Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how Spark & Shine Agency sp. z o.o. uses cookies and similar tracking technologies when you visit our website. It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

1. What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, smartphone, or other mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information. Cookies set by the website owner are called "first-party cookies". Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third-party cookies".

2. Cookie Duration: Session and Persistent

Cookies are also distinguished by how long they remain on your device:

• Session cookies exist only while your browser is open and are deleted automatically when you close it. They are used for basic navigation and security.
• Persistent cookies remain for a defined period so that a preference — such as your language choice or your cookie decision — is remembered on your next visit.
• First-party cookies are set by this website. Third-party cookies are set by an external service, such as an analytics provider.

3. Independent Status

As an independent review site detailing real hotels and casinos, our cookies are used strictly for site functionality and analytics. We do not use tracking cookies to facilitate real-money gambling, nor do we share your data with casino operators.

4. Essential Cookies

These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website to you, you cannot refuse them without impacting how our site functions. They typically include:

• Session cookies that keep the website active during your visit.
• Security cookies that prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF).
• Load balancing cookies ensuring the site remains fast and responsive.

5. Performance and Analytics Cookies

We use these cookies to gather information on how visitors interact with our site. This helps us improve our review content and user interface. These cookies collect data in an aggregated, anonymous form, including:

1. The number of visitors to the website.
2. Where visitors have come to the website from.
3. The pages they visited and how long they spent reading our reviews.

6. Functionality Cookies

These allow our website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced, more personal features. For example:

• Remembering your language preference (e.g., English vs. Norwegian).
• Remembering if you have dismissed the cookie consent banner.
• Saving layout preferences for easier reading.

7. Third-Party Booking Links

When you click on a booking link to an external hotel or booking engine (like Booking.com), that third party may place their own cookies on your device to track the referral. We do not control these third-party cookies. You should check the third party's website for more information about these cookies.

8. Advertising Cookies

While our primary focus is objective reviews, we may occasionally allow third-party advertising partners to place cookies on your device. These are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you and your interests. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing.

9. Social Media Cookies

These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or "like" button on our site, or when you link your account or engage with our content on or through a social networking website such as Facebook, Twitter, or Google+.

10. Cookie Management

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject non-essential cookies. You can exercise your cookie rights by setting your preferences in the Cookie Consent Manager that appears upon your first visit to the site.

11. Browser Settings

Most web browsers allow you to view, manage, delete, and block cookies for a website. Be aware that if you delete all cookies, any preferences will be lost. Instructions can usually be found in the browser's 'Help' or 'Preferences' menu:

• Google Chrome: Settings > Privacy and security > Cookies and other site data
• Mozilla Firefox: Options > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data
• Apple Safari: Preferences > Privacy > Cookies and website data

12. Disabling Cookies

If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website, though your access to some functionality and areas may be restricted. The site's core review content will remain fully accessible.

13. Do Not Track (DNT)

Some internet browsers include the ability to transmit "Do Not Track" signals. Since uniform standards for "DNT" signals have not been adopted, our website currently does not process or respond to "DNT" signals.

14. Local Storage and Similar Technologies

In addition to cookies, browsers offer storage mechanisms such as local storage and session storage. Where we use them, it is for the same limited purposes: remembering an interface preference on your own device, or keeping the site functioning correctly during your visit.

These technologies store data locally in your browser. They are cleared when you clear your browsing data, and the information they hold is not transmitted to us as a profile of your activity.

15. Cookies We Do Not Use

To be explicit about what is not happening on this website, we do not use:

• Gambling or betting tracking pixels of any kind.
• Cross-site advertising or retargeting networks that follow you to other websites.
• Cookies that record payment or financial information — we never process payments.
• Fingerprinting techniques designed to identify a device where cookies have been refused.

16. Withdrawing Your Consent

Where we rely on your consent for non-essential cookies, you can withdraw it at any time. Withdrawal is as easy as giving consent: clear the cookies for this site in your browser settings, or use your browser’s controls to block them for this domain.

Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before the withdrawal, and it will not prevent you from reading any part of this website.

17. Updates to this Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly.

Last updated: August 2026