Privacy Policy
Last updated: May 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how ExploreMoreTurkey.com (“we”, “us”, “our”) collects, uses, and protects your personal information when you visit our website.
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Who We Are
ExploreMoreTurkey.com is a travel information website dedicated to helping visitors discover and explore Turkey. Our website address is: https://exploremoreturkey.com
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What Information We Collect
Information you provide to us
Contact form submissions — if you contact us via our contact form, we collect your name and email address in order to respond to your enquiry.
Comments — if you leave a comment on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as your IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
Information collected automatically
Cookies — our website uses cookies to improve your browsing experience. See the Cookies section below for more detail.
Analytics data — we use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use our site. This collects anonymised data including pages visited, time spent on site, and general location (country/city level). No personally identifiable information is collected via Google Analytics.
Log data — like most websites, our servers automatically record information including your IP address, browser type, referring pages, and the date and time of your visit.
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Cookies
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. We use the following types of cookies:
Essential cookies — required for the website to function properly
Analytics cookies — Google Analytics uses cookies to help us understand how our site is used (you can opt out at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout)
Preference cookies — remember your settings and preferences
You can control and delete cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect some functionality of the site.
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How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect to:
Respond to your enquiries and messages
Improve our website content and user experience
Understand how our site is being used via analytics
Prevent spam and abuse
We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties.
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Third-Party Services
Our website uses the following third-party services which may collect data according to their own privacy policies:
Google Analytics — website analytics (privacy.google.com)
Google Search Console — search performance monitoring
Site Kit by Google — Google services integration
YouTube — some posts embed YouTube videos. YouTube may set cookies when you play a video (policies.google.com)
Microsoft Clarity — session recording and heatmaps to improve user experience (privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement)
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Data Retention
Contact form enquiries are kept for as long as necessary to respond to your message
Analytics data is retained according to Google Analytics’ standard retention periods
Comments, if approved, remain on the site until deleted
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Your Rights (GDPR)
If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA) or United Kingdom, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:
Right to access — you can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you
Right to rectification — you can ask us to correct inaccurate data
Right to erasure — you can ask us to delete your personal data
Right to object — you can object to how we process your data
Right to data portability — you can request your data in a portable format
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details below.
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Data Security
We take reasonable steps to protect your personal information. However, no internet transmission is completely secure and we cannot guarantee the security of data transmitted to our site.
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Children’s Privacy
Our website is not directed at children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
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Links to Other Websites
Our site contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those sites and encourage you to read their privacy policies.
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Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any significant changes by updating the “Last updated” date at the top of this page.
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Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle your data, please contact us:
Website: https://exploremoreturkey.com/contact/
Email: simonkarios@googlemail.com
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This privacy policy was last reviewed in May 2026.
