Harmony Tours

Cookie Policy

Last updated: 2 November 2026

1. About This Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how the Harmony Tours website uses cookies and similar browser storage technologies, and the choices available to you.

Harmony Tours is a tour operator based in Hurghada, Red Sea, Egypt.

Contact:

Email: info@harmony-wycieczki.com
Egypt: +20 155 593 5998
Poland: +48 532 252 332

2. Cookie Categories

When you first visit the Harmony Tours website, a cookie banner lets you choose between Accept All, Essential Only, or Manage Preferences. Your choice applies to three categories:

  • Essential — always enabled. These are required for core site features, such as remembering your cookie preference itself and completing a booking submission, and cannot be turned off.
  • Analytics — disabled until you explicitly turn it on. When analytics is enabled on the website and you consent, it uses Google Analytics to help us understand how the website is used, so we can improve it (see section 3).
  • Marketing — disabled until you explicitly turn it on. When you turn it on, the website uses the Meta Pixel to measure our advertising (see section 3).

You can change your choice at any time using the "Cookie Preferences" link in the website footer.

3. What We Use

Essential: a short-lived cookie is set only after you submit a booking request, so the confirmation page can show your own booking (it is not set on ordinary browsing and expires automatically after 30 minutes). Signed-in Harmony Tours staff also receive a strictly necessary session cookie when using the separate admin system. Your cookie-category choice itself is saved using your browser's local storage, not a cookie, so it can be remembered without a cookie needing to be set purely to remember your preference.

Analytics — Google Analytics: when analytics is enabled on the live public Harmony Tours website and you have turned on the Analytics category, we use Google Analytics 4, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043, USA ("Google"), to measure website traffic and usage in aggregate — for example how many people visit the website, how they arrive (such as from a search engine, social media, another website or a campaign link), which pages are viewed, and which devices and browsers are used.

Before you consent, nothing is loaded and nothing is sent to Google. Your browser does not request the Google Analytics script unless and until you turn on Analytics.

When active, Google Analytics may process:

  • the address of the page you view and of the page you came from, limited to the page path and campaign or advertising-click parameters (such as utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign or gclid) — all other address details are removed before sending, including payment-link tokens, hotel names, guest numbers and ages, booking dates and search text;
  • the page title;
  • device, browser and operating-system type, screen size and language;
  • approximate location (such as country or city), which Google derives from your IP address — according to Google, for users in the EU, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, the IP address is used only for this purpose and is not logged or stored;
  • engagement information such as visit duration and engagement time;
  • a randomly generated identifier stored in the cookies listed below, used to recognise repeat visits from the same browser.

Google Analytics is not used on the website's internal staff areas, technical interfaces or payment-link pages. We do not send your name, email address, telephone number, booking details or payment information to Google Analytics. Google Analytics advertising features are switched off, including Google Signals, advertising personalisation and advertising storage, and we do not use user IDs, ecommerce, purchase or conversion tracking.

Cookies set by Google Analytics:

  • _ga — used to distinguish users; Google's default expiry: 2 years.
  • _ga_<container-id> — used to keep the state of a visit (session); Google's default expiry: 2 years.

These are Google's default expiry periods; we do not change them. Your browser may delete these cookies sooner — according to Google, browsers limit how long such cookies last if you do not return (for example, a maximum of 400 days in Chrome and 7 days in Safari).

Google Analytics keeps user-level and event-level data for 14 months, after which it is deleted automatically; aggregated statistical reports are not affected by this setting.

Legal basis. We use Google Analytics only with your consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR); the Google Analytics cookies are likewise stored on and read from your device only with your consent. Google Analytics is not loaded and no data is sent to Google before you consent. You can withdraw your consent at any time via the "Cookie Preferences" link in the website footer; this does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before the withdrawal.

Google's role. Google processes this data on our behalf as our data processor under the Google Ads Data Processing Terms, which apply to Google Analytics. We have not enabled the Google Analytics data-sharing settings that would allow Google to use this data for its own purposes.

International transfers. Google may process this data outside the European Economic Area, including in the United States. For such transfers Google relies on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, under which Google LLC is certified (and, where applicable, on its UK Extension and the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework), and, where no such framework applies, on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses.

Optional Enhanced Measurement events are disabled.

Applicable terms: Google Analytics Terms of Service and Google Ads Data Processing Terms.

