Last updated: November 2026
This explains the cookies and similar storage used on intothehikes.com, and what other companies receive when you use some features of the site.
WordPress and WooCommerce. The shop uses cookies to remember your cart and to keep your session while you check out. They are needed for the shop to work.
No marketing or analytics cookies. WooCommerce's optional order attribution feature is turned off, so no cookies record where a visit came from.
Cache and security. The hosting and security plugins may set technical cookies. They do not identify you.
Some pages save small preferences in your browser, such as a weather lookup for a trail or a one-time hint on the 3D map. This data stays on your device and is not sent to me.
Maps and weather. Map pages load map software from unpkg.com, map tiles from OpenTopoMap, OpenStreetMap and Esri, and weather data from Open-Meteo. These services see your IP address and the area you view, as any website you load would.
Payments. The shop uses Stripe for card payments. Stripe may set its own cookies on pages that show payment buttons or process a payment, mainly to prevent fraud.
Partner sites. When you click an affiliate link you leave this site. The partner (for example GetYourGuide or Booking.com) can set its own cookies to remember that the visit came from here, which is how a commission is credited. Their cookie policies apply from that point.
Fonts are loaded from this site, not from Google.
This site does not run advertising networks or third-party analytics trackers. If that changes, this page and the privacy policy will be updated first.
You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. The shop may not work correctly without the essential ones.
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