Cookie Policy
Cookie Policy
Last updated: 10/07/2026
1. Introduction
This Cookie Policy explains how Sunset Hotel Corfu, operated by POLITIS S.A. (“we”, “us”, “our”, or the “Hotel”), uses cookies and similar technologies on the website: https://www.sunsethotelcorfu.gr/
This Cookie Policy applies to all users and visitors of our website and should be read together with our Privacy Policy.
For any questions regarding the use of cookies or similar technologies, you may contact us using the contact details provided in this Policy or on our website.
2. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your device, such as a computer, mobile phone, or tablet, when you visit a website.
Cookies are used for various purposes, such as ensuring the proper operation of the website, enabling navigation, storing preferences, supporting the booking system, analysing website usage, and, where you have provided consent, supporting advertising and marketing activities.
For the purposes of this Policy, the term “cookies” also includes similar technologies, such as pixels, tags, local storage, SDKs, tracking technologies, and other technologies that store or access information on your device.
3. Applicable Legal Framework
The use of cookies and similar technologies is governed in particular by:
• Regulation (EU) 2016/679, the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”)
• Directive 2002/58/EC, the ePrivacy Directive, as amended
• Greek Law 3471/2006, as applicable
• The guidance and decisions of the Hellenic Data Protection Authority
• Applicable Greek and European legislation on personal data protection and electronic communications.
Under the applicable legal framework, strictly necessary cookies that are technically required for the operation of the website or for the provision of a service expressly requested by the user may be used without prior consent.
By contrast, all non-essential cookies, such as analytics cookies, non-essential functional cookies, advertising cookies, marketing cookies, and third-party cookies, are used only where you have previously provided your consent.
4. Categories of Cookies We Use
Our website may use the following categories of cookies:
A. Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly necessary cookies are required for the proper, secure, and effective operation of the website and the booking system.
These cookies enable essential functions, such as:
• Page navigation
• Secure access to website areas or functions
• Operation of the booking engine
• User session management
• Maintaining security choices
• Fraud prevention or prevention of misuse
• Storing cookie consent or rejection preferences
The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
Strictly necessary cookies do not require your consent, as they are technically necessary for providing the service you request or for the secure operation of the website.
B. Performance and Analytics Cookies
Performance and analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use our website.
They may collect information such as:
• Which pages users visit
• How long users remain on the website
• Which functions are used most often
• Errors that may occur
• Traffic sources
• Technical information about the device and browser
This information helps us improve the performance, functionality, content, and usability of the website. Performance and analytics cookies are used only where you have provided prior consent, where required by applicable law.
C. Functional Cookies
Functional cookies allow the website to remember choices you make, such as language, region, or other preferences, in order to provide enhanced and more personalised functionality.
Functional cookies may be used for:
• Storing language preferences
• Storing display preferences
• Improving user experience
• Providing more personalised functions
Where functional cookies are not strictly necessary for the operation of the website, they are used only after you have provided consent.
D. Advertising and Marketing Cookies
Advertising and marketing cookies may be used to display relevant advertisements, measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns, and support remarketing activities.
These cookies may be used for:
• Displaying personalised or relevant advertisements
• Measuring advertising campaign performance
• Tracking conversions, such as completed bookings
• Creating or managing audience segments
• Remarketing to users who have visited our website
• Optimising advertising activities
Advertising and marketing cookies are used only where you have provided prior consent.
E. Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies or similar technologies may be placed by third-party service providers, such as analytics providers, advertising providers, booking system providers, or other technical partners.
These third parties may process information in accordance with their own privacy policies and cookie policies.
5. How We Use Cookies
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
• To ensure the proper operation of the website
• To enable and support booking functionality
• To protect website security
• To store your choices and preferences
• To analyse website traffic and usage
• To improve website content, performance, and usability
• To measure the effectiveness of our advertising activities
• To support online advertising and remarketing activities, where you have provided consent
• To track completed bookings or other conversion actions, where applicable and where you have provided consent
6. Duration of Cookies
Cookies may be:
A. Session Cookies
Session cookies are stored temporarily and are deleted when you close your browser.
They are usually used to maintain functionality during a single visit to the website.
B. Persistent Cookies
Persistent cookies remain on your device for a specific period of time or until you manually delete them.
The duration of cookies varies depending on the purpose, category, and provider of the cookie. Non-essential cookies are not stored on your device without prior consent, where required by law.
7. Detailed Cookie Table
The following table provides an overview of the main cookies and similar technologies that may be used on our website, booking system, and related services. The exact cookies used may vary depending on your consent choices, browser settings, the pages you visit, the booking functionality you use, and the configuration of third-party providers.
| Cookie / Technology | Provider | Category | Purpose | Duration | Consent required |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cookie consent preference cookie / consent management cookie | Sunset Hotel Corfu / Cookie consent mechanism | Strictly necessary | Stores your cookie consent choices, rejection choices, or selected cookie categories, so that the website can respect your preferences. | Usually up to 6-12 months, depending on the consent mechanism configuration | No |
| Website session cookie, such as PHPSESSID or equivalent session identifier, where used | Sunset Hotel Corfu / Website hosting provider | Strictly necessary | Maintains website session functionality, secure navigation, technical operation, and basic website services during your visit. | Session / until browser is closed | No |
| Language or display preference cookie, where used | Sunset Hotel Corfu / Website platform | Functional | Stores language, display, or similar website preferences selected by the user. | Session or persistent, depending on configuration | Yes, unless strictly necessary for a service expressly requested by the user |
| Booking session cookie / booking engine session identifier | BookOnlineNow | Strictly necessary | Enables the operation of the booking engine, including availability search, stay dates, room selection, booking steps, and secure session management. | Session or provider-defined booking session duration | No, where technically necessary for the booking service requested by the user |
| Booking security, load-balancing, or platform operation cookie | BookOnlineNow | Strictly necessary | Supports the security, stability, fraud prevention, and technical operation of the booking platform. | Session or provider-defined duration | No, where technically necessary |
| Booking preference cookie, such as language, currency, or booking display preference, where used | BookOnlineNow | Functional | Remembers booking-related choices such as language, currency, or display preferences in the booking engine. | Provider-defined duration | Yes, unless strictly necessary for the booking functionality requested by the user |
| _ga | Google Analytics | Analytics / Performance | Distinguishes users and helps generate statistical information about website usage. | Usually up to 2 years | Yes |
| _ga<container-id> | Google Analytics 4 | Analytics / Performance | Maintains session state and supports Google Analytics 4 measurement. | Usually up to 2 years | Yes |
| _gid, where used | Google Analytics | Analytics / Performance | Distinguishes users and supports website usage statistics. | Usually up to 24 hours | Yes |
| _gat or _gat_gtag<id>, where used | Google Analytics | Analytics / Performance | Used to throttle request rate and support analytics functionality. | Usually up to 1 minute | Yes |
| _gcl_au | Google Ads / Google Tag | Advertising / Marketing | Used for advertising conversion tracking and measuring the effectiveness of advertising campaigns | Usually up to 3 months | Yes |
| _gcl_aw, _gcl_dc, or similar Google conversion cookies, where used | Google Ads / Google Tag | Advertising / Marketing | Stores information relating to ad clicks and supports conversion measurement, such as completed bookings or other conversion actions. | Usually up to 90 days, depending on Google configuration | Yes |
| IDE, test_cookie, or similar Google advertising cookies, where used | Google / DoubleClick | Advertising / Marketing | Supports advertising delivery, ad measurement, fraud prevention, and checking whether the browser supports cookies. | Duration depends on Google’s configuration; test_cookie is usually short-term | Yes |
| Google Consent Mode signals, including analytics_storage, ad_storage, ad_user_data, and ad_personalization | Consent / Tag configuration technology | Communicates the user’s consent choices to Google tags and adjusts the behaviour of analytics and advertising tags according to those choices. | Not a standard browser cookie by itself; operates according to tag and consent configuration | Follows the user’s consent choices | |
| Google Tag Manager container | Google Tag Manager | Tag management technology | Helps manage website tags, such as analytics, advertising, conversion tracking, and consent-related tags. Google Tag Manager itself does not normally set cookies for ordinary visitors, but tags deployed through it may set cookies depending on consent and configuration. | Not applicable for GTM itself; depends on the tags deployed | Depends on the specific tag or cookie activated through it |
8. BookOnlineNow Booking System
Our website uses a third-party booking system provided by BookOnlineNow to facilitate online bookings.
When using the booking engine, cookies or similar technologies may be used where necessary for:
• Displaying availability
• Selecting stay dates
• Selecting room types or offers
• Completing a booking
• Securing the booking platform
• Managing the user session during the booking process
Strictly necessary cookies related to booking functionality are used without consent where they are technically necessary for providing the booking service you request.
BookOnlineNow may also use its own technologies in accordance with its applicable privacy policy and cookie policy.
For further information on data processing by BookOnlineNow, you may refer to BookOnlineNow’s official Privacy Policy.
9. Google Services
Our website may use Google services, such as:
• Google Analytics
• Google Ads
• Google Tag Manager
• Google Consent Mode
• Conversion tracking
• Remarketing tools
These services may be used for:
• Traffic analysis
• Website performance measurement
• Advertising campaign measurement
• Conversion tracking, such as completed bookings
• Advertising optimisation
• Remarketing and displaying relevant advertisements
Google cookies or similar technologies that are not strictly necessary are activated only after you have provided prior consent.
Google may process information in accordance with its own Privacy Policy and terms.
10. Google Consent Mode
Our website may implement Google Consent Mode, including Google Consent Mode v2.
Google Consent Mode allows the behaviour of Google tags to be adjusted according to your consent choices.
Consent signals may include:
• analytics_storage
• ad_storage
• ad_user_data
• ad_personalization
Where Google Consent Mode is implemented, it is configured to respect your consent choices. Non-essential Google cookies or similar technologies are not activated unless you have provided the relevant consent.
Where technically applicable and permitted by law, Google tags may operate in a limited mode without storing or accessing non-essential cookies on your device.
If you provide consent, analytics, measurement, advertising, conversion tracking, and remarketing functions may be enabled according to your selected preferences.
If you do not provide consent, non-essential Google cookies and similar technologies are not activated, unless and to the extent that a limited technical operation is permitted by applicable law without storing or accessing non-essential cookies on your device.
11. User Consent
When you first visit our website, a cookie banner or consent management mechanism is displayed where non-essential cookies or similar technologies are used.
Through this mechanism, you may:
• Accept all non-essential cookies
• Reject all non-essential cookies
• Select specific categories of cookies
• Change or withdraw your consent at any time
Consent must be freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous. We do not use pre-ticked consent boxes for non-essential cookies.
Refusing consent for non-essential cookies does not prevent you from accessing the website or using its basic services, unless a specific function technically depends on a particular cookie.
12. Withdrawal or Change of Consent
You may withdraw or modify your consent at any time through the cookie settings mechanism available on our website.
Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before the withdrawal.
Withdrawing consent is as easy as giving consent.
13. Managing Cookies Through Your Browser
You may also manage, block, or delete cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to:
• View cookies stored on your device
• Delete cookies
• Block cookies from specific websites
• Block third-party cookies
• Block all cookies
However, disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of the website, the booking system, or certain services.
14. Third-Party Providers
Cookies or similar technologies may be used by third-party providers, such as:
• BookOnlineNow
• Google
• Analytics providers
• Advertising service providers
• Technical support or hosting providers
• Other partners supporting the operation of our website or services
Depending on the circumstances, third-party providers may act either as processors on our behalf or as independent data controllers.
The practices of these third-party providers are governed by their own privacy policies and cookie policies.
15. Personal Data and Cookies
In some cases, cookies and similar technologies may collect or be linked to personal data, such as IP address, device identifiers, browser information, usage data, or website interaction information.
Where the use of cookies involves the processing of personal data, such processing is carried out in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable data protection laws.
16. Legal Basis for the Use of Cookies
For strictly necessary cookies, the storage of or access to information on your device is permitted without consent where it is technically necessary for the operation of the website or for the provision of a service expressly requested by you.
Where strictly necessary cookies involve the processing of personal data, the relevant processing may be based, as applicable, on the performance of a contract, compliance with a legal obligation, or the Hotel’s legitimate interests in operating the website securely and effectively.
For all non-essential cookies, such as analytics, advertising, marketing, remarketing, and other similar technologies, the legal basis is your consent.
17. Consent Records
We may keep a record of your consent choices for compliance purposes.
This record may include information such as:
• Your acceptance or rejection choice
• The cookie categories selected
• The date and time of your choice
• A technical consent identifier
• The duration of validity of your choice
Keeping a consent record helps us demonstrate compliance with our legal obligations.
18. User Rights
Where the use of cookies involves the processing of personal data, you have the rights provided under the GDPR, as described in our Privacy Policy.
These rights may include, as applicable:
• Right of access
• Right to rectification
• Right to erasure
• Right to restriction of processing
• Right to object
• Right to data portability
• Right to withdraw consent
• Right to lodge a complaint with a competent supervisory authority
In Greece, the competent supervisory authority is the Hellenic Data Protection Authority.
19. Updates to this Cookie Policy
We reserve the right to amend or update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our website, the technologies we use, third-party services, or applicable law.
Any update will be published on this page with a reference to the date of last update.
We recommend that you review this Cookie Policy periodically.