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Cookie statement
In order to provide you with the best possible service, this website uses cookies and similar techniques. Because we value your privacy and want to improve the usability of our website, we want to inform you in this statement about the use of cookies. Here you can also manage your cookie settings. At the bottom of this cookie statement you can view, adjust or revoke your preferences.
What are Cookies?
When you visit this website, we place cookies on your computer, tablet or phone when your browser settings allow it. Cookies are small, simple text files and do not harm your device or the files stored on it.
In this Cookie Statement, “cookies” refers not only to small text files, but also to all similar techniques that achieve the same results and whereby we store or read data on your device.
What cookies do we use and what for?
Some cookies are necessary for the full and proper functioning of the website. For example, they ensure that you do not receive or have to enter the same information each time you visit our website. We always place these cookies if your browser settings allow it. It is not possible to opt out of these on our website.
We use Google Analytics cookies to collect information about usage and visits to our website. Google analyzes this data for us. We mask the last digits of your IP address sent to Google and have disabled the ‘data sharing’ option within the Google Analytics environment. Furthermore, we do not use any other Google services in conjunction with Google Analytics cookies unless you have given your consent. Because we have taken the aforementioned measures, Google Analytics cookies are considered necessary cookies.
Furthermore, we use so-called tracking cookies. We use these cookies to obtain more information about our visitors and to create visitor profiles, enabling us to make the website more user-friendly and personalized, and to display the most relevant offers, promotions and advertisements to you. We place tracking cookies only if you give us permission to do so. By accepting marketing cookies, you agree to the placement of tracking cookies, among other things.
Cookies may also be set from third parties. We work with third-party vendors who use cookies to, for example, serve ads tailored to your interests or provide certain social media features. The third parties that place cookies are described in the cookie overview at the bottom of this page. You can also read here for what purpose this is done.
The use of cookies by third parties is subject to the privacy and cookie policy of the relevant third party. So please also read their privacy and cookie statement. We accept no responsibility or liability for this.
The cookies used can be classified into the following categories:
- Necessary
Necessary cookies ensure that a website functions correctly and help make a website more usable by enabling basic functions such as page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. Without these cookies, a website cannot function properly.
- Preferences
Preference cookies allow a website to remember information that affects the behavior and design of the website, such as your preferred language or region of residence.
- Statistics
Statistical cookies help understand how visitors use a website by collecting and reporting data anonymously. They chart website usage and track, among other things, whether ads have led to a purchase.
- Marketing
Marketing cookies are primarily used to track visitors as they visit different websites. The purpose is, among other things, to be able to offer certain social media functionalities and display ads that are tailored and relevant to the individual user. These ads thus become more valuable to publishers and third-party advertisers.
When you first visit our website, we display a message explaining the use of cookies and a link to this cookie statement. At the bottom of this cookie statement you can view, change or revoke your preferences. You can always return to this via the link at the bottom of our website page.
Turning cookies on and off
You can set your browser to accept the storage of cookies only if you agree. You can also delete already placed cookies. For more information about this, please consult the manual of your web browser. Please note that many websites cannot work optimally if cookies are disabled.
Retention periods and deletion of cookies
Most cookies have an expiration period. This means that they automatically expire after a certain period of time and no longer record data from your site visit. You can also choose to delete cookies manually before the expiration date. For more information on this, please refer to your web browser manual.
Questions or complaints?
If you have a question or complaint about Paignton Zoo use of cookies, please contact us at 01803 697500 (on weekdays between 09.00 – 17.00) or the privacy team.
Privacy Statement
The use of some cookies also involves the processing of personal data. In our Privacy Statement you will find more information about how we handle your data.
Changes
Our cookie statement may be changed by us at any time, You can always access the current version of our cookie statement via the link at the bottom of the page of our website.
An overview of all cookies
| Cookie | DESCRIPTION |
| __cf_bm | This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. |
| _fbp | This cookie is set by Facebook to display advertisements when either on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising, after visiting the website. |
| _ga | The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. |
| _gat_UA-3704953-1 | A variation of the _gat cookie set by Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager to allow website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. The pattern element in the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. |
| _gid | Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website’s performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. |
| _GRECAPTCHA | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| CONSENT | YouTube sets this cookie via embedded youtube-videos and registers anonymous statistical data. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement | Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to record the user consent for the cookies in the “Advertisement” category . |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Analytics”. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional | The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category “Functional”. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Necessary”. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-others | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Other. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Performance”. |
| fr | Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. |
| IDE | Google DoubleClick IDE cookies are used to store information about how the user uses the website to present them with relevant ads and according to the user profile. |
| test_cookie | The test_cookie is set by doubleclick.net and is used to determine if the user’s browser supports cookies. |
| viewed_cookie_policy | The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. |
| YSC | YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. |
| yt-remote-device-id | YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. |
| yt.innertube::nextId | This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
| yt.innertube::requests | This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |