Cookies Policy
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Updated 01 Jan 2023
Asian Geographical Partners Ltd exists to support the Asian Geographical Society.
The Asian Geographical Expeditions website use technologies on the site www.asiangeographical.com (the Site) to collect information that helps us improve your online experience. In this Cookie Policy, we refer to these technologies, which include cookies, pixels, web beacons and gifs, collectively as cookies. This policy explains the different types of cookies used on the Site and how you can control them.
Third parties, including those who operate websites which we link to in our sites or apps, may collect and use other information about you, and if you want to find out about what data they collect and how they use it you should refer to their privacy policy.
Changes in Cookie Policy
We may change this Cookie Policy at any time. Please take a look at the last effective date at the top of this page to see when this Cookie Policy was last revised. Any changes in this Cookie Policy will become effective when we make the revised Cookie Policy available on or through the Site. Any personal information that we collect through the use of cookies is obtained through transparent notice to you and through your consent. Where applicable, we provide you with the opportunity to opt out. We hope that this Cookie Policy helps you understand, and feel more confident about, our use of cookies. Please also see our Privacy Policy to understand the other ways in which we use information we collect about you. If you have any further queries, please contact us.
1. What is a cookie?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device by the server of the website you are visiting. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work in a better, more efficient way. They can do this because websites can read and write these files, enabling them to recognise you and remember important information that will make your use of a website more convenient (e.g., by remembering your user preferences). Cookies cannot access or read any information on your hard drive and cannot be executed as code. Cookies are not dangerous.
2. Type of cookies
Cookies come in different flavours and they ‘remember’ you either for the duration of your visit (using a ‘session cookie’) or for repeat visits (using a ‘persistent cookie’).
Session cookies
These are used to maintain something called session state. If you consider your journey through the site to be a conversation with us, this cookie just reminds the site where we were in that conversation (for instance if at some point in the conversation you asked us to add a tour to your basket, next time you click on the basket it will still be there). These are required for the site to function but are not used in any way to identify you personally.
Persistent cookies
These cookies last for a long time and each time you come to our site you send us a copy of them. We use them to identify you between visits. For instance; if you were looking at tours to India last time you were on the site and we have a great tour deal, we may use this cookie to recognise you and show you, our deal. They are not required for the site to work but may enhance your experience. We do not store any personal data in these cookies, just a unique number that identifies you to us.
Cookies that are set by our website that you are visiting are called ‘first party cookies’. Cookies that are set by other websites who run their content on the pages of our website you are viewing are called ‘third party cookies’. E.g., In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may place a unique "cookie" on your browser. On some pages of our website, we may have content from services such as Facebook, Instagram or YouTube. Please note that we do not control any cookies which are used by these services and you should check the relevant third-party website for more information about these.
3. What cookies do we use?
Below we list the different types of cookies we may use on the Site.
Analytics or Performance Cookies
These cookies track information about your use of this Site and enable us to improve the way it works. For example, we analyse which are the most frequently visited pages on the Site, the overall patterns of usage on the Site and help us record any difficulties you have with the Site. and show us whether our advertising is effective or not. We might also use analytics cookies to test new ads, pages, or features to see how users react to them.
Functionality Cookies
In some circumstances, we may use functionality cookies. Functionality cookies allow us to remember the choices you make on our Site and to provide enhanced and more personalised features, such as customising a certain webpage, remembering if during your last visit to our site you added a tour to your basket, etc. These preferences are remembered through the use of the persistent cookies, and the next time you visit the website you won’t have to set them again. These are required for the site to function but are not used in any way to identify you personally.
Targeting or Advertising Cookies
We and our service providers may use targeting or advertising cookies to deliver ads that we believe are more relevant to you and your interests. For example, we may use targeting or advertising cookies to limit the number of times you see the same ad on our Site and to help measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. These cookies remember what you have looked at on the Site and we may share this information with other organizations, such as advertisers.
For more information about third-party advertising networks and similar entities that use these technologies, see youradchoices.com/control, and to opt-out of such ad networks and services’ advertising practices, go to optout.aboutads.info/.
Opting out of third party targeting or advertising cookies does not necessarily mean that you will not see our advertising on third party websites, only that this advertising will not be targeted to you through the use of third-party cookies.
3. How do third parties use cookies on the site?
Cookies that are set by our website that you are visiting are called ‘first party cookies’. Cookies that are set by other websites who run their content on the pages of our website you are viewing are called ‘third party cookies’. In some circumstances, we may work with third parties to provide services on our Site. Third-party advertisers and other organizations may use their own cookies to collect information about your activities on our Site and/or the advertisements you have clicked on. This information may be used by them to serve advertisements that they believe are most likely to be of interest to you based on content you have viewed. Third-party advertisers may also use this information to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements. We do not control any cookies which are used by these services and you should check the relevant third-party website for more information about these (such as to disable or reject their cookies).
4. How do I manage cookies?
Although ‘Cookies’ are generally harmless, you may still not want to see anything targeted to your interests. It is possible to block some or all cookies, or even to delete cookies that have already been set; but you need to be aware that you might lose some functions on our website.
Web browser cookies
If you don’t want to receive cookies, you can modify your browser so that it notifies you when cookies are sent to it or you can refuse cookies altogether. You can also delete cookies that have already been set. You can do this through your browser settings; the Help function within your browser should tell you how. Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org, which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of desktop browsers.
Flash cookies
If you have Adobe Flash installed on your computer (most computers do), small files may be stored on your computer by websites that contain Flash media, such as video clips and are known as Flash cookies.
When you delete cookies using your browser controls, your Flash cookies are not affected. So, a website that served a cookie to you may recognise you on your next visit if it backed up its now-deleted cookie data to a Flash cookie. You may wish to refer to allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies for information on commonly used browsers.
Please be aware that restricting the use of cookies may affect the features available to you on our site.