Privacy Policy

Travel Patterned is a travel content and affiliate platform based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Our website is at https://travelpatterned.com. We publish travel guides, flight search tools, and curated recommendations — we are not a travel agent and we do not sell or fulfil bookings ourselves.

For GDPR purposes, Travel Patterned is the data controller for any personal data described in this policy. If you have questions about how we handle your data, you can reach us at hello@travelpatterned.com.

We collect a minimal amount of personal data. The only personal data we actively collect is:

• Email address — when you sign up to receive launch or newsletter notifications via our signup form. Legal basis: consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You can withdraw consent at any time by clicking unsubscribe in any email, or by emailing us.

We do not collect your name, payment details, passport information, or any other personal information unless you contact us directly (in which case we retain that correspondence only for as long as needed to respond).

We use Umami Analytics, which we self-host at analytics.travelpatterned.com. Umami is cookieless — it does not set any cookies, does not store IP addresses, and does not track individual users across sessions or sites. It records only aggregated, anonymous data: page views, referrers, approximate country, device type, and browser type.

Because Umami collects no personal data and uses no cookies, it falls within the legitimate interests exemption under Dutch telecommunications law (Telecommunicatiewet, Art. 11.7a) and GDPR Art. 6(1)(f). No consent banner is required for Umami, and it is always active regardless of your cookie preferences.

Some links on Travel Patterned are affiliate links. If you click through and make a booking or purchase, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Our affiliate relationships do not influence our editorial decisions — we only recommend services we believe are genuinely useful to travellers.

Affiliate partners whose links appear on the site include Booking.com B.V. (Netherlands) and GetYourGuide Deutschland GmbH (Germany). When you click one of these links and visit their site, you are subject to their own privacy policy. Travel Patterned does not load any scripts or tracking pixels from Booking.com or GetYourGuide — they are plain hyperlinks only.

Travel Patterned itself does not use tracking or advertising cookies. However, some features on the site — specifically the flight search widget and experiences widget — are powered by third-party scripts that do use cookies and process personal data for affiliate tracking purposes.

These widgets are only loaded after you give marketing consent via our cookie banner. If you decline or ignore the banner, the widgets are not loaded and no third-party scripts run on your device.

The third parties activated by marketing consent are:

• Kiwi.com s.r.o. (Czech Republic, EU) — affiliate tracking via the Kiwi Drive script. Transfer: EU-to-EU, no additional safeguards required.
• Go Travel Un Limited / Travelpayouts (Hong Kong) — the Aviasales flight search widget. Hong Kong does not have an EU adequacy decision. Transfer mechanism: your explicit consent per Art. 49(1)(a) GDPR. By enabling the widget you consent to your data being transferred to and processed in Hong Kong for the purpose of displaying live flight prices.
• Wegotrip (activities widget, served via tpwdg.com) — experiences and tours widget. Transfer and data handling are governed by Wegotrip's own privacy policy.

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking the "Cookie settings" link in the footer, or by clearing your browser cookies and revisiting the site.

Under GDPR, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• Right of access — you can ask us what data we hold about you.
• Right to rectification — you can ask us to correct inaccurate data.
• Right to erasure — you can ask us to delete your data.
• Right to restriction — you can ask us to pause processing of your data.
• Right to data portability — you can ask for a copy of your data in a structured format.
• Right to object — you can object to processing based on legitimate interests.
• Right to withdraw consent — for any processing based on consent (email signups, marketing cookies), you can withdraw at any time without affecting the lawfulness of prior processing.

To exercise any of these rights, email hello@travelpatterned.com. We will respond within 30 days. If you are not satisfied with our response, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Dutch data protection authority, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl).

We retain your email address for as long as you remain subscribed. When you unsubscribe, your address is deleted within 30 days. If you contact us directly, we retain that correspondence for as long as it takes to resolve your query, then delete it.

Analytics data collected by Umami is aggregated and does not relate to individuals. Aggregated statistics are retained for 24 months, after which older data is deleted.

The table below summarises the third parties that may process personal data in connection with your use of Travel Patterned, the purpose of that processing, and the legal basis.

For all enquiries — general questions, GDPR data subject requests, or privacy concerns — email us at hello@travelpatterned.com. We aim to respond within 30 days.

If you wish to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority, contact the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens at autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl.