This Cookie Policy explains how TourGenuity (“we,” “us,” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit https://tourgenuity.com.
This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your browser or device when you visit a website.
Cookies can help a website:
- Operate correctly
- Remember visitor preferences
- Maintain security
- Understand how visitors use the website
- Personalize content and features
- Measure affiliate referrals
- Deliver and measure advertising
Similar technologies may include local storage, tracking pixels, scripts, tags, and web beacons. References to “cookies” in this policy include these similar technologies where appropriate.
2. Types of Cookies We Use
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies support essential website functions, including:
- Website security
- Network management
- Cookie-consent preferences
- Contact-form protection
- Spam prevention
- Basic website functionality
These cookies may be placed without consent where permitted because the website may not function correctly without them.
Analytics Cookies
TourGenuity uses Google Analytics to understand how visitors find and use the website.
Analytics cookies may collect information such as:
- Pages viewed
- Time spent on pages
- Approximate location
- Browser and device type
- Operating system
- Referral source
- Website interactions
- General traffic patterns
We use this information to improve our travel guides, website navigation, performance, and visitor experience.
Where required by law, analytics cookies are used only after you provide consent.
Preference and Personalization Cookies
These cookies may remember your preferences or help us personalize content and website features based on your interests or previous interactions.
Personalization may include:
- Remembering selected preferences
- Displaying more relevant travel content
- Improving website navigation
- Tailoring certain recommendations or features
Where required, we ask for consent before using preference or personalization cookies.
Affiliate Cookies
Some TourGenuity articles contain affiliate links to GetYourGuide and Klook.
When you click an affiliate link, the provider or its affiliate-technology partner may place a cookie or use a similar identifier. This allows the provider to recognise that TourGenuity referred you if you later complete an eligible booking or purchase.
TourGenuity may receive a commission from an eligible booking without increasing the price you pay.
GetYourGuide, Klook, and their technology providers determine the duration of their cookies and process information according to their own privacy and cookie policies.
Advertising Cookies
TourGenuity may display advertisements through Google AdSense or another advertising partner.
When advertising is enabled, advertising cookies may be used to:
- Deliver advertisements
- Personalize advertisements where permitted
- Show non-personalized advertisements
- Limit how frequently an advertisement appears
- Measure advertisement performance
- Produce aggregated advertising reports
- Detect invalid traffic, fraud, and abuse
Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve advertisements based on your previous visits to TourGenuity or other websites.
Google’s use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve advertisements based on visits to TourGenuity and other websites on the Internet.
3. Third-Party Services
Cookies or similar technologies may be used by the following services.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics helps us understand website traffic, visitor interactions, and website performance.
Information processed by Google is subject to Google’s own privacy policies and controls.
Google AdSense
When Google AdSense is enabled, Google may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, and similar technologies to deliver, secure, personalize, and measure advertisements.
The use of personalized advertising depends on your location, consent choices, and applicable law.
GetYourGuide
GetYourGuide may use cookies or similar technologies after you follow a GetYourGuide affiliate link. These technologies help attribute an eligible booking or purchase to TourGenuity.
Klook
Klook may use cookies or similar technologies after you follow a Klook affiliate link. These technologies help attribute an eligible booking or purchase to TourGenuity.
Website Hosting, Security, and Anti-Spam Services
Our hosting, website-security, contact-form, and anti-spam providers may use essential cookies or process limited technical information to operate and protect the website.
Third-party providers control their own cookies and may change their technologies over time. Their processing of information is governed by their respective policies.
4. Cookie Consent
Where required by law, TourGenuity asks for your consent before placing non-essential cookies, including certain:
- Analytics cookies
- Personalization cookies
- Affiliate tracking cookies
- Advertising cookies
Our cookie-consent message allows eligible visitors to accept, reject, or manage available cookie categories.
Strictly necessary cookies may remain active because they are required for website security and basic functionality.
5. Changing or Withdrawing Consent
You can change or withdraw your cookie choices at any time through the Cookie Settings link available on TourGenuity.
Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that occurred before you withdrew it.
If you clear your browser cookies, TourGenuity may no longer remember your previous choice, and the cookie-consent message may appear again.
6. European Advertising Consent
When required for visitors in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland, TourGenuity uses a Google-certified consent-management platform compatible with applicable Google publisher requirements.
The consent platform may ask whether information can be:
- Stored on or accessed from your device
- Used for personalized advertising
- Used for advertising measurement
- Used for audience research
- Used to develop and improve services
- Shared with approved advertising providers
Your available choices may depend on your location and the advertising services active on the website.
7. Google Advertising Choices
You can manage Google’s use of information for personalized advertising at:
Google Ads Settings:
https://adssettings.google.com/
Additional advertising opt-out choices may be available at:
YourAdChoices:
https://www.aboutads.info/choices/
Choosing non-personalized advertising does not always prevent all advertising-related cookies.
Limited cookies or identifiers may still be used where permitted for:
- Website and advertisement security
- Fraud and abuse prevention
- Frequency capping
- Aggregated reporting
- Advertisement delivery
8. Google Analytics Choices
Where available, you can use the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on:
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
You may also reject analytics cookies through TourGenuity’s cookie-consent controls where that option is available.
9. Managing Cookies Through Your Browser
Most web browsers allow you to:
- View stored cookies
- Delete cookies
- Block cookies from selected websites
- Block third-party cookies
- Block all cookies
- Receive a warning before a cookie is stored
Browser controls vary. Consult your browser’s help documentation for instructions.
Blocking all cookies may affect:
- Website security
- Consent preferences
- Contact-form protection
- Personalization
- Other website functions
10. How Long Cookies Remain
Cookies may be either session cookies or persistent cookies.
Session Cookies
Session cookies normally expire when you close your browser.
Persistent Cookies
Persistent cookies remain for a defined period or until you delete them.
The duration of third-party cookies is determined by the relevant provider. We aim to use cookies only for as long as reasonably necessary for their stated purpose.
You can remove stored cookies at any time through your browser settings.
11. Do Not Track Signals
Some browsers provide a “Do Not Track” setting. There is currently no universally accepted standard for responding to all Do Not Track signals.
Where applicable privacy laws provide specific opt-out rights, you can exercise those rights through our cookie-consent controls or by contacting us.
12. Updates to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when:
- Our website technology changes
- We introduce new services or features
- We add or remove third-party providers
- Advertising becomes active
- Applicable legal or regulatory requirements change
The latest version will be published on this page with a revised “Last Updated” date.
13. Contact Us
If you have questions about our use of cookies or your privacy choices, contact:
TourGenuity
Website: https://tourgenuity.com
Email: [email protected]
