Privacy Policy

Overview

City Field Guide is a travel content website operated by Aurora Technologies. This policy explains how the site handles information for guides, affiliate links, advertising, maps, analytics, contact features, and related website operations. It is general website-policy information, not legal advice or a guarantee of compliance in every location.

Information we may collect

• Information you provide: email address, message content, newsletter preferences, or other details you choose to submit if contact or newsletter features are enabled.
• Technical and usage data: IP address, browser type, device information, pages viewed, referral source, approximate location inferred from IP address, timestamps, diagnostics, and basic security logs.
• Cookie and preference data: cookie consent choice, dismissed notices, local storage values, and display preferences.
• Affiliate, advertising, and booking interaction data: outbound clicks, referral identifiers, campaign parameters, and similar attribution data where those features are enabled.
• Third-party embed data: technical request data that may be received by map, booking, video, ad, analytics, or other embedded service providers.

Sources of information

Information may come from you, your browser or device, our hosting and security providers, consent-gated analytics tools, affiliate or advertising partners, booking platforms, map and embed providers, and other vendors that help operate or measure the site.

How we use information

• To operate, secure, troubleshoot, maintain, and improve City Field Guide.
• To remember cookie choices, dismissed notices, and basic site preferences.
• To understand which city guides, hotel pages, maps, links, and planning tools are useful.
• To respond to messages or send newsletter updates if you choose to provide contact information.
• To measure advertising, analytics, affiliate, sponsored, or booking performance where those features are enabled.
• To prevent spam, abuse, fraud, security incidents, or misuse of the site.
• To comply with applicable obligations and enforce site terms where necessary.

Vendors and processors

We may share information with service providers that host the site, provide analytics, deliver email or contact features, protect infrastructure, process forms, support affiliate attribution, serve ads, provide maps or embeds, or help us understand and improve the site. These providers may process information according to their own terms and privacy policies, especially when you leave City Field Guide or interact with embedded third-party content.

Analytics

City Field Guide currently uses consent-gated optional analytics. Optional analytics should only load from this site after you accept analytics in the cookie banner or preference controls. If you choose essential-only preferences, optional analytics should not load from this site.

Cookies and local storage

We use essential cookies, local storage, or similar browser technologies to remember your cookie preference and support basic site features. Optional analytics, affiliate measurement, advertising tools, and third-party embeds may use their own cookies, identifiers, pixels, or storage if enabled or when you interact with those providers. See the Cookie Policy for more detail.

Affiliate links, ads, and booking partners

Guides may include affiliate links, sponsored placements, advertisements, hotel or tour widgets, and links to booking platforms. Aurora Technologies may earn revenue when you click or book through some links. Those third-party services are separate from City Field Guide, and we do not control how they process information you provide after leaving this site.

Maps, embeds, and external links

Pages may link to or embed third-party maps, booking tools, videos, images, advertisements, or similar services. Embedded content can send technical request data, such as IP address, browser details, and referring page, to the provider even if you do not create an account with them. External websites have their own privacy practices, terms, prices, availability, and cancellation rules.

Retention

We keep information for as long as reasonably needed for the purposes described in this policy, including site operation, analytics, security, support, legal compliance, and business recordkeeping. Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and the provider involved. We may delete or de-identify information when it is no longer needed.

Your privacy choices

• Use the cookie banner or footer preference control to accept optional analytics or keep optional analytics off.
• Clear cookies and local storage in your browser to reset saved choices.
• Use browser settings, private browsing, Global Privacy Control where supported, or extensions to block cookies, trackers, or embedded third-party content.
• Unsubscribe from emails using the link in a message if newsletter features are enabled.
• Avoid clicking affiliate links, booking widgets, ads, or embedded maps if you do not want to interact with those providers.
• Contact support@auroratechnologies.xyz with privacy questions or requests.

US state privacy rights

Depending on where you live and how the site operates at the time of your visit, you may have rights to request access, deletion, correction, portability, restriction, opt-out of certain data sharing or targeted advertising, or appeal a privacy decision. California-style rights may include requests to know, delete, correct, or opt out of certain sharing or sale-like activity as those terms are defined by applicable law. To make a request, contact support@auroratechnologies.xyz.

EEA, UK, and Swiss visitors

If privacy laws in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland apply to your visit, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, object to, or transfer certain personal data, and to withdraw consent where processing is based on consent. Processing may rely on consent, legitimate interests, contract-related necessity, or legal obligations depending on the feature. You may also have the right to complain to a local data protection authority.

Children

City Field Guide is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 provided personal information through the site, contact support@auroratechnologies.xyz so we can review it.

Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures intended to protect the site and information handled through it. No website, hosting provider, analytics tool, transmission method, or storage method can be guaranteed completely secure.

International transfers

City Field Guide, Aurora Technologies, and our vendors may process information in the United States or other countries. Privacy laws may differ from those in your location. Where required, transfer mechanisms and safeguards depend on the providers and laws that apply.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as City Field Guide adds or removes features, vendors, analytics, advertising, affiliate relationships, maps, or contact tools. The version posted on this page applies when you use the site after an update.

Contact

For privacy questions or requests about this site, contact Aurora Technologies at support@auroratechnologies.xyz.