Cookie Policy

A cookie is a small text file a website can ask your browser to store, then read back on later visits. "Similar technologies" covers the same idea by other means: entries kept in your browser's local storage or session storage, or identifiers tied to a request your browser sends to a server.

All of them work the same way in principle: something is written to your device, and read later so a site can recognise you, your session, or your settings.

No. Our site does not place any cookie, first-party or third-party, on your device. We do not run advertising trackers, social-media pixels, or third-party analytics of any kind. There is no tool here that follows you across other websites.

What we do use is a small, first-party visit counter and a handful of browser storage entries that make the booking experience smoother. Both are described below in full.

We run our own, short script, served from our own domain, to understand how people find and use the site. It records, for each visit: pages viewed, time spent on a page, the referring website, any campaign parameters present in the link you clicked (such as a UTM tag or an ad click identifier), device type, browser, operating system, screen size, browser language, and the country worked out from your IP address. The IP address itself is discarded and never stored.

If you send us an enquiry or tap a WhatsApp or phone link, that action is linked back to the same visit, so we can see which channel — a search engine, an advert, a direct visit — actually produced the enquiry. This measurement relies on a single local-storage entry holding random visitor and session identifiers, detailed in the table above, which expires 30 days after your last visit.

Beyond visit measurement, two further entries live only in your browser, never on our servers:

• a local-storage entry that simply remembers you dismissed our cookie notice, so it will not show again;
• a session-storage entry that remembers the yacht you clicked on, so that if you open the enquiry form it is already filled in for you — this one disappears as soon as you close the tab or submit the form.

Neither entry contains your name, email, phone number or any other contact detail. They hold only the technical information described.

To display the site's typography, your browser requests web fonts from Google Fonts; as with any web request, Google receives the IP address making that request. To power the country selector in the phone number field of our enquiry form, your browser loads a small library called intl-tel-input from the jsDelivr content delivery network, which likewise receives your IP address to serve the file. Neither service sets a cookie on our behalf, and neither is used by us for advertising or analytics.

WhatsApp buttons work differently again: tapping one records the click in our own booking system (page URL, referrer, language and the prefilled message) and then simply opens WhatsApp in a new window or app. Nothing is set on cannesyachsthire.com by WhatsApp itself; once the conversation moves to WhatsApp, it runs under Meta's own privacy terms, outside our site entirely.

Every browser lets you inspect and delete local storage and session storage through its settings or developer tools, usually under "Site settings" or "Privacy". Clearing this storage simply means the cookie notice may reappear, a prefilled yacht selection may be lost, and our visit counter will treat your next visit as a new one. None of this affects your ability to browse the fleet or send an enquiry.

Should we ever wish to introduce an optional cookie, for example for a future marketing tool, we will ask for your consent beforehand and only activate it once you agree, and we will update this page to describe it accurately. For now, this page reflects everything the site actually does.

The relevant framework is Article 82 of Act n°78-17 of 6 January 1978, France's data protection law, together with the cookie guidance issued by the CNIL, France's supervisory authority for data protection matters, reachable at www.cnil.fr. For any question about this page, contact us at [email protected].