The Wandering Woodward, found at https://www.thewanderingwoodward.com (“Website”) is governed by the following privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”).

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what personally identifiable information we may collect and how it may be used. This statement only applies to this Website.

Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Website: We may collect personal information from you such as your name or email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to the Website by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or submitting a contact form.

If you leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also your IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

If you use the contact form on our site, we collect the data shown in the contact form, and also your IP address to help spam detection.

Information We Collect from Others: We may receive information about you from other sources including the WordPress comment platform.  You may link your social media or other accounts to your user profile.

Automatically-Collected Information: We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access the Website. For example, when you use the Website, analytic services we use may log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the Website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the Website, such as links clicked.

Cookies: We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalised experience on the Website. For detailed information on how cookies function on this site, scroll to the Cookies section below.

We may use the information collected in the following ways:

• To operate and maintain the Website;
• To create your account, identify you as a user of the Website, and customise the Website for your account;
• To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will include an ‘Unsubscribe’ link in the footer to opt-out of future mailings;
• To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;
• To respond to your comments or inquiries;
• To provide you with user support;
• To track and measure advertising on the Website;
• To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.

We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorise us to share your information.

Additionally, the Website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.

The Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:

Google Analytics – This service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. We use Google Analytics 4, which does not log or store your IP address, no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics.

Jetpack – As part of our WordPress.com hosting, we use the Jetpack – WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth plug-in to help protect our Website and review analytics data.
You can find details on what information may be gathered, how that information is used, and how long information is kept here: https://automattic.com/privacy-notice/

TravelPayouts – This website is partnered with TravelPayouts; a pay-per-action travel partnership platform that includes travel brand affiliate programs.
Certain links on our website are affiliate links. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie may be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.

At this time, your personal information is not shared with any other third-party applications. This list may be amended from time to time at the Website’s sole discretion.

Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent; however, we may disclose or transfer personal information collected through the Website to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business, which may be the result of a merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganisation proceeding brought by or against us.

From time to time, we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.

If you create a user profile on our web host (WordPress.com) or leave a comment, certain information may be publicly visible. To create a user profile with WordPress.com, you must choose a username and password and input your email address for profile confirmation. Your email address will never be available publicly. At your option, you may also add an avatar, a profile description, and a link to your website. You may also choose to link your Facebook, Instagram, and Google Account. Users may see your username, avatar, profile description and website information.

Below is a breakdown of the types of cookies used on this site, automatically generated via our WPConsent setup. You can manage your preferences through the banner or revisit them anytime.
To deactivate Analytics tracking entirely, you can opt out via your browser settings or tools like browser-level cookie blockers.

Display Ads

At this moment, we do not use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit the Website.

Retargeting Ads

From time to time, the Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, in order to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Website.

Affiliate Program Participation

This Website engages in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie may be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.

Newsletters

On the Website, you may subscribe to the newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. The newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. Also, this allows the Website to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behaviour will not be passed on to third parties.

Please note that this website contains links to other websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy policies of these sites. We encourage users to be aware that when they leave this website that you read the privacy policy of each website that may collect personal information on you.

Opt-out – You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails.

Access – You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to thewanderingwoodward@gmail.com.

Amend – You may contact us at thewanderingwoodward@gmail.com to amend or update your personal information.

Forget – In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request at thewanderingwoodward.gmail.com.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record-keeping purposes, or when required by law.

At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the website. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.

At any time, please contact us at thewanderingwoodward@gmail.com with any questions related to this Privacy Policy.

Last Updated: 12th August 2025
Last Reviewed: 12th August 2025