Cookie Policy

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Effective Date: 1 January 2025 | Last Reviewed: 1 January 2025

1. What Are Cookies?

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

Similar technologies include web beacons, pixel tags, and local storage, which may function in a comparable way. This policy covers all such technologies, collectively referred to as "cookies".

2. How We Use Cookies

Wanderlust Australia uses cookies on our website (wanderlustaustralia.com.au) for the following purposes:

a) Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential for the website to function correctly. They enable core features such as security, network management, and accessibility. You cannot opt out of these cookies as the site cannot function without them.

• wa_session: Maintains your session state while browsing (session cookie, deleted when browser closes)
• wa_cookie_consent: Stores your cookie consent preference (persistent, 12 months)
• XSRF-TOKEN: Protects against cross-site request forgery attacks (session cookie)

b) Functional Cookies

These cookies enable enhanced functionality and personalisation, such as remembering your preferences (e.g., language, currency, form data). Disabling these may affect some features.

• wa_prefs: Remembers user interface preferences (persistent, 6 months)

c) Analytics Cookies

We use analytics tools to understand how visitors interact with our website — which pages are most visited, where visitors come from, and how long they stay. This helps us improve our site and services. All analytics data is anonymised and aggregated.

• Google Analytics (_ga, _gid, _gat): Measures website traffic and user behaviour. Data is processed by Google. You can opt out via Google's opt-out tool.

d) Marketing Cookies

With your consent, we may use cookies to deliver relevant advertising and track the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. We do not use intrusive or deceptive advertising practices.

• Google Ads: Used to measure ad performance and conversion tracking (persistent, up to 90 days)

3. Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies on our website are set by third-party services we use, including:

• Google (Analytics, Ads, Maps): Subject to Google's Privacy Policy
• Stripe or payment processors: For secure payment processing (strictly necessary during checkout)
• Social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn): If you interact with our social sharing buttons

We do not control third-party cookies and recommend reviewing their respective privacy policies.

4. Your Cookie Choices

When you first visit our website, we display a cookie consent banner. You may:

• Accept All: Enables all cookies, including analytics and marketing
• Decline: Only strictly necessary cookies will be set

You may also control cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to refuse or delete cookies. Please note that blocking all cookies may affect the functionality of our website. For guidance, visit allaboutcookies.org.

5. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes in the cookies we use or applicable law. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date. Continued use of our website after changes constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.

6. Contact Us

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

Wanderlust Australia Pty Ltd
Level 12, 1 Market Street, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +61 2 9200 1234