About Akumal Vacations cookies

You must have cookies enabled in your browser in order to use all the features of the Akumal Vacations web site.

What is a cookie?

A "cookie" is a small piece of information which a web server can store temporarily with your web browser. This is useful for having your browser remember some specific information which the web server can later retrieve.

As you browse the web, cookies are stored in your computer's memory. When you close your browser, this cookie is written to a cookie file on your computur so it may be reloaded next time you visit our web site.

A cookie file is not a secret way for Akumal Vacations to find out everything about you and what you have on your hard drive. The only private information we save in your cookie file is the information you explicitly give to Akumal Vacations on the contact form. Each cookie is marked with information about what web site it's for. There is no way for another, different web server to get access to this private information about you or your system through a Akumal Vacations cookie. There is no possible way that a virus could be spread through the use of cookies.

How Akumal Vacations uses cookies.

Akumal Vacations uses this cookie file to remember basic information about our customers (e.g. your name and address) and to auto-fill your reservations inquiry form with the information, saving you re-typing it each time you use the form. We also use a cookie to build a list of vacation properties in your inquiry. For example, if you inquire on 3 properties, you have to fill-out the form 3 times. This can be quite time consuming. And because Akumal Vacations must handle 3 separate contacts from you on just one vacation plan, it may slow our response time as well. Any changes you make to your contact information on the form will be updated in the cookie and saved for future use. The property list is cleared 20 minutes after you have completed the reservation inquiry form.

How to Enable Cookies & JavaScript.

Browsers

Internet Explorer 4.0 users (Upgrade to 5.5 or 6.0)
(IE 4.0 does not fully support JavaScript and should be upgraded)

Internet Explorer 5.0/5.5 users

Internet Explorer 6.0 users

Internet Explorer 5.0/5.1 for MAC

Netscape 4.x users (Recommend upgrading to 7.1)
(Netscape 4.7 does not fully support JavaScript and should be upgraded)

Netscape 6.0/7.1 users

AOL users (We do not recommend using AOL's browser. Use AOL to connect to Internet service, but use IE or Netscape once connected.)

Safari users (Mac OSX)

Firefox users

Internet Explorer 5.0/5.5 Users (Windows)

To enable Cookies and JavaScript, follow these steps:

1. Select Internet Options from the Tools menu. The Internet Options dialog opens.
2. Locate the Temporary Internet Files section of the General tab.
3. Click on Settings.
4. Locate the Check for newer versions of stored pages area, make certain that the radio dial is highlighted on Every visit to the page.
5. Click OK.
6. Locate the Custom area of the Security tab. Click Custom Level button. Security Settings dialog opens.
7. Scroll down to the Scripting section of the Security Settings window.
   To access the BillPay site, your browser must support JavaScript and Java. You must select the Enable radio button under Active Scripting.
8. Click OK to close the Security Settings dialog.
9. Locate the Content Advisor area of the Content tab.
10. The radio button should read Enable. (If not, click on Disable until it reads Enable)
11. Click OK to close the Internet Options dialog.
12. Hit the F5 key to refresh your browser.

Note: Windows XP Users, you will need to restart your computer for the changes to take place

Internet Explorer 6.0 users (Windows)

To enable Cookies and JavaScript, follow these steps:

1. Select Internet Options from the Tools menu. The Internet Options dialog opens.
2. Locate the Temporary Internet Files area of the General tab.
3. Click on the Settings radio button.
4. Click OK.
5. Locate the Check for newer versions of stored pages area, make certain that the radio dial is highlighted on Every visit to the page.
6. Click OK.
7. Locate the Custom area of the Security tab. Click Custom Level button. Security Settings dialog opens.
8. Scroll down to the Scripting section of the Settings window.
   To access the BillPay site, your browser must support JavaScript and Java. You must select the Enable radio button under Active Scripting.
9. Click OK to close the Security Settings dialog.
10. Locate the Content Advisor area of the Content tab.
11. The radio button should read Enable. (If not, click on Disable until it reads Enable)
12. Click OK to close the Internet Options dialog.
13. Hit the F5 key to refresh your browser.

Note: Windows XP Users, you will need to restart your computer for the changes to take place

Internet Explorer 5.0/5.1 users (MAC)

To enable Cookies and JavaScript, follow these steps:

1. Select Preferences from the Edit menu. The Internet Options dialog opens.
2. Select the Receiveing Files link on the left.
3. Under Cookies, select Enable/Accept.
4. Click OK.
5. Locate the Web Browser link of the left .
6. Select Web Content.
7. Under the Active Content area, select Enable Scripting.
8. Click OK.

Netscape Communicator 6.0/7.1 (Win or MAC)

To enable Cookies and JavaScript, follow these steps:

These instructions will allow Netscape users to view, and utilize all pages in the billpay site.

1. Click Edit in the browser tool bar.
2. Then, click Preferences.
3. In the Preferences section, you will see several items in the Category window.
4. Click Privacy and Security.
5. Then click Enable all cookies.
6. Click Advanced.
7. Click Clear Memory Cache and Clear Disk Cache.
8. Below the Clear Disk Cache button, make sure that the: Compare the page in the cache to the page on the network, is highlighted on, Every time I view the page.
9. Click on Proxies in the category window. Make certain that the proxies are set to Direct connection to the internet.

AOL users

Enabling JavaScript:

1. Open your browser. From the menu bar, select My AOL and choose Preferences.
2. Click on the WWW icon. In the Internet Zone section, if any setting other than Custom is selected, JavaScript is already enabled already. If Custom is selected, you must make sure that JavaScript is enabled.
3. Click on the Settings button.
4. In the Security Settings section, scroll down to the Scripting section, and under Active scripting, select either Prompt (which will present you with a dialog box every time active scripting is encountered) or Enable (which will fully enable active scripting without user interaction).
5. Click OK to close the Security Settings window, click Yes in the resulting warning box if changes were made, and then click OK to save all changes.
6. Close the Internet Options window.

Enabling Cookies: In AOL, by default, cookies are automatically enabled and cannot be turned off.

Note: For assistance with enabling cookies for AOL, please refer to AOL's Technical Support, at: 1-800-827-6364. AOL does not provide online documentation about enabling cookies for their web browser, and has chosen to handle this on a per customer basis.

Safari users (Mac OSX)

To enable Cookies and JavaScript, follow these steps:

1. Select Preferences from the Safari menu.
2. The Preferences Internet Options dialog opens.
3. Select the Security tab.
4. Under the Accept Cookies section, select one of two radio buttons. Either select the Always radio button or the Only from sites you navigate to radio button.
5. Under the Web Content section, make sure that the checkboxes for Enable plug-ins, Enable Java, and Enable JavaScript are selected and that the Block pop-up windows checkbox is not selected.
6. Close the Preferences dialog box.

Firefox users

To enable Cookies and JavaScript, follow these steps:

1. Select Options from the Tools menu.
2. The Options dialog opens.
3. Select the Web Features tab.
4. Make sure that the checkboxes for Enable Java, and Enable JavaScript are selected and that the Block pop-up windows checkbox is not selected.
5. Click OK.