised adverts on other organisations’ websites, the AdChoices icon will usually be displayed. Clicking on this icon will provide you with specific guidance on how to control your online advertising preferences. More information is available on the YourAdChoices website.

Internet Explorer And Microsoft Edge: Select Tools in the top navigation bar in your browser, and go to Options then Privacy to adjust the cookie settings. More from Microsoft

Google Chrome: Select Tools in the top navigation bar in your browser, and select Options then the Under the Hood tab, Privacy then Content settings. More from Google Chrome

Mozilla Firefox: Select Tools in the top navigation bar in your browser, and go to Options, then select Privacy and click on Cookies. More from Firefox

Safari: Select the cog icon in the top navigation bar in your browser and select Preferences, then Security to access cookie options. More from Safari

You are able to opt-out of Google Analytics Advertising cookies by implementing a browser add-on here.