Privacy Policy

Travel Season is published by Season Media Group, LLC. This page describes what this website actually collects, where it goes, and what we do with it. It is written against how the site is built rather than from a template, so it is short.

Last updated 28 September 2026.

What you send us

The forms on this site send what you type to us. What they ask for is this.

The newsletter signup, which appears alongside articles and on the newsletter page, asks for an email address and nothing else.
The travel booking request on the book travel page asks for your name, email address, destination, check-in and check-out dates, how many rooms you need, which hotel groups you like, any specific hotel you have in mind, and anything else you want to tell us.
The safari forms on the book safari page ask for the same kind of thing plus a phone number, the number of adults and children travelling, and a budget range.

Everything in those forms is optional to give us in the sense that you choose what to write. Do not put anything in the free-text boxes you would not want sitting in an email inbox.

Where it goes

A submission is sent to a small function on Amazon Web Services, formatted as a plain email, and delivered to a Travel Season inbox through Amazon Simple Email Service. That is the whole path, and it ends there.

Submissions do not go into a customer database, a CRM or a marketing platform, because we do not run one. Nobody outside Travel Season is sent your enquiry.

Three things guard that form against automated abuse. There is a hidden field that a person never sees and a robot fills in. There is a check on how long the form took to complete. And there is a limit on how many submissions can arrive from one internet address in a minute, which means your IP address is held in memory for sixty seconds and written to our own log only when a submission is refused. Accepted submissions do not have an IP address recorded against them.

What the site collects on its own

Two measurement tags, which are worth naming separately because they do different things and one of them does nothing to you at all.

Google Analytics 4, measurement ID G-TT9R1N9BK6. It records that a page was viewed, which page it was, roughly where in the world the request came from, and what browser and device you are using. It is how we know which articles get read. It loads gtag.js from googletagmanager.com after the page has finished loading.

That tag does not send your page view to one place. It sends it to three: analytics.google.com, which is the measurement we actually wanted, and stats.g.doubleclick.net and www.google.com, which are the advertising side of Google. The second two come from a Google Analytics setting called Google Signals, which is switched on by default and was never switched off here. It is what lets Google attach this visit to a signed-in Google account and use it for ad personalisation. We watched all three requests leave a browser on 10 September 2026 rather than reading about them in a manual.

The setting can be turned off and we have not turned it off yet. So there is an advertising transmission on every page of this site, in addition to the ad slots described below. We would rather write that down than let the policy imply this is all quiet analytics.

A Pinterest domain verification tag. It is one line of HTML in the page source that proves to Pinterest we own this domain. It loads nothing, requests nothing, runs no JavaScript and sets no cookie.

Advertising. Some pages carry display ad slots served by Balance Exchange (ssp.balance-x.com). When a slot scrolls into view, your browser asks Balance Exchange for an ad, and that request, which includes your IP address, browser details and the page you are reading, may be passed to advertisers bidding to show one. Those companies may set or read cookies inside the ad frame. The companies authorised to sell advertising on this site are listed at travelseason.com/ads.txt.

Past those two tags, the site is a set of static files served from Amazon CloudFront. There is no application server, no login and no account.

We have not enabled access logging on the CDN or on the storage bucket behind it, so there is no record on our own infrastructure of which pages you read. That was checked against the distribution that will serve this site, rather than assumed, on 10 September 2026.

That sentence used to mean more than it does now, and it would be a cheap trick to leave it standing alone. There is a record of which pages you read. It is held by Google rather than by us.

The fonts are served from this site rather than from Google Fonts, so loading a page does not tell Google that you did. The analytics tag above tells Google that you did.

Cookies

We set no cookies of our own. One of the two tags does. Google Analytics sets _ga and _ga_TT9R1N9BK6, which give your browser a random identifier so that several page views in one visit are counted as one visit rather than several people. The Pinterest tag sets nothing, which is the whole of what it does to you. Advertising partners may set cookies inside ad frames; which ones depends on the advertiser.

There is no cookie banner on this site, and we are not going to describe a consent mechanism we have not built. The tags load for everyone who opens a page, and we do not ask you first.

What does work is not run by us. Safari and Firefox block a good deal of this by default. Any content blocker stops the script outright, because it is fetched from another company's domain and is not disguised as a first-party request. Google publishes a browser add-on that opts you out of Analytics on every site at once. We do not operate an opt-out of our own, and we do not act on Do Not Track headers.

What your browser keeps

If you add a hotel to your shortlist, the list of hotels you picked is saved in your own browser's local storage under the key ts:shortlist:v1. It holds hotel names and nothing else, it never leaves your device, and we cannot read it. Clearing your browser data deletes it.

Affiliate links

Some links to hotels, airlines and products on this site earn us a commission if you book or buy. Following one of those links takes you to the partner's own website, where their privacy policy applies and where they will normally set a cookie to record that you arrived from here. Our advertising policy names every partner we have that relationship with and states plainly that it does not affect what we recommend.

The newsletter list

A newsletter signup reaches us the same way a booking request does, as an email. Your address is used to send you Travel Season email and for nothing else. We do not sell, rent or trade addresses, and we do not send email on behalf of anybody else. If you want off the list you can reply to any email from us or write to team@travelseason.com.

Children

This site is written for adults booking their own travel and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. If you believe a child has sent us something through a form, email us and we will delete it.

Asking us to delete your information

Email team@travelseason.com and ask. We will delete the enquiry and any email thread it started, and tell you when it is done.

We should be straight about two things. Enquiries live in an ordinary email inbox, and we do not run an automatic deletion schedule that clears them after a set number of days. If you want yours gone, ask, and it goes. What we cannot delete for you is what Google and Meta hold, because we never held it. Google has the analytics record. Meta has whatever your browser told Instagram on the articles that embed a post, which is now the only reason Meta is named on this page at all. Both go through their own controls, linked from their privacy policies.

Changes to this policy

If we start collecting something we do not collect today, this page gets rewritten before that happens and the date at the top changes. We are not going to quietly broaden it.

Contact

Season Media Group, LLC, publisher of TravelSeason.com. Questions about this policy go to team@travelseason.com.