This policy covers primehotelpicks.com, a small independent site run by Sushant Kumar. It is written to describe what the site actually does rather than to cover every situation a template might imagine.
The short version
- There is no account system, no newsletter and no contact form. There is nothing to sign up for.
- Nothing is sold to anyone.
- No advertising or analytics cookies are set unless you press Accept on the consent banner.
- If you email me, I keep the email so I can reply.
Advertising
This site carries Google AdSense display advertising. The AdSense script is loaded by every page on this site, on every visit, before you interact with the cookie banner. That is stated plainly because an earlier version of this policy claimed the opposite, and it was wrong.
What your answer to the banner does control is personalisation. The site reads your stored choice before the ad script runs:
- Decline, or ignore the banner: ads are requested as non-personalised. Google is told not to use your prior browsing to select them. This is the default, so doing nothing is the private option.
- Accept: ads are requested as personalised, and Google and its partners may use cookies based on your prior visits to this and other sites.
Changing your mind reloads the page, because the setting is applied before the ad script starts and cannot be changed part-way through a page view. You can also opt out of personalised advertising for every site at once through Google's Ads Settings, and you can read how Google handles data from partner sites at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Non-personalised does not mean cookie-free. Google may still set cookies for frequency capping, aggregate reporting and fraud prevention. If you want none of it, block third-party cookies for this site in your browser or use a content blocker; nothing here will try to defeat that.
Cookies and local storage
This site itself stores one item in your browser's local storage: your
answer to the cookie banner, recorded as either accepted or
declined. That is what stops the banner reappearing on every
page, and what the ad-personalisation setting is read from. It contains no
identifier and is readable only by this site.
Cookies set by Google's advertising script are described in Google's own policies, linked above. Clearing site data for primehotelpicks.com in your browser removes the stored answer, and the banner will appear again on your next visit.
Server logs
Like almost all websites, the hosting server records standard request logs: IP address, timestamp, the page requested, referring page and browser user agent. These are generated by the web server, are used for security and for diagnosing faults, and are not combined with anything else to identify individual visitors.
Fonts and external requests
Typefaces are loaded from Google Fonts, which means your browser makes a request to fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com and Google receives your IP address as part of that request. Photographs, stylesheets and scripts are served from this site's own domain.
If you write to webmedia263@gmail.com, I keep the message and your address so I can reply and so there is a record of any correction made. Addresses are not added to any mailing list and are not shared. Ask me to delete our correspondence and I will.
What this site does not do
- No accounts, logins or passwords.
- No newsletter and no email collection forms.
- No payment processing. Nothing is sold here.
- No selling, renting or trading of personal information.
- No social media tracking pixels.
Affiliate links
Some outbound booking links may be affiliate links. Following one takes you to a third-party site which may set its own cookies to attribute the referral. That site's privacy policy governs from that point, not this one.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct or delete personal data held about you, and to object to processing. Given that this site holds essentially nothing beyond server logs and any email you have chosen to send, exercising these is usually straightforward. Write to webmedia263@gmail.com.
Children
This site is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect information from them.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top of the page changes with it. The most likely future change is the removal of the wording noting that AdSense is not yet active, at the point it becomes active.
Contact
Questions about this policy go to webmedia263@gmail.com.