Hotel B&B Aster Meran, Merano

Cookies

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that a website places on your device when you visit certain websites.

We use cookies for this website and subdomains – whereby the user is asked to give his consent, if this is specifically required by law or other pertinent regulations – in order to facilitate the navigation of our website and to personalise the information provided. Furthermore, for safety and statistical purposes, we use relevant systems to collect user information, such as your IP address, the used browser and operating system and/or websites visited by the user for example.
If you decide to disable or refuse cookies, you may not be able to access some parts of the www.hotelaster.com website and connected subdomains, or they may not function properly.
In order to guarantee complete and faultless use of this website, you should set your browser to accept cookies. Cookies are no threat for your computer, tablet or smartphone. The cookies created by www.hotelaster.com do not contain any personal data that could be used to identify the user. All information is encrypted.

Types of Cookies

The website and connected subdomains use the following types of cookies:

Technical Cookies

These cookies are fundamental to enable you to move within the site and use its functions. Without these cookies, you might not be able to access these functions or they might not function properly.
These strictly necessary cookies are used to store a unique identifier to manage and identify each user as unique in relation to any other users who may be visiting the site at that same time. The purpose is to give the user a consistent and personalised service.

Performance Cookies

These cookies may be from Hotel Aster or from one of our partners. They may be limited to one session or be permanent. Their use is limited to the performance and improvement of the website. Performance Cookies do not gather information which could identify the user. All the information gathered by these cookies is aggregated anonymously, and used only to improve the functionality of the website.

Functional Cookies

Cookies are usually triggered by an action by the user and stored on the user device. Cookies can however also be implemented, when a service is offered to a user, that he did not explicitly request. These cookies can be used to prevent repeating a service offer to a user. Furthermore, these cookies enable the website to remember the user’s choices. The information gathered by these cookies is anonymous and cannot track user behaviour on other websites.

Third-party cookies for marketing purposes

These cookies are used by partners of www.hotelaster.com to show you advertisements when you are on other websites, and for example showing you the products that you have recently viewed on our website. These cookies may also be used to show products which might be of interest to you or which are similar to products you have looked at before. The use of these Cookies does not involve the processing of personal data, but may allow connection to the browser installed on your computer or other devices.

Disable cookies

Privacy laws provide users with the option of disabling cookies (opt out), which are already installed on their device. This option applies to “Technical Cookies” (art. 122 of Italian Privacy Law) and other cookies, which were previously accepted by the user (opt in). The user can disable and/or delete cookies in the browser settings (opt out).

How to disable cookies

Internet Explorer

Steps to block the cookies of all websites:

Open the Internet Explorer by clicking the ‘Start’ button and clicking on Internet Explorer.
Click on the ‘Tools’ button and on ‘Internet options’.
Click on the ‘Privacy’ tab, under ‘Settings’, move the slider to the top to block all cookies or to the bottom to allow all cookies. Click on ‘OK’.
Blocking cookies might prevent some websites from displaying correctly.

Firefox

Steps to block the cookies of all websites:

Click on the ‘Menu’ button and choose ‘Settings’.
Go to the ‘Privacy’ section.
In the ‘Firefox will:’ section choose ‘Use custom settings for history’.
Uncheck the box at ‘Accept Cookies from sites’. Click on ‘OK’.

Google Chrome

Choose the Chrome ‘Menu’ item.
Choose ‘Settings’.
At the bottom of the page choose ‘Show advanced settings’.
In the ‘Privacy’ section click the ‘Content settings’ button.
Choose ‘Block sites from saving any data’.
Choose ‘Done’.


The user may disable and/or delete individual non-technical third-party cookies as explained on the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA): www.youronlinechoices.eu.

List of all cookies

What kind of cookies are used on this website, who is the third-party owner, what’s the category, what are the cookies used for and how long do they stay active?

