Privacy Policy

What this site collects

When you use the planning form at Plan Your Tour, you choose what to share. This may include your name, email, optional phone number, travel dates, group details, preferred language, interests, accessibility or family needs, budget range, and notes. The form may also record the page or campaign that brought you to it.

Why it is used

The information is used to review your inquiry, understand whether the requested tour is a good fit, prepare a proposal when relevant, communicate with you, and manage any resulting booking. Providing the information is voluntary, but Ari may be unable to respond or plan accurately without the essential contact and trip details.

Storage and service providers

Form submissions are delivered to Ari and processed using private Google services. The website and its communications also rely on hosting, email, and other technical providers acting on behalf of the business. These providers may process data in other countries under their own security and privacy safeguards. Information is not sold or shared with advertisers.

Analytics and local storage

If analytics is enabled, it is used to understand aggregate page visits and interactions. Inquiry text, email addresses, phone numbers, and answers about religious, political, accessibility, or other personal context are not intentionally sent to analytics tools. The site may use temporary browser storage to preserve form progress or carry a tour selection into the planning form.

To count visits, the site uses Vercel Web Analytics, run by Vercel Inc., the company that hosts the site. It does not use cookies and does not identify you. For each page view it records only the page, the site you came from, an approximate location (country and city), and the type of device, operating system and browser. Visits are told apart by a temporary code derived from the request, which Vercel discards after 24 hours, and the results are only shown in aggregate. The basis for this is the legitimate interest in understanding, in aggregate, how the site is used. Google Analytics (GA4) remains optional and only runs if you accept analytics cookies.

If you arrive through a link from someone who recommends us (for example, a creator on YouTube), the site keeps a random visit code, such as M-7K4Q, in your browser for up to 90 days. It records that code in our own Google spreadsheet together with the page you opened, the language, the type of device and the site you came from. It does not include your name, contact details or IP address. If you then write to us, the code travels in your message so we can thank the person who recommended us. If you decline cookies, the code is not kept after you leave the page.

Retention and security

Inquiry and booking information is kept only for as long as reasonably needed to respond, provide the requested service, maintain business records, and meet legal or accounting obligations. Reasonable safeguards are used, but no internet transmission or storage system can be guaranteed completely secure.

No mailing list

This site does not currently operate an email newsletter or marketing list. Your contact details are used for your inquiry and any resulting booking, not for unrelated advertising.

Contact

Questions about this policy: hello@echoesoftheland.co.