Steller’s Cookie Policy

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Steller and our partners use cookies on this site to ensure security, provide functionality, serve ads to you based on your online behavior, measure the effectiveness of those ads, and track how users interact with our site. Some of these cookies are strictly necessary for securely operating our site, or providing services you expressly request, and cannot be refused. You can accept or refuse all other cookies by clicking “Accept All” or “Reject All” below; to accept or refuse specific categories of cookies, click “Cookie Settings” below. If you continue to visit our site without accepting or rejecting cookies, no cookies will be set other than strictly necessary cookies. For more information, read our Cookie Policy here.

EEA/UK Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how Expedition Travel Advisor, Inc dba Steller (“Steller”, “we”, “us” or “our”) uses cookies and other trackers to ensure security, provide functionality, serve ads to you based on your online behavior, measure the effectiveness of those ads, and track how people interact with our site(“visitors” or “users”) when they visit our website (“Site”).

If you would like to read this Cookie Policy in one continuous document or would like to print it, please click here.

Please read this Cookie Policy in conjunction with our Privacy Policy, available here.

What are cookies and other trackers?

Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your device’s hard drive through your web browser for record-keeping purposes. Some cookies allow us to make it easier for you to navigate our Site, App and Services, while others are used to enable a faster log-in process or to allow us to track your activities at our Site, App and Service. Most cookies won’t collect information that directly identifies you as a person, and will instead collect more general information such as how visitors arrive at and use our Site. Other cookies collect personal data. Cookies may be used to create a profile of a visitor’s activities on the Internet which can be used (for example) to try to predict the visitor’s purchasing and behavioral preferences.

Clear GIFs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on your computer’s hard drive, clear GIFs are embedded invisibly on web and app pages. We and our service providers may use clear GIFs (a.k.a. web beacons, web bugs or pixel tags), in connection with our Site and Services to, among other things, track the activities of Site visitors and App users, help us manage content, and compile statistics about Site usage. We and our third-party service providers also use clear GIFs in HTML emails to our customers, to help us track email response rates, identify when our emails are viewed, and track whether our emails are forwarded.

In this Cookie Policy, we refer to all these technologies as “cookies”.

Types of cookies

Session Cookies

Session cookies exist only during an online session. They disappear from your device when you close your browser or turn off your device. We use session cookies to allow our systems to uniquely identify you during a session or while you are logged into the Site, App and Services. This allows us to process your online transactions and requests and verify your identity, after you have logged in, as you move through our Site, App and Services.

Persistent Cookies

Persistent cookies remain on your device after you have closed your browser or turned off your device. We use persistent cookies to track aggregate and statistical information about user activity. Persistent cookies used on this Site generally have a maximum lifespan of 12 months; please see our cookie management tool for further details.

First party cookies

First party cookies are set by the website you are visiting and they can only be read by that site.

Third party cookies

Third party cookies are not set by the owner of the website you are visiting, but by a different organization. For example, advertisers and other third parties may use their own cookies when you click on an advertising or link on our Site, or we might engage a third-party analytics company that will set their own cookie to perform this service.

Categories of cookies

The different types of cookies described above can be categorized as follows:

Strictly Necessary cookies:

These cookies are necessary for the Site to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work.

Performance cookies

These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of the Site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the Site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated . If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our Site, and will not be able to monitor its performance. Performance cookies also can be used with information from advertising cookies to help us measure the performance of our tailoring of advertising and content to your interests in order to help us improve our advertising campaigns and the Services’ content for those who engage with our advertising.

Functional cookies

These cookies enable the Site to provide enhanced functionality and personalization. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies then some or all of these services may not function properly. For instance, these cookies help us to personalize our content for you, and greet you by name.

Targeting cookies

These cookies may be set through our Site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.

Social media links

This Site contains links to Steller social media pages from the following companies:

• Facebook; Facebook is operated by Meta Platforms, Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. Find information on data protection at Facebook here:https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.
• Instagram; Instagram is operated by Meta Platforms, Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. Find information on data protection at Instagram here:https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875.
• Twitter; Twitter is operated by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. Find information on data protection at Twitter here: https://twitter.com/en/privacy.
• Pinterest; Pinterest is operated by Pinterest, Inc., 651 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. Find information on data protection at Pinterest here:https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy.
• Tiktok; TikTok is operated by ByteDance, No. 48, Zhichun Road Haidian District Beijing, Beijing, 100098, China. Find information on data protection at TikTok here:https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/us/privacy-policy/en.

These links are not plug ins; they are links to external Steller social media pages via standard functionality. No cookies are set in relation to these links when browsing the Site. Should you click any of these links you will be directed to the relevant social media page. Each of these social media companies operates their websites independently of Steller, including their own cookie policies and privacy policies and settings. Please visit the respective social media companies’ privacy information for further details.

Lifespans

The various cookies used by our Site have different lifespans. Session cookies will be deleted once you close your browser. Persistent cookies implemented on our Site will be kept for a period of time that does not exceed 12 months. Please refer to our cookie management tool to learn about the specific lifespans of the cookies we use.

What cookies do we use?

We use different categories of both session and persistent cookies on our Site, which can either be first or third party cookies.

Information on the cookies that we use on our Site (their names and categories, their lifespans and whether third parties have access to the cookies) are described in our cookie management tool.

Managing cookies and withdrawing consent

We will obtain your opt-in consent to the use of the cookies and other tracking technologies on the Site when you first access the Site and if we introduce any new cookies to the Site, unless they are strictly necessary cookies, in which case your consent is not required. When you visit the Site, a pop up will appear to inform you about our use of such cookies. You can then consent by clicking on “Accept All”, or you may refuse cookies (except strictly necessary cookies) by clicking on “Reject All”. You may alternatively click on “Cookie Settings” to visit our cookie management tool and decide the categories of cookies that you wish to accept, and the cookies you wish to reject

If you reject cookies, we will not set those cookies on your device, except strictly necessary cookies and a cookie to remember that you don’t want any cookies set when you visit the Site.

If you have accepted cookies but later decide that you want to reject them (withdraw your consent) for the future, you can do so here.

You can also disable cookies by changing your Site browser settings to reject cookies. How to do this will depend on the browser you use. All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings that will typically be found in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your browser. Use the ‘Help’ option in your browser for more details.

• Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
• Cookie settings in Firefox
• Cookie settings in Chrome
• Cookie settings in Safari web and iOS

If you choose not to use the cookie preference tool, but instead control cookies through browsers, please remember to change your settings in each browser and for each of your devices.

Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites, including ours. If you block cookies, you may not be able to use all the features on our Site. You can also delete cookies already stored on your computer. However, deleting cookies might have a negative impact on the usability of many websites, including ours.

Opting out of ad networks; Additional information

If you would like to learn more about how advertisers use these types of cookies or to choose not to receive them, please visithttps://www.youronlinechoices.eu. You can find further information on managing cookies in most browsers also here:https://www.allaboutcookies.org.

Changes to this Policy

We reserve the right to modify this Cookie Policy from time to time. If we make any changes to this Cookie Policy, we will change the “Effective date” above, post the updated Cookie Policy on this page and ask you to re-consent to our changed use of cookies.

Contacting us

If you have any queries in connection with this Cookie Policy, please contact the following: support@steller.co

You may contact our EU data protection officer at: denice@steller.co. You may also contact our UK representative at: jordan@steller.co.