Introduction
This policy explains the browser storage and optional external content used by TerraLume Stays. The aim is to make the controls understandable and match them to what the supplied website actually does. Although the interface uses the familiar word cookies, the site’s own remembered choices use localStorage. Optional Google Maps embeds can involve third-party technologies. You can reject optional content and continue reading the collection, and you can return to your preferences from the footer on every page.
Understanding Cookies
A cookie is a small value a website can ask your browser to store and send with later requests to a matching domain. Cookies can support practical functions or be used for measurement and advertising. Different technologies have different effects, so a general label does not tell the whole story. This website does not set its own first-party cookies in JavaScript. It does save two localStorage records for essential choices, as described below. Third-party maps may apply their own practices once you choose to load them.
How Cookies Work
Browsers keep site information within a particular browser profile and device. A choice made here will not necessarily appear on another phone, another browser or a private browsing window. LocalStorage stays in the browser and is not automatically attached to page requests in the way a cookie can be. The site reads its own entries to decide whether to show the age dialogue and whether optional maps may load. Clearing storage removes those remembered decisions and causes the website to ask again on a later visit.
Essential Website Cookies
Two necessary localStorage keys are used: tl_age_v1 and tl_consent_v1. The age entry contains an adult confirmation or an under-age restriction decision, with a timestamp. The consent entry records functional-map permission, disabled analytics and marketing categories, a version and a timestamp. These values do not include your name, email, birth date or message. They support the age restriction and privacy interface. Storage access can fail when a browser blocks it; the site will still apply the current visit’s choices in memory where possible.
Functional Cookies
Optional functional integrations are Google Maps on individual hotel pages and Google Fonts typography across the collection. Before permission is granted, the iframe has no active source and the site displays an explanation with a preference button. Accepting functional content gives the iframe its Google Maps URL, which connects your browser to Google. Maps show the relevant city centre, not a verified property address. Google can receive technical data and may use cookies or other storage under its policies. Declining this category keeps the city information and enquiry links available without the embed.
Analytics Cookies
There is no analytics provider, visitor measurement script or analytics event collection installed in the supplied website. The analytics control is therefore visibly unavailable in the preferences panel, with an explanation. Accept All does not activate a hidden service or create an analytics identifier. Technical hosting logs may still exist as part of delivering webpages; they are not turned into a browser analytics integration by this control. If analytics is added later, this policy and the implementation must be updated before data collection begins.
Marketing Cookies
No advertising pixels, retargeting tags or marketing tracking scripts are included. The marketing category is disabled in the preferences panel because there is no service to authorise. Enquiring about accommodation does not add you to a marketing list through the site code. Accepting optional maps does not activate advertising functions elsewhere in the collection. Any future marketing technology should be identified clearly, with its purpose, provider and an appropriate consent mechanism. It should not be quietly placed under an unrelated functional category.
Third-Party Technologies
An external service can receive information when the browser connects to it, even if you do not actively type into the embedded content. The destination domain, browser headers and IP address can form part of that connection. This is why the site waits for functional consent before loading Google Maps. Ordinary links to independent websites behave differently: following one takes you to another service whose own policies apply. Google Fonts stylesheets and font files also load only after functional permission. Without that choice, the stylesheet uses locally available system fallbacks.
Google Maps and Embedded Content
When functional permission is enabled, the map is loaded from a google.com/maps URL using the city name. There is no precise guest location request and no verified hotel coordinate represented. You may interact with the map under Google’s terms. For information about Google’s handling, consult its privacy policy at policies.google.com/privacy. If you prefer not to make this connection, reject optional content or switch functional permission off. The website will remove active iframe sources, although requests already made cannot be undone by that later choice.
Cookie Duration
The site’s localStorage preferences have no automatic expiry in the supplied code. They persist until you change them, clear the relevant browser storage or use a different profile. Each stored record includes a timestamp to make the decision identifiable, but the timestamp does not itself delete the record. Optional Google technologies can have different lifetimes determined by Google and browser settings. This policy does not invent a fixed duration for storage outside the site’s control. Review third-party information and browser tools if you need more detail about those records.
How We Use Preferences
Google Fonts requests use Google’s font delivery systems and can reveal technical data such as your IP address. Removing the font stylesheet restores system fallback typography but cannot undo earlier requests. The consent record is read on each page to maintain a consistent choice across the collection. Functional permission determines whether maps and Google Fonts are activated. Analytics and marketing remain false because no corresponding services exist. The record also indicates that you have made a privacy choice, so the banner need not appear repeatedly. The site does not use this record to personalise prices, identify a guest or infer interests. Contact form delivery is a separate action initiated by submitting the form and is not enabled or disabled by optional-map consent.
Accepting Optional Cookies
Choose Accept All to allow the optional services currently implemented: Google Maps and Google Fonts. The wording does not imply that analytics or advertising services are installed. The consent banner closes after the choice, and maps can activate on relevant hotel pages. You can instead open Manage Preferences to read the categories and enable only functional content. No optional category is checked by default when no earlier consent exists. The choice is local to the current browser profile, so another device may ask you to decide again.
Rejecting Optional Cookies
Reject Optional records that functional maps should remain disabled. Necessary age and privacy records continue to support the site’s basic controls. You can still browse accommodation concepts, read destination information, follow internal links and prepare an enquiry. Where a map would appear, an explanation remains visible instead of a third-party connection. Rejecting does not close access to the collection after adult confirmation. A later change is available from Cookie Settings, so you do not need to erase all browser history to reconsider this one preference.
Managing Cookie Settings
Every page includes Cookie Settings in the footer. The control opens an accessible dialogue showing the necessary category, the functional-map switch and explanations for the unavailable analytics and marketing categories. Save Preferences applies the functional switch as displayed. Accept All and Reject Optional provide quick alternatives within the same panel. Closing the panel without saving leaves the existing decision unchanged. The dialogue supports keyboard navigation, returns focus to its opener and keeps background controls out of reach while it is open.
Changing or Withdrawing Consent
You can withdraw functional consent by reopening Cookie Settings, turning the switch off and saving, or by choosing Reject Optional. Active maps are removed on the current page and the preference is respected on later pages. Withdrawal stops future map loading by this website; it does not reverse information already sent to Google. Removing storage already set by a third party may require browser controls. If you clear this site’s localStorage, you will be asked about privacy choices again rather than automatically restoring your earlier acceptance.
Browser Cookie Controls
Your browser usually provides options to view stored site data, remove it and restrict some third-party technologies. The exact steps vary by browser and version, so use its current help information rather than relying on outdated menu names. Private browsing generally uses a separate or temporary storage context. Blocking all storage may mean the age and privacy prompts reappear because the site cannot remember the choice. If you are using a shared device, consider clearing site data when finished and avoid leaving personal text in an unfinished enquiry form.
Cookie Policy Updates
Last updated: 1 November 2026. This policy should change when the actual technologies change, not merely to make the page look current. Adding analytics, advertising, remote font delivery or another embedded service requires a review of the stated categories and the point at which network requests begin. The operator should also revisit whether existing consent remains appropriate after a material change. The supplied implementation uses versioned storage keys so future changes can be managed deliberately, rather than treating an old choice as unlimited permission for any new service.
Contact Information
Questions about these controls can be directed to [email protected] or the contact page when delivery is available. Describe the browser and the behaviour you observed without sending unnecessary personal information. The privacy policy explains the wider handling of enquiries and technical data. You can make a practical change immediately through Cookie Settings even while waiting for a response. The website does not require optional-map permission to read its policies or access independent responsible gambling information.