Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how Trips Unpacked uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit this website.

Trips Unpacked is a travel guide website that provides routes, itineraries, destination guides, maps, practical travel notes, and related content.

This Cookie Policy should be read together with the Privacy Policy.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They help websites work properly, remember your preferences, understand how visitors use the site, and sometimes support features such as analytics, advertising, embedded videos, maps, and social media content.

Cookies may be placed by:

• Trips Unpacked - first-party cookies
• Third-party services - third-party cookies, such as analytics providers, video platforms, map providers, or advertising services

Similar technologies may include pixels, tags, scripts, local storage, tracking links, and device identifiers.

Why this website uses cookies

Trips Unpacked may use cookies and similar technologies to:

• make the website work properly
• remember your cookie preferences
• improve website speed, layout, and user experience
• understand which travel guides and pages are useful
• measure website traffic and performance
• protect the website from spam, abuse, and security risks
• display embedded content such as videos, maps, or social media posts
• measure or improve advertising, if advertising is enabled

Types of cookies used

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are required for the website to function correctly. They may be used for security, page loading, cookie consent storage, forms, or basic website functionality.

These cookies cannot usually be disabled through the cookie banner because the website may not work properly without them.

Examples:

• cookie consent preference storage
• security cookies
• session cookies
• form protection

Analytics cookies

Analytics cookies show how visitors use the website. They may collect information such as pages visited, time on page, device type, browser type, approximate location, and referring websites.

This information is used to improve the travel guides, website design, content structure, and user experience.

Examples may include:

• Google Analytics
• privacy-friendly analytics tools
• website performance tools

Where required by law, analytics cookies will only be used after you give consent.

Embedded content cookies

This website may include embedded content from third-party platforms.

Examples:

• YouTube videos
• Google Maps

Embedded content may behave as if you visited the third-party website directly. These third parties may collect data, use cookies, track your interaction, or combine the information with your account if you are logged in to their service.

Marketing and advertising cookies

If advertising or retargeting is enabled in the future, marketing cookies may be used to:

• measure ad performance
• show relevant ads
• limit repeated ads
• understand whether users interact with ads
• support advertising platforms or pixels

These cookies are non-essential and, where required by law, will only be used with your consent.

Examples may include:

• Google Ads
• display advertising networks

Named third-party services (Google)

This website uses the following Google services, each provided by Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland). Data these services collect may be transferred to and processed by Google outside the EEA under Google's own safeguards.

• Google Analytics (GA4) - measures how visitors use the site (pages viewed, approximate location, device and browser, time on page). It sets cookies and is loaded only after you accept analytics cookies; IP addresses are anonymised. See Google's Privacy Policy and how Google uses information from sites that use its services.
• Google AdSense - displays advertising. It may set cookies and use identifiers to measure and, with your consent, personalise ads. Advertising cookies are used only after you accept marketing cookies; without consent you may still see non-personalised ads. See how Google uses cookies in advertising.
• YouTube - some guides embed YouTube videos. They load from youtube-nocookie.com and only after you click play or accept embedded-content cookies. Once loaded, YouTube may set cookies. See Google's Privacy Policy.

This website uses Google Consent Mode: these services default to a no-consent state and only store or read cookies after you accept the matching cookie category in the banner.

Third-party cookies

Some cookies on this website may be placed by third-party services. Trips Unpacked does not control all third-party cookies.

Third-party services may include:

• analytics providers
• map providers
• video platforms
• booking platforms
• advertising networks
• social media platforms

You should review the privacy and cookie policies of those third-party services to understand how they use your data.

Cookie consent

When you first visit this website, you may see a cookie banner that allows you to:

• accept all cookies
• reject non-essential cookies
• manage cookie preferences

Strictly necessary cookies may always remain active because they are needed for the website to work.

Non-essential cookies, such as analytics, embedded content, and advertising cookies, will be handled according to your consent choices where required by law.

How to change or withdraw your cookie choices

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by using the Cookie settings link in the website footer.

You can also manage or block cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to:

• delete cookies
• block all cookies
• block third-party cookies
• receive a warning before cookies are placed
• clear cookies when you close the browser

Please note that blocking some cookies may affect how the website works.

Browser privacy signals

Some browsers or extensions may send privacy signals such as Global Privacy Control or similar opt-out signals.

Where required by applicable law and where this website's tools support it, legally recognized privacy signals will be honored.

Cookies and embedded maps or videos

Some guides may include embedded maps, route previews, or videos.

These tools may set third-party cookies or collect technical information when you interact with them.

Examples:

• opening an embedded map
• playing an embedded video
• saving a route

If you do not want third-party embedded content to set cookies, you can reject non-essential cookies or avoid interacting with embedded content.

Cookie list

The exact cookies used on this website may change depending on the tools, plugins, analytics services, and embedded content in use.

Where possible, the cookie banner or cookie preference tool will show the current cookie categories and details.

Example cookie categories:

Updates to this Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy may be updated from time to time.

If important changes are made, the “Last updated” date at the top of this page will be updated.