Privacy Policy
GeorgiaTales respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains, at a general level, what information may be processed when you visit GeorgiaTales, how certain third-party services may process information, and what choices may be available to you.
This Privacy Policy should be read together with our Cookie Policy, which provides more detailed information about cookies, similar technologies, consent categories, and related controls used on the website.
1. Who We Are
GeorgiaTales is a travel information website about Georgia.
For privacy-related questions or requests, you can contact us at:
2. Information We May Collect
Depending on how you use GeorgiaTales and which website features are active, information processed in connection with your visit may include:
- technical information associated with your browser, device, and connection;
- information about how visitors interact with and navigate the website;
- cookie and consent preference information;
- information processed when external resources or third-party content are loaded; and
- information that you voluntarily provide when contacting GeorgiaTales.
The particular information processed may vary depending on the page you visit, the features displayed on that page, your consent choices, and the services that are active at the time of your visit.
3. How Information Is Collected
Information may be processed automatically when your browser communicates with our website or with services used by the website.
For example, standard web requests may involve technical information necessary to deliver requested pages and resources. Analytics technologies may process information about website usage when they are permitted to operate. External resources, maps, or embedded content may also cause your browser to communicate with third-party providers when those features are displayed or used.
We may also receive information that you choose to provide directly to us, for example when you contact GeorgiaTales by email.
4. Cookies and Consent Choices
GeorgiaTales uses a consent mechanism to manage non-essential cookies and similar technologies.
Where consent is required or requested, you can use the consent controls provided on the website to make choices about relevant categories of cookies and technologies. You can also change or withdraw your choices through the available consent controls.
Our separate Cookie Policy provides more detailed information about cookies, consent categories, and related technologies used on GeorgiaTales. Because services and technologies can change over time, the Cookie Policy is the appropriate place to review more detailed cookie information.
5. Analytics
GeorgiaTales uses Google Analytics to help us understand how visitors use the website. Analytics information can help us understand matters such as website usage, navigation, and the performance of our content.
When Google Analytics is permitted to operate under the website’s consent settings, information generated through the use of the website may be processed by Google in connection with providing the analytics service.
We do not use this Privacy Policy to state specific analytics retention periods, advertising features, or other Google Analytics settings unless those practices are separately established and applicable.
For additional information about Google’s handling of information, you should refer to Google’s applicable privacy information and terms.
6. External Resources and Fonts
Some pages on GeorgiaTales currently use font resources provided through Google Fonts. When an externally hosted font resource is requested, your browser may connect to Google’s servers in order to retrieve the resource. As with other web requests to an external provider, technical connection information may be transmitted as part of that request.
The way fonts and other website resources are delivered may change as the website’s technical configuration evolves.
7. Maps
Some GeorgiaTales content may include an interactive map when location information is available for that content.
The map interface uses locally hosted mapping software, while map tiles may be requested from an external OpenStreetMap tile service when a map is displayed. In that situation, your browser may connect to the external tile service to retrieve the map images or related resources, and technical information associated with the request may be transmitted to the provider.
Maps are conditional features and are not necessarily loaded on every page.
8. Embedded Content from Other Websites
Some content pages may include or link to content provided by third parties, such as video or other media.
When third-party content is actually embedded on a page, loading or interacting with that content may cause your browser to connect directly to the third-party provider. The provider may receive technical information associated with the request and may process information according to its own privacy practices.
The presence and provider of embedded content can vary from page to page. Third-party media services are therefore not necessarily loaded on every visit to GeorgiaTales.
9. Third-Party Services and Sharing of Information
GeorgiaTales does not need to sell or disclose information simply in order to make ordinary website content available. However, information may be processed by third-party service providers where their services are used to operate or provide particular website functionality.
Based on the services currently used by GeorgiaTales, this may include providers involved in analytics and externally delivered website resources, as well as an external map tile service when a map is displayed.
Third-party providers may process information according to their own privacy policies, terms, and technical practices. Their practices are controlled by those providers and may change independently of GeorgiaTales.
Information may also be disclosed where reasonably necessary to protect the website and its users, investigate misuse or security issues, or meet applicable legal requirements.
10. Data Retention
We do not state a single retention period for all information because different types of information and different service providers may have different operational requirements.
Information under our control is retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it is processed, for website operation and security, or to meet applicable obligations.
Where information is processed by a third-party provider, its retention may also be governed by that provider’s applicable settings, policies, and terms.
11. Your Privacy Choices and Rights
Depending on where you live and the law applicable to you, you may have rights or choices concerning your personal information. These may include, where applicable, the ability to request access to information, request correction or deletion, object to or restrict certain processing, or withdraw consent where processing depends on consent.
You can manage applicable cookie and technology preferences using the consent controls available on GeorgiaTales.
For other privacy-related requests or questions, contact:
We may need sufficient information to understand and appropriately respond to a request. The availability and scope of particular rights depend on the law applicable to the request.
12. Security
We take reasonable measures intended to protect the website and information processed through it against unauthorized access, misuse, alteration, or loss.
No website, network transmission, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Accordingly, we cannot guarantee absolute security of information transmitted or processed through the internet.
13. International Processing
Some third-party services or infrastructure used in connection with GeorgiaTales may process information in countries other than the country from which you access the website.
The location and circumstances of such processing can depend on the service provider, its infrastructure, and the particular service being used. Where applicable, third-party providers are responsible for their own processing practices and for measures required of them under applicable law.
14. Children
GeorgiaTales is not intentionally designed to collect personal information from children.
If you believe that a child has provided personal information to GeorgiaTales in circumstances that should be brought to our attention, please contact us at privacy@georgiatales.com so that the matter can be reviewed.
15. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when GeorgiaTales, the services used by the website, or applicable requirements change.
When the policy is updated, the current version will be made available on this page. Material changes to the website’s privacy-relevant technologies may also require corresponding updates to this Privacy Policy or the Cookie Policy.
16. Contact
For questions about this Privacy Policy, privacy-related requests, or concerns about how information is handled in connection with GeorgiaTales, contact:
GeorgiaTales
Email: privacy@georgiatales.com