Privacy Policy

Effective date: August 1, 2026
Last updated: August 1, 2026

Travel Stay Guide respects your privacy and is committed to handling personal information responsibly and transparently.

This Privacy Policy explains how Travel Stay Guide collects, uses, stores, shares, and protects information when you visit our website, subscribe to our communications, contact us, or otherwise interact with our services.

In this Privacy Policy, “Travel Stay Guide,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Travel Stay Guide. “You” and “your” refer to visitors, subscribers, and other users of the website.

By using Travel Stay Guide, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Who We Are

Travel Stay Guide is an independent travel information website that publishes accommodation research, hotel recommendations, neighborhood comparisons, destination guides, itineraries, transportation information, and trip-planning resources.

The party responsible for the personal information described in this Privacy Policy is:

Travel Stay Guide
Website: https://travelstayguide.com
Email: contact@travelstayguide.com

Where applicable, this party acts as the data controller or business responsible for determining how and why personal information is processed.

2. Information We Collect

The information we collect depends on how you interact with the website and which services are enabled.

Information You Provide Directly

You may voluntarily provide information when you:

• Contact us by email or through a contact form
• Subscribe to a newsletter or mailing list
• Submit feedback, corrections, or suggestions
• Respond to a survey
• Enter a promotion or giveaway
• Submit a partnership, advertising, or media inquiry
• Communicate with us for another reason

This information may include:

• Your name
• Your email address
• Your organization or business name
• Your website address
• The content of your message
• Information you choose to include in an inquiry
• Your communication and subscription preferences

Please do not send passwords, full payment-card details, passport information, booking credentials, medical records, or other unnecessary sensitive information.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit Travel Stay Guide, our website and service providers may automatically collect certain technical and usage information, including:

• Internet Protocol address
• Browser type and version
• Device type and operating system
• Language and time-zone settings
• Approximate location derived from an IP address
• Referring website or source
• Pages viewed and links clicked
• Date, time, and duration of visits
• Navigation paths and interactions
• Cookie identifiers and similar technical identifiers
• Website performance, error, and security information

This information may be collected through server logs, cookies, pixels, local storage, software development kits, and similar technologies.

Information From Third Parties

We may receive information from third-party services involved in operating or supporting the website.

These services may include:

• Website hosting providers
• Analytics providers
• Email and newsletter platforms
• Advertising networks
• Affiliate marketing platforms
• Booking and travel partners
• Spam-prevention and security services
• Social-media platforms
• Embedded video, map, or content providers

For example, an affiliate platform may tell us that a link generated a booking or qualifying transaction. We may receive transaction identifiers, general booking information, commission information, or aggregated reports, but we normally do not receive complete payment-card details from the booking provider.

3. How We Use Information

We may use personal information to:

• Operate, maintain, and secure the website
• Respond to questions, feedback, and correction requests
• Send newsletters or other requested communications
• Manage subscriptions and communication preferences
• Understand how visitors find and use the website
• Measure website traffic, content performance, and audience engagement
• Improve our articles, recommendations, website design, and services
• Detect fraud, spam, misuse, technical problems, and security threats
• Measure affiliate referrals and advertising performance
• Administer partnerships, promotions, or business relationships
• Maintain internal records
• Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims
• Comply with legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or contractual obligations
• Carry out another purpose disclosed when information is collected

We will not use personal information for a materially different purpose without providing appropriate notice or obtaining consent where required.

4. Legal Bases for Processing

Where laws such as the European Union General Data Protection Regulation or the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation apply, we may rely on one or more of the following legal bases:

Consent

We may rely on your consent for activities such as:

• Sending optional marketing emails
• Using non-essential cookies
• Personalizing advertising
• Collecting information for a purpose you have specifically approved

You may withdraw consent at any time. Withdrawal does not affect processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.