__utma*, Google, performance, stay active: unlimited. This cookie provides information on when you first visited the website, on the number of visits and on the last visit.
__utmb*, Google, performance, stay active: until the end of the session. This cookie contains a timestamp of when the user visited the website. In connection with __utmc, this cookie can provide information on how long the user was on the website.
__utmc*, Google, performance, stay active: 30 minutes. This cookie contains a timestamp of when the user left the website. In connection with __utmb, this cookie can provide information on how long the user was on the website.
__utmk*, Google, performance, stay active: unlimited. This cookie contains a hash value of all the here mentioned UTM Cookies.
__utmv*, Google, performance, stay active: unlimited. This cookie is dedicated to individual contents. Being an empty cookie, it serves to store visitor-level custom-variable data.
__utmx*, Google, performance, stay active: 2 years. This cookie contains values of the Google Website Optimizer.
__utmz*, Google, performance, stay active: 6 months. This cookie contains information on the visitor traffic source that explains how the user reached the site. It may store information on search engines and the entered search terms, or where the IP address of the visitor is located.
__utmt*, Google, performance, stay active: 10 minutes. shows the type of request made. (It could be an event, transaction, itemoro custom variable. If there is no specification given it is a pageview.)
_ga, Google, performance, stay active: 2 years. Used to identify users
_gid, Google, performance, stay active: 24 hours. Used to identify users
_gat, Google, performance, stay active: 10 min. Used to create tracker objects
_gac_<property-id>, Google, performance, stay active: 90 days. Contains campaign related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and AdWords accounts, AdWords website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out.
1P_JAR, Google/Youtube, technical, stay active: 1 month. These cookies are used to support Google’s advertising services.
AID, Google, performance, stay active: 2 years. Google also use cookies named “AID”, “DSID” and “TAID” which are used to link your activity across devices if you’ve previously signed in to your Google Account on another device. We do this to coordinate the ads you see across devices and measure conversion events. These cookies may be set on the domains google.com/ads, google.com/ads/measurement, or googleadservices.com.
APISID, Google, performance, stay active: 2 years. Google uses cookies like the PREF, NID or SID cookie to individually adjust advertisements in Google products like the Google search. The cookies are used to capture, for instance, the Google newest searches, your former interaction with advertisements or the search results and your visits on websites of an advertiser. This way you receive individually customised advertisement on Google.
CONSENT, Google/Youtube, technical, stay active: 20 years. These cookies are used to support Google’s advertising services.
DSID, Google, performance, stay active: 2 years. This cookie by doubleclick.net is used by Google to individually adjust advertisements in Google products like the Google search. The cookies are used to capture, for instance, the Google newest searches, your former interaction with advertisements or the search results and your visits on websites of an advertiser. This way you receive individually customised advertisement on Google.
HSID, Google, performance, stay active: 2 years. Google use cookies called “SID” and “HSID” which contain digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time. The combination of these two cookies allows Google to block many types of attack, such as attempts to steal the content of forms that you complete on web pages.
IDE, Google, performance, stay active: 2 years. This cookie by doubleclick.net is used by Google to individually adjust advertisements in Google products like the Google search. The cookies are used to capture, for instance, the Google newest searches, your former interaction with advertisements or the search results and your visits on websites of an advertiser. This way you receive individually customised advertisement on Google.
NID, Google, performance, stay active: 6 months. Google uses cookies like the PREF, NID or SID cookie to individually adjust advertisements in Google products like the Google search. The cookies are used to capture, for instance, the Google newest searches, your former interaction with advertisements or the search results and your visits on websites of an advertiser. This way you receive individually customised advertisement on Google.
PREF, Google/Youtube, performance, stay active: 6 months. Google uses cookies like the PREF, NID or SID cookie to individually adjust advertisements in Google products like the Google search. The cookies are used to capture, for instance, the Google newest searches, your former interaction with advertisements or the search results and your visits on websites of an advertiser. This way you receive individually customised advertisement on Google.
