Last updated: October 16, 2026
Orophile Stories (“we”, “us”, or “this website”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data.
This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected when you visit or interact with https://orophilestories.com, how that information may be used, and the choices available to you.
1. About Orophile Stories
Orophile Stories is a personal travel and lifestyle website where I share travel experiences, guides, itineraries, photographs, and other content.
Website: https://orophilestories.com
Email: orophilestories@gmail.com
2. Information We May Collect
Depending on how you use this website, we may collect or process:
- Information you voluntarily provide, such as your name and email address when contacting us.
- Information submitted through comments or contact forms.
- Your IP address and browser information where required for website security, spam prevention, or technical purposes.
- Technical information about your device, browser, operating system, and interaction with the website.
- Website usage information collected through Google Analytics.
- Information associated with cookies and similar technologies.
- Information necessary for displaying and operating interactive maps and other third-party content.
We do not intentionally collect sensitive personal information through this website.
3. Comments
When visitors leave comments on the website, we collect the information shown in the comments form, including the visitor’s name, email address, website (if provided), and the comment itself.
We may also collect the visitor’s IP address and browser user-agent string to help detect spam.
An anonymized string created from your email address (a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine whether you are using the service.
After a comment is approved, your profile picture may be visible publicly in the context of your comment.
For more information, please see Automattic’s Privacy Policy:
https://automattic.com/privacy/
After your comment is approved, your profile picture may be visible publicly in the context of your comment.
4. Contact Forms and Email
IIf you contact Orophile Stories by email or through a contact form, we may collect information such as your name, email address, and the contents of your message.
This information is used to:
- Respond to your enquiry
- Communicate with you about your request
- Maintain appropriate correspondence records
- Improve the website or its content where relevant
We do not use information submitted through the contact form for marketing purposes unless you have separately opted in to receive marketing communications.
5. Google Analytics
Orophile Stories uses Google Analytics to understand how visitors use the website and to measure website traffic and performance.
Google Analytics may collect information such as:
- Pages visited
- Time spent on pages
- Approximate geographic information
- Device and browser information
- Referral sources
- Interactions with the website
- Other aggregated website usage information
Google Analytics is connected to Orophile Stories through Google Site Kit.
Complianz is used on the website to manage cookie and privacy preferences. Where consent is required, Google Analytics is configured to respect the visitor’s consent choice before non-essential analytics tracking is used.
Google’s privacy information is available here:
https://policies.google.com/privacy
5. Google Site Kit
Orophile Stories uses Site Kit by Google to connect and manage Google services, including Google Analytics.
Site Kit provides website owners with information from connected Google services. Depending on the configuration of the website, Google service tags may be used to provide analytics and other connected services.
The use of non-essential tracking is managed through the website’s consent-management system where applicable.
6. Mapbox
Orophile Stories uses Mapbox to provide interactive maps in some travel articles.
When an interactive Mapbox map is loaded or used, certain technical information may be processed by Mapbox, such as information related to the device, browser, network connection, or interaction with the map.
Mapbox’s privacy practices are governed by its own Privacy Policy:
https://www.mapbox.com/legal/privacy
Mapbox also provides information about cookies and similar technologies on its website:
https://www.mapbox.com/legal/cookies
7. Cookies and Consent Management
Orophile Stories uses cookies and similar technologies for website functionality, preferences, statistics, and, where applicable, other purposes.
We use Complianz as our cookie-consent and consent-management solution.
Complianz allows visitors to manage their preferences regarding non-essential cookies and similar technologies.
Depending on the services currently active on the website, cookies may be associated with:
- Essential WordPress functionality
- Cookie-consent preferences
- Google Analytics
- Embedded or third-party content
- Interactive maps
- Other website functionality
For more detailed information about cookies, please see our Cookie Policy.
8. Yoast SEO
Orophile Stories uses Yoast SEO, a WordPress SEO plugin.
Yoast SEO primarily assists with search-engine optimization and does not itself mean that visitor tracking is automatically performed.
Yoast provides an optional usage-tracking feature. For Yoast SEO Free, this tracking is enabled only when the site administrator explicitly opts in.
9. Embedded Content and Third-Party Services
Some articles may contain content or functionality provided by third parties, such as maps, videos, images, social media content, or other external services.
Third-party content may collect information about your device or interaction with that content and may use cookies or similar technologies according to the third party’s own privacy policies.
Where applicable, non-essential third-party technologies are managed through our consent-management system.al cookies or tracking technologies will only be activated after the appropriate consent has been obtained.
10. How We Use Information
Information collected through the website may be used to:
- Operate and maintain Orophile Stories
- Respond to enquiries
- Manage comments
- Prevent spam and abuse
- Maintain website security
- Understand website traffic and performance
- Improve website content and functionality
- Manage cookie and privacy preferences
- Comply with applicable legal obligations
We do not sell or rent personal information.
11. Who We Share Information With
We may share limited information with service providers that help us operate the website.
Depending on the services being used, these may include:
- Website hosting providers
- Google Analytics and Google Site Kit
- Mapbox
- Spam-prevention services
- Cookie-consent providers
- Email or contact-form providers
- Other third-party services embedded in the website
These services may process information according to their own privacy policies.
We do not sell or rent personal information.n.
12. How Long We Keep Personal Data
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required by law.
Comments and their metadata may be retained for as long as the comment remains on the website.
Information submitted through contact forms or email may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to handle the enquiry and maintain appropriate records.
13. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location and applicable data-protection law, you Depending on your location and applicable data-protection law, you may have the right to:
- Request access to personal information we hold about you
- Request correction of inaccurate information
- Request deletion of your personal information
- Request restriction of certain processing
- Object to certain processing
- Request data portability where applicable
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
- Lodge a complaint with the relevant data-protection authority
To exercise an applicable right, please contact us using the email address below.
14. International Data Transfers
Some third-party services used by Orophile Stories may process information outside your country or outside the European Economic Area.
Where applicable, such transfers are handled using appropriate safeguards under applicable data-protection law.
15. Children’s Privacy
Orophile Stories is not specifically directed at children.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children through the website.
16. Website Security
Reasonable technical and organizational measures are used to help protect information processed through the website.
However, no website or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
17. Changes to This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time to reflect changes to the website, the services we use, or applicable legal requirements.
Any updates will be posted on this page with a revised “Last updated” date.
18. Affiliate Disclosure
Orophile Stories participates in affiliate programs, including Travelpayouts. Some links on this site are affiliate links: if you click one and make a purchase or booking, I may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.
I only recommend products and services I’ve used or researched carefully. Commissions never change what I write or how I rate something.
Affiliate partners may use cookies to track purchases made through these links. Their use of your data is covered by their own privacy policies.
19. Newsletter
If you subscribe to the Orophile Stories newsletter, I collect your email address so I can send you one email a month with new posts and my favorite places to eat, drink coffee and explore.
Why I use your data: only to send the newsletter you signed up for. I don’t sell or share your email address with anyone else.
Legal basis: your consent, which you give when you subscribe. You can withdraw it at any time.
Who processes it: I use MailPoet, a WordPress plugin, to manage subscribers. Your details are stored in my website’s database, hosted by [your hosting provider]. Emails are sent through the MailPoet Sending Service, which processes your email address in order to deliver them, under its own privacy notice.
How long I keep it: until you unsubscribe. You can unsubscribe at any time using the link at the bottom of every email, and your details will be removed from my list.
Your rights: you can ask to see, correct or delete your data by emailing orophilestories@gmail.com.
19. Contact
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or the processing of your personal data, please contact:
Email: orophilestories@gmail.com
Website: https://orophilestories.com