Legitimate Interests

We may process information when reasonably necessary for legitimate interests such as:

• Operating and improving the website
• Understanding website performance
• Protecting the website against fraud and misuse
• Responding to communications
• Maintaining business and editorial records
• Measuring the general effectiveness of our content

We consider whether these interests are outweighed by your rights and interests before relying on this basis.

Contractual Necessity

We may process information when necessary to provide a service you requested or to take steps before entering into an agreement with you.

Legal Obligations

We may process and retain information when necessary to comply with applicable laws, regulations, court orders, tax requirements, or lawful government requests.

5. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Travel Stay Guide may use cookies and similar technologies to operate the website, remember preferences, analyze traffic, measure referrals, display content, and support advertising.

Cookies are small files placed on or accessed from your browser or device. Similar technologies may include pixels, tags, local storage, and software identifiers.

Essential Cookies

These technologies are necessary for basic website functions, security, network management, fraud prevention, or remembering privacy choices.

Because they are required for services requested by the user or for website security, they may not always be subject to optional consent.

Preference Cookies

Preference technologies may remember choices such as language, region, display settings, or previously selected options.

Analytics Cookies

Analytics technologies help us understand matters such as:

• How many people visit the website
• Which pages are viewed
• How visitors reach the website
• How visitors navigate between pages
• Whether technical errors occur
• Which content is useful or engaging

Analytics information may be aggregated or associated with device and browser identifiers.

Advertising Cookies

Where advertising is enabled, advertising partners may use cookies or similar technologies to:

• Display advertisements
• Limit how often an advertisement appears
• Measure advertising performance
• Understand interactions with advertisements
• Select or personalize advertisements, where permitted

Personalized advertising technologies will only be used with consent where consent is legally required.

Affiliate Tracking

When you click an affiliate link, the relevant affiliate platform or booking provider may use cookies, link identifiers, or similar technologies to determine whether the referral results in a qualifying booking or purchase.

6. Analytics Services

We may use third-party analytics services to understand website use and improve our content.

Analytics providers may process information such as IP addresses, device information, page views, referral sources, and interactions with the website.

Delete this section or revise it if Travel Stay Guide does not use an analytics service.

7. Advertising

Travel Stay Guide may display advertising supplied by third-party advertising partners.

Advertising providers may collect information through cookies, pixels, or similar technologies to measure advertisements and, where permitted, select advertisements based on interests or previous online activity.

Where required, non-essential advertising technologies will not be activated until the visitor has provided appropriate consent.

Delete this section if the website does not display third-party advertising.

8. Affiliate Links

Travel Stay Guide may participate in affiliate marketing programs.

Some links to hotels, booking platforms, travel services, products, or other third-party websites may contain affiliate tracking identifiers. If you click one of these links and complete a qualifying transaction, we may receive a commission or other benefit.

Affiliate partners may collect information according to their own privacy policies. Travel Stay Guide does not control the information collected directly by a booking platform or merchant after you leave our website.

9. Email and Newsletter Communications

When you subscribe to a newsletter, we may collect your email address, subscription status, consent record, and information about interactions with our emails.

We may use an email service provider to:

• Store subscriber information
• Send newsletters
• Process subscription requests
• Record consent
• Measure email delivery and engagement
• Prevent abuse

10. Contact Forms and Direct Communications

When you contact us, we may use the information you provide to:

• Review and respond to your message
• Investigate a correction request
• Evaluate a business proposal
• Protect against spam or abuse
• Maintain records of important communications
• Establish or defend legal rights

Contact-form submissions may be processed by our website host, email provider, form provider, spam-detection service, or other technical service providers.

Submitting a message does not create a confidential, professional, agency, or advisory relationship.

11. Embedded Content and Social Media

Articles may include content embedded from third-party websites, such as:

• Maps
• Videos
• Social-media posts
• Booking tools
• Search widgets
• Photographs
• Interactive content

Embedded content may operate as though you visited the third-party website directly. The provider may collect technical information, set cookies, monitor interactions, or associate activity with an existing account.

These providers process information according to their own privacy policies. Where required, optional embedded content may be blocked until consent is provided.

