INFORMATION REGARDING COOKIES

1. Introduction

This Cookies Policy provides you with information about the cookies and other similar technologies (hereinafter, collectively referred also to as “Cookies”) that are used on our website (“Website”) and our mobile application (“App”), hereinafter also “Properties”, so that you may better understand the use of Cookies during your navigation and provide your consent thereto.

2. Who is the controller of your data?

When this policy mentions “Company”, “we,” “us,” “our” or “Data Controller”, it refers to:

BravoNext, S.A., a Swiss company belonging to the lastminute.com group, listed in the Ticino business register under no. CHE - 115.704.228 and with registered office at Vicolo de’ Calvi 2 - 6830 Chiasso, Switzerland, which is the controller for the processing of Users’ and/or Customers’ personal data under this Cookies Policy.

We, being an entity located in Switzerland, are subject to Swiss law regarding the protection of personal data. For that reason, we undertake to comply with the obligations imposed by the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection of 19 June 1992 (FADP). In the same vein, we inform our Users and/or Customers that the Decision of the Commission of 26 July 2000 in accordance with Directive 95/46/CE of the European Parliament and the Council relating to the adequate level of protection for personal data in Switzerland declared that, in Switzerland, the laws guarantee an adequate level of protection in accordance with Directive 95/46/CE.

3. What are cookies and other similar technologies?

Cookies are small text files which are stored on your computer, hard drive, smartphone or tablet (hereinafter referred to as, “Device”). These Cookies hold a modest amount of data specific to you and allows a server to deliver a page tailored to you on your Device.

On our Properties we can also use other similar technologies referred to as “tags” (such as, “tracking pixels”, or “script”), "HTML5 local storage", “web beacons” or “plugins" as well as “software development kits” (SDKs) and fingerprinting techniques, which are in particular technologies that store or access information on the user’s device in order to identify it so that visits to a website or App can be analysed.

These similar technologies may also be used together with Cookies to enable information to be stored on, or transmitted to and from, the Device you use to access our Properties.

Furthermore, by implementing the cookies and other similar technologies described above, if you return to our Properties, this can read and recognise such technologies, which primarily are used to operate or improve the way our Website or App works as well as to provide business and marketing information to the Website owner.

• Information about your visits to and use of the Website and/or of our services, such as information about the Device and browser you are using, your IP address or domain names of the computers connected to the Websites, uniform resource identifiers for requests made, the time of request, the method used to submit the request to the server, the size of the archive obtained as a response, the numerical code indicating the status of the response given by the server (correct, error, etc.) and other parameters relative to the operating system and the computer environment used, the date and time that you visited, the duration of your visit, the referral source and website navigation paths of your visit and your interactions on the Website including the services and offers you are interested in. Please note that we may associate this information with your account. 

• First party Cookies: these are sent to your Device from a website or domain managed by us and from which the service you requested is provided.

• Third party Cookies: these are sent to your Device from a website or domain other than the one being visited by you and that is not managed by us, but by a separate entity that processes data obtained through Cookies.

• Session Cookies: these are designed to receive and store data while you access the Website. These Cookies do not remain stored on your Device when you exit the browser session or the Website.

• Persistent Cookies: these types of Cookies remain stored on your Device and can be accessed and processed after you exit the Website as well as when you navigate on it for a pre-determined period of time. The Cookie remains on the hard drive until it reaches its expiration date. The maximum time we use persistent Cookies on our Website is 1 year. At this point the browser would purge the Cookie from the hard drive.

• Technical Cookies: these Cookies are strictly necessary for the operation of our Website or our App and are essential for browsing and allow the use of various features. Without them, for example, you cannot use the search and comparison tools, maintain your currency preference, log.in and use your personal account or book services. We use these cookies also to measure traffic statistics and the performance of different versions of the same website (commonly called "A/B tests") to detect navigation problems and organize the content, as well for security purposes.

• Personalization, Advertising and remarketing Cookies: these Cookies are used to collect and process information about your use of our services and/or contents, and your interaction with ads for example clicking an ad or making a purchase, to subsequently built a profile about you and your interests to show you personalized ads and/or contents  that are relevant to you, in our Properties or in other contexts, such as on other websites or apps, over time. Typically, the content of the site or app is used to make inferences about your interests, which determine the selection of future advertisements and contents To this  end, we may also use the services provided by a third party on our behalf in order to collect data and/or publish ads when you visit our Properties to show ads about goods and services of interest to you.

• Measurement cookies: these cookies are used to collect information about your use of the content provided by third parties, and combination with previously collected information, used to measure, understand, and report on your usage of the services provided by them. This does not include personalisation, such as the collection of information about your use of this service to subsequently personalise content and/or advertising for you in other contexts, i.e. on other services, such as websites or apps, over time.

• Vendor’s Ad selection, delivery, reporting: The collection and processing of information by third parties who place cookies and other tracking technologies on our properties, and combination with previously collected information, to select and deliver personalized advertisements for you, and to measure the delivery and effectiveness of such advertisements. This includes using previously collected information about your interests to select ads, processing data about what advertisements were shown, how often they were shown, when and where they were shown, and whether you took any action related to the advertisement, including for example clicking an ad or making a purchase. This might include personalisation, which is the collection and processing of information about your interests to subsequently personalise advertising and/or content for you in other contexts, such as websites or apps, over time. These companies, however, collect non directly identifiable information (not including, for example, your name, address, email address or telephone number). These Cookies are “third party cookies” which are not managed by us and, because of the way they work, cannot be accessed by us, nor are we responsible for their management or purpose. Art. 7 of this Cookie Policy contains more information about who these Vendors are, the purpose of their processing and on the opt-out mechanism.

• Social Cookies: these Cookies allow you to share our Website content and your “Like” on social networks like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, etc. They also allow you to interact with each distinct platform’s contents. The way these Cookies are used and the information gathered is governed by the privacy policy of each social platform, which you can find on the list below in Article 7 of our Cookie Policy.

• Data transfer to third countries: these Cookies allow the transfer of your personal data to third countries that do not ensure an adequate level of protection of the rights and freedoms of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data, included to countries that are not covered by an adequacy decision and where certain extra-EU national programmes may enable public authorities to have access to your personal data. To this aim, here you can find more information on the transfer of data to third countries not covered by an adequacy decision.

7. List of Cookies used on this Website 

To see the list of Cookies used on this Website, click here https://mt.lastminute.com/info/list-cookies 

The information contained in the above list has been provided by the other companies which generate them. These companies have their own privacy policies in which they set forth both their own declarations as well as applicable disabling systems.

The lastminute.com group is not responsible for the contents and accuracy of third party cookie policies contained in our Cookie Policy.

11. Contact details of the data controller and your data protection rights

• dpo.en@lastminutegroup.com

• Vicolo de’ Calvi 2 - 6830 Chiasso, Switzerland.