Cookie Policy

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device (computer, tablet, or smartphone) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, remember your preferences, and provide information to website owners.

Cookies cannot carry viruses or install malware. They are purely text-based data files. You can view, manage, and delete cookies through your browser settings at any time.

2. How We Use Cookies

TripCurator uses cookies for the following purposes:

• To ensure the website functions correctly (strictly necessary)
• To understand how visitors use our site and improve our content (analytics)
• To display relevant advertisements and measure their performance (advertising)
• To remember your cookie preferences (consent management)

We do not use cookies to collect sensitive personal information, and we do not sell cookie data to third parties.

3. Cookie Categories

3.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential for the website to function and cannot be switched off. They do not store any personally identifiable information.

3.2 Analytics Cookies (Google Analytics 4)

These cookies allow us to count visits and understand how visitors find and navigate our content. All data is anonymised — IP addresses are truncated before storage. This helps us improve our guides and understand which destinations are most useful to our readers.

Analytics cookies are only set after you provide consent via our cookie banner.

For more information, see Google's Privacy Policy and Google Analytics data safeguarding.

3.3 Advertising Cookies (Google AdSense)

We display advertisements via Google AdSense to help fund the free content on TripCurator. AdSense uses cookies to show ads that are relevant to your interests based on your browsing activity on our site and other websites.

Advertising cookies are only set after you provide consent via our cookie banner.

For more information, see How Google uses advertising cookies.

3.4 Affiliate Partner Cookies

When you click an affiliate link on TripCurator (such as a Booking.com or GetYourGuide link), the partner website may set its own cookies on your device. These cookies are governed by the partner's own privacy policy, not ours.

These cookies are only set when you actively click an affiliate link and visit the partner website. For more information, see our Affiliate Disclosure.

4. How to Manage Your Cookie Preferences

4.1 Our Cookie Banner

When you first visit TripCurator, you will see a cookie consent banner. You can use this to accept all cookies, or select only strictly necessary cookies. You can revisit and change your preferences at any time by clearing your browser cookies and revisiting the site.

4.2 Browser-Level Controls

You can control, restrict, or delete cookies through your browser settings. Note that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of some websites. Below are links to cookie management instructions for the most common browsers:

4.3 Opt-Out of Google Analytics

You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting data about your visits by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

4.4 Opt-Out of Personalised Advertising

You can opt out of personalised advertising from Google at google.com/settings/ads. You can also use the Your Online Choices tool (EU) or the Digital Advertising Alliance opt-out (US).

5. Updates to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time — for example, when we add new third-party services or change how we use cookies. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page reflects the most recent revision. We recommend checking this page periodically.

6. Contact Us

If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please contact us: