Cookie Policy

Last updated: 1 November 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how Travel to Tuscany (www.travel-to-tuscany.com) uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit the website. These technologies may include pixels, tags, local storage, scripts, embedded content and other online identifiers, not only traditional browser cookies.

This page should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains more broadly how personal data is collected, used, shared, retained and protected.

1. Who Operates This Website?

Travel to Tuscany is operated by Anastasia Bakker, an individual based in Italy.

Website: https://www.travel-to-tuscany.com/
Operator: Anastasia Bakker
Contact email: info@travel-to-tuscany.com

2. What Are Cookies and Similar Technologies?

Cookies are small text files that a website may store on your computer, smartphone, tablet or other device. They can help a website operate, remember settings, measure traffic, support advertising or recognise a browser on later visits.

Similar technologies can perform comparable functions. These may include tracking pixels, web beacons, scripts, software development kits, local storage, device identifiers and link-tracking technologies. In this policy, we use the word “cookies” as a convenient general term for cookies and similar technologies unless a distinction is necessary.

Cookies may be set directly by the website you visit (“first-party cookies”) or by another provider whose services are used on that website (“third-party cookies”). Some cookies last only for a browsing session and are removed when you close your browser; others remain for a set period or until you delete them.

3. Categories of Cookies We May Use

The technologies used on the website depend on the features and services active at the time of your visit and on the choices you make in the cookie banner. They may fall into the following categories:

• Strictly necessary / technical: required to provide a service you request, maintain website security, support basic page functionality, remember your privacy choices or enable essential technical operations. These do not require consent where they meet the legal exemption, but they should still be described to visitors.
• Preferences / functionality: help remember choices or provide enhanced features, such as language or display preferences. Where they are not strictly necessary, they will be used only with the consent required by applicable law.
• Analytics / measurement: help understand how visitors find and use the website, such as pages visited, traffic sources and interactions. These technologies may be provided by Google Analytics 4 or other analytics providers. They will be activated only under the consent conditions applicable to their actual configuration.
• Advertising / targeting: support the display, delivery, measurement and personalisation of advertisements, frequency control, and the creation or use of advertising identifiers or audiences. These may be provided by Google AdSense, Meta or other advertising networks. Non-essential advertising technologies require prior consent where applicable.
• Affiliate attribution: help affiliate merchants and networks recognise that a visitor arrived through a link on Travel to Tuscany and attribute a qualifying booking or purchase. This may involve referral parameters, click IDs, cookies or similar identifiers. The relevant provider may set or read technologies on its own website after you follow an affiliate link. Any tracking technology operating on this website itself must be handled according to the applicable consent rules.
• Embedded content and social features: enable content or features supplied by third parties, such as Google Maps, YouTube videos and Pinterest widgets. When loaded, these providers may receive technical information and may set or read cookies or similar identifiers, depending on the content and your settings.

4. Services and Third Parties Used on This Website

The website uses, or may use, the services listed below. The precise technologies, names and expiry periods can change when providers update their services, when website features change or when account settings are modified. This is a description of the providers and purposes disclosed for the website; it is not a verified live cookie scan or an exhaustive list of individual cookie names.

Google Analytics 4 (GA4)

Google Analytics 4 may be used to measure website traffic and understand how visitors interact with pages and content. Depending on its configuration, it may use cookies or other identifiers and process information such as online identifiers, device/browser information, approximate location, page views, events and referral information. Analytics should be configured and activated in accordance with the consent requirements that apply to the actual implementation.

Provider information: Google Privacy Policy and Google Analytics privacy information.

Google AdSense and Other Advertising Networks

Google AdSense and other advertising partners may use cookies, pixels or similar technologies to deliver advertisements, limit repeated advertisements, measure ad performance, detect invalid traffic and, where enabled and permitted, personalise advertising. Advertising may be personalised or non-personalised depending on the applicable consent choices, location, legal requirements and account configuration. Other advertising networks may be added or changed over time.

Provider information: Google advertising technologies and Google Privacy Policy.

Meta (Facebook) Pixel

The Meta Pixel may be used to measure advertising effectiveness, understand actions taken on the website and support advertising or audience measurement on Meta platforms. Depending on its configuration, it may transmit page and event information, browser/device data and online identifiers to Meta. It must not carry out non-essential tracking before the required consent has been obtained.

Provider information: Meta Privacy Policy.

Affiliate Programmes and Networks

Travel to Tuscany participates in affiliate programmes that may include Amazon Associates, Booking.com, Viator, GetYourGuide, Commission Junction (CJ), Tradedoubler and other travel, activity, accommodation, retail or advertising partners.

When you click an affiliate link, the destination website or affiliate network may use referral information, campaign parameters, click identifiers, cookies or similar technologies to attribute a booking or purchase to the referring website. The merchant or network may collect information on its own website under its own privacy and cookie notices. A cookie or identifier may be created only after you leave Travel to Tuscany and visit the third-party website; this depends on the provider's implementation. If affiliate tracking technologies are activated on Travel to Tuscany itself, they are subject to the consent rules that apply to those technologies.

Useful provider notices include: Amazon privacy information, Booking.com Privacy & Cookie Statement, Viator privacy information, and GetYourGuide Privacy Policy. Please consult the relevant network or merchant notice when following a particular link.

Google Maps and YouTube

Some pages may include Google Maps or YouTube videos. These are third-party services. Depending on how an embed is configured and when it is loaded, Google may receive technical information such as your IP address, browser/device information and the page you are visiting, and may set or read cookies or similar identifiers. Where the embed uses non-essential tracking, it should be blocked until the required consent is given. A privacy-enhanced YouTube embed may reduce certain tracking but should not be assumed to eliminate all data transmission or consent obligations.

Provider information: Google Privacy Policy and YouTube policies.

Pinterest Widgets

Pages may include Pinterest widgets, save buttons or other Pinterest features. When these elements load, Pinterest may receive technical information and information about the page or interaction, and may use cookies or similar technologies according to its own settings and policies. Non-essential Pinterest tracking should be activated only after the required consent.

Provider information: Pinterest Privacy Policy.

5. How We Obtain and Manage Your Consent

Where applicable law requires consent for non-essential cookies or similar technologies, those technologies should not be placed, read or activated until you have made a valid choice. Strictly necessary technologies may operate without consent where they are genuinely required for the service or function requested, but they should still be explained.

When you first visit the website, a cookie banner or consent tool should allow you to accept, reject or manage non-essential categories. Your choices should be freely given, specific, informed and made through a clear affirmative action. Optional categories should not be pre-selected. Simply continuing to browse or scrolling through a page does not, by itself, amount to consent.

You can change or withdraw your consent at any time using the cookie settings control available on the website. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing that took place before withdrawal. It may not automatically delete cookies already stored on your device; you may also need to remove them through your browser settings.

6. How to Control Cookies Through Your Browser

Most browsers allow you to view, delete or block cookies, and some allow you to block third-party cookies or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. The available controls differ by browser and device. You can usually find them in the browser's privacy, security or site-settings menu.

Please be aware that blocking all cookies may affect website functionality, and browser-level controls do not necessarily replace the website's consent settings or provide a complete opt-out from all forms of tracking. You may need to manage choices separately on different browsers and devices.

7. International Data Transfers

Some providers used by the website may process information outside Italy or the European Economic Area, including in countries that may not have the same data-protection laws. Where personal data is transferred internationally, the relevant provider and data controller must rely on an applicable legal transfer mechanism and safeguards where required by GDPR. Please consult the relevant provider's privacy information for further details.

8. Personal Data and Your Privacy Rights

Cookies and similar technologies may collect or generate information that relates to an identifiable person or device. Where this is personal data, the processing is also explained in our Privacy Policy. Depending on the applicable law and circumstances, you may have rights to access, correct, erase or restrict personal data, object to certain processing, receive a copy of data you provided, or withdraw consent.

To make a privacy request, contact Anastasia Bakker at [COMPLETE WITH A MONITORED CONTACT EMAIL ADDRESS]. Further information about your rights and the right to complain to a supervisory authority is set out in the Privacy Policy. In Italy, the supervisory authority is the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali.

9. Third-Party Websites

This website may link to third-party websites, booking platforms, retailers and social media services. Once you leave Travel to Tuscany or interact with a third-party feature, that provider's own privacy and cookie policies apply. We do not control cookies or tracking technologies set directly by third-party websites. Please review the provider's notices before continuing.

10. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy when the website changes, new technologies or providers are introduced, existing services are removed, or legal requirements change. The latest version will be published on this page with its updated date. Please review it periodically.

11. Agreeing to Terms

If you do not agree to Travel-to-Tuscany.com © Cookie Policy as posted here on this website, please do not use this site or any services offered by this site. Your use of this site indicates acceptance of this Cookie policy.

12. Contact

If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or the use of cookies on Travel to Tuscany, please contact:

Anastasia Bakker
Travel to Tuscany
Email: info@travel-to-tuscany.com

Cookie Policy last updated: 1 November 2026.