🛡️Privacy Policy & Data Processing
Last updated: November 2025
At Beyond Both Shores, your privacy matters to us. This policy explains what kind of information we collect when you visit our website, how we use it, and how you can control your data.
We’re a UK-based travel blog sharing stories, tips, and guides from around the world. Our website address is https://beyondbothshores.com.
What we collect
When you visit our site, we collect some information automatically through Google Analytics. This helps us understand how visitors use the site and how we can make it better. We look at data such as pages visited, time spent on site, location (city-level), and device type. None of this identifies you personally.
If you leave a comment or fill out our contact form, we may collect your name, email address, and the message you share. You can also choose to subscribe to our updates through our Grow WP plugin, but this is completely optional, and you can unsubscribe at any time. Like most websites, we use cookies to help improve your browsing experience. You can read more about this in our Cookie & Data Processing Policy below.
How we use your information
We use your data to respond to messages, send email updates if you’ve subscribed, analyse site performance, and make sure everything runs smoothly and securely. We never sell, rent, or share your data with anyone else for marketing purposes.
Third-party tools
We use trusted third-party tools and plugins to keep the website running safely and efficiently. These include:
Google Analytics, Contact Form 7, Grow for WP, Rank Math SEO, UpdraftPlus, Antispam Bee, Kadence Blocks, LiteSpeed Cache, and MapGeo Interactive Geo Maps. Each of these services has its own privacy policy, which explains how it handles data.
We take reasonable steps to protect your information and make sure it’s handled securely by the trusted third-party tools and services we use. While no website can guarantee complete security, we do our best to keep your information safe.
Affiliate links
Beyond Both Shores is part of affiliate programs through TravelPayouts, which include Booking.com, Viator, GetYourGuide, TripAdvisor, 12Go and Airalo. If you click one of these links and make a booking or purchase, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. These links help us keep our site running and continue creating free content for our readers.
Data storage
We don’t personally store your data. Any information collected is managed by third-party plugins and tools. Comments and contact form messages are kept only as long as necessary for communication. Some of our partners may process data outside the UK or EU, but only with proper data protection measures in place.
From time to time, we share links to other websites we think you’ll find helpful or inspiring. Once you click through, please remember we don’t control those sites or how they handle your data, so it’s always worth checking their own privacy policies before sharing any personal information.
Children’s privacy
We do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under the age of 16. If you believe we have inadvertently collected such information, please contact us immediately so we can remove it.
Your rights
Under UK GDPR, you can request access to the data we hold about you, ask us to correct or delete it, or withdraw consent at any time. If you’d like to do any of these, please contact us at benandpoorva@beyondbothshores.com. We may update this policy occasionally to reflect changes in how we operate. The date above shows when this policy was last updated.
🍪 Cookie & Data Processing Policy
Last updated: November 2025
We use cookies to make your experience on our website better and to help us understand how visitors use our site. Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you browse online.
How we use cookies
We use cookies to understand your preferences, measure how our content performs, personalise what you see, and improve the overall experience. Cookies may collect information like your IP address, browser type, and pages visited. Our affiliate and analytics partners also use cookies to measure traffic and personalise content or ads. This data helps us grow our audience and improve what we offer.
Your consent
When you visit our site for the first time, you’ll see a message asking if you’re happy to accept cookies. By clicking “Accept All”, you agree to our use of cookies and data processing as described here. You can update your preferences at any time by clicking “Update Privacy Settings”, which you’ll find in our site footer. If you prefer, you can also control or delete cookies through your browser settings, though please note that some parts of the site may not function as intended without them. For more information, you can read our Privacy Policy above.
đź’¬ Affiliate Disclaimer
Last updated: November 2025
At Beyond Both Shores, we believe in being open and honest with our readers. Some of the links you find on our site are affiliate links. This means that if you click a link and make a booking or purchase, we may earn a small commission, but at no extra cost to you.
We’re part of affiliate programs through TravelPayouts, which include trusted travel partners like Booking.com, Viator, GetYourGuide, TripAdvisor, 12Go and Airalo. These partnerships help us keep the site running and allow us to continue sharing genuine travel stories and recommendations.
We only recommend places, products, and services we genuinely love and would use ourselves. All opinions on Beyond Both Shores are our own, based on real experiences. From time to time, we may work with brands or tourism boards on sponsored content or press trips. Whenever that happens, we’ll make it clear in the post.
All text, photos, and content on this site belong to Beyond Both Shores unless otherwise stated. If you’d like to share or reuse anything, please contact us at benandpoorva@beyondbothshores.com. If you have questions about our affiliate partnerships or this disclaimer, get in touch.
Everything we write here is based on our own travel experiences and research. We do our best to make sure details are correct at the time of publishing, but travel changes fast! Always double-check things like opening times, prices, and entry rules before booking or setting off on your adventure.
Copyright & Sharing
All the content on Beyond Both Shores – text, photos, and graphics – is ours unless we say otherwise. You’re more than welcome to share a link to any article or quote a short snippet, as long as you credit us and link back to the original page. Please don’t republish full articles or photos without our permission, but if you want to use something, just drop us a message at our email address mentioned above and we’ll usually be happy to say yes!