Choose which cookies stay, which ones go.
Four categories, granular control. Essential cookies are always on — without them the site cannot sell a ticket. Everything else is a choice you make, change any time you like. Your preferences save to this browser and travel with you to every Istanbul Tourist Information domain.
Always on Strictly necessary — the site won't work without these 3 cookies
These cookies keep a session alive, remember your cart between pages, and let us verify a payment when you check out. They do not track you, aren't read by advertisers, and contain no personal identifier beyond a session ID. Turning them off would mean the site physically can't complete a booking — which is why the toggle is locked.
| Name | Domain | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|
| _iti_session | .istanbul-tourist-information.com | Session ID for cart + checkout | On close |
| _iti_csrf | .istanbul-tourist-information.com | Form protection against CSRF attacks | Session |
| _iti_consent | .istanbul-tourist-information.com | Remembers this very preference panel | 12 months |
Optional Functional — remembers your language, last-used currency 2 cookies
These preferences make the site feel like it remembers you: your chosen language, the currency you saw last time, which sort order you prefer on the tickets page. Usamos them only to personalise your visit — they're never read by advertisers. If you turn them off, the site still works, but every page load starts from the default (English, EUR).
| Name | Domain | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|
| _iti_locale | .istanbul-tourist-information.com | Language & locale preference | 12 months |
| _iti_ccy | .istanbul-tourist-information.com | Last-used currency on price displays | 12 months |
Optional Analytics — anonymous usage statistics 4 cookies
Usamos Google Analytics 4 with IP anonymisation, ad-signals disabled, and demographics off. That means we see how many people visit which page, how they got there, where they drop off — but not who they are, what device model they use, or what else they looked at on the wider web. Usamos this data to decide what to fix next, nothing else.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Google Analytics 4 | Unique anonymous visitor ID | 24 months |
| _ga_* | Google Analytics 4 | Session state for this property | 24 months |
| _ga_gid | Google Analytics 4 | Short-lived session ID | 24 hours |
| _sentry | Sentry.io | Crash report fingerprint — no PII | 14 days |
Optional Marketing — retargeting and campaign attribution 3 cookies
If you turn these on, we can tell Meta (Facebook / Instagram) and Google Ads that you visited us. They use that to re-show our tickets to you on their platforms and to measure which of our ads worked. Off by default — we treat marketing cookies as opt-in, not opt-out, regardless of your country's legal minimum.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|
| _fbp | Meta Pixel | Retargeting + ad attribution | 90 days |
| _gcl_au | Google Ads | Conversion attribution | 90 days |
| _iti_utm | Istanbul Tourist Information | UTM source + campaign last-touch | 30 days |
What happens to the data behind each cookie you allow.
Every category you enable triggers a specific data flow. Here's the whole chain, from the moment a cookie is set to the moment we use or delete the data it represents.
When you consent, a cookie is set on the Istanbul Tourist Information domain. It lives in your browser's storage, not on our server.
Your browser sends the cookie back on each request. Usamos it to identify the session or preference — nothing else.
Analytics cookies feed into GA4 in anonymised form. Marketing cookies feed into Meta / Google Ads as opaque IDs.
At its expiry date or when you revoke consent here, the cookie is deleted. Downstream data is also purged per our vendors' retention windows.