Cookies

cebufest-theme

Remembers whether you chose the light or the dark colour scheme, so the site does not flash the wrong one on your next visit.

Set: When you press the light/dark toggle in the header.

Lasts: 1 year

cebufest-trip

Holds the list of places you have added to your trip, so your selection survives moving between pages. It is a list of published place identifiers and nothing else.

Set: When you add or remove a place from your trip.

Lasts: 7 days, restarted each time you change your selection

cebufest-consent

Remembers whether you said yes or no to analytics and advertising cookies, so you are not asked again on every page. It holds that one answer and the version of this notice you answered.

Set: When you answer the cookie banner — either way.

Lasts: 182 days

_ga

Set by Google Analytics to count visits and page views. It tells us which pages are read and which are not; it is not used to build a profile of you or to show you advertising.

Set: Only if you agree to analytics. Never otherwise.

Lasts: 2 years

_ga_WSFSTTS0V3

Set by Google Analytics to count visits and page views. It tells us which pages are read and which are not; it is not used to build a profile of you or to show you advertising.

Set: Only if you agree to analytics. Never otherwise.

Lasts: 2 years

__gads

Set by Google's advertising script to measure and limit how often an ad is shown and to detect fraud. Google can add to this list without changing anything here, so treat it as the ones we know of rather than as a complete inventory — your browser's site-data panel is the authoritative view.

Set: Only if you agree to advertising cookies. Never before you answer.

Lasts: 13 months

__gpi

Set by Google's advertising script to measure and limit how often an ad is shown and to detect fraud. Google can add to this list without changing anything here, so treat it as the ones we know of rather than as a complete inventory — your browser's site-data panel is the authoritative view.

Set: Only if you agree to advertising cookies. Never before you answer.

Lasts: 13 months

FCCDCF

Set by Google's consent message to record what you chose about advertising. It is the advertising counterpart of the CebuFest cookie above, and it is what stops you being asked on every page in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland.

Set: When you answer Google's consent message.

Lasts: 13 months

The analytics and advertising cookies above are not needed to give you what you asked for, so we ask before setting them. On your first visit a banner puts the question plainly, with agreeing and refusing side by side — one click each, the same size, neither hidden behind a second screen.

Until you answer, and permanently if you answer no, the Google Analytics script is never requested and no analytics cookie is set. It is not loaded and switched off; it is not loaded.

Advertising works differently, and we would rather say so than let you assume otherwise. Google’s advertising script is loaded before you answer, because it is also what shows Google’s own consent message in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland — a tool that asks has to run in order to ask. What we hold back is the storage: every advertising permission is set to “denied” before that script runs, so nothing is written to your device and nothing is personalised until you agree.

Which banner you see depends on where you are. In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, Google’s certified consent message asks you, and it offers a more detailed set of choices than ours. Everywhere else, the CebuFest banner asks, and one answer covers both counting and advertising. You are asked once, by one of them — never twice.

Whichever you choose, your answer is remembered in the cebufest-consent cookie so you are not asked again on every page — including when you say no, because a banner that keeps coming back is not really asking. If Google’s message asked you instead, Google records your answer in its own cookie, listed above, for the same reason. To change your mind, use Cookie choices at the bottom of any page and whichever of the two asked you comes back.

If we ever change what we track or who we share it with, the question is asked again rather than assumed answered.

Every browser can clear cookies for a single site, usually under settings for privacy, site data or site permissions. Clearing CebuFest’s cookies erases everything the site holds about your visit, without needing to ask us.

Doing so has two visible effects:

• The colour scheme goes back to following your device’s light-or-dark setting.
• Your trip selection empties, and any places you had added are forgotten.
• Your answer to the cookie banner is forgotten too, so it will ask again — and the analytics cookies themselves are removed.

Nothing else breaks — the whole site works with cookies blocked, you will simply have to make those choices again on each visit. A trip plan you have already generated keeps working, because the plan is in its own link rather than in a cookie.

Google is the only other company that can set a cookie here — for advertising, and for counting page views. Either way it happens only after you answer. There is no embedded social widget on any page.

Google’s advertising script is loaded before you answer, and that is worth being plain about. It has to be: it is also what shows you Google’s consent message in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, so holding it back until you agreed would mean the question could never be asked. What we withhold instead is the storage — every advertising permission is set to “denied” before that script runs, so it writes nothing to your device until you say yes. You can confirm that in your browser’s cookie panel before answering.

Booking partners are different, but only once you leave: if you follow a Check availability link, the partner’s own site may set its own cookies under its own policy. That is described in our affiliate disclosure.

More detail on data generally is in our privacy notice. Anything else, write to [email protected].