Privacy
Last updated: 14 September 2026
I'm Cyrielle. I run The Wanderess Travels, and this page explains — in plain words — what happens to your information when you use this site.
I'm a one-person travel-planning business, not a company with a data department. I collect as little as I can get away with, and I'd rather tell you exactly what that is than hide it in legal language.
The short version
- If you ask for a free guide, I store your email address so I can send it to you.
- I only email you beyond that if you ticked the box asking for it.
- You can leave at any time, from a link in every email.
- I don't sell, rent, or share your details with anyone for marketing. Ever.
What I collect, and why
Your email address, when you ask for a free guide or sign up for travel-planning emails. That's what I use to send you the thing you asked for.
If you've asked for a guide before. Your browser may remember the address you used, so the form is already filled in the next time you want something. It's kept on your device only and is sent to us just as before — when you press the button. The "Not you?" link beside the field clears it, and so does clearing your browser data.
Which page you asked from, and when. So I know which guides are useful and which articles people find them through — and so that, if you ever ask, I can tell you exactly when and where you signed up and what you agreed to at the time.
The exact wording you saw when you signed up. If the wording changes later, your record keeps the version you actually read, not the current one.
If you use the contact form, I keep the message itself — your name, email address, subject and what you wrote — in my database, so I can reply and so I have a record of the conversation. Non-spam messages are also emailed to me so I see them promptly. Separately, I keep your IP address for seven days, purely to stop automated abuse of the form; that part is deleted after seven days.
When you sign up for a guide, I don't store your IP address. To stop automated sign-ups I keep a scrambled fingerprint of your connection, made with a secret key only this site holds, for seven days — never the address itself.
Server logs. My web server records the IP address of every request to the site, including when you submit a form. That's ordinary web-server behaviour and I don't use it to build a picture of you — but it does mean your IP address appears in a log file even though I don't put it in the database. Those logs are kept for about 15 days, and the application's own logs for 7 days, after which both are deleted automatically.
Website analytics: none at the moment. Nothing from Google loads on this site. I do count anonymous events in my own database — "a guide was downloaded", "a tool returned this result band" — with no email address and no IP address attached.
Free guides and emails
When you ask for a free guide, you get the guide. That's the whole transaction, and it doesn't put you on a mailing list.
If you also ticked the box for travel-planning emails, you'll hear from me occasionally — never often, and never generic. You can change your mind whenever you like:
- Every email has an unsubscribe link. One click.
- I'm building the option to choose which topics you hear about — Portugal, safari, and so on — rather than all or nothing. Until that exists, unsubscribing stops everything.
- Unsubscribing from emails doesn't stop you asking for a free guide later. Those are separate.
Who else sees your information
As few people as possible:
- Resend delivers my emails. They see your email address because they have to in order to send to it.
- Hostinger hosts the site and the database.
- Google. When someone signs up or sends me a message, a copy is emailed to my own Gmail address so I see it. That means a copy of your email address, and of anything you wrote to me, sits in a Google inbox.
That's it. I don't sell your details, rent them, or pass them to advertisers or data brokers.
How long I keep it
Your subscriber record stays until you ask me to delete it, or until you unsubscribe and I tidy up the list. Messages sent through the contact form are kept until I clear them out. Contact-form IP addresses go after seven days. My email provider keeps delivery records for about 30 days.
I take a backup of the site every night and keep two weeks of them — in two places, on the server itself and mirrored to separate storage — so anything deleted today also disappears from the backups within 14 days.
What you can ask me to do
Email hello@thewanderesstravels.com and I'll:
- tell you what I hold about you — it won't take long;
- correct anything that's wrong;
- delete you entirely. Your record and everything attached to it — which guides you asked for, when, what you agreed to — is removed together, not just marked hidden. Two copies take a little longer: the nightly backups, which roll off within 14 days, and the notification email in my own inbox, which I delete when I handle your request.
You don't need a reason and you won't get a retention email trying to talk you out of it.
Cookies
The site sets two cookies, and only when they're needed. One shows you a form error after you submit, or keeps me logged in to my own admin. The other remembers the address you last used to ask for a guide, so the guide form is already filled in next time (see above). No tracking, advertising or third-party cookies.
There are no third-party requests on the public site at all — the fonts are served from my own server, and there are no embedded videos, scripts or images from anywhere else.
Children
This site is for adults planning trips. It isn't aimed at children, and I don't knowingly collect anything from anyone under 16.
If this page changes
I'll update the date at the top. If something changes that actually affects you — a new provider seeing your address, say — I'll say so in an email rather than quietly editing this page.
Getting in touch
hello@thewanderesstravels.com — a real inbox, and I read it.
The Wanderess Travels