Cookie Policy

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device to store data that can be recalled by a web server in the domain that placed the cookie. Costa Rica Tourism news (crtn.cr) uses cookies and similar technologies for storing and honoring your preferences and settings, enabling you to sign in, providing interest-based advertising, combating fraud, analyzing how our products perform, and fulfilling other legitimate purposes.

We also use “web beacons” to help deliver cookies and gather usage and performance data. Our websites may include web beacons, cookies, or similar technologies from third-party service providers.

You have a variety of tools to control the data collected by cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies. For example, you can use controls in your internet browser to limit how the websites you visit are able to use cookies and to withdraw your consent by clearing or blocking cookies.

Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, for use in a future session, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser. 

How We Use Cookies

We may use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below (see Cookies We May Set). Unfortunately, in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this website. It is recommended that you leave all cookies enabled if you are not sure whether you need them, in case they are used to provide a service upon which you rely.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the privacy settings on your web browser (see your browser’s Help section for how to do this). There are also browser add-ons that will help you to manage your cookies more easily. Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit, and may possibly make them unusable. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this website. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The Cookies We May Set

  • Email newsletters related cookies

    This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
  • Orders processing related cookies

    This site offers e-commerce or payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly.
  • Surveys related cookies

    From time to time we offer user surveys and questionnaires to provide you with interesting insights, helpful tools, or to understand our user base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you change pages.
  • Forms related cookies

    When you submit data to us through a form such as those found on contact pages, comment areas, or other submission forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
  • Site preferences cookies

    In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be recalled whenever you interact with a page that is affected by your preferences.

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases we may also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

  • This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics providers on the web for helping us to understand how our visitors use the site and ways that we can improve visitors’ experiences. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.

    For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
  • From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.
  • As we sell products it’s important for us to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our site actually make a purchase and as such this is the kind of data that these cookies will track. This is important to you as it means that we can accurately make business predictions that allow us to monitor our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price.
  • We also use may social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work with social media sites (such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and others) we will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.

If you have any questions about our cookie policies, you may contact us through our website’s contact form.