SAPISID, Google, performance, stay active: 2 years. Google uses cookies like the PREF, NID or SID cookie to individually adjust advertisements in Google products like the Google search. The cookies are used to capture, for instance, the Google newest searches, your former interaction with advertisements or the search results and your visits on websites of an advertiser. This way you receive individually customised advertisement on Google.
SID, Google, performance, stay active: 6 months. Google uses cookies like the PREF, NID or SID cookie to individually adjust advertisements in Google products like the Google search. The cookies are used to capture, for instance, the Google newest searches, your former interaction with advertisements or the search results and your visits on websites of an advertiser. This way you receive individually customised advertisement on Google.
SSID, Google, performance, stay active: 2 years. Google uses cookies like the PREF, NID or SID cookie to individually adjust advertisements in Google products like the Google search. The cookies are used to capture, for instance, the Google newest searches, your former interaction with advertisements or the search results and your visits on websites of an advertiser. This way you receive individually customised advertisement on Google.
GPS, Google, performance, stay active: 24 hours. Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location.
YSC, Youtube, performance, stay active: 24 hours. Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.
_fbp, Facebook, performance, stay active: 24 hours. Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.
fr, Facebook, performance, stay active: 3 months. Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.
vuid, Vimeo, performance, stay active: 2 years. Collects data on the user’s visits to the website, such as which pages have been read.
_hjid, Hotjar, performance, duration: 1 year. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the random user ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID.
_hjClosedSurveyInvites, Hotjar, performance, stay active: 1 year. This cookie is set once a visitor interacts with a Survey invitation modal popup. It is used to ensure that the same invite does not re-appear if it has already been shown.
_hjDonePolls, Hotjar, performance, stay active: 1 year. This cookie is set once a visitor completes a poll using the Feedback Poll widget. It is used to ensure that the same poll does not re-appear if it has already been filled in.
_hjMinimizedPolls, Hotjar, performance, stay active: 1 year. This cookie is set once a visitor minimizes a Feedback Poll widget. It is used to ensure that the widget stays minimizes when the visitor navigates through your site.
_hjDoneTestersWidgets, Hotjar, performance, stay active: 1 year. This cookie is set once a visitor submits their information in the Recruit User Testers widget. It is used to ensure that the same form does not re-appear if it has already been filled in.
_hjMinimizedTestersWidgets, Hotjar, performance, stay active: 1 year. This cookie is set once a visitor minimizes a Recruit User Testers widget. It is used to ensure that the widget stays minimizes when the visitor navigates through your site.
_hjIncludedInSample, Hotjar, performance, stay active: 1 year. This session cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the sample which is used to generate funnels.
_hjShownFeedbackMessage, Hotjar, performance, stay active: 1 year. This cookie is set when a visitor minimizes or completes Incoming Feedback. This is done so that the Incoming Feedback will load as minimized immediately if they navigate to another page where it is set to show.
ASPSESSIONID*, Zeppelin, technical, stay active: session. System cookie, used to keep the user session up
PageConfig.HttpFirstReferrerLink, Zeppelin, technical, stay active: 1000 days. Origin URL is attached to e-mails
Page_*, Zeppelin, technical, stay active: up to 2 years. Used to save actions performed by the visitor
sImageMode, Zeppelin, technical, stay active: 360 days. Used to determine if the user accesses the website from a desktop, tablet or mobile device
bCookieBarClosed, Zeppelin, technical, stay active: 365 giorni. This cookie indicates whether or not the cookie banner is being displayed on the webpage.


Third parties are autonomous owners of the cookies, therefore their policies concerning cookies will be applied. Find the complete list of all third parties below.
FACEBOOK more information on www.facebook.com/policy.php
AUDIENCE more information on www.audiens.com/privacy
GOOGLE/YOUTUBE more information on www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads
ADFORM more information on site.adform.com/privacy-policy/en
VIMEO more information on www.vimeo.com/cookie_policy
HOTJAR more information on https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/cookie-information