Cookie Policy

Last Updated: January 01, 2026

Welcome to Paulakande. Your privacy and digital security are paramount to us. As a premier travel platform dedicated to exploring the world, we believe in transparency regarding how we collect, use, and share data. This Cookie Policy explains how Paulakande uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website. It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

This policy is designed to comply with global standards, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), ensuring that our operations meet the strict requirements for Google AdSense and other advertising partnerships.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, Paulakande) are called “first-party cookies”. Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third-party cookies”. Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g., advertising, interactive content, and analytics). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.

2. Why Do We Use Cookies?

We use first-party and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Website to operate, and we refer to these as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Online Properties. Third parties serve cookies through our Website for advertising, analytics, and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.

The Specific Types of Cookies We Use

Essential Website Cookies: These are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the Website to you, you cannot refuse them without impacting how our site functions.
Performance and Functionality Cookies: These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our Website but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality (like videos or travel maps) may become unavailable.
Analytics and Customization Cookies: These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our Website for you. We use Google Analytics to analyze traffic to Paulakande.
Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.
Social Networking Cookies: These cookies are used to enable you to share pages and content that you find interesting on our Website through third-party social networking and other websites. These cookies may also be used for advertising purposes.

As a travel publisher, Paulakande uses Google AdSense to display advertisements. Google uses cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to our website or other websites on the internet.

Google uses the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to Paulakande and/or other sites on the Internet.
Users may opt-out of the use of the DoubleClick cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.
Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for interest-based advertising by visiting aboutads.info.

We strictly adhere to Google’s Publisher Policies. We do not place ads on pages with little to no original content, and we ensure that our implementation of cookies respects user consent where required by law (such as the EU User Consent Policy).

4. Affiliate and Travel Partner Cookies

Paulakande participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites. When you click on a link to a travel booking site (such as Booking.com, Skyscanner, TripAdvisor, or Agoda) from our blog, a cookie is placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.

These cookies do not store personal information that allows us to identify you individually; they simply tell the affiliate network that you came from Paulakande so we can be credited for the referral. This helps support our website and allows us to continue providing free travel guides.

5. How Can You Control Cookies?

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie rights by setting your preferences in the Cookie Consent Manager. The Cookie Consent Manager allows you to select which categories of cookies you accept or reject. Essential cookies cannot be rejected as they are strictly necessary to provide you with services.

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may still use our website, though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information.

6. Tracking Technologies Similar to Cookies

Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called “tracking pixels” or “clear gifs”). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognize when someone has visited our Website or opened an e-mail including them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within a website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to the website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of e-mail marketing campaigns. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.

For Users in the EEA and UK

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA) or the United Kingdom, you have certain data protection rights. Paulakande aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data. If you wish to be informed what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us. In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

The right to access, update or to delete the information we have on you.
The right of rectification.
The right to object.
The right of restriction.
The right to data portability.
The right to withdraw consent.

For Users in California (CCPA)

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), California residents have the right to declare their preferences on the sale of data for advertising and marketing purposes. As described in this policy, we use cookies for targeted advertising. You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information. Paulakande provides a “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” link on our homepage for California residents to manage these preferences.

8. Updates to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies. The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us directly through our contact page.

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