What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that a website can store on your computer, tablet or phone via your browser. Similar technologies, such as local storage in the browser (localStorage), work in a similar way.
Cookies on Giethoorn.com
Giethoorn.com uses a cookie banner from BookingMonster. With it you choose which cookies you allow. The website itself only places the cookie that remembers your choice:
- bm_consent_g_7gwcp2pdbknr: remembers your cookie choice. Necessary. Retention period 182 days (about six months), valid for giethoorn.com.
Categories in the cookie banner
In the cookie banner you choose from four categories:
- Necessary: needed to make the website and booking work, for example to remember your cookie choice and the contents of your booking. These are always on.
- Functional: extra features, such as a chat or remembering your preferences. Off until you switch them on.
- Statistics: measure how visitors use the website. Off until you switch them on.
- Marketing: tailor advertising to your interests and measure how well it works. Off until you switch them on.
You can accept all, reject all or choose per category.
Which services do we use?
Giethoorn.com loads Google Tag Manager. It is a management tool: it sets no cookies itself but starts the services below, and only after you have given consent in the cookie banner.
Statistics (only with consent)
Google Analytics 4 measures how visitors use the website (pages viewed, language, clicks on “Book now”, phone and email). We use this to improve the site.
- _ga: distinguishes visitors. Retention period 2 years.
- _ga_GS35ZF1BE6: keeps session state. Retention period 2 years.
Marketing (only with consent)
Google Ads measures whether an ad led to a visit or booking.
- _gcl_au, _gcl_aw: link an ad click to a later booking. Retention period 90 days.
Necessary and functional
bm_consent_g_7gwcp2pdbknr (your choice, 182 days), BookingMonster cookies for booking, Google reCAPTCHA to prevent form abuse, and the Smartsupp chat (functional, with consent). The full list with retention periods is in the cookie banner under “Cookie preferences”.
Consent and Google Consent Mode
Until you choose, or if you refuse all, Statistics and Marketing stay off and no analytics or advertising cookies are set. We use Google Consent Mode: Google then only receives your consent status. You can change your choice at any time via “Cookie settings” at the bottom of the page.
The cookie banner is loaded from cmp.bookingmonster.nl (BookingMonster). In doing so, BookingMonster receives technical data from your browser, such as your IP address, so that the banner can be shown and your choice can be processed.
Google as a third party
Data from Google Analytics and Google Ads is processed by Google Ireland Limited and may be transferred to Google LLC (US) under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or standard contractual clauses. More: policies.google.com/privacy. See also our privacy policy.
Cookies on our booking and request sites
On book.giethoorn.com the booking system uses necessary cookies to make booking work, for example to remember the language, the visitor and the contents of your booking. The retention period is one year at most.
On arrangement.giethoorn.com you request a package. That site uses the same cookie banner and the same consent settings as Giethoorn.com. It only sets a preference cookie for your language (site_taal, valid for one year) when you choose a language yourself. The site keeps intermediate steps of the request form in your browser's local storage so you can continue later. That data stays on your own device.
Links to other websites
Giethoorn.com contains links to other websites, for example:
- our booking system book.giethoorn.com;
- the package overview arrangement.giethoorn.com;
- websites of local businesses;
- affiliate links via Tradetracker (for example for accommodation);
- directions via Google Maps.
Only when you click on such a link and visit the other website can that website place its own cookies. The cookie and privacy policy of that website applies to them. We have no influence on those cookies.
Managing or deleting cookies
In your browser settings you can view, block and delete cookies. See your browser’s help function for this. You can always change your cookie choice on this website through the “Cookie settings” link at the bottom of every page.
Controller and contact
The party responsible for this website is:
Giethoorn Promotion, Media & Information
Nering 10
8355 DK Giethoorn
Tel. 0521 36 0099
Email: [email protected]
You can read how we handle personal data in our privacy policy.
Last updated: 26 October 2026