Privacy Policy

We use the information we collect to:

• Send you destination updates, new guide announcements, and trip planning tips if you have opted in to our email list
• Personalize destination recommendations based on your stated preferences
• Analyze how visitors use the site so we can improve the experience
• Measure the performance of our content and editorial features
• Track affiliate link clicks and booking referrals to manage our partner relationships
• Comply with legal obligations and enforce our Terms of Service

We will never send you unsolicited marketing from third parties, and we will not share your email address with advertisers or data brokers.

Dogleg is a participant in affiliate marketing programs. When you click on certain links on our site — including lodging links to Booking.com, Hotels.com, and VRBO; activity links to Viator and GetYourGuide; and tee time bookings through our partner courses — we may earn a commission if you make a purchase or booking.

This affiliate relationship does not affect the price you pay. It does not influence our editorial recommendations — we recommend what we genuinely believe is worth your time and money. Affiliate revenue helps us keep the site free and ad-light.

Links that may generate a commission are used for lodging, activities, and restaurant reservations. Course reviews and editorial content are always written independently.

We share data with the following categories of third parties:

• Analytics providers — Google Analytics 4 (aggregated, anonymized usage data)
• Email platform — our email service provider stores your email address to send you updates you have requested
• Hosting and infrastructure — Vercel hosts our site and may process request logs containing IP addresses
• Affiliate networks — when you click a booking link, the destination platform receives referral data

We do not share your personal information with any third party for their own marketing purposes. We do not sell your data.

We retain email addresses on our mailing list until you unsubscribe or request deletion. Analytics data collected via Google Analytics is retained according to Google's standard retention settings (up to 14 months by default).

If you request deletion of your data, we will remove your email address from our lists within 30 days and request deletion from our email service provider.

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you have the following rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and applicable local law:

• Right to access — you may request a copy of the personal data we hold about you
• Right to rectification — you may ask us to correct inaccurate data
• Right to erasure — you may request that we delete your personal data ("right to be forgotten")
• Right to data portability — you may request your data in a structured, machine-readable format
• Right to restrict processing — you may ask us to limit how we use your data while a dispute is resolved
• Right to object — you may object to processing based on our legitimate interests, including direct marketing
• Right to withdraw consent — where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw it at any time

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at sam@thedogleg.ai. We will respond within 30 days. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

Our legal basis for processing your email address is consent (you opted in). Our legal basis for analytics data is our legitimate interest in improving the site.

Our site is not directed to children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, contact us at sam@thedogleg.ai and we will delete it promptly.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the "last updated" date at the top of this page. We encourage you to review this page periodically. Continued use of the site after any changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or want to exercise your data rights, contact us at: