Privacy Policy

Last updated: April 20, 2026

Saltrove is an independent travel publication covering Australia for readers in the United States and Canada. We are run by a small editorial team, not a large company. This page explains, in plain English, what data we collect when you visit saltrove.com, why we collect it, who we share it with, and how you can ask us to change or delete it.

If anything below is unclear, email us at contact@saltrove.com and we will answer in normal language.

Who we are

Saltrove is an editorial site about travel in Australia. The site is operated from Morocco. We are not a travel agency, we do not sell tours, and we do not take affiliate commissions on bookings made through links on this site at the time of writing. If that ever changes, we will say so clearly on the relevant page.

What we collect, and why

We try to collect as little personal information as possible. Specifically:

Newsletter signups

If you sign up for our newsletter, we ask for your first name and email address. We use these to send you the dispatches you signed up for, and nothing else. The list itself is hosted by Brevo (a French email service provider acting as our data processor). Brevo stores your email and name on our behalf and sends mail through their infrastructure.

Every newsletter we send includes a one-click unsubscribe link in the footer. When you unsubscribe, we ask Brevo to remove you from the list.

Contact form

If you write to us through the contact form on /contact/, we collect your name, email address, optional subject, and the message itself. We store this in two places: inside our WordPress installation (so a message is never lost), and as an email delivered to the editor’s inbox via Brevo’s SMTP relay. We use this only to reply to you.

Server logs

Like every web server, our host records standard access logs containing your IP address, the page you requested, the time, and your browser’s user-agent string. We use these only to debug problems and to spot abuse. Logs are kept for 30 days and then rotated out.

Cookies

We try to keep cookies to a minimum:

• Essential WordPress cookies — set only if you log in to the site or leave a comment. Regular readers are not logged in, so most visitors get no WordPress cookies at all.
• LiteSpeed cache cookies — used by our hosting layer to serve cached pages faster. They contain no personal data.
• Third-party analytics — we currently do not run Google Analytics 4 or any other analytics tracker on this site. If we add one in future, this page will be updated and a clear consent banner will appear before any tracker fires.

Third-party content embedded on our pages

A few of our pages load content from other companies. When that happens, those companies may see your IP address and basic browser information.

• Pinterest — every article includes a hidden Pinterest-optimized image so readers can save the post to their boards. Pinterest only sees you if you click the Save button or hover over the image with the Pinterest browser extension installed.
• LoremFlickr image CDN — some placeholder and editorial illustration images are served from loremflickr.com. Loading these images sends your IP and user-agent to that CDN, the same as loading any other web image.

We do not embed Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube tracking widgets anywhere on this site at the time of writing.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, the law gives you a set of rights over the personal data we hold about you. These include rights under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the UK GDPR, and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Specifically, you have the right to:

• Access — ask us what data we hold about you;
• Correct — ask us to fix anything that is wrong;
• Delete — ask us to remove your data, subject to any legal record-keeping obligations;
• Port — receive your data in a portable format;
• Object — tell us to stop processing your data for a specific purpose, including marketing;
• Withdraw consent — for anything you previously opted in to (such as the newsletter).

To exercise any of these rights, email contact@saltrove.com with the subject line Privacy request. We aim to respond within 30 days. We will not charge you for a reasonable request.

How long we keep your data

• Newsletter subscribers — kept on the list until you unsubscribe. After unsubscribe we may keep a suppression record (your email address only) so we don’t accidentally re-add you later.
• Contact form messages — kept for 24 months after the conversation ends, then deleted.
• Server access logs — kept for 30 days.

Children

Saltrove is a travel publication aimed at adult readers. We do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under the age of 16. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has sent us their information, write to us at contact@saltrove.com and we will delete it.

Where your data is stored, and applicable law

Saltrove’s web hosting is provided by Hostinger and the site is operated by an editorial team based in Morocco. Newsletter data is stored by Brevo on servers in the European Union. Because our readers are mostly in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the European Union, and Australia, we honor the privacy rights that apply where you live.

Security

We serve every page over HTTPS. Newsletter and contact submissions travel over the same encrypted connection. Our admin tooling is locked behind multi-factor authentication. We do not store credit card or payment information, because we do not collect any.

Changes to this policy

We may update this page from time to time — for example, to reflect a new tool we have started using, or a change in the law. The “Last updated” date at the top of the page will always show when the most recent revision was made. If a change is significant (for example, if we introduce analytics), we will say so directly in our next newsletter.

Questions

The fastest way to reach us is by email at contact@saltrove.com. We read every message.