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Cookie Policy for Sustainable Tourism World

What Are Cookies

This site uses cookies, tiny files downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however, this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the site’s functionality.

For more general information on cookies, see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons, detailed below. Unfortunately,,, there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. Therefore, it is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are unsure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service you use.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The Cookies We Set

This site offers newsletter or email subscription services, and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribe/unsubscribed users.

When you submit data through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

Third-Party Cookies

In some exceptional cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties—the following section details which third-party cookies you might encounter through this site.

This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web, to help us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track how long you spend on the site and the pages you visit so we can continue producing engaging content.

See the official Google Analytics page for more information on Google Analytics cookies.

Third-party analytics are used to track and measure the usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. For example, these cookies may track how long you spend on the site or pages you visit, which helps us understand how we can improve the place for you.

I also use social media buttons and plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work, the following social media sites including Pinterest, and Twitter, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.

More Information

Hopefully, that has clarified things for you. As was previously mentioned, if there is something you aren’t sure you need or not, it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. However, if you are still looking for more information, then you can contact me th, you can email sustainabletourismworld @ gmail.com