Last updated: 30 September 2026.
This policy sets out what Cairo Tourism Guide (www.cairotourism.org) collects when you read the site, why, and what you can do about it. It describes what the site actually does today, not a generic template — where something is planned rather than live, it says so.
Who runs this site
Cairo Tourism Guide is an independent travel publication. It is not affiliated with the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, the Egyptian Tourism Authority, or any other government or commercial body. For any question about this policy, or to exercise a right described below, use the contact page.
What is collected when you read a page
You do not need an account to read anything here, and there is nothing to sign up for. Reading a page involves two kinds of data collection.
Server logs
The site is hosted by DreamHost, whose servers record standard web request data: IP address, the time of the request, the page requested, the referring page, and your browser’s user-agent string. This happens for every website you visit and is necessary to serve pages and to identify abuse. These logs are held by the host and are rotated on their schedule.
Google Analytics
The site runs Google Analytics 4, loaded through the Site Kit by Google plugin. It records which pages are read, roughly where in the world the reader is, how they arrived, and what kind of device they are using. It is used to work out which Cairo guides are useful and which need rewriting — nothing more. IP addresses are handled by Google Analytics 4, which does not log or store full IP addresses. No attempt is made here to identify individual readers, and analytics data is not sold, shared or combined with anything else.
Google’s own account of how it handles this data is at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. You can opt out across all sites with Google’s browser add-on.
Google Search Console
The site is verified in Google Search Console, which reports aggregated search queries that led here. This is anonymous and aggregated at Google’s end; no individual reader data reaches this site through it.
The contact form
If you write in through the contact page, the form collects the name, email address and message you type, plus the IP address the submission came from as a basic anti-spam measure. That is sent to the site’s own email address so it can be read and replied to.
Messages are kept for as long as they are useful — a correction is retained while the page it relates to is live, so there is a record of why a guide was changed. Correspondence is not added to any mailing list, and there is no mailing list to add it to. It is never sold or passed to a third party.
Comments
Comments are closed across the site and no comment data is collected. If that changes, this policy will be updated before comments reopen.
Cookies
Reading this site as a normal visitor sets analytics cookies from Google (typically _ga and a property-specific equivalent), used to tell a returning reader from a new one and to measure how long a session lasts.
WordPress and the page-caching layer set cookies only for people signed in to the site’s admin area, which is not something a reader does. The booking partner’s script, once allowed, sets one cookie of its own, am_user_session, described under “Affiliate links and booking partners” below. No cookie here is shared with a data broker.
Every browser can block or delete cookies from its settings. Blocking them will not stop any part of this site working.
Your choices, and what runs before you make them
What runs before you choose depends on where you are reading from, because the law does. In the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, and in Brazil, Chile, China, Israel, Nigeria, South Korea, Thailand, Türkiye and Vietnam, nothing beyond the strictly necessary runs until you answer the dialog on your first visit — not analytics, not Travelpayouts — and Reject all sits on that first screen next to Accept all, not behind a second click.
In the United States you are shown a bar rather than a dialog, and it is not only a notice. Analytics starts on arrival there, but advertising and booking-partner scripts stay switched off until you answer it. In Switzerland you get the dialog too, but analytics starts on arrival there and only advertising and booking-partner scripts wait for your answer. In Canada, and in the countries where notice is enough — among them Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Singapore, India and Mexico — everything described on this page starts when you arrive; the notice tells you so, and the same control switches it off. Everywhere else, and whenever we cannot tell where you are, the strictest setting applies: nothing beyond the necessary runs until you answer.
Your answer is kept on your own device, in a first-party cookie called cookie_consent_3df167 that only this site can read, so you are not asked again on every page. It lasts about a year. The Cookie settings link in the footer of every page reopens the choice, and withdrawing is the same two clicks as agreeing: what you switch off stops running, and if that includes analytics, the Google Analytics cookies are cleared. The one cookie Travelpayouts keeps on this site, am_user_session, is no longer renewed once its script stops and lapses within half an hour; anything Travelpayouts or a booking site set on their own domains is cleared in your browser rather than from here.
Refusing costs you nothing. Every guide here is readable in full either way, nothing is paywalled, and no part of Cairo Tourism Guide is held back from readers who say no.
If you are reading this in the United States
Several US states give you the right to opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of personal information, and those words are broader than they sound: letting an advertising or affiliate partner receive information about your visit can count as sharing even though no money changes hands for your data and we have never sold anything of the kind. Rather than argue the definition, Cairo Tourism Guide treats it as covered.
