Privacy Policy

Effective Date: August 1, 2025

1. Introduction

Welcome to GoReviewTrip. This Privacy Policy outlines how Lyra Kowalska (“we”, “us”, or “our”) collects, uses, protects, and handles your personal information when you visit and use our website, https://goreviewtrip.com/ (the “Service”).

Your privacy is critically important to us. We are committed to protecting your data and respecting your privacy rights. This policy has been written to be clear, transparent, and compliant with international standards, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

2. Who We Are

Our website address is: https://goreviewtrip.com/ The owner and operator of this website is Lyra Kowalska, a travel blogger currently based in Bangkok, Thailand. Our contact email for any privacy-related concerns is: hello@goreviewtrip.com

3. What Personal Data We Collect and Why We Collect It

We collect information to enhance your experience on our website and to ensure its smooth operation. Here’s what we collect and why:

a) Comments When you leave a comment on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form (such as your name and comment text), your IP address, and browser user agent string. This is to help with spam detection and to foster community discussion.

b) Cookies Cookies are small data files stored on your browser. We use them to improve your user experience.

  • Comment Cookies: If you leave a comment, 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.
  • Analytics Cookies: We use cookies to understand how visitors interact with our website. This helps us analyze traffic, see which articles are popular, and improve our content. (See “Analytics” section below). You have the right to accept or refuse cookies. You can modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. However, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

c) Analytics We use a third-party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behavior patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is processed in a way that does not personally identify anyone. We do not make, and do not allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website.

d) Contact Forms If you contact us through a contact form on our website or directly via email, we will collect your name and email address so that we can reply to your inquiry. We will only use this information for the purpose of communicating with you.

4. Affiliate Links

GoReviewTrip participates in affiliate marketing programs. When you click on an affiliate link and make a purchase, we may receive a commission. These links use a cookie to track the referral from our website. This process does not collect any personal data from you beyond what is necessary for the affiliate program to track the sale. Please refer to our Affiliate Disclosure page for more information.

5. Who We Share Your Data With

We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal identification information to others. We may share data with trusted third-party service providers who assist us in operating our website, such as:

  • Spam detection services (like Akismet) to protect the site.
  • Google Analytics for website traffic analysis.
  • Affiliate partners to correctly attribute sales.

These third parties are obligated to keep your information confidential and are prohibited from using it for any other purpose.

6. 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. Data collected for analytics purposes is typically retained for a period set by the analytics provider (e.g., 26 months for Google Analytics) before being anonymized or deleted.

7. Your Data Rights (GDPR)

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. We aim to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data.

Your rights include:

  • The right to access: You can request copies of your personal data that we hold.
  • The right to rectification: You can request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate.
  • The right to erasure: You can request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions. For example, we can delete any comments you have made on the site.
  • The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at hello@goreviewtrip.com.

8. How We Protect Your Data

We adopt appropriate data collection, storage, and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of your personal information. Our website uses SSL encryption to protect data transferred to and from the site.

9. Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content or privacy practices of any third-party sites.

10. Children’s Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13 (“Children”). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Effective Date” at the top. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

12. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

  • By email: hello@goreviewtrip.com