Privacy Notice

Effective date: May 12, 2026 Last updated: May 12, 2026

At Gay Up Travel, we believe travel should feel like home — including how your information is treated. This notice explains what we collect when you visit gayuptravel.com, why we collect it, who we share it with, and the choices you have. It is written to satisfy the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”), and we extend the same rights to every visitor regardless of where you live.

Personal Information We Collect

In the past twelve months, we have collected the following categories of personal information from visitors to our website and people who contact us:

  • Identifiers — your name and email address, when you subscribe to our newsletter or submit the “Plan Your Trip” form.
  • Commercial-interest information — destinations you’re considering, approximate travel dates, and any free-text notes you share through our forms.
  • Internet and network activity — pages viewed, time on site, source of your visit, and similar engagement signals collected through analytics cookies.
  • Geolocation (approximate) — country and region inferred from your IP address by our analytics provider. We do not collect precise GPS location.
  • Device and browser information — device type, browser, and operating system, used to render the site correctly and understand audience trends.
  • Inferences — broad audience signals derived from the above (for example, “interested in Mediterranean travel”), used by our advertising provider for re-targeting.

We do not knowingly collect sensitive personal information as defined under CPRA — including Social Security numbers, government IDs, precise geolocation, biometric data, the contents of your mail or messages, or health or sexual-orientation data. The fact that our audience is gay men is a brand-level positioning; it is not a category we ask you to self-declare in any form on this site.

We do not process payments on this site. All client payments are handled offline, outside the website domain.

Sources of Personal Information

We collect personal information from three sources: directly from you, when you fill out a form, send us an email, or interact with the site; automatically, when your browser loads our pages — through cookies, pixels, and analytics scripts; and from our service providers, such as our email platform, which may enrich your record with engagement data like opens and clicks.

How We Use Your Personal Information

We use the information we collect for the following business and commercial purposes: responding to your trip inquiries and preparing tailor-made travel proposals; sending you our newsletter and editorial content if you’ve subscribed; understanding how visitors use the site so we can improve the experience; showing relevant content to people who have visited the site, through advertising platforms; detecting and preventing fraud or abuse; and complying with our legal obligations.

We do not sell your personal information for money. However, our use of advertising pixels — described below — qualifies as “sharing” under CPRA, because it enables cross-context behavioral advertising. You have the right to opt out, and we explain how in the section that follows.

Who We Share Your Information With

We share personal information with the following categories of third parties. Each acts as a service provider or business partner and is contractually bound to handle your data in line with applicable law:

  • Google LLC (United States) — for analytics and traffic measurement (Google Analytics 4, via the Site Kit plugin).
  • Meta Platforms, Inc. (United States) — for advertising measurement and audience-building (Meta Pixel).
  • Encharge (United States) — for email marketing, segmentation, and broadcast newsletters.
  • A third-party web hosting provider — for the technical operation of the website.

We do not share your personal information with data brokers, and we do not permit our service providers to use your information for their own marketing purposes.

Your Rights Under California Law

If you are a California resident, you have the following rights under the CCPA and CPRA:

  • Right to know — request a copy of the personal information we hold about you, along with the categories of sources, purposes, and third parties involved.
  • Right to delete — ask us to delete the personal information we have collected from you, subject to limited legal exceptions.
  • Right to correct — ask us to correct inaccurate personal information.
  • Right to opt out of sale or sharing — direct us to stop sharing your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. See the next section for how.
  • Right to limit use of sensitive personal information — though, as noted above, we do not collect sensitive personal information.
  • Right to non-discrimination — we will not deny you service, charge a different price, or provide a lesser experience because you exercised any of these rights.

We extend the substance of these rights to all visitors, not only California residents, because we think it is the right way to operate.

Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information

Although we do not sell your personal information for money, our use of the Meta Pixel for re-targeting may qualify as “sharing” under California law. You can opt out of this sharing in any of three ways:

  • Email us at info@gayuptravel.com with the subject line “Do Not Sell or Share — Privacy Request.” Include the email address you’ve used with us so we can locate your record.
  • Enable a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal in your browser. We honor GPC signals automatically.
  • Decline cookies through the consent banner shown when you first visit the site, or clear our cookies in your browser settings at any time.

We will action verified opt-out requests within fifteen business days.

How to Exercise Your Rights

To exercise any of the rights described above, email us at info@gayuptravel.com with a clear description of your request. We may need to verify your identity by asking you to confirm details we already have on file — typically the email address used to interact with us.

We will respond to verified requests within forty-five days. If we need additional time, we will let you know within that window and explain why.

You may also designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. We will ask for written authorization from you and proof of identity from your agent.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use first-party and third-party cookies to operate the site, measure traffic, and support our advertising. When you first arrive, you see a consent banner. You can decline cookies, accept them, or change your mind later by clearing cookies in your browser.

The categories of cookies we use are strictly necessary (required for the site to function — session and security), analytics (Google Analytics 4, set by our analytics provider to measure traffic), and advertising (Meta Pixel, set to support re-targeting and audience measurement). You can disable any of these in your browser settings without losing access to the editorial content of the site.

Data Retention

We keep personal information only as long as needed for the purposes described in this notice, or as required by law. Newsletter subscribers can unsubscribe at any time using the link in every email. Unsubscribed records are retained as a suppression list to honor your preference, but are not used for marketing.

Children’s Privacy

Our site and services are intended for adults. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under sixteen. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us and we will delete it.

Changes to This Notice

We may update this notice from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, the technologies we use, or the law. When we make material changes, we will update the “Last updated” date at the top of this page and, where appropriate, notify our newsletter subscribers by email. We encourage you to review this page periodically.

Contact

If you have questions about this notice or want to exercise any of your privacy rights, you can reach us here:

We aim to respond to every privacy email within five business days. Verified rights requests are completed within the timelines described above.

Travel as you are. — including your data.