So the bar shown to US readers carries a Do not sell or share button, and for US readers the Cookie settings link at the foot of every page reads Do not sell or share my personal information. Using it stops the advertising category, which is where Travelpayouts and any ad partner sit. Travelpayouts stops running from that point; the session cookie it kept on this site lapses within half an hour, and anything it set on its own domains is cleared in your browser rather than from here.
This site also honours Global Privacy Control. If your browser or an extension sends a GPC signal, it is treated as a valid opt-out on arrival — you do not have to find the control and click it as well, and we do not ask again on later visits. Do Not Track is a different and long-abandoned signal, and to be straight about it: this site does not act on DNT, because nothing agreed what it ought to mean.
The record kept of your choice
Proving that a choice was offered and honoured means keeping a record of it. Each answer is logged with the date and time, the two-letter country the choice was made from, which of the rule sets above applied, a reference to the exact wording you were shown, and the choice itself, against a random identifier generated for your browser.
That record contains no name, no email address and no IP address. It holds a salted hash of your browser’s user-agent string, and the salt changes every day, so two visits on different days cannot be linked back together through it. Records are deleted after 26 months. If you want to see or delete the entries tied to your browser, ask through the contact form.
Advertising
No display advertising is served on this site.
No display-advertising vendor sets a cookie or any similar identifier on this site. The affiliate network behind the booking links does, once advertising is allowed, as the next section explains.
Separately from display advertising, some links on this site earn a commission when you book through them. That arrangement is described in the next section.
Affiliate links and booking partners
Some links on this site earn a commission. Cairo Tourism Guide works with Travelpayouts, an affiliate network that connects the site to hotel, flight, transfer and activity booking companies. We do not paste tagged links into the guides: Travelpayouts runs a script that turns ordinary links to booking and travel sites into commission-tracking ones as the page loads, and it can add booking boxes and suggestions of its own. If you book after following one of those links, the booking company pays us a commission out of its own margin, and your price is the same either way. Every guide says so at the top, and the affiliate disclosure sets out the arrangement in full.
What that means for your data needs spelling out, because it is more than a cookie notice usually describes. When the script runs it receives your IP address and browser details, as any service your browser connects to does, and it reports to Travelpayouts how the page is used: the page’s address and the one you arrived from, which links you click, how many keys are pressed and in which part of the page (not what is typed), and whether an ad blocker or a private window is in use. Those reports are tied together by a random session identifier kept in a cookie on this site called am_user_session, which lapses 30 minutes after you stop reading, and, if Google Analytics is allowed as well, by the identifier Google Analytics keeps for your browser. The script also fetches typefaces for its booking boxes from Google Fonts, which gives Google your IP address, and keeps a note of the page’s colours in your browser’s local storage so that those boxes match the design.
If you follow one of its links, Travelpayouts and the booking site set identifiers of their own, on their own domains, so that a booking made afterwards can be credited here. We never see your name, your travel dates or your payment details — what comes back is a count of clicks and, sometimes, the fact that a booking happened. Once you are on a booking site you are under its privacy policy, not this one, and Travelpayouts handles what its script collects under its own privacy policy.
The script sits in the Advertising group of this site’s cookie settings and does not load at all until that group is allowed. Refusing it costs you nothing: the links still work, at the same price.
Links to other sites
The guides link out heavily — to the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, the Central Bank of Egypt, Egypt’s e-visa portal, foreign office travel advice, and to hotels and operators that are named in the text. Once you follow one of those links you are on someone else’s site under their privacy policy, and this one no longer applies. We do not control what they collect.
Legal basis, if you are in the UK or EU
Server logs are processed on the basis of legitimate interests: serving pages and keeping the site secure. Contact form data is processed on the basis of your consent, given by choosing to send the message, and to respond to your request. Analytics and the booking partner described above rest on your consent, which is why, for readers in the UK and EU, neither runs until you have agreed, and why you can withdraw that agreement at any time from the Cookie settings link.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to ask what personal data is held about you, to have it corrected or deleted, to object to or restrict its processing, to receive a copy of it, and to withdraw consent. Readers in California additionally have the right to know what is collected and to opt out of any sale of personal information — no personal information is sold here, and none ever has been.
In practice the only personal data this site itself holds is whatever you sent through the contact form. Ask through that same form and it will be deleted. Analytics data sits with Google rather than here, so requests about it are best made to Google directly through the links above.
Children
This is a travel reference written for adults planning a trip. It is not directed at children under 13, and no data is knowingly collected from them. If you believe a child has sent us personal information through the contact form, tell us and it will be removed.
Changes to this policy
This page is updated when what the site does changes. The date at the top always reflects the current version.