Privacy Policy

1. Information We Collect

Information You Provide Voluntarily

We only collect personal information you actively choose to give us:

• Email address — if you sign up for our newsletter or a downloadable guide via MailerLite
• Contact form or email submissions — your name, email, and message if you contact us
• Comments — if you leave a comment, we collect the data in the comment form plus your IP address and browser user agent to help with spam detection

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit our site, standard web analytics tools collect:

• Pages visited and time spent on each page
• General geographic region (country/city level, derived from IP address)
• Device type, browser type, and operating system
• Referring website (how you arrived at our site)

This data is collected through Google Analytics and Google Site Kit. It is anonymized and aggregated — we cannot identify individual users from this data.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for the following purposes only:

• To send newsletters or downloadable guides you signed up for via email
• To respond to contact inquiries
• To analyze and improve our destination guides, itineraries, and site content
• To monitor site performance and engagement
• To maintain the security and integrity of our platform
• To comply with legal obligations

3. Cookies & Tracking

Our site uses cookies and similar tracking technologies. Here is what we use and why:

Essential Cookies

Required for the site to function. These cannot be disabled without breaking core functionality, including session management and security tokens.

Consent Management

We use a cookie consent tool to let you choose which non-essential cookies you accept when you first visit the site. You can change your preferences at any time through the cookie settings link in the site footer.

Analytics Cookies (Google Analytics / Google Site Kit)

Used to understand how visitors interact with our site — which pages are visited, how long people stay, and which guides are used most. This data is anonymized.

Affiliate & Booking-Partner Cookies

When you click an affiliate link, our booking partners and the TravelPayouts network may set their own tracking cookies to attribute the resulting booking to this site. See Section 4 for details.

Managing Cookies

You can control cookies through your browser settings or our cookie consent tool. Disabling analytics cookies will not affect your ability to read our content or use affiliate links. Note that blocking all cookies may affect site functionality.

4. Affiliate Links & resource Tracking

Roundtrip Sightseeing participates in affiliate marketing programs, including the TravelPayouts network (Agoda, Aviasales, Booking.com, Viator, EktaTraveling, Klook, Tiqets, Drimsim, AutoEurope, GetRentaCar, EconomyBookings, Intui.travel, KiwiTaxi, Trip.com), TourRadar’s direct partner program, and Amazon Associates. When you click a partner link and complete a booking or purchase, we may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you.

Our affiliate principles:

• Affiliate links appear within relevant articles, itineraries, and destination guides — not as generic sitewide ads
• Clicking an affiliate link is never required to read our content
• Our recommendations are not influenced by affiliate commission rates

Affiliate partner sites have their own privacy policies. We encourage you to review them before completing any booking. Full details are in our Affiliate Disclosure.

5. Data Sharing

We do not sell your data. We share limited information only with the following trusted service providers, strictly for the purposes described:

• MailerLite — email delivery for newsletters and downloadable guides (email address only)
• Google Analytics / Google Site Kit — anonymized site analytics
• TravelPayouts network (Agoda, Aviasales, Booking.com, Viator, EktaTraveling, Klook, Tiqets, Drimsim, AutoEurope, GetRentaCar, EconomyBookings, Intui.travel, KiwiTaxi, Trip.com), TourRadar, Amazon Associates — affiliate booking attribution when you click a partner link
• Hostinger — web hosting infrastructure

Each of these providers has its own privacy policy and data processing agreements. We do not share your data with any other third parties unless required by law.

6. Data Retention

• Email subscribers — retained until you unsubscribe. You can unsubscribe at any time via the link in any email we send.
• Contact submissions — retained for up to 12 months to allow us to follow up, then deleted.
• Comments — retained indefinitely (or until you ask us to remove them) so follow-up comments can be recognized automatically.
• Analytics data — retained per Google Analytics default settings, after which it is automatically deleted.

7. Your Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• Access — request a copy of the personal data we hold about you
• Correction — request correction of inaccurate data
• Deletion — request deletion of your personal data
• Opt-out — unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time
• Data portability — request your data in a portable format

To exercise any of these rights, contact us using the details in Section 11. We will respond within 30 days. EU/EEA residents have additional rights under GDPR; California residents have additional rights under CCPA. We honor all applicable regional privacy rights.

8. Children’s Privacy

Roundtrip Sightseeing is not directed at children under the age of 13 (or 16 in certain jurisdictions). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us immediately and we will take prompt steps to remove it.

9. Security

We implement reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction, including SSL encryption, secure hosting infrastructure, and access controls. However, no method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our practices, technology, or legal requirements. When we make significant changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page. Continued use of our site after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of the updated policy.

11. Contact Us

If you have questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or your personal data, please contact us: