Privacy Policy

Last updated: April 26, 2026

Welcome to Tripstou. This Privacy Policy explains how Tripstou (“Tripstou,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, shares, and protects information when you visit https://www.tripstou.com/.

Tripstou is a travel publisher and affiliate website. We provide travel guides, destination resources, planning content, recommendations, advertising, and affiliate links.

This Privacy Policy should be read together with our Cookie Policy, Affiliate Disclosure, Disclaimer, and Terms and Conditions.

By using Tripstou, you acknowledge that you have read this Privacy Policy. Where required by law, we request consent before using certain cookies, advertising technologies, analytics tools, or similar tracking technologies.

Information We May Collect

We may collect or process the following categories of information:

Information You Voluntarily Provide

You may provide personal information when you contact us, submit a request, send an email, subscribe to communications, or interact with forms on the website.

This may include:

  • Name
  • Email address
  • Message content
  • Any information you choose to include in your communication with us

Technical and Usage Information

When you visit Tripstou, certain technical information may be collected automatically by our website, hosting provider, analytics tools, advertising partners, security tools, or similar technologies.

This may include:

  • IP address
  • Browser type and version
  • Device type
  • Operating system
  • Referral source
  • Pages visited
  • Approximate location
  • Date and time of visit
  • Click, scroll, and interaction data
  • Advertising and analytics identifiers, where applicable

Cookies and Similar Technologies

Tripstou uses cookies and similar technologies such as pixels, tags, scripts, local storage, tracking URLs, and embedded third-party tools.

For details about how we use cookies, advertising cookies, analytics cookies, affiliate tracking technologies, and consent tools, please read our Cookie Policy.

How We Use Information

We may use information for the following purposes:

  • To operate, maintain, and secure the website
  • To respond to messages, inquiries, and privacy requests
  • To improve website performance, navigation, and user experience
  • To understand how visitors interact with our travel content
  • To measure traffic, engagement, and content performance
  • To display advertising through Google AdSense
  • To measure advertising performance and prevent fraud or abuse
  • To support affiliate links, widgets, referrals, and commission attribution
  • To comply with legal, tax, security, and regulatory obligations
  • To protect our rights, users, website, and business operations

Advertising and Google AdSense

Tripstou displays advertising through Google AdSense. Ads may appear through Google AdSense Auto Ads and manual ad placements.

Google and its advertising partners may use cookies or similar technologies to:

  • Serve ads on Tripstou
  • Measure ad performance
  • Limit ad frequency
  • Prevent fraud and abuse
  • Deliver personalized or non-personalized ads, depending on your region, consent status, browser settings, and applicable laws

Google’s advertising technologies may use information from your visits to Tripstou and other websites to provide relevant advertising, where permitted.

You can learn more about how Google uses information and advertising technologies here:

Google Funding Choices and Consent Mode

Tripstou uses Google Funding Choices / Privacy & Messaging to display privacy, consent, and ad-related messages in applicable regions, including European regulations and certain U.S. state privacy regulations.

Tripstou also uses Google Consent Mode V2 to help Google tags adjust their behavior based on consent signals where applicable. These signals may relate to analytics storage, advertising storage, ad user data, and ad personalization.

Important: Tripstou currently uses Google’s official consent solution for Europe and the United States. A specific Brazil/LGPD cookie banner has not been confirmed as active on the website. Brazilian users can still manage cookies through browser settings and may contact us with privacy-related requests.

Privacy messages, consent banners, and ad blocking recovery messages are not paid advertisements. They are privacy, compliance, or website-support messages.

Analytics and Site Improvement Tools

Tripstou uses analytics and behavior measurement tools to understand website usage, improve content, measure performance, and make editorial decisions.

These tools may include:

  • Google Analytics 4 (GA4): Used through Google Tag Manager for traffic and engagement measurement.
  • Microsoft Clarity: Used to understand user behavior, usability patterns, clicks, scrolling, and interactions.
  • Yandex Metrica: Used to analyze website traffic, performance, and usage patterns.

These tools may collect technical and usage information such as pages visited, time spent on pages, referral sources, device information, browser information, approximate location, clicks, scrolls, and interaction data.

We use this information to improve Tripstou’s content, navigation, website speed, user experience, and editorial structure.

Affiliate Links and Third-Party Partners

Tripstou participates in affiliate programs. This means we may earn a commission when users click affiliate links or complete qualifying purchases, bookings, sign-ups, or actions through third-party partners.

Affiliate partners may use cookies, tracking links, referral IDs, pixels, or similar technologies to track referrals and attribute commissions.

Affiliate partners used or referenced on Tripstou may include:

  • Amazon
  • GetYourGuide
  • Omio
  • Airalo
  • Wise

Clicking an affiliate link may take you to a third-party website. Once you leave Tripstou, the third party’s own privacy policy, cookie policy, terms, and data practices apply.

For more details, please read our Affiliate Disclosure.

Embedded Widgets and External Services

Tripstou may use embedded widgets, scripts, and third-party tools to display travel activities, products, offers, social sharing features, maps, or other content.

For example, Tripstou may use GetYourGuide widgets to display travel experiences and activities. These widgets may load third-party scripts, images, cookies, or tracking technologies.

Tripstou does not fully control how third-party services collect, use, or store information after they are loaded, clicked, or used by visitors.

Social Sharing Tools

Tripstou may use social sharing tools, including AddToAny, to help visitors share content on platforms such as WhatsApp, Facebook, X, and other services.

When you interact with social sharing tools, the relevant third-party platform may collect information according to its own privacy policy and cookie policy.

How We Share Information

We may share or allow access to information in the following cases:

  • Service providers: Companies that help operate, host, secure, analyze, or improve the website.
  • Analytics providers: Tools that help us understand traffic, performance, and user behavior.
  • Advertising partners: Providers such as Google AdSense and related advertising technologies.
  • Affiliate partners: Partners that track referrals, bookings, purchases, or commission attribution.
  • Legal or regulatory authorities: When required by law, legal process, or to protect our rights and safety.
  • Business transfers: If Tripstou is involved in a merger, acquisition, restructuring, sale, or transfer of assets.

We do not sell personal information directly as a data broker. However, some advertising, analytics, and affiliate technologies may involve data uses that are regulated under privacy laws, depending on your region.

Legal Bases for Processing

Depending on your location and applicable law, we may process information based on one or more legal bases, including:

  • Consent: For certain cookies, analytics, advertising, personalization, or marketing communications where consent is required.
  • Legitimate interests: To operate, secure, analyze, improve, and monetize the website in a reasonable and privacy-conscious way.
  • Contractual necessity: When processing is needed to respond to requests or provide a requested service.
  • Legal obligation: When processing is required to comply with applicable laws, regulations, or legal requests.

Data Retention

We keep personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information, the reason it was collected, legal obligations, security needs, analytics settings, advertising systems, affiliate reporting, and third-party platform policies.

International Data Transfers

Tripstou is accessible globally. Information may be processed in countries other than your country of residence, including countries that may have different data protection laws.

Third-party services used by Tripstou, such as advertising, analytics, hosting, affiliate, and security providers, may process data internationally according to their own privacy frameworks and legal obligations.

Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your country, state, or region, you may have certain rights over your personal information.

These rights may include:

  • The right to request access to personal information
  • The right to request correction of inaccurate information
  • The right to request deletion of personal information
  • The right to object to or restrict certain processing
  • The right to withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
  • The right to request information about data sharing or processing activities
  • The right to opt out of certain advertising or data uses where applicable

European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland

If you are located in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you may have rights under applicable data protection laws, including the right to access, correct, delete, restrict, object to processing, withdraw consent, and request portability of certain personal data.

United States

If you are located in a U.S. state with applicable privacy laws, you may have rights related to access, deletion, correction, opt-out choices, or limits on certain data uses, depending on your state of residence.

Tripstou uses Google Funding Choices / Privacy & Messaging for certain U.S. state privacy messages where applicable.

Brazil / LGPD

If you are located in Brazil, you may have rights under the Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD), including the right to request confirmation of processing, access to data, correction, deletion, portability, information about sharing, and review of certain processing activities, subject to applicable legal conditions.

Tripstou currently does not have a confirmed Brazil-specific cookie banner. Brazilian users can manage cookies through browser controls and may contact us about privacy or cookie-related requests using the contact information below.

Managing Cookies and Consent

You can manage cookies and privacy choices in several ways:

  • Use the privacy or consent message shown on Tripstou where available in your region.
  • Adjust browser settings to block, delete, or limit cookies.
  • Use Google Ad Settings to manage certain Google advertising preferences.
  • Use device-level or browser-level privacy controls where available.
  • Contact us for privacy-related questions or requests.

Blocking or deleting cookies may affect website functionality, embedded tools, advertising, analytics, affiliate attribution, or user experience.

Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect information against unauthorized access, misuse, loss, alteration, or disclosure.

However, no method of online transmission, storage, or processing is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.

Children’s Privacy

Tripstou is not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

If you believe a child has provided personal information to Tripstou, please contact us and we will take appropriate steps to review and remove the information where required.

Third-Party Websites

Tripstou contains links to third-party websites, advertisers, affiliate partners, booking platforms, travel services, tools, and external resources.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices, cookie practices, security, accuracy, or content of third-party websites. We encourage you to review the privacy policy, cookie policy, and terms of any third-party website you visit.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our website, technology, advertising tools, analytics tools, affiliate partnerships, legal requirements, or business practices.

The “Last updated” date at the top of this page indicates when this Privacy Policy was last revised.

Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, cookies, consent, data handling, or privacy-related requests, you can contact us through our Contact page or by email at tripstou@gmail.com.

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