Last Updated: February 26, 2026
At Aestethik (accessible from https://aestethik.com), one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by Aestethik and how we use it.
1. Who We Are
Our website address is: https://aestethik.com. We are a digital journal dedicated to slow travel, boutique experiences, and curated travel tales.
2. Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it.
3. Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
4. Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
5. Advertising and Third-Party Cookies (AdSense Compliance)
Aestethik uses Google AdSense to serve advertisements.
Google AdSense: Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to Aestethik and/or other sites on the Internet.
6. Affiliate Disclosure
In the spirit of transparency, please be aware that Aestethik participates in various affiliate marketing programs. This means we may earn a commission on editorially chosen products or stays purchased through our links to retailer sites (such as Booking.com, Amazon, etc.).
This comes at no additional cost to you and helps support the production of our high-quality travel tales. We only recommend products and experiences we truly believe in.
7. Analytics
We use Google Analytics to understand how our visitors interact with our content. This service tracks data such as your IP address, device type, and the pages you visit. This data is used to improve our site experience and content strategy. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
8. Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
9. How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time.
10. What Rights You Have Over Your Data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
11. Contact Information
For any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, you can contact us at: [email protected].