Last updated: 12 July 2026
About This Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how Cruise Forge uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website.
Cruise Forge is an independent cruise information and editorial website.
For further information about how we handle personal information, please read our Privacy Policy.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, phone, tablet or other device when you visit a website.
They can help a website to function correctly, remember your preferences, maintain security and understand how visitors use its pages.
Some cookies remain on your device only while your browser is open. Others remain for a set period or until you delete them.
Similar technologies, including pixels, tags and local browser storage, may perform comparable functions. References to cookies in this policy include these technologies where appropriate.
How Cruise Forge Uses Cookies
Cruise Forge may use cookies to:
- Keep the website functioning correctly
- Maintain website security
- Remember your cookie choices
- Remember selected website preferences
- Understand how visitors use the website
- Measure website traffic and performance
- Identify popular articles and pages
- Display embedded third-party content
- Detect spam, fraud or malicious activity
The cookies used may change as the website develops or services are added or removed.
Our Cookie Consent Banner
Cruise Forge uses a cookie consent banner.
When you first visit the website, the banner allows you to make a choice about optional cookies.
Depending on the options available, you may be able to:
- Accept optional cookies
- Reject optional cookies
- Choose particular categories of cookies
- Review your preferences
- Change or withdraw your consent later
Optional cookies should not be activated before you make your choice where consent is required.
Strictly necessary cookies may still operate because they are needed for the website to function, maintain security or remember the choice you made.
You can change your decision at any time by selecting the Cookie Settings link available on the website.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly necessary cookies are required for the website to work properly or to provide a service you have requested.
They may be used to:
- Remember your cookie consent choice
- Protect the website against malicious activity
- Prevent spam
- Keep forms working
- Balance website traffic
- Support website administration and security
- Maintain essential WordPress functions
These cookies cannot normally be disabled through the Cruise Forge cookie banner.
You may be able to block them through your browser settings, but doing so could prevent parts of the website from working correctly.
Preference Cookies
Preference cookies allow the website to remember choices you have made.
They may remember:
- Display preferences
- Accessibility preferences
- Language choices
- Previously selected settings
- Whether a website message has already been displayed
Where these cookies are not strictly necessary, they will only be used after you provide consent.
Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use Cruise Forge.
They may collect information such as:
- Which pages are visited
- How long visitors spend on the website
- Which website or search engine referred a visitor
- General device and browser information
- Approximate geographical location
- How visitors navigate between pages
- Whether technical errors occur
This information helps us improve the website and understand which cruise articles and guides are most useful.
Analytics information is generally reviewed in an aggregated form rather than being used to identify individual visitors.
Where consent is required, analytics cookies will only be activated after you accept them through the cookie banner.
Embedded Content
Cruise Forge may include content supplied by other websites, such as:
- Videos
- Maps
- Social-media posts
- Image galleries
- Cruise-search tools
- Booking or travel widgets
Embedded content may behave as though you had visited the third-party website directly.
The provider may place cookies, collect technical information or record your interaction with the embedded content.
Where required, optional embedded content may remain blocked until you provide consent through the cookie banner.
Third-party providers operate under their own privacy and cookie policies.
Social-Media Cookies
Cruise Forge may include links, sharing buttons or embedded content from social-media platforms.
These services may use cookies to recognise visitors, measure interaction or connect website activity with a social-media account.
This is more likely where you are already logged into the relevant platform.
Cruise Forge does not control cookies placed directly by social-media providers.
Advertising and Affiliate Cookies
Cruise Forge does not currently use advertising or affiliate cookies unless clearly disclosed on the website.
If advertising or affiliate services are introduced, this policy and the cookie consent banner will be updated.
Affiliate cookies may record that a visitor followed a link from Cruise Forge and later completed a qualifying booking or purchase.
Advertising cookies may be used to measure advertisements or select advertising based on interests.
These cookies are not strictly necessary and will not be activated before consent where consent is required.
First-Party Cookies
First-party cookies are placed directly by Cruise Forge or the website platform used to operate the site.
They may support:
- Website security
- Cookie preferences
- Contact forms
- WordPress functionality
- Website performance
Third-Party Cookies
Third-party cookies are placed by an external provider whose services appear on Cruise Forge.
These providers may include:
- Analytics services
- Video platforms
- Mapping services
- Social-media platforms
- Website-security services
- Spam-prevention services
- Embedded travel tools
Cruise Forge does not directly control how third-party providers use their cookies.
How Long Cookies Remain
Some cookies are session cookies. These normally expire when you close your browser.
Other cookies are persistent cookies. These remain on your device for a defined period or until you delete them.
The duration depends on the purpose of the cookie and the provider responsible for it.
The Cruise Forge cookie consent tool may provide further information about individual cookies, their purpose and their duration.
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You can manage your optional cookie choices through the Cruise Forge cookie consent banner or Cookie Settings link.
You may:
- Accept optional cookies
- Reject optional cookies
- Change your selected categories
- Withdraw consent previously given
Changing your settings will prevent the relevant optional cookies from being used in the future.
It may not automatically remove cookies already stored on your device. These can be deleted through your browser settings.
Managing Cookies Through Your Browser
Most internet browsers allow you to:
- View stored cookies
- Delete individual cookies
- Delete all cookies
- Block third-party cookies
- Block all cookies
- Receive a warning before cookies are stored
- Clear cookies automatically when the browser closes
The exact controls depend on your browser and device.
Blocking all cookies may affect how Cruise Forge and other websites function.
Your Choices
You do not have to accept optional cookies to read the main editorial content on Cruise Forge.
Rejecting analytics, preference or third-party cookies may mean that some optional features do not function as intended.
Strictly necessary cookies may remain active because they are needed to operate or secure the website.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when:
- Website features change
- Cookies are added or removed
- Service providers change
- New embedded content is introduced
- Analytics services change
- Legal or regulatory requirements change
The latest version will always be published on this page.
The date at the top of the policy indicates when it was last updated.
Contact Cruise Forge
For questions about cookies or your cookie preferences, contact:
Cruise Forge
Email: hello@cruiseforge.com