COOKIE POLICY
Last updated: 1 September 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Around the Globe Travels uses cookies and similar technologies on https://www.aroundtheglobetravels.com (the “Website”).
Around the Globe Travels is responsible for this Website. If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact us using the contact form on our Website.
1. WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, phone or other device when you visit a website. They can help a website function, protect forms from spam, remember your choices and provide information about how visitors use a website.
Our Website is hosted on Squarespace. Squarespace, and Google services used to protect our contact or enquiry forms, may place cookies on your device.
2. COOKIES WE USE
We use the following types of cookies.
A. Strictly necessary and security cookies
These cookies are needed to operate and secure the Website. They help with functions such as website navigation, security and protecting our contact or enquiry forms against spam and misuse.
We do not use these cookies for advertising or marketing purposes.
The cookies that may be used include:
Cookie: crumb
Provider: Squarespace / Around the Globe Travels
Purpose: Helps protect forms and website requests against fraudulent activity, including cross-site request forgery.
Duration: Session
Cookie: __Secure-ENID
Provider: Google
Purpose: Used in connection with Google security and anti-abuse services, including services that may help protect forms from spam.
Duration: May remain for up to approximately 13 months.
Cookie: AEC
Provider: Google
Purpose: Helps Google identify and prevent spam, fraud, abuse and malicious requests.
Duration: May remain for up to approximately 6 months.
Cookie: SOCS
Provider: Google
Purpose: Stores information connected with Google cookie choices and service settings.
Duration: May remain for up to approximately 13 months.
The exact Google cookies and their duration may vary by browser, device, Google service settings and future updates to Google’s services.
These cookies are necessary for the security and operation of the Website and its forms. They may be set before you make a choice in our cookie banner.
B. Analytics and performance cookies
If you choose to accept non-essential cookies through our Squarespace cookie banner, Squarespace may set analytics and performance cookies.
These cookies help us understand how visitors use the Website. For example, they may help us see:
- Which pages are visited.
- How many people visit the Website.
- How visitors arrive at the Website.
- How visitors move around the Website.
- Whether visitors have visited the Website before.
The cookies that may be used include:
Cookie: ss_cvr
Provider: Squarespace / Around the Globe Travels
Purpose: Helps Squarespace identify visitors and track visitor sessions for Website analytics.
Duration: May remain for up to approximately 2 years.
Cookie: ss_cvt
Provider: Squarespace / Around the Globe Travels
Purpose: Helps Squarespace track visits and sessions for Website analytics.
Duration: May remain for up to approximately 2 years.
We only use these analytics and performance cookies after you have accepted them through our cookie banner.
C. Cookies that remember your cookie choices
Squarespace may use cookies to remember the choice you make in the cookie banner. This helps us respect your preferences on future visits.
The cookies that may be used include:
Cookie: ss_performanceCookiesAllowed
Provider: Squarespace / Around the Globe Travels
Purpose: Records whether you have allowed performance and analytics cookies.
Duration: May remain for up to approximately 1 year.
Cookie: ss_marketingCookiesAllowed
Provider: Squarespace / Around the Globe Travels
Purpose: Records whether you have allowed marketing cookies.
Duration: May remain for up to approximately 1 year.
These preference cookies do not themselves deliver advertising. They record the choice you made in the Website’s cookie banner.
3. HOW WE USE COOKIE CONSENT
When you first visit the Website, you will see our Squarespace cookie banner.
You can choose whether to accept non-essential cookies, including Squarespace analytics and performance cookies.
If you reject non-essential cookies:
- The Website should still work normally.
- Necessary security and form-protection cookies may still be used.
- Squarespace analytics and performance cookies should not be set.
- We will not receive Squarespace analytics information about your visit.
You can change your choice at any time by using the cookie settings option on the Website, where available, or by clearing cookies in your browser.
4. GOOGLE RECAPTCHA AND FORM SECURITY
Our contact or enquiry forms may use Google reCAPTCHA or related Google security services to help prevent spam, fraudulent submissions and automated abuse.
These services may collect technical information about the device and browser used to access the form, and may use security-related cookies. This processing is used to protect the Website and enable us to receive genuine enquiries.
Google’s handling of information is subject to Google’s own privacy information and policies.
5. THIRD-PARTY LINKS
Our Website includes links to third-party websites, including hotels, travel suppliers, tourism organisations and other travel partners.
When you select one of these links, you leave our Website. The third party may then set its own cookies or collect personal data under its own privacy and cookie policies.
Around the Globe Travels does not control these third-party cookies. We recommend that you read the relevant privacy and cookie policies of any third-party website you visit.
6. HOW TO MANAGE COOKIES
You can control and delete cookies through your browser settings. You may be able to see the cookies stored on your device, delete them, block them or set your browser to alert you before cookies are placed.
Information on managing cookies is available from your browser provider:
Google Chrome:
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647
Apple Safari:
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/102647
Mozilla Firefox:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop
Microsoft Edge:
Please be aware that blocking or deleting strictly necessary cookies may affect the way the Website or its contact forms work.
7. CHANGES TO THIS COOKIE POLICY
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time, for example if Squarespace, Google or the services used on our Website change the cookies they use.
The “Last updated” date at the top of this policy shows when it was last revised.
8. CONTACT US
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or how we use cookies, please contact Around the Globe Travels through the contact form at:
https://www.aroundtheglobetravels.com
For more information about how we handle personal data, please read our Privacy Policy.