SeaBlue Travel Cookie Policy
Your Cookie Choices & Website Privacy Matter
Last updated: June 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how SeaBlue Travel uses cookies and similar technologies on www.airporttransfer.ist. It explains what cookies are, why we use them, what types of cookies may be used, and how you can manage your cookie preferences.
This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, Refund Policy, and Sales Agreement.
1. Company Information
UK Payment & Refund Administration:
UK Company Name: SEABLUE TRAVEL LTD
UK Company Number: 16615118
UK Registered Office: 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom, WC2H 9JQ
Turkey Travel Agency & Local Service Coordination:
Travel Agency: SeaBlue Turizm LTD. ŞTİ.
Role: Turkey-based travel agency and local service coordination for airport transfer operations, passenger support, driver coordination, vehicle organization, airport meeting arrangements, local supplier coordination, and travel-related services.
TÜRSAB Travel Agency Certificate No: [Add Certificate Number]
Website: www.airporttransfer.ist
Email: info@seabluetours.com
Phone: +90 534 050 1331
Turkey Address: Mecidiyeköy Mahallesi, Mecidiye Caddesi 11/3, Şişli – İstanbul
Some payment administration, payment verification, fraud-prevention checks, dispute handling, or approved refund processing may be managed through SeaBlue Travel’s UK payment or bank accounts. Turkey-based travel agency operations may be used for local transfer coordination, TÜRSAB-related travel service organization, driver and vehicle coordination, airport meeting arrangements, local operational support, and passenger assistance.
2. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. Cookies help websites work properly, remember certain preferences, improve security, support booking functions, measure website performance, and provide a better user experience.
Similar technologies may also be used, such as pixels, tags, scripts, local storage, session storage, device identifiers, and tracking codes. In this Cookie Policy, we refer to these technologies collectively as “cookies.”
3. Why We Use Cookies
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
- To make the website, booking form, payment flow, and customer support functions work correctly.
- To keep the website secure and protect against fraud, misuse, spam, unauthorized activity, duplicate claims, or payment-related abuse.
- To remember cookie preferences, session information, language, currency, route choices, vehicle selections, or booking form choices where applicable.
- To support airport transfer booking functions, route selection, date and time selection, vehicle selection, passenger details, luggage details, checkout, payment, and booking confirmation.
- To process payments securely through third-party payment providers, banks, card networks, or payment security systems.
- To understand how visitors use our website and improve website speed, booking usability, service quality, security, and customer experience.
- To measure traffic sources, booking performance, conversion activity, website reliability, advertising performance, and user experience where analytics or marketing tools are used.
4. Types of Cookies We May Use
4.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are required for the website, booking form, checkout process, payment flow, security functions, and cookie preference system to work correctly. Without these cookies, some parts of the website or booking process may not function properly.
- Website session cookies
- Security and fraud-prevention cookies
- Booking form and checkout cookies
- Cookie consent preference cookies
- Payment process and transaction security cookies
- Server, hosting, firewall, CDN, or anti-spam cookies
Strictly necessary cookies are used because they are needed to provide the website or service requested by the user. If these cookies are blocked, the booking system, payment process, or security functions may not work correctly.
4.2 Functional Cookies
Functional cookies help improve the user experience by remembering certain choices or settings.
- Language preferences
- Currency preferences
- Route or location preferences
- Previously selected booking options
- Form progress or route-related preferences where technically required
- Display, usability, or accessibility preferences
Functional cookies may improve the booking experience, but some of them may be optional depending on their purpose and applicable cookie rules.
4.3 Analytics and Performance Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use our website. These cookies may show which pages are visited, how long visitors stay, which traffic sources are used, whether technical errors occur, and whether the booking process works correctly.
We may use analytics tools such as Google Analytics or similar services to improve website performance, booking usability, security, service quality, and customer experience. Where required, analytics cookies are used only with the appropriate consent.
4.4 Payment, Security and Fraud-Prevention Cookies
Payment providers, banks, card networks, fraud-prevention systems, checkout tools, or payment security systems may use cookies or similar technologies to process payments securely, verify transactions, prevent fraud, detect suspicious activity, manage disputes, and protect customers and SeaBlue Travel.
These cookies may be set by third-party payment providers such as Stripe, PayPal, banks, card issuers, card networks, fraud-prevention services, or related payment security providers.
Cookie or session data may be used together with booking records, payment references, refund request records, communication records, or service logs where necessary for payment verification, fraud prevention, dispute handling, or chargeback response.
4.5 Advertising and Marketing Cookies
We may use advertising or marketing cookies to understand campaign performance, measure conversions, avoid irrelevant advertising, improve marketing activity, or understand how visitors find our services.
These cookies may be placed by third-party platforms such as Google, Meta, Microsoft, or similar advertising and marketing providers where such tools are used.
Advertising and marketing cookies are non-essential cookies and, where required, are used only with your consent.
4.6 Third-Party Service Cookies
Some third-party services used on our website may place cookies or similar technologies. These may include payment providers, map services, analytics tools, security tools, booking tools, embedded content, communication tools, or customer support tools.
- Payment providers such as Stripe, PayPal, banks, card processors, or payment security tools
- Map services such as Google Maps or similar location tools
- Analytics tools such as Google Analytics or similar platforms
- Advertising tools such as Google Ads, Meta, Microsoft Ads, or similar platforms where used
- Security, hosting, CDN, firewall, or anti-spam providers
- Booking system, form, route, checkout, or communication technology providers
Third-party providers may process information according to their own privacy and cookie policies.
5. Cookie Categories Table
| Cookie Category | Purpose | Examples | Consent Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strictly Necessary | Website operation, security, booking form, checkout, payment flow, cookie preference storage | Session cookies, security cookies, booking form cookies, payment flow cookies | Required |
| Functional | Remembering preferences and improving usability | Language, currency, route, location, form or display preferences | Optional where required |
| Analytics / Performance | Website statistics, page performance, traffic sources, booking usability, technical diagnostics | Google Analytics or similar tools | Consent where required |
| Payment / Security | Secure payment processing, fraud prevention, transaction verification, payment dispute handling | Stripe, PayPal, bank, card network, payment security or fraud-prevention cookies | Required or consent-based depending on purpose |
| Advertising / Marketing | Campaign measurement, conversion tracking, marketing performance, advertising relevance | Google Ads, Meta Pixel, Microsoft Ads or similar tools if used | Consent where required |
| Third-Party Embedded Services | Maps, embedded tools, external content, booking integrations, communication tools | Google Maps, booking tools, payment widgets, support tools, embedded content | Consent where required |
6. Cookies Used for Booking and Payment
Because SeaBlue Travel provides airport transfer and travel-related services, certain cookies may be necessary to support the booking, checkout, payment, and service confirmation process.
- Booking form cookies may help process selected routes, dates, times, vehicle categories, passenger details, luggage details, add-ons, price calculations, and checkout steps.
- Payment cookies may be used by payment providers to process card payments, verify transactions, support fraud-prevention checks, and protect against unauthorized payments.
- Security cookies may help detect suspicious activity, prevent spam, protect the payment flow, maintain website reliability, and prevent abuse of booking or refund processes.
- Cookie or session data may be used together with booking records, payment references, communication records, refund request records, or service logs for fraud-prevention, payment verification, dispute handling, and chargeback response where necessary.
7. Cookies Used for Maps, Routes and Location Tools
Our website may use map, route, or location-related tools to help customers understand transfer routes, airport locations, hotel locations, meeting points, or service areas.
- Map services may place cookies or collect technical information when maps are displayed or interacted with.
- Route or location tools may process pick-up and drop-off information entered by the customer for booking and price calculation purposes.
- Third-party map providers may process data according to their own privacy and cookie policies.
8. Cookies Used for Analytics and Service Improvement
We may use analytics and performance tools to understand how visitors use our website and to improve the booking experience.
- To identify which pages are visited most often.
- To understand whether visitors can complete the booking process successfully.
- To detect website errors, slow pages, broken forms, or checkout issues.
- To measure traffic sources, search performance, conversion activity, and service demand.
- To improve website content, route pages, hotel transfer pages, and customer support.
Analytics cookies are treated as non-essential where required by applicable cookie rules.
9. Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You can manage cookies in several ways:
- You may accept, reject, or manage non-essential cookies through the cookie banner or cookie settings tool where available.
- You may disable or delete cookies through your browser settings.
- You may block third-party cookies through your browser or device settings.
- You may adjust analytics or advertising preferences through the relevant third-party provider settings where available.
- You may contact us at info@seabluetours.com if you have questions about cookies or privacy choices.
Please note that disabling strictly necessary cookies may cause parts of the website, booking form, checkout process, payment flow, route calculation, or security functions to stop working correctly.
10. Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies may be placed by third-party providers that support our website, booking process, payment process, analytics, security, maps, communication, or advertising functions.
These third parties may include payment providers, banks, analytics providers, advertising platforms, map providers, hosting providers, CDN providers, security providers, booking system providers, or customer communication tools.
SeaBlue Travel does not control all cookies placed by third-party providers. You should review the privacy and cookie policies of those third-party providers for more information about how they use cookies and personal data.
11. International Data and Cookie-Related Processing
SeaBlue Travel serves international customers. Cookie-related data may be processed through service providers, payment providers, analytics providers, hosting systems, security systems, booking systems, communication systems, or administrative systems located in different countries, including the United Kingdom, Turkey, the European Economic Area, the United States, or other countries where our service providers operate.
Where cookie-related data is linked to personal data, we handle it according to our Privacy Policy and applicable data protection principles.
UK-based payment and refund administration may involve payment providers, banks, card networks, fraud-prevention systems, and financial institutions. Turkey-based travel agency coordination may involve local operations teams, drivers, vehicle providers, airport meeting support, and travel-related service partners where necessary for service delivery.
12. How Long Cookies Stay on Your Device
Cookies may remain on your device for different periods depending on their purpose.
- Session cookies are usually deleted when you close your browser.
- Persistent cookies may remain on your device for a defined period or until you delete them.
- Cookie preference cookies may remain for a period so that we can remember your cookie choices.
- Security cookies may remain for a period necessary to protect the website, booking system, and payment process.
- Third-party cookies may remain according to the retention rules of the relevant third-party provider.
13. Your Privacy Rights
Where cookie-related data is linked to personal data, you may have rights under applicable data protection laws. These rights may include the right to request access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, withdrawal of consent, or information about how your data is used.
To exercise privacy rights or ask questions about cookie-related personal data, please contact us at
info@seabluetours.com.
We may need to verify your identity before responding to certain requests.
14. Relationship With Our Privacy Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how cookies and similar technologies are used. Our Privacy Policy explains more broadly how we collect, use, store, share, and protect personal data when you use our website, make a booking, contact us, make a payment, request a refund, or use our services.
If you want more information about personal data processing, service records, payment data, refund verification, dispute handling, international data transfers, or your privacy rights, please review our Privacy Policy.
15. Updates to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when necessary for legal, technical, operational, payment provider, platform, analytics, advertising, security, or service-related reasons.
Updated versions will be posted on this page. Continued use of our website after updates means that you accept the updated Cookie Policy.
16. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, cookie preferences, privacy, payment-related data, booking-related cookies, or how your information is used, please contact us:
Email: info@seabluetours.com
Website: www.airporttransfer.ist
Phone: +90 534 050 1331
Your privacy, trust, and website experience are important to us. Thank you for choosing SeaBlue Travel.