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These are required for the site to work and cannot be switched off in our systems.

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• Preference storage that remembers things like your local currency display.

We use privacy-respecting analytics to count page views, see which guides are read and find broken journeys. This is aggregated and never used to build an advertising profile of you. Where consent is required by law, we ask for it first.

Our payment provider sets cookies during checkout to process the transaction securely and to detect fraud. These are set by them under their own policy.

When you click a partner link, that partner may set a cookie to attribute a booking to us. We record that the click happened so we can see which recommendations are useful. See our affiliate disclosure.

• We do not run third-party advertising networks on the site.
• We do not sell or share your personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising.
• We do not use cookies to read your other browsing outside our site.

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Email hey@tripoutthechat.com or read the full privacy policy.