Privacy Policy

2. Information We Collect

We process data when you interact with our tools, website, or newsletters. This includes:

• Personal Data: We collect your email address only when you explicitly opt-in to our free travel newsletter. No personal account signup is required to use our itinerary planner, budget calculators, or insurance finders.
• Usage Data: Includes specific diagnostic details regarding pages visited, time spent on the site, buttons clicked, customized travel planner outputs, and general interactions.
• Device Data: Technical information consisting of browser version, operating system, network configuration, anonymized IP addresses, and referring websites.

3. How We Use Your Information

The gathered data is processed to maintain a premium user experience and fund our development costs under the following legitimate bases:

• Service Improvement: Optimization of algorithms inside our custom Greek ferry, itinerary, and budget models based on common selections.
• Newsletter Dispatch: Delivering free travel tips, guides, and updates exclusively upon your active double opt-in confirmation.
• Analytics Tracking: Evaluating site metrics with Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to detect trends and geographic user hubs.
• Display Advertisements: Managing banner ad operations via Google AdSense to secure essential operations funding.

5. Affiliate Marketing Disclosure

Greek Island Hopper uses monetization partnerships. We incorporate secure affiliate tracking links, scripts, or pixels from specialized, premium service providers. If you complete a purchase, book a ferry, or reserve accommodation after clicking our custom links, we receive a small performance-based commission at no additional cost to you. These partners include:

• Booking.com: Facilitates hotel, apartment, and luxury resort listings. Cookies track booking conversions.
• GetYourGuide: Manages guided history excursions, boat excursions, and sunset cruises.
• Ferryhopper: Integrates connections, real-time ticket availability, and schedules for Greek ferries.
• SafetyWing: Powers Schengen-compliant travel health insurance plan estimations.

6. Cookies We Use

We employ cookie storage technologies on your terminal device. The primary cookies active on greekislandhoppers.com include:

7. Your Rights (GDPR — EU Visitors)

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), visitors from the European Economic Area (EEA) enjoy enhanced user rights. This includes:

• Right to Access: Ask for detailed summaries of personal data currently stored by us.
• Right to Deletion: Ask to completely wipe your email details from our mail dispatch systems.
• Right to Portability: Retrieve an export of any shared inputs in common structured file formats.
• Right to Object/Restrict: Prevent analytical parsing or promotional communication.

To exercise these statutory options, please submit a clear message to privacy@greekislandhoppers.com. We reply and process compliant actions within 30 days.

8. CCPA Rights (California Visitors)

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Californian residents have the following protections:

• Right to Know: Confirm what exact elements of device metadata and demographic details were logged over the prior 12 months.
• Right to Delete: Complete request to remove individual usage footprints.
• Right to Opt-Out of Sale: Prevent selling or sharing personal metrics. We do not sell user data to data brokers.
• Non-Discrimination: Enjoy equal tools pricing and availability should you exercise these rights.

9. Data Retention Guidelines

We retain usage stats for statistical improvement purposes up to 14 months. Email details gathered under our double opt-in newsletter remain securely active inside our dispatch client unless you trigger an unsubscribe request via footer unsubscribe links or contact us directly.

10. Third-Party Links & Integrations

Our travel calculators contain links to external booking platforms. We hold no operational or legal responsibility for the contents, privacy guarantees, or terms of service on third-party sites. Please review their privacy notices when checking out.

11. Children's Privacy Protection

Our travel utilities are targeted for international tourists aged 18 and older. We do not knowingly compile, store, or target data from kids under 13. If you believe your child has submitted an email address on our platform, please contact us for immediate elimination.

12. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We reserves the right to adapt this privacy layout at our discretion. Any structural revisions will be posted transparently on this URL with an updated last modification date.