Privacy Policy
tour-guide.com
Last updated: 2026-08-09
Introduction
The website tour-guide.com, operated under the name Tour Guide, is committed to protecting the privacy of its visitors. This privacy policy describes the data we collect, how we use it, and your rights regarding your personal information.
Data We Collect
We collect a minimal amount of data in the course of operating this site. The information gathered may include:
- Browsing data: anonymised IP address, browser type, pages visited, and visit duration, collected through Cloudflare Web Analytics.
- Technical cookies: small files stored on your device to remember your preferences (such as cookie consent). No advertising or third-party tracking cookies are used.
How We Use Your Data
The collected data is used solely to:
- Understand how visitors use the site in order to improve its content and usability.
- Ensure the proper technical operation of the site.
- Maintain security and prevent abuse.
We do not sell, rent, or share any personal data with third parties for commercial purposes.
Session Analytics
To understand how visitors move through tour-guide.com —
which pages they read, in what order, and where they leave — we run
our own self-hosted, cookieless session analytics. No cookie is set
and no cross-site identifier is used: a random session id is held in
your browser's sessionStorage and is discarded the moment
you close the tab.
For each visit we record the sequence of pages viewed, the time spent
on each page, the country the request comes from (derived from your IP
address, which is then discarded and never stored), your device type,
operating system and browser family (along with the browser's
user-agent string, which those families are derived from and which we
keep to tell real visitors apart from automated traffic), the
referring website (host only, never the full URL), and any campaign
parameters (utm_*) present in the link you arrived
through. This data contains no name, email, or other directly
identifying information, is stored on our own systems, and is never
sold or shared with third parties.
To count unique visitors without a cookie, we also store a daily-rotating one-way signature derived from your IP address, browser, and this site's domain. Only this salted digest is kept — never your raw IP address — and because it is regenerated every day it cannot link your visits from one day to the next.
Third-Party Services
This site uses Cloudflare for hosting, content delivery, and traffic analytics. Cloudflare may collect certain technical data as part of its services. To learn more, see the Cloudflare Privacy Policy .
Your Rights (GDPR)
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the following rights:
- Right of access: obtain a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
- Right to rectification: request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.
- Right to erasure: request deletion of your personal data.
- Right to data portability: receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format.
- Right to object: object to the processing of your data in certain circumstances.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at the address below.
Contact
For any questions about this privacy policy or to exercise your rights, you can write to us at: [email protected].
Analytics Providers and Cookies
Alongside the self-hosted session analytics and Cloudflare traffic metrics described above, we use two named third-party analytics services on this site, with different privacy characteristics:
- Ahrefs Web Analytics gives us anonymous, aggregate traffic statistics — such as page views, referrers, and general browser type. It sets no cookies and does not track you across sites or collect personal information. You can read more in the Ahrefs privacy policy.
- Google Analytics 4 helps us understand overall audience trends. It is consent-gated: it starts with analytics storage denied, so no Google Analytics cookies are set until you accept the cookie banner. Once you opt in, Google Analytics 4 sets its own cookies and may use them to recognise you across sites and visits; declining or ignoring the banner keeps it switched off. See how Google handles this data in the Google Privacy Policy.
Your Account and Browsing History
If you choose to create an account and sign in, we associate the pages you view while logged in with your account so we can personalise recommendations — for example, suggesting destinations and guides related to the places you have already explored. This linkage happens only while you are signed in; pages you view logged out are never tied to your account.
This connection is stored as first-party data on our own systems and is never sold or shared with third parties. You can delete your account at any time from your account settings, which permanently removes the link between your account and your browsing history.