Cookie Policy

Last updated: December 24, 2025

This Cookie Policy explains how Festival Abroad, operated by Golden Carrot Ventures - FZCO, uses cookies and similar tracking technologies.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device (computer, smartphone, or tablet) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and provide information to website owners.

Cookies can be "persistent" (remaining on your device until deleted or expired) or "session" cookies (deleted when you close your browser).

2. How We Use Cookies

We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:

  • Essential Operations: To enable core functionality of our website
  • User Preferences: To remember your settings and preferences
  • Analytics: To understand how you use our website and improve it
  • Marketing: To show you relevant advertisements (with your consent)

3. Types of Cookies We Use

Necessary Cookies

Always Active

These cookies are essential for the website to function properly and cannot be disabled.

Cookies Used:

  • festival-abroad-cookie-consent Stores your cookie preferences (365 days)

Analytics Cookies

These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. We use this data to improve our services.

Third-Party Service:

  • Google Analytics (GA4)

    Measurement ID: G-8ST8WZNPJ3

    Cookies used:

    • _ga - Distinguishes users (2 years)
    • _ga_* - Maintains session state (2 years)
    • _gid - Distinguishes users (24 hours)

    Google Privacy Policy

Privacy Measures: We have configured Google Analytics to anonymize IP addresses and use privacy-friendly settings.

Marketing Cookies

These cookies are used to track visitors across websites to display relevant advertisements. We currently do not use marketing cookies, but this may change in the future.

Status: Not currently in use. If we implement marketing cookies, we will update this policy and request your consent.

4. Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies are placed by third-party services that appear on our pages. We do not control these cookies. These services include:

Google Analytics

For website analytics and performance measurement. Privacy Policy

Stay22

For accommodation maps and booking widgets. Stay22 may use cookies to track referrals. Privacy Policy

Amadeus

For flight and hotel search functionality. Amadeus APIs may use cookies for service delivery.

5. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

5.1 Cookie Consent Banner

When you first visit our website, you'll see a cookie consent banner. You can choose to:

  • Accept All: Allow all cookies including analytics and marketing
  • Necessary Only: Only use essential cookies
  • Customise: Choose which types of cookies to allow

Change your preferences at any time:

5.2 Browser Settings

You can also control cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to:

  • View and delete cookies
  • Block cookies from specific websites
  • Block all third-party cookies
  • Clear all cookies when you close your browser

Please note that blocking or deleting cookies may impact your experience on our website and limit available features.

Browser Cookie Settings:

6. Consent Duration

Your cookie consent preferences are stored for 365 days. After this period, you will be asked to provide your consent again.

7. Do Not Track Signals

Some browsers include a "Do Not Track" (DNT) feature that signals to websites that you do not want your online activity tracked. Currently, there is no industry standard for responding to DNT signals. We respect your cookie preferences set through our cookie consent banner.

8. Updates to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for legal, operational, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any material changes by updating the "Last updated" date at the top of this page.

9. More Information

For more information about how we collect and use your data, please read our:

10. Contact Us

If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please contact us:

Golden Carrot Ventures - FZCO

Building A1, Dubai Digital Park

Dubai Silicon Oasis

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Summary: We use cookies to provide and improve our services. You have full control over which cookies you allow, except for essential cookies which are required for the website to function. You can change your preferences at any time.