Privacy and Cookie Policy

At DepartureGuides.com it is our promise to respect your privacy in accordance with the following guidelines.

Personal Information and Email Address

We collect no personally identifiable information from you except what you provide voluntarily when contacting us, registering on our site, subscribing to our newsletter, entering a contest or promotion or completing a poll. We will only use the information you provide to correspond with you regarding matters relating to your use of the website, or to administer a contest, promotion or survey, or send a newsletter to which you have subscribed. If you contact us via email or subscribe to our email newsletter, we will never share your email address with any third party. We will not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties any personally identifiable information you provide us. Our email newsletters provide a link for unsubscribing at any time.

Cookies and Advertising

Cookies are small text files that your internet browser stores on your hard disk when you browse a website. These files are safe and have been in use since 1995. They can be used to store information about your last visit to a website, such as logins, filling forms, shopping cart contents, pages you visited and ads viewed. This information can save you time by not having to login or fill forms each time you visit a site. They can also be used to personalize ads based on your interests.

Departure Guides uses cookies via third parties to provide social media features, and from Google Analytics to analyze our website traffic.

We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us if , on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before.

We use Google Analytics, a web analysis service supplied by Google Inc. (“Google”). In turn, Google Analytics uses “cookies” in order to analyze your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is normally transferred to a Google server in the USA, where it is saved. Your IP address is abbreviated before transmission to Google. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google uses this information to analyze your use of the website, to compile reports on the website activities, and to provide other services for the website operator related to the use of the website and internet usage. The IP address identified from your browser by Google Analytics will not be merged with other data collected by Google.

You can find further information about the conditions of use and data protection under Google’s Privacy Policy.

Travel Payouts White Label Affiliate Site

We feature a hotel and flight search forms, search maps, and hotel deal widgets on our site. These link to our white label subdomain – deals.departureguides.com. This subdomain is part of the Travel Payouts affiliate program, a 3rd party website. It is governed by a separate privacy policy and cookie policy where you can also view a full list of the cookies that they use.

You can turn off cookies in most web browsers via the privacy settings under options. For a more detailed description of cookies including specific directions for controlling and deleting cookies in different browsers visit AboutCookies.org.

Third party links and services

At our discretion, we may include or offer or promote third party products or services on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites. We also use API’s to generate some of the content on our site. We utilize the Google Maps and Google Places API to provide maps and reviews. We do not collect or store any data that may be obtained by using these services, however, you should refer to the Google Privacy Center for more information on how Google may use data collected during the use of these services.

Terms of Use

Please visit our Terms of use section for information on the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of our website.

Your Consent

By using our site, you consent to our website privacy policy.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

If we change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page.

Contacting Us

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, please refer to our Contact Us page.