Travel Advice limits cookie use to the strict minimum. No advertising cookies or third-party profiling trackers are placed without your explicit consent.
Manage your preferences
You can open the preferences panel at any time to enable or disable each cookie category. Your choice is kept for up to 12 months, after which the banner reappears to ask again.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file saved by your browser when you visit a website. It allows the site to remember certain information between visits (preferences, session, anonymous statistics). Not all cookies are equal: some are essential to a site's operation, others serve commercial tracking.
The categories we use
1. Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential for the site to function. They cannot be disabled and do not require prior consent under French data protection authority guidance.
- Session cookie — maintains consistent navigation between pages (e.g. to validate a comment or contact form submission). Deleted when the browser closes.
- Language preference — remembers your choice of language (French or English). Duration: 1 year.
- Theme preference — remembers your choice between light and dark mode. Duration: 1 year.
- Anti-CSRF token — protects forms (contact, comments, newsletter) against injection attacks. Duration: session.
- Cookie preference (
ta_consent) — remembers your consent choices so you are not asked on every page. Duration: 12 months.
2. Analytics (optional)
We use Google Analytics 4 to understand which articles interest our readers and improve the site. The Google Analytics script is only loaded if you accept this category. IP addresses are anonymised. No data is used for advertising purposes.
Cookies set on acceptance: _ga, _ga_*. Duration: maximum 13 months (CNIL recommendation).
3. Third-party content (optional)
When we exceptionally embed external content (YouTube video, third-party map), it may place its own cookies on your browser. Disabled by default.
No advertising cookies
Travel Advice uses no advertising cookies, no Facebook, Google Ads, X/Twitter or other advertising network trackers. We have no retargeting pixel.
How to globally refuse cookies?
In addition to the preferences panel above, you can refuse or delete cookies at any time via your browser settings:
Blocking strictly necessary cookies may prevent certain features (form submission, language memory) from working correctly.
Changes
This policy may be updated if we change analytics tool or if regulations evolve. The last-updated date is shown below.
Last updated: May 2026.