Privacy Policy

What we ask you for

Nothing. There are no accounts, no sign-up forms, no newsletter, and no comments. We never ask you for your name, email address, or payment details, and there is nothing on this site that lets you submit them to us.

If you choose to email us, we receive whatever you put in that email and keep it only for as long as it takes to reply.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand which pages people read and roughly where they arrive from. It sets cookies and receives your IP address, browser and device type, the pages you view, and the site or search that referred you. We use this only in aggregate; we do not try to identify individual readers.

We have also turned on Google signals. For visitors who are signed in to a Google account and have allowed ad personalisation, Google adds estimated age range, gender and broad interests to our reports. We only see these as totals across many readers, never for one person. You can turn this off in your Google ad settings.

You can opt out for every site at once with Google’s Analytics opt-out browser add-on, or by blocking cookies in your browser.

We also use Microsoft Clarityto see how pages are read: where people scroll, click and stop. Clarity records mouse movement, scrolling and clicks as anonymous session replays and heatmaps. It masks text you type, and we do not use it to identify anyone. Microsoft’s handling of this data is described in its privacy statement.

Advertising

Where advertising is shown on this site, it is served by third-party vendors including Google. Google uses cookies (including the DoubleClick cookie) to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites.

• You can turn off personalised advertising in Google Ads Settings.
• You can opt out of personalised advertising from many other vendors at aboutads.info.
• Third-party vendors set their own cookies, which this site does not control. Their handling of that data is governed by their own policies.

If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you will be asked for consent before any advertising or analytics cookies that require it are set, and you can change or withdraw that choice at any time.

Affiliate links

Some outbound links to books, hotels and tours are affiliate links, which means we may earn a small commission if you buy or book through them — at no extra cost to you. Following one of these links takes you to the retailer or booking site, who will handle your data under their own privacy policy. We only recommend what we would recommend anyway; a commission never buys a place on a page.

To credit a booking to us, the affiliate network sets a cookie in your browser when you click the link. This site does not run their tracking code on its own pages; the cookie is set on their side, after you leave. The networks we use are CJ Affiliate (for Booking.com) and the Trip.com affiliate programme. You can stop this by blocking third-party cookies in your browser, or by clearing cookies after you click.

Hosting and logs

The site is served by a third-party hosting provider, which keeps standard server logs (IP address, request time, user agent) for security and reliability. These logs are not used to build reader profiles.

Children

This site is written for a general audience and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect information from them.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes we will update the date at the top of this page. Questions, or a request about your data? Email info@yokailore.com.