More information: Google's privacy policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy) and "How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services" (https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites).

Marketing — Meta Pixel: when you have turned on the Marketing category, we use the Meta Pixel, a tool provided by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, Block J, Serpentine Avenue, Dublin 4, Ireland ("Meta"), to measure how visitors who see or click our advertising use the website and to improve that advertising. Without your consent, nothing is loaded and nothing is sent to Meta.

When active, the Meta Pixel reports only two events: that a page was viewed (PageView) and, on an excursion page, which excursion was viewed (ViewContent: its identifier, name, starting price and currency). Meta also receives the page address, the address of the page you came from, your IP address, information about your browser and device, and the identifiers in the cookies listed below. We do not send your name, email address, telephone number, booking details or payment information. Automatic event collection and automatic advanced matching are switched off. The Meta Pixel sends nothing from booking pages, payment-link pages, Harmony Shop checkout and order pages, internal staff areas, or pages whose address contains search text or other details.

Cookies set by the Meta Pixel: _fbp — identifies your browser; expiry: 90 days, which may be renewed on later visits. _fbc — stores the click identifier when you arrive from a Meta advertisement; expiry: 90 days, which may be renewed on later visits. Your browser may also send cookies that Meta has set on its own domains, for example if you are logged in to Facebook or Instagram. The website cannot read or delete those cookies; you can manage them in your browser or Meta account.

Legal basis. We use the Meta Pixel only with your consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR); its cookies are likewise stored on and read from your device only with your consent. You can withdraw your consent at any time, as described in section 4.

Data-controller responsibilities. Harmony Tours and Meta Platforms Ireland Limited are joint controllers under Article 26 GDPR for collecting this data through the Meta Pixel and transmitting it to Meta; Meta's later processing is not part of this joint processing. In essence, Harmony Tours is responsible for informing you about the joint processing, and Meta is responsible for enabling your rights under Articles 15–20 GDPR for the data it stores after the joint processing. The information required by Article 13(1)(a) and (b) GDPR, how Meta processes personal data, the legal basis it relies on and how to exercise your rights against Meta are in Meta's Privacy Policy. Meta's later processing may include combining this data with other information it holds and using it for its own purposes.

International transfers. Meta may process this data outside the European Economic Area, including in the United States; details of those transfers and their safeguards are in Meta's Privacy Policy.

ht_ref · Marketing · Harmony Tours (first-party) · 30 days · Remembers which partner's link you used, so that a booking or order can be credited to that partner.

4. Managing Your Choice

You can accept all cookies, allow essential cookies only, or independently choose Analytics and Marketing at any time via Manage Preferences on the cookie banner, or the "Cookie Preferences" link in the website footer. Essential cookies cannot be disabled, as the site cannot function without them.

If you turn Analytics off after having turned it on, the website stops sending new information to Google Analytics from that moment, including in other tabs open at the same web address in the same browser. A request already in progress may still complete. The website also deletes the Google Analytics cookies (_ga and _ga_<container-id>) from your browser. Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that took place before the withdrawal.

If you turn Marketing off after having turned it on, the website stops sending new events to Meta from that moment, including in other tabs open at the same web address in the same browser. A request already in progress may still reach Meta. The website also deletes the _fbp and _fbc cookies it set for this website from your browser.

5. Browser Controls

Most browsers also let you block or delete cookies and local storage directly in your browser settings. Doing so may affect how some parts of the website work, including remembering your cookie preference itself.

6. Related Policy

See our Privacy Policy for how Harmony Tours handles personal information more generally, including information submitted through the contact form and booking flow.

7. Changes to This Policy

Harmony Tours may update this Cookie Policy if the cookies/technologies actually used on the website change. The current version and its last-updated date are published on this page.

8. Contact

For questions about this Cookie Policy, contact:

Harmony Tours

Email: info@harmony-wycieczki.com
Egypt: +20 155 593 5998
Poland: +48 532 252 332

Cookie Preferences

Choose which optional cookies Harmony Tours can use. Essential cookies keep the site working and cannot be turned off. See our Cookie Policy for details.

Required for core site features such as navigation and secure booking submission. Always enabled.

Helps us understand how the site is used, so we can improve it. Disabled until you turn it on.

Used for advertising and measuring campaign performance. Disabled until you turn it on.