12. How We Share Information

We may share personal information only as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

Service Providers

We may share information with companies that provide services such as:

• Website hosting
• Content delivery
• Website security
• Analytics
• Email delivery
• Contact-form processing
• Data storage and backup
• Advertising
• Affiliate tracking
• Technical support
• Legal, accounting, or professional services

Service providers may process information only for authorized purposes and subject to applicable contractual and legal obligations.

Advertising and Affiliate Partners

Where advertising or affiliate services are used, limited technical, referral, or transaction information may be shared with the relevant partners.

Legal and Safety Reasons

We may disclose information when we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to:

• Comply with applicable law or a lawful request
• Respond to a court order or legal process
• Protect the rights, safety, or property of Travel Stay Guide or others
• Investigate fraud, abuse, or security incidents
• Enforce our Terms of Use
• Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims

Business Transfers

Information may be disclosed or transferred as part of a merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, sale of assets, or similar business transaction.

Where appropriate, the recipient will be required to handle the information consistently with applicable law and this Privacy Policy.

With Your Direction or Consent

We may share information when you ask us to do so or provide consent for a specific disclosure.

13. Sale and Sharing of Personal Information

Travel Stay Guide does not sell personal information in exchange for money.

However, certain uses of advertising, analytics, or cross-context behavioral advertising technologies may be treated as a “sale,” “sharing,” or targeted advertising under some privacy laws, even when no money is exchanged.

Where applicable, you may opt out through:

• Our cookie-consent tool
• A “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link
• A recognized browser-based opt-out preference signal
• A request sent to contact@travelstayguide.com

Before publishing this section, confirm whether any of the website’s advertising, analytics, or affiliate arrangements are legally classified as a sale or sharing of personal information.

14. Global Privacy Control

Where required by applicable law and supported by our systems, Travel Stay Guide will process recognized browser-based opt-out preference signals, such as Global Privacy Control, as a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information for that browser or device.

Because these signals may not identify you by name or apply across every browser and device, you may need to set the preference separately on each browser or device you use.

15. International Data Transfers

Travel Stay Guide and its service providers may process or store information in countries other than the country in which you live.

Privacy and data-protection laws in those countries may differ from those in your jurisdiction.

Where required, we will use an appropriate transfer mechanism or safeguard, which may include:

• An adequacy decision
• Approved standard contractual clauses
• Contractual data-protection requirements
• Another legally recognized transfer mechanism

You may contact us for additional information about safeguards applicable to your personal information.

16. Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

Retention periods may depend on:

• The reason the information was collected
• Whether you maintain a subscription or ongoing relationship with us
• The need to respond to inquiries
• Security, fraud-prevention, and operational requirements
• Legal, accounting, tax, and reporting obligations
• Applicable limitation periods
• The establishment or defense of legal claims

When information is no longer needed, we may delete it, anonymize it, or isolate it from further use.

Backups may retain deleted information temporarily until they are overwritten through normal backup processes.

17. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, loss, or misuse.

These measures may include:

• Encrypted website connections
• Access controls
• Software and security updates
• Secure hosting
• Account authentication
• Backups
• Spam and malware protection
• Restricted access to administrative systems

No internet transmission or storage system is completely secure. We therefore cannot guarantee absolute security.

You are responsible for protecting your own devices, accounts, and communications when using the internet.

18. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live and which laws apply, you may have some or all of the following rights:

• To know whether we process your personal information
• To receive information about how it is collected and used
• To request access to personal information
• To request a copy of personal information
• To request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information
• To request deletion of information
• To request restriction of certain processing
• To object to certain processing
• To withdraw consent
• To request data portability
• To opt out of direct marketing
• To opt out of the sale, sharing, or use of information for targeted advertising
• To limit certain uses of sensitive personal information
• To lodge a complaint with an appropriate supervisory authority
• To receive equal service and not be unlawfully discriminated against for exercising a privacy right

These rights are not absolute. Applicable law may permit or require us to refuse or limit a request in certain circumstances.

19. Exercising Your Rights

To submit a privacy request, contact us at:

Email: contact@travelstayguide.com

Please include:

• Your name
• The email address connected with your interaction
• The right you wish to exercise
• Enough information for us to locate relevant records
• Your country or state of residence, when needed to determine applicable rights

We may need to verify your identity before completing a request. We will request only information reasonably necessary for verification.

Where permitted, you may use an authorized agent to submit a request. We may require evidence that the agent has authority to act for you.

We will respond within the period required by applicable law. If additional time is permitted and reasonably necessary, we will inform you.

20. Rights of Visitors in the EEA and United Kingdom

Where European or United Kingdom data-protection law applies, you may have rights relating to access, correction, erasure, restriction, portability, objection, and withdrawal of consent.

You may also submit a complaint to the data-protection authority in the country where you live, work, or believe an infringement occurred.

Our contact for data-protection inquiries is:

Email: contact@travelstayguide.com

21. Notice for California Residents

If Travel Stay Guide is subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act or another applicable California privacy law, California residents may have rights including:

• The right to know about personal information collected, used, disclosed, sold, or shared
• The right to access certain personal information
• The right to request deletion
• The right to request correction
• The right to opt out of sale or sharing
• The right to limit certain uses of sensitive personal information
• The right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising a privacy right

During the preceding 12 months, Travel Stay Guide may have collected the categories described in the “Information We Collect” section, depending on the services that were active.

We may disclose identifiers, internet activity, device information, referral information, and related data to service providers and, where applicable, advertising, analytics, or affiliate partners for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

Travel Stay Guide does not knowingly sell or share the personal information of consumers under 16 years of age.

22. Notice for Taiwan Residents

Where Taiwan’s Personal Data Protection Act applies, you may have rights regarding personal information held by Travel Stay Guide, subject to applicable exceptions.

These may include the right to:

• Inquire about or review your personal information
• Request a copy
• Request supplementation or correction
• Request that collection, processing, or use be stopped
• Request deletion

You may submit a request using the contact information in the “Exercising Your Rights” section.

Before collecting information directly from you, we will provide notices required by applicable law, including the purpose of collection, categories of information, period and area of use, recipients or users, methods of use, applicable rights, and possible consequences of declining to provide requested information, where required.

23. Children’s Privacy

Travel Stay Guide is intended for a general travel-planning audience and is not directed to children under 13 years of age or another minimum age established by applicable law.

We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children below the applicable minimum age without legally valid parental authorization.

If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, please contact contact@travelstayguide.com. We will review the request and delete the information where required.

Parents and guardians should supervise children’s internet use and advise them not to submit personal information without permission.

24. Third-Party Websites

Travel Stay Guide contains links to third-party websites, including hotels, booking platforms, airlines, tour providers, tourism organizations, restaurants, map services, and other travel-related businesses.

This Privacy Policy does not govern third-party websites.

We do not control and are not responsible for their:

• Information-collection practices
• Cookies or tracking technologies
• Data security
• Privacy policies
• Payment processing
• Account systems
• Marketing communications

You should review the privacy policy of each third-party service before providing information or completing a booking.

25. Do Not Track

Some browsers offer a “Do Not Track” setting.

Because there is not a universally applied method for interpreting all Do Not Track signals, our website may not respond to every such signal unless required by applicable law.

This does not affect our treatment of legally recognized opt-out preference signals where we are required to honor them.

26. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when:

• Our website or services change
• We introduce a new provider or technology
• Our information-handling practices change
• Applicable legal or regulatory requirements change

The “Last updated” date at the top of this page will show when the policy was most recently revised.

Where required, we may provide additional notice of material changes through the website, by email, or by requesting renewed consent.

You should review this Privacy Policy periodically.

27. Contact Us

For questions, requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our handling of personal information, please contact:

Travel Stay Guide
Privacy email: contact@travelstayguide.com

For general inquiries unrelated to privacy, please visit our Contact Us page.