Privacy Policy

Planning a trip means opening a lot of tabs late at night, and that reading ought to stay yours. I built Adventure in Thailand (“we”, “us”) to gather the smallest amount of information it can. This page walks, in plain terms, through what the site records and why.

What this policy applies to

It covers adventureinthailand.com and nothing else. It explains what can happen when you open a guide, click through somewhere, or write to me. The outside sites I link to, the WHO, DAN, park authorities and government travel advice among them, are not part of it; each keeps a policy of its own.

What the site records

Hardly anything, and nothing about your travels or your health unless you choose to tell me:

• The message itself. Write to me and I receive what you send and anything folded into it, a name or an email address, say.
• The bare mechanics of serving pages. Delivering the site securely means my hosting and content delivery network handle the technical groundwork, things like your IP address and the browser you happen to use.
• Counts with no names attached. I may keep running totals, which guides draw the most readers, for one, so I can see which writing earns its keep.

What you should never send me

Please keep the sensitive specifics with you. Do not email me the medical details behind a trip, your dive or health history, or your passport or insurance numbers. I cannot act on any of it, I have no part in your trip or your care, and ordinary email is not a safe home for information of that sort. Should something like that reach me regardless, it joins no record and is deleted the moment I have replied.

Why hold anything at all

Three aims, and no fourth: to keep the site up and secure, to see which writing actually helps travellers so I can give it more room, and to reply to the notes you send me.

Any tracking, any ads?

No, neither. Your details are not for sale, no advertising profile bears your name, and nothing here follows you across the web. What little measuring I do passes through an analytics tool chosen for its restraint, taking in as little as it can, masking IP addresses, and never tracking you onward to other sites. Cookies you can clear or block from your browser whenever you like.

Who else handles anything

Only the two services without which the site could not run: a content delivery network and the restrained analytics tool just mentioned. Beyond those two, nothing personal about you moves anywhere unless the law leaves me no choice.

How long anything is kept

A message stays only until your enquiry, and any sensible follow up, is settled, and then it goes. The pooled analytics linger no longer than a general trend needs to be legible.

What are your rights?

Where you live may give you grounds to see what I hold, correct it, have it deleted, limit it, or object to a particular use. To act on any of that, write via the Contact page and my reply will follow what the law calls for.

What about children?

The site is meant for adult travellers, not for children, and I will not knowingly gather anything from someone who has not reached the age of valid consent in their own country.

How is the little I hold protected?

I keep sensible technical and organisational safeguards around it. No journey across the internet is ever flawlessly secure, though, so I am careful rather than ready to promise the impossible.

Will this policy change?

Quite possibly, as the site grows. The “Last updated” line above shows the version in force, and staying with the site after a revision is how you accept the new wording. If a passage is unclear, the Contact page reaches me.