This Cookie Policy explains how Clostavia uses cookies and similar digital technologies to recognize you when you visit our luxury travel guide, resort reviews, and hospitality catalog. It clarifies what these technologies are, why we use them, and your rights to control our usage of them.
Last Updated: August 2026
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Website operators widely use cookies to make their platforms work efficiently, provide tailored navigational features, and compile analytical reporting.
Cookies set by Clostavia are termed first-party cookies. Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are termed third-party cookies. Third-party cookies enable external features such as interactive hotel maps, typography rendering, and aggregated visitor metrics.
2. How Clostavia Uses Cookies
We deploy cookies for several essential and analytical purposes across our editorial portal:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These identifiers are required to provide you with core platform functionality, security verification, and page navigation across our editorial publications.
- Performance and Analytics Cookies: These tools collect aggregated information regarding how visitors interact with our hotel reviews, ranking tiers, and curated guides, allowing us to enhance visual pacing and editorial presentation.
- Functionality Cookies: These remember preferences such as regional display settings, layout choices, and saved bookmark filters across multiple sessions.
3. Detailed Cookie Classification
| Category | Primary Purpose | Lifespan |
|---|---|---|
| Core Session | Maintains navigation states and prevents visual layout disruptions. | Session |
| Platform Analytics | Measures editorial reading duration and page interaction patterns. | 12 Months |
| User Preferences | Stores interface configurations and travel destination filter settings. | 6 Months |
4. Managing and Controlling Cookies
You possess the absolute right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by adjusting the settings within your web browser. Most web browsers allow you to:
- Review existing cookies stored on your device and delete them on an individual or site-by-site basis.
- Block third-party tracking cookies entirely.
- Block cookies from specific domains or configure warnings before a cookie is created.
- Erase all stored cookies upon closing your browser window.
Please note that if you choose to reject or disable essential cookies, your access to certain interactive resort ranking tables and catalog features may be degraded or limited.
Opt-Out and Your Choices
You have the right to control how your personal information is collected and used. Depending on your location and applicable laws, you may exercise the following opt-out choices:
- Data Sharing and Sale: You may opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information with third parties, where applicable under laws such as the CCPA/CPRA in California or similar legislation in other jurisdictions. While we do not sell personal information in the traditional sense, some data may be shared with trusted partners to provide or improve our services.
- Cookies and Tracking: You can manage or refuse cookies and tracking technologies through your browser settings or by using the cookie consent tools provided on our website.
- Marketing Communications: You can opt out of receiving promotional emails or newsletters by following the unsubscribe link in any communication or by contacting us directly.
- Withdrawal of Consent: If you have previously provided consent to data processing, you may withdraw your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
To exercise any of these rights or make an opt-out request, please contact us at [email protected] or via our contact form.
5. Revisions and Modifications
Clostavia reserves the right to revise this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect operational, technological, or legal adjustments. We encourage users to review this page on a regular basis to remain informed regarding our technological standards and data preservation protocols.