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The best places to see giraffe on safari in Africa

These are the best safari destinations in Africa for spotting giraffe in the wild 

Tall, majestic and graceful, giraffes are one of the must-see quintessential African savanna species.Watch as these awe-inspiring creatures reach their mouths up into the highest branches of an acacia tree or bend their long necks down to the waterhole for a drink with their legs spread wide apart. The Safari Index team recommends the following parks and reserves in Africa for being spectacular places to see giraffe as well as a number of other species whilst on safari. 

Nkomazi Game Reserve

Nkomazi’s combination of rivers, mountains, and open grassland makes it a diverse and unique safari destination. In addition to giraffe, guests can also see lion, cheetah, elephant, buffalo and rhino on the reserve. The region is also home to several archaeological and cultural sites, ensuring an interesting and well-rounded safari experience.

Shamwari Game Reserve

Found in South Africa’s beautiful Eastern Cape, Shamwari Game Reserve blends several different types of habitats that results in an area rich in game and wildlife species. Birdlife is abundant, with the Bushmans River attracting species such as the African Fish Eagle and Blue Crane. Guests can also expect to see the Big 5, in addition to giraffe.

Welgevonden Private Game Reserve

Found conveniently close to Johannesburg and Pretoria in a malaria-free area, Welgevonden is a combination of rocky terrain and open woodland among the wilderness of the Waterberg mountains. Besides giraffe, guests can also expect to see members of the famous Big 5 on the reserve. South Africa’s national bird, the blue crane, is a rare treat for birdwatchers.

Kruger National Park

As one of South Africa ‘s, and the world’s, most iconic safari destinations,the Kruger National Park is essential on any list of the best places to see a species of wildlife. Home to an incredible diversity of plant, animal, tree and reptile species, including Africa’s famous Big 5, the park will not disappoint those looking to spot giraffe.

Ngorongoro Crater

Dropping 600m into the caldera of an extinct volcano, the Ngorongoro Crater is one of Africa’s most unique safari destinations, and a must-see. An abundance of plains game, as well several large game species, roam the plains of the crater, including elephant, black rhino, thick black-maned lion, cheetah, leopard, buffalo, and, of course, giraffe. Several lodges are situated on the edge of the crater, allowing for an unforgettable safari holiday.

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wildlife guide to the giraffe

Perhaps the ultimate icon of the African savanna, the giraffe is an unmistakable land mammal known for its long neck and spotted coat. Read on for a few interesting facts about this intriguing animal.

Latin name: Giraffa camelopardalis

Group name: Tower

Size: 4.3 meters to 5.7 meters tall

Weight: 1,192 kg for an adult male and 828 kg for an adult female

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Giraffe characteristics

With nine subspecies sharing its distinctive characteristics, the giraffe is the tallest land animal and the largest ruminant on earth. Considering the length of its neck and legs, the giraffe’s body is quite short. The giraffe sees in colour and its eyes are located on either side of its head, giving it a good view of its surroundings and any approaching predators. Moreover, it has a sharp sense of hearing and smell, another defense against predators, while it can close its nostrils during sandstorms and against ants.

Considering its long neck, it’s no wonder the giraffe has an unusually long tongue – about 45 cm to be exact. Giraffes use their tongues to deftly pick leaves from between thorns.

The giraffe’s coat is characterised by dark blotches on lighter hair. With age, male giraffes may become darker, and while calves inherit spot patterns from their mothers, each giraffe has a unique coat pattern that sets it apart.

Underneath their spotted coats, however, the giraffe is actually gray in colour, with a skin that is quite thick and allows it some protection from thorns.

Range & habitat

With a range that extends all over most of Africa, the giraffe is a staple sighting on any African safari. They are, however, most common in southern and eastern Africa, where the savannas and open woodlands offer the perfect habitat. However, the Angolan giraffe, which occurs in Namibia as well, prefers a more desert environment.

Giraffes have home ranges but are not territorial. Home ranges will vary relative to factors such as rainfall and proximity to humans.

Overall though, giraffes prefer to inhabit savannas and woodlands that are open with foliage like the acacia tree, instead of more dense environments like miombo woodlands.

During the wet season, groups of giraffe may be more spread out, enjoying the resplendent food sources around them. But when the dry season arrives, giraffes are found to congregate around the few evergreen bushes and trees in their area.

Giraffes mothers tend to feed where an area is most open, which gives her a better view over the surroundings and any danger close by.

Giraffes feed mainly on leaves, fruits and flowers of acacia trees, easily reaching up to nibble on the top parts that other herbivores can’t reach. Acacias seem to be one of their favourite sources of food, as well as trees from the Commiphora and Terminalia genera, which provide giraffes with their much-needed source of protein and calcium.

Notwithstanding their long necks, giraffes may also bend down and feed on shrubs and grasses. All in all, they feed and ruminate for most of the day, consuming a total of about 34 kg of foliage every day. However, the giraffe actually needs much less food than other herbivores as the food it does get is much higher in nutrients, while its digestive system is extremely efficient.

Behaviour & lifestyle

When out on safari, keep a lookout for giraffes arranged in groups of calves watched over by one or two mothers. These calving pools are often colloquially referred to as giraffe creches and they allow the mothers to feed elsewhere while a trusted individual keeps a lookout for danger.

For the most part, giraffe herds consist of either related females and their offspring or groups of unrelated adult bachelors. However, the different groups may sometimes come together and gather in larger herds.

Giraffe hierarchies are established by the males through an activity known as “necking” in which two giraffes use their necks as a weapon during fights, swinging and hitting each other. The winning male is dominant and has better access to the fertile females for reproduction. However, when it comes to raising the young, that is solely in the sphere of female giraffes.

Female giraffes give birth to their young standing up. The calf drops to the ground, which severs the umbilical cord. After its mother has groomed and cleaned the newborn, the calf will slowly attempt to stand up, but within a few hours it will be able to run around.

Fun giraffe facts

• Giraffes spend most of their lives standing up, even giving birth standing up. The calves fall up to 2 meters to the floor at birth as their introduction to the world.
• Giraffes don’t need much sleep to function, typically getting less than two hours each day!
• Giraffes can run at speeds of up to 56 kilometers per hour over short distances!
• Like human fingerprints, each giraffe’s spot pattern is completely unique, and no two are the same.

Meet the giraffe

Have you seen a giraffe in the wild? What is your favourite memory of an African safari that involved giraffes? Tell us in the comments below!

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• 10 Best Places to See Giraffes in Africa by Safarihub

Giraffes are perhaps of Africa’s generally hypnotizing creature. Recognizing a head looking over an acacia tree or respecting the easy straightforwardness with which they lope across the fields never neglects to please. Here’s is our pick to 10 best places to spot and spend time with these wonderful creatures:

If you have any desire to share a feasting table with a giraffe, visit Kenya. Giraffe Manor is a novel giraffe safe-haven facilitating the jeopardized Rothschild giraffe species. Giraffe Manor lies in 56 hectares (138 sections of land) of parkland and has turned into a safe-haven for Rothschild’s giraffe: a sub-animal types – along with reticulated giraffe.

Level, open and canvassed in prickly acacia trees, Namibia’s Etosha National Park is exemplary giraffe country. For probably the best sightings of giraffe in Africa, set out toward a waterhole – Etosha’s bone-dry environment urges its natural life to think around pitiful surface water sources. To observe the cautious bendings expected for a giraffe to partake in a taste of water, an Etosha waterhole is the spot to visit. The big advantage of this is that you will get a sight of many other wild animals coming to quench their thirst.

Kruger National Park gloats about having the best driving tracks inside the National park together with the heavenly standing of the stores’ aides, here you’ll truly find out about giraffes in Africa. This simplifies it to arrive at most places inside the diversion region and you get an astounding opportunity to see various sorts of African wild including the notable Kruger ostriches and the Big 5 land vertebrates.

Nyerere National Park is famously known by travelers as Selous. It lies immovably outside of what might be expected. A crude, for the most part, lacking wild that is an extraordinary fly-in objective appropriate for courageous safari explorers. Tons of giraffes, apparently shaping Africa’s most noteworthy focus, live in the Nyerere National Park. It truly is the best spot to see giraffes in Africa.

Chobe National Park is tracked down in the semi-parched terrains of Botswana. Because of the land being for the most part dry, it implies vegetations are restricted. This makes it very simple to notice giraffes in this park as they contend to peruse for twigs from the couple of tall shades. Chobe National Park isn’t such a long ways from the undeniably popular’s Victoria Falls. This makes it simple to broaden your visit in the wake of seeing one of the world’s biggest water covers tumbling down.

You’re never that a long way from the untamed wildlife in the South Luangwa – it’s one of Africa’s best untamed life regions with in excess of 60 creature species and something like 400 unique sorts of bird. At the point when you see a lion, others won’t be a long ways behind as here they will generally meander in prides of up to 30. It’s likewise home to the Thornicoft giraffe, a sub-animal categories tracked down just in the South Luangwa.

Murchison Falls National Park is situated in Uganda. It gloats of one of the biggest centralization of the uncommon and imperiled types of Rothschild giraffes on the planet. This is because of an intentional and committed preservation exertion that has seen their numbers ascend over the course of the years to arrive at very nearly 1,000 giraffes starting around 2019. Murchison Falls National Park is home to Murchison Falls which is one of only a handful of exceptional cascade destinations along the wellspring of River Nile.

Serengeti National Park is important for the Mara-Serengeti biological system. This environment is the world’s most broad safari objective. This National Park is situated in the Northern Tanzania locale lining Kenya. The most well known giraffe species that specks this environment is the Maasai Giraffe – named after the Maasai people group in Kenya and Tanzania who are the local occupants of this district. The Maasai Giraffe is easily discernable from others because of long segment of ruddy earthy colored fur spreads along the highest point of its neck.

A visit to the Okavango Delta, a freshwater wetland at the core of the Kalahari, is home to huge quantities of giraffe lasting through the year and it’s here you get the opportunity to partake in a 10,000 foot viewpoint. Helicopter safaris skim over the Delta’s sparkling floodplains, and it’s never well before your sharp-looked at pilot detects an excursion of giraffe and swings in for a more critical look, setting you in prime situation to notice their hypnotizing, shaking horse velocity.

Maasai Mara National Reserve is important for the Mara-Serengeti environment. Maasai Mara Game Reserve is situated in the southern piece of Kenya lining Tanzania. It is only the Kenya-Tanzania line that parts this biological system into two sections – Serengeti (Northern Tanzania) and Mara (Southern Kenya). Maasai Mara is acclaimed for its Wildebeest Migration. It is simpler to spot the Maasai Giraffe in Mara than in Serengeti because of Mara being drier than Serengeti and in this manner permitting the giraffes to be more uncovered.

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You can opt-out from receiving marketing communications at any time by emailing [email protected]

Legitimate interests:  Sharing relevant, timely and industry-specific information on related business services, in order to assist your organisation grow, or to further develop you as a professional.

We use a third-party service to send out our marketing emails and administer our mailing list, Mailchimp

Information for marketing campaigns will be stored outside the European Economic Area on our third-party mailing list provider’s servers in the United States.

We use technologies such as tracking pixels (small graphic files) and tracked links in the emails we send to allow us to assess the level of engagement our emails receive by measuring information such as the delivery rates, open rates, click through rates and content engagement that our emails achieve.

For more information on how we use tracking in our marketing emails, see our cookies policy which is  available here .

Third party goods and services

In addition to receiving information about our products and services, you can opt in to receiving marketing communications from us in relation third party goods and services by email by ticking a box indicating that you would like to receive such communications.

Legal basis for processing:  consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Consent:  you give your consent to us sending you information about third party goods and services by signing up to receive such information in accordance with the steps described above.

We use a third-party service to send out our marketing emails and administer our mailing list, Mailchimp.

This section sets out how we obtain or collect information about you from third parties.

Information received from third parties

We can often receive information about you from third parties. The third parties from which we receive information about you can include partner events within the marketing industry and other organisations that we have a professional affiliation with.

It is also possible that third parties with whom we have had no prior contact may provide us with information about you.

Information we obtain from third parties will generally be your name and contact details, but will include any additional information about you which they provide to us.

Reason why necessary to perform a contract:  where a third party has passed on information about you to us (such as your name and email address) in order for us to provide services to you, we will process your information in order to take steps at your request to enter into a contract with you and perform a contract with you (as the case may be).

Consent:  where you have asked that a third party to share information about you with us and the purpose of sharing that information is not related to the performance of a contract or services by us to you, we will process your information on the basis of your consent, which you give by asking the third party in question to pass on your information to us.

Legitimate interests:  where a third party has shared information about you with us and you have not consented to the sharing of that information, we will have a legitimate interest in processing that information in certain circumstances.

For example, we would have a legitimate interest in processing your information to perform our obligations under a sub-contract with the third party, where the third party has the main contract with you. Our legitimate interest is the performance of our obligations under our sub-contract.

Similarly, third parties may pass on information about you to us if you have infringed or potentially infringed any of our legal rights. In this case, we will have a legitimate interest in processing that information to investigate and pursue any such potential infringement.

Information obtained by us from third parties

In certain circumstances (for example, to verify the information we hold about you or obtain missing information we require to provide you with a service) we will obtain information about you from certain publicly accessible sources, both EU and non-EU, such as Companies House, online customer databases, business directories, media publications, social media, and websites (including your own website if you have one.

In certain circumstances will also obtain information about you from private sources, both EU and non-EU, such as marketing data services.

You can opt-out from receiving marketing communications at any time by emailing [email protected]

Where we receive information about you in error

If we receive information about you from a third party in error and/or we do not have a legal basis for processing that information, we will delete your information.

This section sets out the circumstances in which will disclose information about you to third parties and any additional purposes for which we use your information.

Disclosure of your information to service providers

We use a number of third parties to provide us with services which are necessary to run our business or to assist us with running our business

These include the following: Internet services, IT service providers and web developers.

Our third party service providers are located both inside and outside of the European Economic Area.

Your information will be shared with these service providers where necessary to provide you with the service you have requested, whether that is accessing our website or ordering goods and services from us.

We do not display the identities of our service providers publicly by name for security and competitive reasons. If you would like further information about the identities of our service providers, however, please contact us directly by email and we will provide you with such information where you have a legitimate reason for requesting it (where we have shared your information with such service providers, for example).

Legal basis for processing:  legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interest relied on:  where we share your information with these third parties in a context other than where is necessary to perform a contract (or take steps at your request to do so), we will share your information with such third parties in order to allow us to run and manage our business efficiently.

Legal basis for processing:  necessary to perform a contract and/or to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Reason why necessary to perform a contract:  we may need to share information with our service providers to enable us to perform our obligations under that contract or to take the steps you have requested before we enter into a contract with you.

Disclosure and use of your information for legal reasons

Indicating possible criminal acts or threats to public security to a competent authority

If we suspect that criminal or potential criminal conduct has been occurred, we will in certain circumstances need to contact an appropriate authority, such as the police. This could be the case, for instance, if we suspect that we fraud or a cyber crime has been committed or if we receive threats or malicious communications towards us or third parties.

We will generally only need to process your information for this purpose if you were involved or affected by such an incident in some way.

Legitimate interests:  preventing crime or suspected criminal activity (such as fraud).

In connection with the enforcement or potential enforcement our legal rights

We will use your information in connection with the enforcement or potential enforcement of our legal rights, including, for example, sharing information with debt collection agencies if you do not pay amounts owed to us when you are contractually obliged to do so. Our legal rights may be contractual (where we have entered into a contract with you) or non-contractual (such as legal rights that we have under copyright law or tort law).

Legitimate interest:  enforcing our legal rights and taking steps to enforce our legal rights.

In connection with a legal or potential legal dispute or proceedings

We may need to use your information if we are involved in a dispute with you or a third party for example, either to resolve the dispute or as part of any mediation, arbitration or court resolution or similar process.

Legitimate interest(s):  resolving disputes and potential disputes.

This section sets out how long we retain your information. We have set out specific retention periods where possible. Where that has not been possible, we have set out the criteria we use to determine the retention period.

Retention periods

Server log information:  we retain information on our server logs for 3 months.

Order information:  when you place an order for goods and services, we retain that information for seven years following the end of the financial year in which you placed your order, in accordance with our legal obligation to keep records for tax purposes.

Correspondence and enquiries:  when you make an enquiry or correspond with us for any reason, whether by email or via our contact form or by phone, we will retain your information for as long as it takes to respond to and resolve your enquiry, and for 36 further month(s), after which point we will archive your information.

Newsletter:  we retain the information you used to sign up for our newsletter for as long as you remain subscribed (i.e. you do not unsubscribe).

Membership:  we retain the information you used to sign up for our memberships for as long as you remain subscribed (i.e. you do not unsubscribe).

Criteria for determining retention periods

In any other circumstances, we will retain your information for no longer than necessary, taking into account the following:

• the purpose(s) and use of your information both now and in the future (such as whether it is necessary to continue to store that information in order to continue to perform our obligations under a contract with you or to contact you in the future);
• whether we have any legal obligation to continue to process your information (such as any record-keeping obligations imposed by relevant law or regulation);
• whether we have any legal basis to continue to process your information (such as your consent);
• how valuable your information is (both now and in the future);
• any relevant agreed industry practices on how long information should be retained;
• the levels of risk, cost and liability involved with us continuing to hold the information;
• how hard it is to ensure that the information can be kept up to date and accurate; and
• any relevant surrounding circumstances (such as the nature and status of our relationship with you).]

We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to secure your information and to protect it against unauthorised or unlawful use and accidental loss or destruction, including:

• only sharing and providing access to your information to the minimum extent necessary, subject to confidentiality restrictions where appropriate, and on an anonymised basis wherever possible;
• using secure servers to store your information;
• verifying the identity of any individual who requests access to information prior to granting them access to information;
• using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software to encrypt any payment transactions you make on or via our website;
• only transferring your information via closed system or encrypted data transfers;

Transmission of information to us by email

Transmission of information over the internet is not entirely secure, and if you submit any information to us over the internet (whether by email, via our website or any other means), you do so entirely at your own risk.

We cannot be responsible for any costs, expenses, loss of profits, harm to reputation, damages, liabilities or any other form of loss or damage suffered by you as a result of your decision to transmit information to us by such means.

Your information may be transferred and stored outside the European Economic Area (EEA) in the circumstances set out earlier in this policy.

We will also transfer your information outside the EEA or to an international organisation in order to comply with legal obligations to which we are subject (compliance with a court order, for example). Where we are required to do so, we will ensure appropriate safeguards and protections are in place.

Subject to certain limitations on certain rights, you have the following rights in relation to your information, which you can exercise by writing to the data controller using the details provided at the top of this policy.

• to request access to your information  and information related to our use and processing of your information;
• to request the correction or deletion  of your information;
• to request that we restrict our use  of your information;
• to receive information which you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format  (e.g. a CSV file) and the right to have that information transferred to another data controller (including a third party data controller);
• to object to the processing of your information for certain purposes  (for further information, see the section below entitled Your right to object to the processing of your information for certain purposes); and
• to withdraw your consent to our use of your information at any time where we rely on your consent to use or process that information. Please note that if you withdraw your consent, this will not affect the lawfulness of our use and processing of your information on the basis of your consent before the point in time when you withdraw your consent.

In accordance with Article 77 of the General Data Protection Regulation, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or of an alleged infringement of the General Data Protection Regulation.

Further information on your rights in relation to your personal data as an individual

You can find out further information about your rights, as well as information on any limitations which apply to those rights, by reading the underlying legislation contained in Articles 12 to 22 and 34 of the General Data Protection Regulation, which is available here: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/reform/files/regulation_oj_en.pdf

Verifying your identity where you request access to your information

Where you request access to your information, we are required by law to use all reasonable measures to verify your identity before doing so.

These measures are designed to protect your information and to reduce the risk of identity fraud, identity theft or general unauthorised access to your information.

How we verify your identity

Where we possess appropriate information about you on file, we will attempt to verify your identity using that information.

If it is not possible to identity you from such information, or if we have insufficient information about you, we may require original or certified copies of certain documentation in order to be able to verify your identity before we are able to provide you with access to your information.

We will be able to confirm the precise information we require to verify your identity in your specific circumstances if and when you make such a request.

Your right to object

You have the following rights in relation to your information, which you may exercise in the same way as you may exercise by writing to the data controller using the details provided at the top of this policy.

• to object to us using or processing your information where we use or process it in order to  carry out a task in the public interest or for our legitimate interests , including ‘profiling’ (i.e. analysing or predicting your behaviour based on your information) based on any of these purposes; and
• to object to us using or processing your information for  direct marketing purposes  (including any profiling we engage in that is related to such direct marketing).

You may also exercise your right to object to us using or processing your information for direct marketing purposes by:

• clicking the unsubscribe link  contained at the bottom of any marketing email we send to you and following the instructions which appear in your browser following your clicking on that link;
• sending an email  to [email protected], asking that we stop sending you marketing communications or by including the words “OPT OUT”.

Sensitive Personal Information

‘Sensitive personal information’ is information about an individual that reveals their racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, genetic information, biometric information for the purpose of uniquely identifying an individual, information concerning health or information concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation.

We do not knowingly or intentionally collect sensitive personal information from individuals, and you must not submit sensitive personal information to us.

If, however, you inadvertently or intentionally transmit sensitive personal information to us, you will be considered to have explicitly consented to us processing that sensitive personal information under Article 9(2)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation. We will use and process your sensitive personal information for the purposes of deleting it.

We update and amend our Privacy Policy from time to time.

Minor changes to our Privacy Policy

Where we make minor changes to our Privacy Policy, we will update our Privacy Policy with a new effective date stated at the beginning of it. Our processing of your information will be governed by the practices set out in that new version of the Privacy Policy from its effective date onwards.

Major changes to our Privacy Policy or the purposes for which we process your information

Where we make major changes to our Privacy Policy or intend to use your information for a new purpose or a different purpose than the purposes for which we originally collected it, we will notify you by email (where possible) or by posting a notice on our website.

We will provide you with the information about the change in question and the purpose and any other relevant information before we use your information for that new purpose.

Wherever required, we will obtain your prior consent before using your information for a purpose that is different from the purposes for which we originally collected it.

Because we care about the safety and privacy of children online, we comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). COPPA and its accompanying regulations protect the privacy of children using the internet. We do not knowingly contact or collect information from persons under the age of 18. The website is not intended to solicit information of any kind from persons under the age of 18.

It is possible that we could receive information pertaining to persons under the age of 18 by the fraud or deception of a third party. If we are notified of this, as soon as we verify the information, we will, where required by law to do so, immediately obtain the appropriate parental consent to use that information or, if we are unable to obtain such parental consent, we will delete the information from our servers. If you would like to notify us of our receipt of information about persons under the age of 18, please do so by contacting us by using the details at the top of this policy.

Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings.

If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences. This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again.

OUR COOKIES AND YOU

Hello! If you are reading this, then you care about privacy – and your privacy is very important to us. Cookies are an important part of almost all online companies these days, and this page describes what they are, how we use them, what data they collect, and most importantly, how you can change your browser settings to turn them off.

WHAT IS A COOKIE?

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

HOW DOES SAFARIHUB USE COOKIES?

We use cookies to collect and store information about your usage of our website and to perform certain functions like remembering you when you come back to our site and the holidays that you have recently viewed. For example, we use the information stored in our cookies combined with software such as Google Analytics to understand how many people visit our website and at what time of day, and the devices used to access our website, type of browser they are using and the pages that they look at. All of this information is used to improve the customer experience of our visitors.

When you are online but away from our website, to help us deliver highly targeted advertising to our users, we use cookies. These cookies allow us to provide advertising that is relevant to our users’ interests. The information that is collected and shared is anonymous and not personally identifiable. It does not contain a user’s name, address, telephone number or email address.

COOKIES IN USE

How can i change my cookies.

If you would like to decline cookies from running on your computer, you are able to. The best way to manage them is by changing your browser settings (usually found under ‘Edit’, ‘Tools’ or ‘Options’). Our website will still work without cookies but please note that should you decide to disable or delete cookies from our website, you will lose certain functionality and features which may provide you with an enhanced user experience.

Find out how to block or delete cookies by visiting aboutcookies.org. You can also obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences

https://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411

https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge