Cookie Policy

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that may be stored on your device when you visit a website.

They can be used for different purposes, including enabling essential website functionality, remembering preferences, understanding how a website is used, and supporting advertising technologies.

Some technologies may perform similar functions to cookies, including certain forms of local storage.

2. How Travel With Pipa uses cookies

Travel With Pipa currently uses cookies and similar technologies primarily for:

• website analytics;
• understanding how visitors use the Website;
• improving the Website, its content and user experience.

Optional analytics technologies are only activated according to the visitor's consent choices.

3. Essential technologies

Some technologies may be necessary for the basic operation, security or functionality of the Website.

These technologies do not require the same type of consent as optional analytics technologies where they are strictly necessary for the service requested by the visitor.

Travel With Pipa does not use essential technologies for advertising or behavioural profiling.

4. Analytics cookies

Travel With Pipa uses Google Analytics 4 (GA4), provided by Google, to understand how visitors interact with the Website.

Google Analytics may collect information such as:

• pages visited;
• approximate geographic information;
• device and browser information;
• how visitors arrived at the Website;
• interactions with pages and content;
• technical information relating to website usage.

Google Analytics is configured using Google's consent mechanisms.

Analytics storage is initially set to denied. Analytics functionality is only enabled when the visitor gives consent through the Website's cookie consent mechanism.

You can change or withdraw your analytics consent at any time through the Cookie Settings option available on the Website.

For more information about how Google processes data, please consult Google's applicable privacy documentation.

5. Google AdSense

Travel With Pipa may use Google AdSense to display advertising on the Website.

At the time of the last update of this Policy, advertising functionality through Google AdSense is not yet active.

If advertising is introduced, this Cookie Policy and the Website's consent mechanism may be updated to reflect the cookies, advertising technologies, advertising partners and consent choices applicable at that time.

Where legally required, the Website will request the appropriate consent before using cookies or similar technologies for advertising purposes.

6. Third-party services

Travel With Pipa may use services provided by third parties.

At present, the principal third-party service used for website analytics is Google Analytics.

The Website also contains links to third-party social media profiles, including Instagram, Pinterest and TikTok.

These are ordinary links to external websites and are not embedded social media widgets. Clicking one of these links will take you to the relevant third-party website, which will operate under its own privacy and cookie policies.

7. Cookie consent

When you first visit Travel With Pipa, you may be presented with a cookie consent notice.

You can:

• accept optional analytics technologies;
• reject optional technologies;
• manage your privacy preferences.

Your choice is stored locally in your browser so that the Website can remember your preference.

You can change your preferences at any time using the Cookie Settings link available on the Website.

8. Withdrawing your consent

If you have previously accepted analytics cookies, you can withdraw your consent at any time through Cookie Settings.

Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

Once your preference is changed, Travel With Pipa will update the applicable consent settings accordingly.

9. Managing cookies through your browser

You can also control or delete cookies through your browser settings.

Please note that disabling certain cookies or local storage technologies may affect the functionality of some websites.

Information about managing cookies is available in the help documentation of your browser.

10. Changes to this Cookie Policy

Travel With Pipa may update this Cookie Policy when the Website's technologies, services or legal requirements change.

The date shown at the beginning of this Policy indicates when it was most recently updated.

We recommend checking this page periodically for the latest information.