At StareFly ("we," "us," or "our"), we use cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your experience on our website, https://starefly.com (the "Website"), which provides flight booking, hotel reservations, tour packages, and car rental services. This Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how we use them, the types of cookies we use, and how you can manage your cookie preferences. Please read this policy carefully to understand our practices.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device (e.g., computer, smartphone, or tablet) when you visit our Website. These files store information about your browsing activities, such as preferences or interactions with the Website. Other technologies, such as web beacons, pixels, or local storage, may perform similar functions and are also covered by this policy.

Cookies help us provide a seamless booking experience, personalize content, and analyze Website performance. They do not harm your device and cannot access personal information unless you provide it directly.

2. How We Use Cookies

We use cookies to support the functionality of our travel booking platform and improve your user experience. Specifically, cookies help us:

Facilitate Bookings: Save your travel preferences, such as preferred destinations, dates, or currency, to streamline the booking process for flights, hotels, tours, or car rentals.

Personalize Your Experience: Display relevant travel recommendations, promotions, or content based on your browsing and booking history.

Improve Website Performance: Analyze how users interact with the Website to optimize functionality, troubleshoot issues, and enhance navigation.

Deliver Targeted Advertising: Show advertisements for travel-related services that align with your interests.

Ensure Security: Detect and prevent fraudulent activities, such as unauthorized access to your account or booking attempts.

3. Types of Cookies We Use

We use the following categories of cookies on our Website:

3.1 Essential Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the Website to function properly and cannot be disabled. They enable core features, such as:

Maintaining your session during the booking process.

Saving your account login details (if you choose to stay logged in).

Processing secure transactions for bookings.

Ensuring the Website loads correctly and remains accessible.

3.2 Functional Cookies

These cookies enhance your experience by remembering your preferences and settings, such as:

Preferred language, currency, or travel destinations.

Saved search filters for flights, hotels, tours, or car rentals.

Display settings for personalized layouts or themes.

3.3 Analytics Cookies

These cookies collect anonymized data about how you use the Website, helping us understand user behavior and improve our services. They track:

Pages visited and time spent on the Website.

Popular search terms or booking trends.

Technical performance, such as page load times or error rates.

3.4 Advertising Cookies

These cookies enable us and our advertising partners to deliver relevant travel-related advertisements. They may:

Track your browsing behavior to show ads for flights, hotels, or tours that match your interests.

Measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.

Limit the number of times you see the same ad.

3.5 Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies are set by third-party services we use, such as:

Travel Partners: Airlines, hotels, or car rental companies may use cookies to track booking completions or offer personalized promotions.

Analytics Providers: Services like Google Analytics collect anonymized data to help us analyze Website usage.

Advertising Networks: Third-party ad platforms may use cookies to deliver targeted travel ads across the web.

4. How Long Cookies Last

Cookies may be either:

Session Cookies: Temporary cookies that expire when you close your browser, used for tasks like maintaining your session during a booking.

Persistent Cookies: Cookies that remain on your device for a set period (e.g., days, months, or years) to remember your preferences or track usage over time.

The duration of persistent cookies varies depending on their purpose, but we ensure they are retained only as long as necessary, in line with our Privacy Policy.

5. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You can control how cookies are used through your browser settings or our Website’s cookie consent tool (if available). Options include:

Accepting All Cookies: Allow all cookies to enjoy the full functionality and personalized experience of the Website.

Rejecting Non-Essential Cookies: Disable functional, analytics, or advertising cookies while keeping essential cookies active. Note that this may limit some features, such as personalized travel recommendations.

Deleting Cookies: Clear cookies from your device via your browser settings. This may reset your preferences or log you out of your account.

To manage cookies in your browser, consult its help or settings menu (e.g., in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge). Be aware that disabling cookies may affect the Website’s functionality, such as saving your booking preferences or displaying relevant travel options.

6. Third-Party Services and Cookies

Our Website may integrate with third-party services (e.g., payment processors, travel partners, or analytics providers) that set their own cookies. These third parties have their own privacy and cookies policies, which we do not control. We encourage you to review the policies of these providers when interacting with their services through our Website.

7. Changes to This Cookies Policy

We may update this Cookies Policy to reflect changes in our practices, technologies, or legal requirements. We will notify you of significant changes by posting the updated policy on the Website with a revised "Last Updated" date. Please review this policy periodically to stay informed.