VoyAhead.com
Effective Date: August 18, 2026 Last Updated: August 18, 2026
1. The Short Version
VoyAhead does not currently use cookies.
Not for analytics, not for advertising, not for tracking of any kind. There is no cookie banner because there is nothing to consent to yet.
This will change when we introduce advertising. Section 5 explains exactly what will happen and when. We are publishing this policy now so the commitment is on the record before the change, not after it.
This Policy supplements our Privacy Policy. VoyAhead is a sole proprietorship registered in California under the fictitious business name "VoyAhead." Contact: privacy@voyahead.com.
2. What Cookies Are
A cookie is a small text file placed on your device when you visit a website. Cookies let a site remember your actions and preferences, measure how the site is used, and — in the case of advertising cookies — build a profile of your interests across sites.
Related technologies work similarly: local storage keeps data in your browser, pixels and web beacons record that a page or email was opened, and third-party scripts can set their own identifiers.
First-party means set by voyahead.com. Third-party means set by another company whose code runs on our pages.
3. What We Store in Your Browser Today
One item, and it is not a cookie.
| Name | Type | What it does | Contains personal data? |
|---|---|---|---|
tripcart:tocOpen | Local storage | Remembers whether the table of contents in your guide is expanded or collapsed | No |
That is the complete list. It is a display preference, it never leaves your browser, and it is not used to identify or track you. You can clear it at any time through your browser's site data settings.
4. Third Parties Your Browser Contacts
Separate from cookies, but you should know about it.
When a guide displays a map, your browser loads two things from external services:
- unpkg — the Leaflet mapping library
- CARTO — the map tile imagery
Because your browser makes those requests itself, both services receive your IP address and can see which map area you are viewing. Neither sets a cookie on our behalf, and neither receives your trip details. They may apply their own policies to the request.
Everything else — the AI that writes your guide, place search, weather data — happens on our server. Your browser never contacts those providers, so they never see your IP address. The full list is in Section 7 of our Privacy Policy.
5. What Happens When We Add Advertising
We intend to introduce advertising, most likely Google AdSense. This is the one change that will bring real cookies to the Site, and here is the commitment:
Before any advertising cookie is set, we will:
- Update this Policy with the specific cookies involved, their purposes, and their durations
- Add a cookie notice giving you a genuine choice over analytics and advertising cookies
- Add a "Cookie settings" link to the footer so you can change your mind at any time
- Add a "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" control for California residents
What those cookies will do. Google and its advertising partners use cookies to serve ads, limit how often you see the same ad, and measure whether ads work. With your consent, ads are personalized based on your activity across sites. Without it, you still see ads — they are simply generic.
If we add analytics, the same applies: disclosed here first, consent control in place before it runs.
6. Your Choices
6.1 Today
There is nothing to opt out of. If you want to clear the display preference in Section 3, use your browser's "clear site data" option for voyahead.com.
6.2 Once advertising is live
You will be able to use the footer cookie settings, and separately:
- Google personalized ads: adssettings.google.com
- Digital Advertising Alliance (US): www.aboutads.info/choices
- Network Advertising Initiative (US): optout.networkadvertising.org
6.3 Readers in Mexico
You may exercise your ARCO rights — acceso, rectificación, cancelación, oposición — and revoke consent at any time. Email privacy@voyahead.com with "Derechos ARCO" in the subject line. Details are in Section 9 of our Privacy Policy.
6.4 California residents
We honor the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal. Enabling it in your browser signals an opt-out of the sale and sharing of personal information.
6.5 Your browser
Every major browser lets you block or delete cookies and site data, usually under Privacy or Security:
- Chrome — Settings → Privacy and security → Third-party cookies
- Safari — Settings → Privacy
- Firefox — Settings → Privacy & Security
- Edge — Settings → Cookies and site permissions
Blocking third-party requests entirely may prevent maps in your guide from loading.
7. Visitors from Europe
VoyAhead is directed to readers in the United States and Mexico, and we do not target the EEA, UK, or Switzerland.
Once advertising is live, Google may restrict what visitors from those regions see to non-personalized or limited ads, because we have not implemented an IAB TCF-certified Consent Management Platform. This costs you nothing — it means less targeted advertising.
8. Affiliate Links
When you click an outbound link to a merchant, that merchant may set its own cookie recording that you arrived through us, so we are credited if you buy. That cookie is set on their site, after you leave ours, under their policy — not ours. It does not increase what you pay.
9. Changes
We update this Policy whenever we add or remove anything that stores data in your browser. The "Last Updated" date reflects the current version. Where a change requires consent under applicable law, we will ask for it before the change takes effect.
10. Contact
VoyAhead — an online publisher operating from California, United States.
Cookie and privacy questions: privacy@voyahead.com
This Policy was last updated on August 18, 2026.