Cookie Policy

This cookie policy explains how WeStays Living uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit the www.westaysliving.com website.

It supplements our Privacy Policy and applies to all pages and language versions of the site.

1. What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file saved on your computer, your smartphone, your tablet or any other device when you visit a website.

Cookies notably enable a website to recognise your device, to remember certain information relating to your browsing or your preferences and to ensure the proper functioning of its services.

Other similar technologies may also be used, such as pixels, tags, trackers, local identifiers or audience measurement tools.

In this policy, the term "cookies" refers to all of these technologies.

2. Who uses cookies on the site?

Cookies may be placed directly by:

WeStays Israel LTD, operating the WeStays Living brand
Address: Jabotinsky 9 Bnei Brak
E-mail: contact@westaysliving.com
Phone: 058-628-1955

Certain cookies may also be placed by third-party providers whose services are used on our site, for example to measure audience, display external content, allow contact or analyse the performance of our communications.

3. Why do we use cookies?

We may use different categories of cookies.

3.1 Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are essential to the operation of the site and to the provision of the services you request.

They may notably be used to:

• secure the site and its forms;
• ensure the correct loading and display of pages;
• remember your choices regarding cookies;
• manage navigation between the different pages;
• retain the selected language;
• prevent fraud attempts, spam or abusive uses;
• ensure the functioning of contact or booking forms;
• maintain certain technical features of WordPress.

These cookies generally cannot be disabled from our consent management tool, as their absence could prevent the site from functioning properly.

You may however configure your browser to block them. Certain features of the site may then no longer function correctly.

3.2 Preference and personalisation cookies

These cookies allow the site to remember your choices in order to offer you a more suitable browsing experience.

They may notably record:

• the selected language;
• the region or residence viewed;
• your display preferences;
• certain information already entered in a form;
• your browsing choices.

These cookies are placed on the basis of your consent when they are not strictly necessary.

3.3 Audience measurement and statistics cookies

Subject to your consent when it is required, we may use audience measurement tools in order to better understand how our site is used.

These cookies may notably allow us to know:

• the number of visitors;
• the most viewed pages;
• the average duration of visits;
• the browsing path;
• the type of device or browser used;
• the general origin of visitors;
• any technical errors;
• interactions with the site's forms, buttons and links.

This information helps us to improve the content, usability, performance and stability of the site.

The data may be collected in an aggregated or pseudonymised form, depending on the configuration of the tool used.

WeStays Living may notably use:

No audience measurement cookie requiring consent may be placed before you have accepted this category.

3.4 Advertising and campaign tracking cookies

Subject to your consent, advertising cookies may be used in order to:

• measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns;
• identify visits or requests originating from an advertisement;
• limit the repetition of certain ads;
• create statistics on interactions with our content;
• offer advertisements likely to match your interests;
• create advertising audiences or similar audiences;
• measure conversions made after the display of or the click on an advertisement.

These cookies may notably be placed by the following platforms, when they are used by WeStays Living:

These providers may combine the information collected on our site with other information they hold, in accordance with their own privacy policies.

Refusing these cookies will not prevent you from using the site, but the advertisements shown to you may be less relevant.

3.5 Social media cookies

Our site may include links or buttons giving access to WeStays Living's pages on social networks such as:

• Instagram;
• Facebook;
• LinkedIn;
• WhatsApp.

A simple link to a social network does not necessarily place a cookie.

However, when content, an interactive button, a news feed, a video or a module from a social network is directly integrated into the site, the provider concerned may place cookies or collect information about your browsing.

These cookies are subject to your consent when they are not strictly necessary.

Social networks themselves determine the purposes and the means of certain processing operations they carry out. We invite you to consult their own privacy and cookie policies.

3.6 Cookies related to videos and external content

Certain pages may embed content from third-party platforms, for example:

• YouTube or Vimeo videos;
• interactive maps;
• virtual tours;
• booking or appointment-scheduling tools;
• posts from social networks;
• instant messaging modules.

When this content is enabled, the providers concerned may receive certain technical information, such as your IP address, the type of device used or the page visited.

When consent is required, this content must remain blocked until you accept the corresponding category.

3.7 Cookies related to forms and spam prevention

Our forms may use mechanisms intended to verify that they are completed by a real person and to prevent fraudulent or automated messages.

We may notably use a service such as Google reCAPTCHA or an equivalent tool.

These services may collect certain technical and behavioural information to determine whether the use of the form is legitimate.

When these technologies are essential to the security of the form, they may be considered strictly necessary. In other cases, they are subject to your consent.

4. List of cookies used

The exact list of cookies depends on the features and providers enabled on the site at the time of your visit.

It must be accessible from the site's cookie management centre.

