Cookie Controls

The two-minute summary

Most cookie policies read like they were written to be complied with rather than understood. We'd rather you actually know what happens on this site, so here's the whole thing up front: Tyrol Crest Estates uses exactly two categories of cookies. One is essential and does nothing but remember the choice you made on our cookie bar. The other is an optional analytics counter that only runs if you click Accept, and it counts page views — anonymously — so we can see which alpine property topics visitors research most. There is nothing else. No advertising cookies, no social media pixels, no cross-site trackers, no fingerprinting, no third-party data brokers. If you decline, the site works exactly the same.

The rest of this page explains each category, how the consent bar behaves, how to reverse your decision in every major browser, and a few things that look like cookies but aren't. If you're in a hurry: click Decline on the bar and you can stop reading here — you've already achieved maximum privacy on this site, because declining disables everything except the one cookie that remembers you declined.

Category one: Essential

The essential category contains a single cookie. Its entire job is to remember what you told the cookie bar — Accept or Decline — so we don't have to ask you again on every page. Without it, the bar would reappear constantly, which would be worse for everyone, including people who chose Decline.

Here's what that cookie does not do, because "essential" is often where sites hide things:

It does not identify you. It doesn't contain your name, your email, or any account identifier — it can't, because this site has no accounts. There is no login on Tyrol Crest Estates, no user profile, no members' area. Guide purchases are handled through our payment processor's checkout, which is a separate system with its own (payment-industry-standard, strictly necessary) cookies; this site's essential cookie has nothing to do with it.

It does not power a cart. There is no shopping cart. Guides are bought one at a time through checkout, so there's no basket state to remember between pages. We mention this because "essential" on many e-commerce sites quietly includes cart and session cookies that track you across the whole visit; we simply don't have those features, so we don't have those cookies.

It does not track your browsing. It stores one value — your consent choice — and nothing else. It expires after twelve months, at which point the bar will ask you again, because consent shouldn't be a lifetime commitment made in one click.

Because this cookie exists solely to honour a choice you made, it's the one we treat as strictly necessary. Everything else is opt-in.

Category two: Analytics (only if you click Accept)

If you click Accept on the cookie bar, we set a second, anonymous analytics mechanism. "Anonymous" is doing a lot of work in that sentence, so let's be precise about what it means here.

The analytics counter records page views only: which research page was loaded, and roughly when. Its purpose is editorial, not commercial. We publish research on six measurement points across the Tyrol — Innsbruck, Kitzbühel, Sölden, Obergurgl, Neustift, and Mayrhofen — plus guides on acquisition costs, seasonal yield, and rental occupancy. The counter tells us things like "the Kitzbühel pages are read three times as often as the Stubaital pages in November," which helps us decide where to spend research budget next season. That is the entire use case.

What the counter does not collect:

No IP addresses. We don't store them, even truncated or hashed. Your page view increments a counter; it doesn't create a record attached to a network address.

No fingerprinting. We don't combine your browser version, screen size, fonts, timezone, or any of the other signals that fingerprinting scripts use to follow you without cookies. A page view is a page view, whether it came from a phone in Munich or a laptop in Jersey City.

No cross-visit identity. The counter doesn't recognise you when you come back tomorrow. There's no visitor ID, so we can't build a history of what one person read over time. We know that 400 people read the Ötztal page last week, not that you personally read it twice.

No third parties. The counting happens on our own infrastructure. Nothing is sent to an advertising network, an analytics giant, or anyone else. There's no third-party script on these pages at all.

If you click Decline, none of this runs. Not a degraded version, not a "anonymous anyway so it doesn't count" version — nothing. The Accept button is the only switch that turns analytics on, and Decline is a real off switch, not a decorative one.

How the bottom bar works

The first time you visit the site, a bar appears at the bottom of the screen with this message: "We use cookies to see which alpine property topics visitors research most. You can decline." Alongside it are two choices: Accept and Decline.

A few things about how that bar behaves, because consent UX is where a lot of sites play games and we don't want to be one of them:

Both choices are one click. Accept and Decline are the same size, the same visual weight, and the same distance from your cursor. There's no "Accept" in a bright colour paired with a grey "Manage options" that leads to a maze of toggles. Declining is exactly as easy as accepting.

Nothing optional loads before you choose. The analytics counter doesn't run while the bar is showing. Your first page view on the site is never counted, because you haven't consented yet when it loads. Some sites count your visit while you're still reading the banner and call that "legitimate interest"; we call it counting without consent, and we don't do it.

The bar doesn't follow you. Once you choose, the bar sets the essential cookie with your answer and goes away. It won't reappear on the next page, next week, or next month. It will return after the cookie expires (twelve months) or if you clear your browser's site data — which is also how you change your mind, as the next section explains.

There's no penalty either way. Accepting doesn't unlock content, and declining doesn't lock anything. Every research page, every table, every guide description is identical under both choices. Consent that's bought with features isn't really consent.

How to change your mind

Changed your mind in either direction? The way to do it is to clear this site's stored data in your browser, which deletes the essential cookie that holds your choice. The next time you load a page, the bar will appear again and you can make a fresh choice. Here's how to clear site data in each major browser — the steps below are current as of early 2026, and browser menus do shuffle around over time, so if a label has moved, look for the privacy or site-data settings.

Google Chrome

1. Click the three-dot menu at the top right and choose Settings.
2. Go to Privacy and security, then Site settings.
3. Under "Content," choose Cookies and site data or the on-device site data option, then View permissions and data stored across sites.
4. Search for our domain in the list, click it, and choose Delete.
5. Reload our site — the bar will reappear and you can choose again.

Quicker alternative: while on our site, click the padlock (or tune) icon in the address bar, open the site settings, and clear the data for this site directly.

Mozilla Firefox

1. Click the menu button and open Settings.
2. Go to Privacy & Security.
3. Scroll to Cookies and Site Data and click Manage Data.
4. Find our domain, select it, and click Remove Selected, then Save Changes.
5. Reload the site and make your new choice on the bar.

Firefox also lets you do this per page: click the padlock in the address bar, then "Clear cookies and site data" for the current site.

Apple Safari

1. Open Safari in the menu bar, then Settings (called Preferences on older macOS versions).
2. Go to the Privacy tab and click Manage Website Data.
3. Search for our domain, select it, and click Remove, then Done.
4. Reload the site — the bar will be back for your new choice.

On iPhone and iPad, go to Settings → Apps → Safari → Advanced → Website Data (on older iOS versions it's directly under Safari), find the site, and swipe to delete it.

Microsoft Edge

1. Click the three-dot menu and open Settings.
2. Go to Cookies and site permissions, then Manage and delete cookies and site data, then See all cookies and site data.
3. Search for our domain, expand it, and delete the stored items.
4. Reload the site and choose again on the bar.

Edge also offers the per-site shortcut: click the padlock in the address bar while on our site, open Cookies, and remove this site's entries.

After clearing, your previous choice is gone entirely — there is no record of it on our side either, since the essential cookie lived only in your browser and the analytics counter never knew who you were in the first place.

What we never use

This section exists because the absence of these things is as important as the presence of the two categories above. Tyrol Crest Estates does not use, and has no plans to use:

Advertising cookies. We don't run ads, we don't buy ads through retargeting networks, and we don't let ad tech place cookies through our pages. You will never see a "we and our 247 partners" dialog here, because there are no partners in that sense.

Social media pixels. No Meta pixel, no X/Twitter tag, no LinkedIn insight tag, nothing of the kind. We don't embed social feeds or share buttons that phone home, either. If you want to share a page, copy the URL the old-fashioned way — it works and it tracks nobody.

Cross-site trackers. Nothing on this site follows you to other websites, and nothing from other websites follows you here. Our pages don't load third-party beacons that could link your visit to a profile elsewhere.

Fingerprinting, ever. Even the "privacy-friendly" kind. If it identifies your device without a cookie, we don't want it, because it's consent-avoidance dressed up as cleverness.

Session replay or heatmaps. We don't record your mouse movements, scrolls, or keystrokes. We honestly don't understand why anyone needs that for reading research, and we certainly don't.

The weather fetch is not a cookie

Some pages on this site show current conditions for the alpine towns we cover — temperatures and snowfall for places like Sölden or Mayrhofen. That data comes from Open-Meteo, a free weather API, fetched as a simple data request when the page loads. We mention it here because visitors occasionally see an external request in their browser's network panel and reasonably wonder what it is.

The Open-Meteo fetch is not a cookie, sets no cookie, and carries no cookie. Your browser requests weather data for a fixed location — say, the coordinates of Innsbruck — and gets numbers back. The request doesn't include any identifier that could tie it to you or your other browsing, and we don't send anything beyond what's needed to ask "what's the weather at these coordinates." It doesn't depend on your cookie choice, because it isn't tracking anything; it runs the same whether you accept or decline. Think of it as the site looking out of the window, not looking at you.

Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control

If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, we treat it as a Decline: the analytics counter stays off even if you later click Accept during that session, because a standing, browser-level opt-out should outrank a one-off click. If you'd genuinely like to opt in while using GPC, clear site data as described above and accept with the signal disabled for this site. We chose this behaviour deliberately — the whole point of these controls is that you set your preference once and sites respect it.

Questions

Cookie questions are welcome at research@tyrol-crest-estates.com, or by phone at +1 (201) 555-0148. If you spot any script on this site doing something that contradicts this page, tell us — that's either a bug or a broken promise, and we treat both as urgent. You can also write to Tyrol Crest Estates LLC, 180 Morgan Street, Suite 1000, Jersey City, NJ 07302, USA.