Last Updated: June 3, 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Shorebreak Media Group LLC, doing business as Hawaii’s Best, uses cookies and similar tracking technologies on HawaiisBestTravel.com and related digital properties.
For purposes of this Cookie Policy, “Hawaii’s Best,” “Hawaii’s Best Travel,” “Company,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Shorebreak Media Group LLC, d/b/a Hawaii’s Best. “You” and “your” refer to any visitor, reader, listener, subscriber, purchaser, client, or user of our website, content, products, services, or related materials.
This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, Disclaimer, and Affiliate Disclosure.
By using our website, you acknowledge that cookies and similar technologies may be used as described in this Cookie Policy.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your browser, computer, phone, tablet, or other device when you visit a website.
Cookies help websites remember information about your visit, such as:
- Your preferences
- Pages you visited
- Links you clicked
- Login status, where applicable
- Browser or device information
- Advertising or tracking preferences
- Cookie consent choices
Cookies may be set by the website you are visiting, known as first-party cookies, or by third-party providers, known as third-party cookies.
2. Similar Tracking Technologies
In addition to cookies, we and our third-party providers may use similar technologies, including:
- Pixels
- Tags
- Scripts
- Web beacons
- Tracking URLs
- Device identifiers
- Local storage
- Session storage
- Log files
- Embedded content trackers
- Conversion tracking tools
- Advertising identifiers
For simplicity, this Cookie Policy refers to these technologies collectively as “cookies” or “tracking technologies.”
3. Why We Use Cookies
We may use cookies and tracking technologies to:
- Make the website function properly
- Improve website performance
- Remember user preferences
- Understand how visitors use the website
- Measure content performance
- Improve blog posts, podcast pages, newsletters, and guides
- Prevent spam, fraud, abuse, and security risks
- Support contact forms, comments, quizzes, and downloads
- Track affiliate referrals
- Serve advertisements
- Measure advertising performance
- Limit how often ads are shown
- Provide personalized or contextual advertising
- Support embedded content, such as podcast players, maps, videos, and social media posts
- Help comply with privacy preferences and consent requirements
4. Types of Cookies We Use
We may use the following categories of cookies.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are required for the website to function properly.
They may be used for:
- Website security
- Page loading
- Spam prevention
- Cookie consent preferences
- Form functionality
- Basic WordPress functionality
- Shopping cart or checkout functionality, if applicable
- Login sessions, if applicable
Because these cookies are necessary for the website to operate, they may not be disabled through our cookie tools.
You may be able to block them through your browser settings, but parts of the website may not work properly.
Performance and Analytics Cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors use the website.
They may collect information such as:
- Pages visited
- Time spent on pages
- Links clicked
- Referring websites
- Search queries
- Device type
- Browser type
- Approximate location
- Traffic patterns
- Conversion events
We use this information to improve our website, content, podcast pages, guides, user experience, and marketing efforts.
Analytics tools may include services such as Google Analytics or other analytics providers.
Functionality Cookies
These cookies help remember choices you make and improve your experience.
They may be used to remember:
- Cookie settings
- Form entries
- Display preferences
- Login status, if applicable
- Comment form details, where applicable
- Website settings or user preferences
If these cookies are disabled, certain features may not function as intended.
Advertising Cookies
Advertising cookies may be used by us and our advertising partners to serve ads, measure ad performance, prevent fraud, limit ad frequency, and provide personalized or contextual advertising.
These cookies may collect or use information such as:
- IP address
- Browser type
- Device type
- Pages viewed
- Links clicked
- Approximate location
- Advertising identifiers
- Interactions with ads
- Referring websites
- Interest or audience segments
Advertising partners may use this information to show ads on this website or elsewhere online.
Our advertising partners may include, but are not limited to:
- Raptive
- Other advertising exchanges, demand partners, and ad technology providers
Advertisements shown through programmatic ad systems do not necessarily represent our personal endorsement of the advertiser, product, service, or claim.
Affiliate Tracking Cookies
Some links on Hawaii’s Best Travel are affiliate links.
Affiliate tracking cookies may be used to determine whether a purchase, booking, reservation, sign-up, or other qualifying action came from one of our links.
Affiliate tracking may be used by:
- Amazon Associates
- Travel booking platforms
- Hotel or lodging partners
- Tour and activity providers
- Rental car companies
- Travel insurance providers
- Travel apps
- Retailers
- Other affiliate networks or referral programs
If you click an affiliate link and complete a qualifying action, we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.
For more information, please review our Affiliate Disclosure.
Social Media Cookies
Social media platforms may place cookies or similar technologies on your device when you interact with social media features, embedded posts, share buttons, pixels, or links.
These platforms may include:
- TikTok
- YouTube
- Threads
- X / Twitter
- Other social media platforms
Social media cookies may be used to:
- Enable sharing features
- Track engagement
- Measure campaigns
- Serve personalized ads
- Connect website activity with your social media account, if you are logged in
- Build or use advertising audiences
We do not control how social media platforms use their cookies or tracking technologies.
Please review the privacy and cookie policies of those platforms for more information.
Embedded Content Cookies
Our website may include embedded content from third-party platforms.
This may include:
- Podcast players
- YouTube videos
- Spotify embeds
- Apple Podcasts links or embeds
- Google Maps
- Instagram posts
- Facebook posts
- Pinterest pins
- TikTok videos
- Social sharing tools
- Advertising units
- Forms
- Booking widgets
- Payment processors
- Other embedded tools
Embedded content from another website behaves as if you visited that website directly.
These third-party platforms may collect data about you, use cookies, track your interaction with the embedded content, and monitor your activity if you are logged into their service.
We do not control the cookies or tracking technologies used by embedded third-party content.
5. WordPress Cookies
Our website is built on WordPress.
WordPress may use cookies for basic website functionality, including:
- Comment forms
- Login sessions, if applicable
- User preferences
- Security
- Administrative access
If you leave a comment on the website, you may be able to opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies help you avoid re-entering your information when leaving another comment.
If user accounts or login features are enabled, WordPress may use temporary and session cookies to manage login status and screen preferences.
6. Comments and Spam Detection
If comments are enabled, cookies and related technologies may be used to support comment functionality and spam prevention.
When you leave a comment, we may collect information shown in the comment form, your IP address, and browser user agent string to help detect spam.
Comments may be checked through automated spam detection services.
7. Contact Forms, Quizzes, Downloads, and Consultation Forms
Cookies and tracking technologies may be used when you submit forms, quizzes, downloads, consultation requests, or similar tools.
These technologies may help us:
- Deliver requested resources
- Prevent spam
- Track form performance
- Understand conversion rates
- Improve user experience
- Connect form submissions with email marketing or customer support systems
- Measure marketing or advertising campaigns
If a form provider or third-party platform is used, that provider may also use its own cookies and tracking technologies.
8. Email and Newsletter Tracking
Our email marketing provider may use tracking technologies in emails to help us understand email performance.
This may include:
- Whether an email was opened
- Which links were clicked
- Delivery performance
- Unsubscribe activity
- Subscriber preferences
- General engagement trends
We use this information to improve our newsletters, understand what content is useful, and manage email communications.
You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in any email.
9. Advertising Partners and Consent Management
We may use third-party advertising partners and ad management providers to display ads on the website.
These partners may use cookies and similar technologies for:
- Serving ads
- Personalized advertising
- Contextual advertising
- Ad measurement
- Frequency capping
- Fraud prevention
- Reporting
- Compliance with privacy preferences
- Consent management
Our ad management partners may provide or support a consent management platform, cookie banner, or privacy controls where required by law.
If you are located in a region where cookie consent is required, you may be presented with options to accept, reject, or manage certain categories of cookies.
Your available choices may vary depending on your location, browser, device, and applicable law.
- Advertising Partners and Consent Management
We use a cookie consent management platform on this website.
Visitors may be presented with a cookie consent banner that allows them to accept, reject, or manage cookie preferences by category. Your available options may vary depending on your location, browser, device, and applicable law.
Where required by law — including in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland — non-essential cookies (including advertising, analytics, affiliate tracking, and social media cookies) are not placed on your device until you have provided consent through the banner.
Our advertising partners, including Raptive, may provide or support additional consent management tools to help comply with applicable advertising and privacy requirements. Raptive and its partners process advertising-related data in accordance with their own privacy policies and applicable law.
You may update your cookie preferences at any time by using the cookie settings tool available on this website, adjusting your browser settings, or contacting us at contact@hawaiisbesttravel.com.
10. Raptive Advertising
Hawaii’s Best Travel may work with Raptive and related advertising technology partners to manage and display advertising on the website.
Raptive and its partners may use cookies, pixels, tags, device identifiers, and similar technologies to provide advertising services.
These technologies may be used to:
- Serve advertisements
- Measure ad performance
- Personalize ads where permitted
- Provide contextual ads
- Limit ad frequency
- Prevent fraud
- Report ad metrics
- Comply with privacy choices and legal requirements
Raptive and its advertising partners may collect information directly from your browser or device and may process that information according to their own privacy policies and applicable law.
11. Google and Other Advertising Technologies
Google and other advertising technology providers may use cookies or similar technologies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
These technologies may help provide personalized or contextual advertising.
You can learn more about Google’s advertising settings and opt-out options through Google’s own privacy and advertising controls.
Other advertising providers may offer their own opt-out tools or privacy settings.
12. Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies on our website are placed by third parties, not directly by Hawaii’s Best Travel.
Third-party cookies may be used by:
- Advertising partners
- Analytics providers
- Affiliate networks
- Social media platforms
- Embedded content providers
- Podcast platforms
- Video platforms
- Payment processors
- Form providers
- Security tools
- Email marketing platforms
- Booking or scheduling tools
We do not control all third-party cookies.
Third-party providers are responsible for their own privacy and cookie practices.
13. How Long Cookies Stay on Your Device
Cookies may remain on your device for different periods of time.
Session Cookies
Session cookies are temporary and usually expire when you close your browser.
Persistent Cookies
Persistent cookies remain on your device until they expire or until you delete them.
The length of time a cookie remains on your device depends on the purpose of the cookie and the settings of the provider that placed it.
14. How to Manage Cookies
You can manage cookies in several ways.
Cookie Banner or Consent Tool
Where available, you may manage cookie preferences through the cookie banner, consent management platform, or privacy settings tool on our website.
This may allow you to accept, reject, or manage certain categories of cookies.
Browser Settings
Most browsers allow you to:
- Block cookies
- Delete cookies
- Receive warnings before cookies are stored
- Disable third-party cookies
- Clear browsing data
You can usually find these settings in your browser’s privacy or security menu.
Device Settings
Some mobile devices allow you to limit advertising identifiers or reset advertising IDs.
Platform Settings
Advertising, social media, and analytics providers may offer their own privacy controls, opt-out options, or advertising preference settings.
15. What Happens If You Disable Cookies?
If you disable or block cookies, some parts of the website may not work properly.
This may affect:
- Page functionality
- Comment forms
- Contact forms
- Download forms
- Quiz features
- Embedded content
- Videos
- Podcast players
- Maps
- Ad preferences
- Cookie consent settings
- Login features, if applicable
- Shopping cart or checkout features, if applicable
You may still be able to use the website, but your experience may be limited.
16. Global Privacy Control and Opt-Out Signals
Some browsers or extensions allow you to send privacy preference signals, such as Global Privacy Control.
Where required by applicable law and technically feasible, we may honor legally recognized opt-out preference signals.
Because technology and legal requirements continue to develop, responses to browser signals may vary based on your location, browser, device, consent management platform, and applicable law.
17. Do Not Track
Some browsers offer “Do Not Track” signals.
There is no uniform industry standard for responding to Do Not Track signals.
As a result, our website may not respond to all Do Not Track signals.
You may still manage cookies through your browser settings, available cookie tools, and third-party opt-out settings.
18. California Privacy Rights
Some cookies, pixels, analytics tools, advertising technologies, affiliate tracking technologies, and social media technologies may be considered “sharing” or “sale” of personal information under California privacy law.
We do not sell your name, email address, or contact information to third parties for their own direct marketing lists.
However, certain digital advertising and tracking technologies may fall within broader legal definitions of “sale” or “sharing.”
California residents may have the right to opt out of certain sale or sharing of personal information.
To submit a privacy request, email:
contact@hawaiisbesttravel.com
Subject line:
California Privacy Request
You may also use any available cookie banner, consent tool, browser setting, or Global Privacy Control where supported.
For more information, please review our Privacy Policy.
19. International Visitors
If you are located in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, Switzerland, or another jurisdiction with cookie consent requirements, you may be asked to provide consent before certain non-essential cookies are placed on your device.
Depending on your location, you may have the right to:
- Accept cookies
- Reject non-essential cookies
- Manage cookie preferences
- Withdraw consent
- Object to certain processing
- Request access, correction, or deletion of personal data
For privacy rights beyond cookies, please review our Privacy Policy.
20. Updates to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time.
When we make changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page.
Your continued use of the website after updates are posted means you accept the revised Cookie Policy.
We encourage you to review this Cookie Policy periodically.
21. Contact Information
For questions about this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies and tracking technologies, contact us at:
Shorebreak Media Group LLC
d/b/a Hawaii’s Best
200 N Vineyard Blvd Ste A325 #1170
Honolulu, HI 96817
United States
Email: contact@hawaiisbesttravel.com
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