Privacy Policy

Last Updated: May 7th, 2025

At Char Across the World, your privacy is important. This policy explains what data we collect, how we use it, and what choices you have.

Who We Are

This website is owned and operated by Charlotte. The purpose of this blog is to share travel tips, personal experiences, and helpful guides.

What Data We Collect and Why

Website Analytics

We use two analytics tools to understand how people use this website:

  • Google Analytics 4: This collects data such as your location, browser, pages visited, and time spent on site. It may also include demographic and interest data (like age and gender), if available. This helps us improve content and better understand our audience.
  • Koko Analytics: A privacy-friendly tool that tracks page views and referrers without using cookies or sharing data with third parties.

These tools help us improve your experience, for example, by learning which posts are popular or whether mobile users need a better layout.

You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking using tools like Google’s Opt-Out Browser Add-on.

Cookies

We use cookies to:

  • Understand how you interact with the site
  • Remember your preferences (e.g., consent settings)
  • Track affiliate link performance

We only use non-essential cookies (like those from Google Analytics) after you provide consent. You can manage or withdraw this consent anytime via our cookie banner.

Affiliate Links and Partnerships

Some links on this site are affiliate links. This means if you click and purchase something, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. We only recommend products or services we truly believe in.

We track affiliate clicks anonymously to understand which recommendations are most helpful. No personally identifiable information is collected in this process.

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.

Embedded Content

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.

Where Your Data is Sent

Visitor comments are checked through an automated spam detection service.