Privacy policy

Holiday Manual publishes editorial travel guides. This privacy policy explains, in clear and formal terms, how information is handled when you use our public website. We favour proportionate practices and straightforward disclosure.

Purpose and scope

This policy applies to visitors using the public Holiday Manual website to read guides, country hubs and related editorial content. It does not replace the privacy notices or terms of independent airlines, hotels or other providers when you leave our site to book or enquire with them; those organisations apply their own documents.

Reading the site

When you browse and read our pages without subscribing to email updates or submitting a message through our forms, we do not use your information for direct marketing, individual profiling, or cross-site behavioural advertising. We do not deploy third-party advertising technologies on this site to track your personal browsing on other websites for ad delivery. Using the guides remains an ordinary editorial reading experience; aggregate usage may still be measured as explained in the following section.

Measurement with Google Analytics

Where enabled, we use Google Analytics (Google LLC) to understand in aggregate how the site is used—for example approximate traffic levels, general geographic regions and device categories—so we can maintain and improve the editorial service. Google may set or read cookies or use similar technologies and process certain technical information according to its own policies. We do not use these tools to sell your data or to run third-party behavioural advertising on our behalf across other sites. How Google handles information is described at https://policies.google.com/privacy and in Google’s materials for users of Google Analytics (for example https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245). You may control or block cookies through your browser settings; refusing analytics cookies may limit the measurement described here.

If you choose to subscribe to our email updates, we process the address you provide, together with limited technical information needed to deliver messages and to honour unsubscribe requests. You may end your subscription at any time using the link in each message or by contacting us via the details in the site footer.

Language preference

We may store a small cookie on your device to remember your preferred language edition. This supports site functionality only and is not used to build advertising profiles.

Technical operation

As with any web service, our infrastructure may generate routine technical records required to maintain security, mitigate abuse and deliver pages reliably. Such processing is limited to operating the service and is not used to compile individual marketing records.

Revisions to this policy

We may amend this policy when our practices evolve. The current text will remain published on this page. We invite you to review it from time to time; material updates will be reflected here in an orderly manner.

Enquiries

Questions regarding this privacy policy may be addressed using the contact information provided in the website footer.