Privacy Policy | Tour Guide

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: info@tour-guide.com.

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.

Measuring Newsletter and Account Conversions

To understand how well the newsletter and free account work — without profiling you — we count a small set of server-side conversion moments: when a subscription request is accepted, when the double opt-in email is confirmed, and when an account is created for the first time. Each is recorded on our own systems from the server, never from a script running in your browser.

So we can tell that a later confirmation belongs to the same signup, we generate a random, opaque attribution reference at subscribe time. It is not derived from your email address or your browsing session and identifies nothing about you on its own. The only place this reference is tied to your email is inside the temporary pending-confirmation record, which is deleted the moment you confirm and otherwise expires on its own within seven days. The confirmation link we email you never carries a session identifier.

When you submit the newsletter form, that first server-side event also carries your analytics session id, so we can relate the submission to the browsing session it came from when we study the funnel. That session id stays with our own first-party analytics on the same footing as the browsing measurements described above; it is never written to the pending-confirmation record and never placed in the confirmation link. The aggregate counts and rates we report from these events never expose your email address, account identifier, session id, or IP address. To gauge how many signed-in travelers return within a week we use only your account's own sessions, joined through a one-way hash of your internal account id — never anonymous cross-site tracking. Deleting your account, as described above, removes these associations.