Privacy & Cookie Policy

Effective Date: 10/30/2025

Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy & Cookie Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your information when you visit this blog.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect the following types of information:

Personal information you provide: If you subscribe to our newsletter, leave comments, or contact us, we may collect your name and email address.
Non-personal information: We automatically collect data about your device, browser, pages visited, and IP address.

2. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Our website uses cookies and similar technologies to enhance your experience:

Necessary Cookies: Required for website functionality (e.g., login sessions, site navigation).
Analytics Cookies: Used to understand how visitors interact with the blog. We use Google Analytics to measure pageviews, traffic sources, and performance.
Third-party Cookies: Some embedded content (like videos) may use cookies from other providers.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the collected information to:

Improve the website’s content and usability.
Analyze traffic and visitor behavior using Google Analytics.
Respond to comments, questions, or inquiries.
Comply with legal obligations.

4. Sharing Your Information

We do not sell or rent your personal information. We may share data with:

Service providers who help operate the site (e.g., hosting, analytics).
Legal authorities if required by law.

5. Your Rights (EU/UK Visitors)

If you are located in the EU/UK, you have the following rights under GDPR:

Consent: You can choose to accept or reject non-essential cookies.
Access: Request access to the personal data we hold about you.
Correction: Request corrections to your personal data.
Deletion: Request that your personal data be deleted.

You can change or withdraw your cookie consent at any time by clicking the “Cookie Settings” button on our site.

6. Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to collect anonymous information about your visit. This includes:

Pages viewed
Time spent on the site
Browser and device type

Analytics data is anonymous and does not identify individual users.

7. Third-Party Links

Our blog may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these websites. Please review their privacy policies separately.

8. Data Security

We implement reasonable security measures to protect your information. However, no method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure.

9. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy & Cookie Policy from time to time. The effective date will be updated. We encourage you to review this page periodically.

10. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this policy or your data, please contact us at:

Email: thethoroughtripper@gmail.com

Website: thethoroughtripper@gmail.com

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

IP Address
Operating System type
Operating System version
Device Type
Language of the website
Web browser type
Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.