All about our website

The functionality of this website was structured and designed by Chris McIntyre at Expert Africa and Panoramic Imaging . The graphic design of the site was done by Baseline Creative . The website was built and implemented by the Panoramic Imaging team.

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Pictures & information on this site: copyright

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Cookies on this site

We aim to make our website as user-friendly as possible. To do so, we use cookies, as most websites do.

What is a cookie?

Think of cookies as small files that contain information of data, which are automatically downloaded when you visit a website. When you visit this website again, the cookies filled with the information you provided on your first visit, are being sent back to the originated website. This is very useful to you, since you are automatically being recognized and you don’t need to provide all your information again. Cookies do lots of useful things, such as giving you the option to log in to our website, add items to your wishlist and remember your preferences.

In the following we will show you which cookies we use, how to disable them and what the impact would be if you really wish to do so.

How to disable cookies

If you decide rather not to give any information, although your opportunities will be limited, you need to do the following:

• Internet Explorer - Use the Tools > Internet Options drop down menu and access the "Privacy" Tab. Then move the slider to the "Block all cookies" option.
• Mozilla Firefox - Use the Tools > Options drop down menu, then click on the "Privacy" tab. Disable the box labelled "Accept Cookies From sites"
• Google Chrome - Use the Tools > Options drop down menu, then click on "Under the Hood". Select "Cookie Setting" and then "Block all Cookies".
  For other browsers (and further reading on cookies) please follow the instructions at the link below:
  Allaboutcookies

Impact on the website of disabling cookies

Disabling cookies will have the following impact on the user experience:

• Logging on to the website will not work. Access to payment pages / personal details / wishlist will be disabled.
• Adding items to the wishlist will not work.
• The social toolbar at the bottom of the page will not work.
• Selecting a different sorting order option on various pages will not work.

Different types of cookies

There are several different types of cookies. Below we show the cookies we use on our website.

Cookies for Expert Africa applications

These cookies contain the user's session information while logged-on to the website and any items (countries, areas, lodges and trip ideas) added to the wishlist.

Cookie Name	Expires	Information
>ASP.NET_SessionId	Date not set	Session ID
wishilistCountry	1 yr	Wishlist countries
wishlistArea	1 yr	Wishlist areas
wishilistLodge	1 yr	Wishilist lodges
wishilistItinerary	1 yr	Wishilist trip ideas

Google analytics cookies

These are cookies placed by Google Analytics to track page access.

Cookie Name	Host	Expires	Information
__utma	Google	730 days	Google Analytics
__utmb	Google	Less than 1 day	Google Analytics
__utmc	Google	Date not set	Google Analytics
__utmz	Google	182 days	Google Analytics

Addthis cookies

These cookies are placed by the AddThis toolbar (located in the page's footer) to track submissions to social networks

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