Cookies & Privacy

AlgarveOnline.com is an independent, editorial travel guide to the Algarve, in Portugal. We research and write about destinations, accommodation, beaches, restaurants and experiences, and we embed comparison and booking tools from selected partners so you can arrange parts of your trip without leaving the page.

The site is free to read. It is funded through affiliate partnerships: when you choose to book with a partner after following a link from this site, the partner may pay us a commission.

You can browse every page without an account, and we do not ask you to submit personal information anywhere on the site.

Like virtually all websites, our hosting infrastructure automatically records limited technical data in server logs — such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URL and the pages you request. This is standard practice and exists for security, stability and troubleshooting.

Server log data is used only to operate and protect the website: detecting abuse or attacks, diagnosing errors, and understanding overall traffic patterns at an aggregate level.

We do not attempt to identify individual visitors from these logs, and we do not combine them with any marketing profile.

Our own code sets two first-party cookies, both strictly functional:

AlgarveOnline.com currently runs no analytics platform. We do not use Google Analytics or any comparable tool, we do not create heatmaps or session recordings, and we do not measure individual behaviour across pages.

Some links on this site are affiliate links. If you click one and then make a booking or purchase, the partner may pay us a commission.

Commission never changes the price you pay: the rate you are quoted is identical whether or not a link is an affiliate link.

Affiliate relationships exist with the Travelpayouts network (flights, accommodation, car rental, transfers, tours, travel insurance compensation claims and eSIM connectivity).

Beyond Travelpayouts, the site relies on standard infrastructure providers: a web host that serves the pages, a content delivery network for images, and Google Fonts, which next/font self-hosts at build time (no requests leave our domain for fonts).

Each third party processes data under its own privacy policy when you interact with it.

Travelpayouts provides two things on this site:

When you follow a booking link, you leave AlgarveOnline.com entirely. Airlines, hotels, rental companies, tour operators, transfer providers, insurers and eSIM sellers each process your details under their own terms and privacy policies.

We do not receive your name, contact details, payment information or booking specifics from them. At most, partners report to us in aggregate that a booking occurred, so commissions can be reconciled.

First-party language cookies last 12 months, after which they expire automatically. Server logs containing technical data are retained only for as long as the hosting setup keeps them, and are used exclusively for operational purposes described above.

Under the GDPR and equivalent laws you may have rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, objection and portability regarding personal data.

Because this site is intentionally built to avoid collecting personal data, most requests relating to widget or booking activity should be addressed directly to the third party involved; their contact details live in their own privacy policies.

For anything concerning this website itself, write to hello@algarveonline.com and we will respond promptly.

The entire site is served over HTTPS. We keep dependencies updated and follow standard hardening practice for a static-first Next.js application. As we operate no databases of user information, there is no user dataset to breach.

This policy covers only AlgarveOnline.com. Partner sites, embedded widget providers and any websites you reach through outbound links apply their own policies, which we do not control and which may differ materially from ours.

If we add new features, partners or technologies that change how information is handled, we will update this page and revise the date at the top. Material changes will be described clearly rather than silently substituted.

Questions about this policy, about affiliate disclosures, or about anything else on the site: hello@algarveonline.com or +351 917 707 707.