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Real Travel Guides is an independent travel publishing business founded and operated by Carolyn Storme, who is responsible for the personal information collected through this website.
Last updated: 31 October 2026.
Contacting us
Email realtravelguides@gmail.com with any question about your information.
If you contact us by email, we will use the information you provide to respond to your enquiry. We do not add your email address to our mailing list unless you have subscribed separately. We process enquiries on the basis of our legitimate interests in responding to correspondence.
Email subscriptions
If you subscribe to receive updates from Real Travel Guides, we will use your email address to send you travel inspiration, practical advice, news and occasional information about our travel guides.
We use your email address for these communications with your consent. You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in our emails or by contacting us at realtravelguides@gmail.com.
We keep your email address until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete it, unless we are legally required to retain it.
We do not sell or share our subscriber mailing list with third parties for their own marketing purposes.
Analytics and cookies
We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use our website. Analytics is optional and only runs after you accept. We use it on the basis of your consent.
It helps us understand page visits, clicks on links to our guides, and newsletter subscriptions. No email addresses are sent to Google Analytics.
A cookie remembers your preference for one year. If you accept, Google Analytics also uses cookies. You can change or withdraw your consent at any time through Cookie settings in the footer.
We do not use advertising cookies. Google Analytics is a third-party service and may process this information outside the UK.
Service providers
Trusted service providers help us operate this website. They may process personal information outside the UK.
External websites
This website links to Amazon, other travel-related websites, and our social media pages. Those sites have their own privacy policies. We do not control those sites.
Your rights
Under UK GDPR, you have the right to:
- Access the personal information we hold about you.
- Correct it if it is wrong.
- Have it deleted.
- Restrict how we use it.
- Receive it in a portable form, where applicable.
- Object to our use of it.
- Withdraw your consent, where we rely on consent.
Contact realtravelguides@gmail.com to exercise these rights. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.
We do not sell personal information.