By way of indication, the cookies that may be used can include:

Category: Necessary
Service or issuer: WeStays Living / WordPress
Purpose: Operation, security and navigation of the site
Indicative duration: Session to 12 months

Category: Consent
Service or issuer: Cookie management tool
Purpose: Storage of choices relating to cookies
Indicative duration: Approximately 6 to 13 months

Category: Preferences
Service or issuer: WeStays Living / multilingual tool
Purpose: Storage of the language and preferences
Indicative duration: Session to 12 months

Category: Statistics
Service or issuer: Google Analytics, if enabled
Purpose: Audience measurement and browsing analysis
Indicative duration: Depending on the configuration of the tool

Category: Advertising
Service or issuer: Meta Pixel, if enabled
Purpose: Measurement of campaigns and conversions
Indicative duration: Depending on the configuration of Meta

Category: Advertising
Service or issuer: Google Ads, if enabled
Purpose: Measurement of conversions and advertising personalisation
Indicative duration: Depending on the configuration of Google

Category: Videos
Service or issuer: YouTube or Vimeo, if embedded
Purpose: Display of video content
Indicative duration: Depending on the provider

Category: Forms
Service or issuer: reCAPTCHA or equivalent tool
Purpose: Security and spam prevention
Indicative duration: Depending on the provider

Category: Social media
Service or issuer: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn or WhatsApp
Purpose: Interaction with social services
Indicative duration: Depending on the provider

This list is provided for general information. The detailed list generated by the consent management tool prevails for the cookies actually present on the site.

5. First-party cookies and third-party cookies

First-party cookies

First-party cookies are placed by the westaysliving.com domain.

They may notably be used to ensure the functioning of the site, secure browsing, remember your preferences or retain your consent choices.

Third-party cookies

Third-party cookies are placed by companies or services external to WeStays Living.

They may notably be used to:

• measure audience;
• display videos or maps;
• analyse advertising campaigns;
• enable interactions with social networks;
• protect forms;
• offer booking or appointment-scheduling services.

Third-party providers may process the information collected in accordance with their own privacy policies.

6. Obtaining your consent

On your first visit, a banner allows you to:

• accept all cookies;
• refuse all non-necessary cookies;
• customise your choices by category;
• access this policy.

Your refusal must be as simple to express as your acceptance.

Strictly necessary cookies may be placed without prior consent. Other cookies are only activated after your agreement when this is required by the applicable regulations.

The absence of a choice or continued browsing without a positive action does not constitute acceptance of non-necessary cookies.

7. Changing or withdrawing your consent

You may change or withdraw your consent at any time.

A button or link labelled, for example, "Manage my cookies", "Privacy preferences" or "Cookie settings" must remain accessible from the bottom of each page of the site.

The withdrawal of your consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out before that withdrawal.

After changing your choices, certain cookies already stored may remain on your device until they are deleted or expire, but they must no longer be used for the purposes you have refused.

8. Retention period of your choice

Your choice regarding cookies may be retained for a maximum period in accordance with the applicable regulations.

Upon the expiry of this period, or when the configuration of the site or of the providers changes significantly, we may ask you to renew your choice.

You may also change it at any time from the cookie management tool.

9. Configuring your browser

You may also manage or delete cookies from your browser settings.

Most browsers notably allow you to:

• view the cookies stored;
• delete certain cookies;
• delete all cookies;
• block third-party cookies;
• block all cookies;
• automatically delete cookies when the browser is closed;
• browse in private mode.

The configuration methods vary depending on the browser used.

Blocking all cookies may affect the functioning of the site and prevent you from using certain features.

Your browser settings do not necessarily replace the choices you made from the site's banner, particularly when they do not allow precise management of cookies by purpose.

10. International data transfers

Certain providers of WeStays Living may process or host data outside your country of residence, notably in Israel, in the European Economic Area or in the United States.

When the applicable regulations require it, these transfers are governed by appropriate mechanisms, such as:

• an adequacy decision;
• standard contractual clauses;
• additional contractual, technical or organisational measures;
• any other mechanism recognised by the applicable regulations.

Further information may be obtained from the providers concerned or by contacting WeStays Living.

11. Personal data collected by cookies

Cookies and similar technologies may result in the collection of the following information:

• IP address;
• cookie or device identifiers;
• device type;
• browser and operating system;
• language used;
• country or approximate geographic area;
• date and time of connection;
• pages viewed;
• links and buttons used;
• source of the visit;
• interactions with forms;
• data relating to advertising campaigns;
• information on technical errors or performance.

To find out more about the use of this data, its recipients, its retention period and your rights, please consult our Privacy Policy.

12. Your rights

Depending on the applicable regulations, you may have rights concerning the personal data collected using cookies, notably:

• a right of access;
• a right of rectification;
• a right of erasure;
• a right to restriction;
• a right to object;
• a right to withdraw your consent;
• a right to the portability of certain data;
• a right to lodge a complaint with a competent authority.

To exercise your rights, you may write to us at:

contact@westaysliving.com

We may ask you for additional information when this is necessary to identify your request or verify your identity.

13. Updates to this policy

We may modify this policy to take account of:

• changes to the site;
• the addition or removal of a provider;
• the use of new cookies;
• changes in our practices;
• a legal or regulatory change.

The date of the last update is indicated at the top of this page.

In the event of a significant change affecting your consent, we may reset your preferences and ask you to make a new choice.

14. Contact us

For any question relating to the use of cookies on the WeStays Living site, you may contact us:

WeStays Living
Company: WeStays Israel LTD
Address: Jabotinsky 9 Bnei Brak
E-mail: contact@westaysliving.com
Phone: 058-628-1955