Cookie Settings

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites place on your device (computer, tablet, or smartphone) when you visit. They are widely used to make websites work efficiently and to provide information to the site owners. Cookies allow a website to recognize your device and remember your preferences over time—such as your language, currency, or items in your booking cart.

Cookies may be first-party (set by us) or third-party (set by our advertising partners, analytics providers, or social media platforms). They can be session cookies—which are deleted when you close your browser—or persistent cookies—which remain on your device for a set period or until you delete them.

At Cruise Way, we also use similar technologies such as web beacons (tiny invisible graphics in emails and pages), pixels (small code snippets that track ad performance), and local storage objects (HTML5 storage that holds preferences). Throughout this policy, we refer to all of these technologies collectively as "cookies."

2. Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential for our website to function correctly and securely. They are usually set in response to actions you take—such as setting your privacy preferences, creating an account, logging in, or completing a booking. Without these cookies, we cannot provide the core services you expect from a travel booking platform.

You cannot disable these cookies through our preference center. You can set your browser to block them, but significant parts of the site—including booking flows—will not work.

What Happens If You Block Necessary Cookies?

• Car Rentals: You won't be able to complete a reservation—the booking cart and pickup/drop-off details will be lost between pages.
• Flight Booking: Search results won't persist; you'll lose your selected itinerary and fare during checkout.
• Cruise Booking: Cabin selection, guest details, and departure date preferences won't be remembered.

3. Performance & Analytics Cookies

These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website—which pages are most popular, how users navigate through booking funnels, and where we can improve the experience. All information collected by these cookies is aggregated and anonymized; we cannot identify you individually from this data.

4. Functional Cookies

Functional cookies allow our website to remember the choices you make—language preference, currency selection, recent searches, and saved travel dates—so we can provide a more personalized and efficient experience each time you return. They may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we've integrated into our pages.

If you disable functional cookies, you can still browse and book, but you'll need to re-enter your preferences each time you visit—language, currency, and location defaults will reset.

5. Targeting & Advertising Cookies

These cookies are used to make advertising more relevant to you and your travel interests. They may be set through our site by us or by our advertising partners (such as Google Ads, Meta, The Trade Desk, and Criteo). They do not store your name or email directly but may uniquely identify your browser and device.

Targeting cookies help us:

• Show you relevant travel deals based on destinations you've searched.
• Limit how many times you see the same car rental or cruise advertisement.
• Measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns—so we know which promotions actually help travelers find great deals.
• Build audience segments (e.g., "users who searched for Caribbean cruises in June") to deliver more useful ads.

6. Social Media Cookies

Social media cookies are set by platforms like Facebook, Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), LinkedIn, and Pinterest. We've added social sharing buttons and embedded content to our pages. These cookies allow you to share our travel deals and blog articles with your friends and networks directly from our site.

These platforms may track your browser across other websites and build a profile of your interests, which could affect the content and ads you see elsewhere. If you do not allow these cookies, you may not be able to use the sharing tools we provide, and embedded social media content (like Instagram cruise photos) may not display.

7. Cookies by Service: Car Rental, Flights & Cruises

Below is a breakdown of how different cookie types support each of our core travel booking services:

7.1 Car Rental Cookies

7.2 Flight Booking Cookies

7.3 Cruise Booking Cookies

8. Third-Party Cookies & Advertising Partners

Some cookies on our site are placed by third-party partners who provide analytics, advertising, and social media services. These partners include:

These third-party cookies are governed by the respective privacy policies of those providers. We encourage you to review their policies to understand how your data is handled outside the Cruise Way platform.

9. Cookie Duration & Retention

Cookies on Cruise Way have different lifespans:

• Session Cookies: Temporary cookies that expire when you close your browser. Used for login sessions, booking carts, and security checks.
• Persistent Cookies: Remain on your device for a fixed period (from 24 hours up to 13 months) or until you manually delete them. Used for preferences, analytics, and advertising.

You can delete persistent cookies at any time through your browser settings. Below is a summary of retention periods:

10. How to Manage & Delete Cookies

In addition to our preference center at the top of this page, you can manage cookies directly through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to:

• View what cookies are currently stored on your device
• Delete individual cookies or all cookies at once
• Block third-party cookies specifically
• Block all cookies from particular sites
• Set your browser to "Do Not Track" (DNT)

You can also visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org for comprehensive guides on managing cookies across all browsers and devices.

11. Legal Compliance: GDPR, CCPA & PIPEDA

Cruise Way is committed to complying with all applicable privacy and cookie laws across the regions we serve. Our cookie practices are designed to meet the requirements of:

11.1 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) — EU / EEA / UK

Under the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive, we are required to:

• Obtain your explicit, opt-in consent before setting non-essential cookies (performance, functional, targeting, social media).
• Provide a clear and easy way to reject all non-essential cookies with a single click—just as easily as you can accept them.
• Keep a record of your consent (stored in the vf_consent cookie) for audit and compliance purposes.
• Allow you to withdraw your consent at any time by returning to this page or clicking the "Cookie Settings" link in our footer.

We use a Consent Management Platform (CMP) to categorize cookies and manage your preferences in real time. For EU/EEA/UK visitors, non-essential cookies are blocked by default until you provide affirmative consent.

11.2 California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA / CPRA) — California, USA

Under the CCPA as amended by the CPRA, California residents have the right to:

• Opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. (Cruise Way does not sell personal data, but certain cookie-based data sharing with advertising partners may constitute "sharing" under the CCPA.)
• Know what categories of personal information are collected through cookies (see our full list in Section 2–6 above).
• Request deletion of personal information collected through cookies, subject to legal exceptions.
• Exercise these rights without discrimination—your cookie choices will not affect your ability to book travel with us.

To exercise your CCPA rights regarding cookie data, please contact us at privacy@Cruise Way.com or call 1-800-VOYAGE-1. We will verify your identity before processing your request.

11.3 Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) — Canada

Under Canada's PIPEDA, Cruise Way follows these principles for Canadian users:

• Consent: We obtain meaningful consent for the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information through cookies. For non-sensitive data, implied consent may be sufficient; for sensitive or unexpected uses, we seek express consent.
• Transparency: We clearly explain what cookies we use and why—through this page and our cookie consent banner.
• Access & Correction: Canadian users may request access to personal data collected via cookies and ask for corrections if necessary.
• Withdrawal: You may withdraw consent for non-essential cookies at any time via this page.

Under Canadian law, you generally see fewer cookie consent pop-ups compared to the EU because PIPEDA permits implied consent for non-sensitive data where collection aligns with reasonable expectations. However, we still provide full transparency and control to all Canadian visitors.

11.4 Consent Management Platform (CMP)

We use a Consent Management Platform (integrated with CookieYes, a Google-certified CMP partner) to:

• Automatically detect and categorize all cookies on our site into necessary, performance, functional, targeting, and social media.
• Present granular opt-in/opt-out controls on your first visit.
• Store your consent preferences securely and honor them on subsequent visits.
• Respect Global Privacy Control (GPC) browser signals and "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" requests.
• Ensure users under 16 years old receive clear, affirmative opt-in consent for non-essential cookies.

We conduct regular audits of our CMP configuration to ensure ongoing compliance with evolving privacy regulations.

12. Questions About Our Cookie Practices?

If you have questions about this Cookie Settings page, wish to exercise your privacy rights, or need help managing your cookie preferences, please contact our Privacy Team: