Cookie Policy
Effective date: December 19, 2025
Last updated: December 19, 2025
What are cookies?
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how we use them, the types of cookies we use (i.e., the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used), and how to manage your cookie settings.
Cookies are small text files used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when a website loads in your browser. These cookies help ensure that the website functions properly, enhance security, provide a better user experience, and analyze performance to identify what works and where improvements are needed.
How do we use cookies?
Like most online services, our website uses both first-party and third-party cookies for various purposes. First-party cookies are primarily necessary for the website to function properly and do not collect any personally identifiable data.
The third-party cookies used on our website primarily help us understand how the website performs, track how you interact with it, keep our services secure, deliver relevant advertisements, and enhance your overall user experience while improving the speed of your future interactions with our website.
Types of cookies we use
Necessary
Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.
| Cookies | Duration | Descriptions |
| CookieConsent | 1 year | Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain |
| rc::e (google) | Session | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. |
| rc::h | Persistent | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. |
| uw-icon-locales | Persistent | Used to keep settings on the website's accessibility widget. This helps people with e.g. vision disabilities to properly navigate the site. |
| OT-Interactive-SessionId | Session | cookie for opentable.com is used for session management, though its specific purpose is listed as "Pending" in some cookie policies. It is related to maintaining a user's interactive session while they navigate the site, particularly when they start a booking. |
| otuvid | Necessary for the website's booking functionality. | |
| OT-SessionId | Session | (opentable) Necessary for the website's booking functionality. |
| bm_sz | Session | Used in context with the website's BotManager. The BotManager detects, categorizes and compiles reports on potential bots trying to access the website. |
| ot-cookie-check | (Opentable) Determines whether the user has opted-out of third-party cookies. | |
| bm_sv | Session | (Opentable) Used in context with the website's BotManager. The BotManager detects, categorizes and compiles reports on potential bots trying to access the website. |
| ak_bmsc | Session | (Opentable) This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. |
| _abck | 364 days | (Opentable) Used to detect and defend against replay-cookie-attacks . The cookie is necessary for the security and integrity of the website. |
| bm_s | 30 days | The bm_s cookie on OpenTable is part of their BotManager system, used to identify and block malicious bots, ensuring legitimate users can access the site and improving security and valid reporting for restaurant partners |
| ha_userSession | Session | (Opentable) Remembers the user's seat and reservation number upon making online reservations. |
| bm_mi | Session | (Opentable) Used in context with the website's BotManager. The BotManager detects, categorizes and compiles reports on potential bots trying to access the website. |
| ak_bm_tab_id | Session | (Opentable) The ak_bm_tab_id cookie is a type of browser management cookie associated with Akamai's Bot Manager service, used for security and fraud prevention. It helps distinguish between human users and automated bots to ensure the integrity and security of the website. |
| PHPSESSID | Preserves user session state across page requests. |
Marketing
Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
| lastExternalReferrerTime | Persistent | Detects how the user reached the website by registering their last URL-address. |
| lastExternalReferrer | Persistent | Detects how the user reached the website by registering their last URL-address. (facebook Nobu Indian Wells) |
| _fbp | 3 months | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers for Nobu Indian Wells. |
Statistics/Analytics
Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
| _ga_# | 729 days | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behavior. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. |
| _ga | 729 days | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behavior. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. |
Preferences
To remember your choices and provide enhanced features.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
| uw-uid | Persistent | a tool helping websites meet standards like ADA/WCAG by storing user preferences (like font size, contrast) locally, allowing a consistent accessible experience across different pages without needing re-authentication, powering inclusive digital access. |
| _uw-tunings | Persistent | refers to the specific cookies and settings data MGBase used by UserWay's AI (a web accessibility tool) to remember a user's personalized accessibility preferences, like font size, contrast, and other adjustments, across different pages of a website for a consistent, accessible experience. It's part of the broader UserWay service that helps websites meet accessibility standards like ADA compliance and WCAG conformance, offering an AI-driven widget for users to control their experience. |
| uw-tunings-checksum | Persistent | used to store a checksum value that corresponds to a user's personalized accessibility settings on a website. This function helps people with disabilities navigate the site with their preferred settings intact, which makes it an essential component for website accessibility compliance |
| OT-Locale | Session | The OT-Locale cookie on OpenTable remembers your preferred language and location settings (like country/region) to personalize your experience, showing relevant restaurants and content for your area, making booking easier by not asking for your location repeatedly, according to their OpenTable cookie policy. |
| maps/gen_204 | Session | Used in context with the website's map integration. The cookie stores user interaction with the map in order to optimize its functionality. |
Uncategorized
Other uncategorized cookies are those that are being analyzed and have not been classified into a category as yet
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
| bm_lso | Pending (opentable.com) | |
| bm_lso | Pending (www.opentable.com) | |
| bm_ss | Session | The bm_ss cookie on OpenTable is a BrightTag (BM) Session Store cookie, used by OpenTable's analytics/marketing partner (likely for tracking user journeys, ad effectiveness, and personalization across devices/sessions), helping them understand how you interact with the site and deliver relevant booking experiences and ads, part of OpenTable's broader cookie use for functionality, analysis, and advertising. |
| bm_so | Session | Pending (opentable.com) |
Manage cookie preferences
You can modify your cookie settings anytime by clicking the 'Consent Preferences' button above. This will allow you to revisit the cookie consent banner and update your preferences or withdraw your consent immediately.
Additionally, different browsers offer various methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can adjust your browser settings to block or delete cookies. Below are links to support documents on how to manage and delete cookies in major web browsers.
Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050
Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer-bca9446f-d873-78de-77ba-d42645fa52fc
If you are using a different web browser, please refer to its official support documentation.