Cookie Policy

Last updated: August 31, 2026

Cookies are small text files a website stores in your browser. This page lists the cookies you may encounter on holidaytake.com and what each is for. We keep the list short because the site itself is deliberately cookie-light: browsing holiday dates requires no cookie at all.

Cookies we set ourselves

The site sets one temporary session cookie, and only when you open the contact form. It exists so the simple math question on the form can be checked when you press send, and it expires when you close your browser. There is no analytics cookie, no preference cookie and no login cookie, because the site has none of those features.

Advertising cookies

Advertising on the site is served by Google AdSense, and Google and its certified ad partners may set cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) and similar identifiers when an ad loads. Depending on your consent choices, these are used either to personalize the ads you see across the web or, for non-personalized ads, only for essentials such as capping how often you see the same ad, reporting to advertisers, and preventing fraud. A current list of the ad technology providers Google works with is available from the consent message and at Google's ad technology providers page.

Your choices

Visitors in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland see a consent banner before personalized ads load, and can revisit their choice any time via the privacy settings link in the footer. Anyone can opt out of Google ad personalization at Google Ads Settings, opt out of other vendors at aboutads.info, or block and delete cookies entirely in their browser settings — the site's dates, countdowns, feeds and downloads all keep working with cookies blocked. Note that blocking cookies does not remove ads; it limits how relevant they can be.

How long they last

Cookie lifetimes vary by purpose. Our own contact-form cookie is a session cookie: it disappears the moment you close the browser. Advertising cookies set by Google and its partners are persistent and typically last from a few weeks up to two years, depending on the vendor and what the cookie does — a frequency-capping cookie needs to remember far less, and for far less time, than one used to build an advertising profile. Clearing your browser's cookies removes all of them immediately, and the site keeps working exactly as before.

Cookies and the countdown widget

If you have embedded our countdown widget on your own site, it is worth knowing what it does and does not do. The widget page sets no cookies of its own and runs no advertising or analytics. It loads a small HTML page and a few lines of JavaScript that read the visitor's device clock. No information about your visitors reaches us beyond the ordinary server log entry any web request creates, and nothing is shared with advertisers.

Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control

Browsers send two related signals. Do Not Track has no agreed meaning across the industry and most advertising vendors ignore it, so we make no claim about it. Global Privacy Control is different: it is recognized under several U.S. state privacy laws as a valid opt-out of the sale or sharing of personal information, and we honor it by passing the corresponding restricted-processing signal to Google.

Questions

Anything unclear? Ask at hello@holidaytake.com. Our privacy policy covers the broader picture of data handling on the site, and the terms of use set out what you can do with the content.