Who we are
Our website address is: http://rhonaroams.com.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer, tablet or mobile device when you visit a website.
They help websites recognise your device, remember certain preferences and understand how visitors interact with different pages.
Some cookies are essential for a website to work properly, while others help website owners understand website traffic, measure performance and provide relevant content.
How We Use Cookies
We may use cookies for the following purposes:
1. Essential Cookies
These cookies are necessary for our website to function correctly. They help with basic website features, security and navigation.
Essential cookies cannot generally be switched off through our website’s cookie settings because the website may not function properly without them.
2. Analytics and Performance Cookies
We may use analytics services, such as Google Analytics, to understand how visitors use Rhona Roams.
These cookies can help us understand:
- How many people visit our website.
- Which travel guides and blog posts are most popular.
- How visitors find our website.
- How long visitors spend browsing our content.
- Which pages and features could be improved.
We use this information to improve our website and create more useful travel content.
3. Affiliate Cookies
Some of our blog posts contain affiliate links to third-party websites and booking platforms.
These may include accommodation providers, travel booking websites and tour operators.
If you click on an affiliate link, the relevant third-party website may use cookies to track your visit and determine whether a booking or purchase was made.
This allows us to receive a small commission if you make a qualifying booking or purchase through certain links, at no additional cost to you.
4. Third-Party Cookies
Some content on our website may come from third-party services, such as embedded maps, videos, social media platforms or external booking websites.
These third parties may use their own cookies or similar tracking technologies when you interact with their content.
We do not control the cookies used by these external websites. We recommend checking their individual privacy and cookie policies for further information.
How to Manage Your Cookie Preferences
You can accept all cookies, reject non-essential cookies or manage your preferences.
You can also change your cookie preferences at any time through your browser settings.
Most internet browsers allow you to:
- View which cookies are stored on your device.
- Delete existing cookies.
- Block cookies from specific websites.
- Block all cookies.
Please be aware that disabling certain cookies may affect how some parts of our website function.
How Long Are Cookies Stored?
Some cookies are temporary and are automatically deleted when you close your browser. These are known as session cookies.
Other cookies remain on your device for a set period or until you delete them. These are known as persistent cookies.
The length of time cookies remain on your device depends on their purpose and the third-party services involved.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our website, the cookies we use or relevant legal requirements.
Any updates will be published on this page, with the revised date shown at the top.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or how cookies are used on our website, you can contact us through the contact page on Rhona Roams.
Website: https://rhonaroams.com
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.