Cookie Policy – Make Me A Booking
Last updated: 21 August 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Make Me A Booking uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit MakeMeABooking.com.
It should be read alongside our Privacy Policy and Affiliate Disclosure.
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, smartphone, tablet or other device when you visit a website.
They allow websites to recognise a device, remember preferences, understand how visitors use a website and, in some cases, measure advertising or affiliate activity.
Some cookies are necessary for a website to operate properly. Others are optional and should only be used where appropriate consent has been obtained.
2. How Make Me A Booking uses cookies
Make Me A Booking may use cookies and similar technologies to:
- operate and secure the website;
- remember visitor preferences;
- understand how visitors use our pages;
- measure website traffic and performance;
- improve our travel content and user experience;
- measure clicks on affiliate links;
- attribute bookings or purchases to Make Me A Booking;
- operate third-party travel search tools and widgets; and
- measure the effectiveness of marketing or advertising where applicable.
We aim to use cookies only where they provide a legitimate and useful function.
3. Types of cookies we may use
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are required for essential website functions and cannot normally be switched off through our cookie controls.
They may be used for functions such as website security, fraud prevention, remembering privacy choices, maintaining sessions and ensuring that pages operate correctly.
Where a cookie is genuinely necessary for providing a service requested by the visitor, consent may not be required.
Analytics and performance cookies
These cookies help us understand how MakeMeABooking.com is being used.
For example, they may provide information about which pages are visited, how visitors arrived at the website, how long visitors spend on particular pages and whether technical problems occur.
This information helps us understand which destinations, guides and travel subjects are most useful to our audience and allows us to improve the website.
Where required, analytics cookies will only be activated after appropriate consent has been obtained.
Affiliate cookies
Make Me A Booking is funded partly through affiliate marketing.
When you follow certain links from our website to a travel provider, affiliate network or booking platform, cookies or similar tracking technologies may be used to record that your visit originated from Make Me A Booking.
If you subsequently make a qualifying booking or purchase, this tracking may enable Make Me A Booking to receive a commission.
In most cases, this does not increase the price you pay.
Affiliate tracking may involve cookies being placed by third-party companies rather than directly by Make Me A Booking.
Functional cookies
Functional cookies may enable additional website features or remember choices you have made.
For example, they may remember selected destinations, language preferences, search choices or other settings.
Some third-party travel tools embedded within our website may also require functional cookies to operate correctly.
Advertising and marketing cookies
Make Me A Booking may in future use advertising or marketing technologies.
These technologies may use cookies to measure advertising performance, limit how often advertisements are displayed or help make advertising more relevant.
Where these technologies require consent under applicable UK law, they will not be activated until that consent has been obtained.
4. Travelpayouts and affiliate partners
Make Me A Booking participates in affiliate programmes available through Travelpayouts and may also work directly or indirectly with other travel providers and affiliate networks.
Affiliate links, search tools or widgets supplied by these partners may use cookies or other tracking technologies to attribute referrals, bookings and purchases correctly.
When you follow a link to an external travel provider, that provider may place its own cookies on your device in accordance with its own Cookie Policy and Privacy Policy.
Make Me A Booking does not control cookies placed after you leave our website and visit an independent third-party website.
5. Embedded travel tools and widgets
MakeMeABooking.com may contain third-party tools such as hotel searches, flight searches, attraction searches, price comparison tools, maps or other interactive travel features.
These services may need to communicate with third-party systems and may use cookies or similar technologies.
Where applicable, such technologies will be managed through our cookie-consent system.
6. How long cookies remain on your device
Cookies may be either session cookies or persistent cookies.
Session cookies normally expire when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies remain on your device for a specified period or until you delete them.
The precise duration depends upon the purpose of the cookie and the organisation responsible for setting it.
7. First-party and third-party cookies
First-party cookies are placed directly by MakeMeABooking.com.
Third-party cookies are placed by external services used by or linked from our website.
Third parties may include analytics providers, affiliate networks, travel providers, advertising services and companies providing embedded website functionality.
These organisations are responsible for their own cookies and data-processing practices.
8. Your cookie choices
When you first visit MakeMeABooking.com, you may be presented with a cookie consent banner or preference centre.
Where consent is required, you should be able to choose whether to accept optional cookies.
Our cookie controls should allow visitors to:
Accept all optional cookies;
Reject all non-essential cookies; or
Manage preferences by cookie category.
Rejecting optional cookies should not prevent you from accessing the basic content of MakeMeABooking.com, although some interactive or third-party features may not operate fully.
You can also delete or block cookies using your browser settings.
9. Changing your mind
Where processing is based upon your consent, you can withdraw or change that consent.
A Cookie Settings or similar link should be made available on MakeMeABooking.com so that visitors can reopen the cookie preference centre.
Withdrawing consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing that took place before consent was withdrawn.
10. Do Not Track and browser controls
Most modern browsers allow you to view, delete or block cookies.
Browser settings vary, so you should consult the help section of your browser for instructions.
Blocking all cookies may affect the operation of some websites and travel-booking functionality.
11. Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when technologies, affiliate relationships, website functionality or legal requirements change.
The current version will always be published on this page, together with the date of the latest update.