Cookie Policy
The Georgian National Tourism Administration uses cookies to ensure the best website user experience.
Please note that getting cookie consent does not give the Administration access to personal information and data stored on your computer or hard drive.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored in your device’s web browser when you visit a website and that the website may subsequently search. Cookies provide the server with information about the return of users to the site, which speeds up your access to the site. Cookies cannot damage your devices or the files stored on them.
Cookies collect and analyse information about the IP address and user actions on the site without identifying the user, which gives us the opportunity to improve our site and user experience (offering information in the desired format, improving search parameters, optimizing the design of the site and better adapting it to the user).
The information provided by cookies allows the website to personalize users according to their chosen settings and targeted content, Including the information about the places and attractions that users have chosen. This helps us to improve the content, products and services of our website in order to better understand the needs and interests of our visitors.
In addition, some cookies are necessary for security purposes, including such as authentication cookies.
How do we use cookies?
First-party cookies - when a user uses the website, First-party cookies are stored on their device. Such cookies are created by the Administration or for the purposes of the site, stored on the device, and only the Administration has access to these cookies. For example, it is remembering user settings and information searched on the website.
Cookies are divided into:
- Essential/functional cookies necessary for the operation of the site and the availability of its functions. Such cookies may store information without your consent.
- Non-essential (analytical, marketing) cookies will only be activated if you decide to activate them.
Third-party cookies - the Administration uses Google Analytics, which helps us analyse statistical information related to users (for example, the number of visitors, the countries from which the site is frequently visited, the most viewed information, etc.).
The Google Analytics ID is stored on your device and can be deleted from your web browser settings. Non-essential cookies simplify site navigation, analyse site data and provide the Administration with the results. That’s the way how we receive information about the navigation of users on the site and its use, on the basis of which we can change /update the site. It is important that the information received by the Administration is stored in Google.
The use of non-essential ready-made records depends only on your consent, and you decline or opt out any time by clicking the appropriate button.
Tracking cookies - tracking cookies track the use of the website by users, helping us analyse which features on the website are working well, which allows us to improve the content and functionality of the website.
Can you disable or delete cookies?
You can reset your browser settings to avoid receiving cookies when using the website. Detailed information on how to delete cookies in different browsers can be found here:
Warning: If you disable or delete cookies, you will no longer be able to access the website or certain parts of it and/or the website may stop working optimally in your browser.