1. Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential for StayNiska to function and cannot be disabled. They include:
- Authentication cookies — keep you signed in during your session and store your access token securely.
- Session management — maintain your booking state across pages (e.g. your search results and selected room while completing checkout).
- Security tokens — CSRF protection to prevent cross-site request forgery attacks.
- Cookie consent record — stores your cookie preference so we don't ask repeatedly.
No consent is required for strictly necessary cookies as they are required for the service to work.
2. Preference cookies
These cookies remember choices you have made to personalise your experience:
- Theme — light or dark mode preference.
- Language — your selected locale (English, Hindi, Arabic, etc.).
- Currency & timezone — display preferences stored in local storage.
Preference cookies are enabled by default as they improve usability, but you may clear them through your browser settings or the cookie preferences panel without affecting core booking functionality.
3. Analytics cookies (consent required)
With your consent, we use analytics tools to understand how guests navigate StayNiska. This helps us identify broken flows, improve search results, and prioritise features. Analytics data is aggregated and pseudonymous — we cannot identify you individually from analytics data.
- Vercel Analytics — privacy-preserving traffic analytics (page views, referrers, device types).
- Sentry — error and performance monitoring (captures crash reports and slow page loads; does not capture personal data beyond session context).
Analytics cookies are only activated after you click "Accept" in the StayNiska cookie consent banner.
4. Marketing & advertising cookies (consent required)
Marketing cookies may be placed by our advertising and remarketing partners to serve relevant ads about StayNiska on other websites. These are only active with your explicit consent. At present, StayNiska runs limited paid advertising; this section will be updated as our marketing activities change.
