Transparency
Indie Voyager doesn’t have email subscription option on indievoyager.com, it uses only WP Statistics plugin to track its stats (without GeoIP collection being enabled) and the website’s presence on social media atm comes down to barely using its Facebook Page and twitter. Also the website relies on positioning itself on search engines by using SEO by Yoast WordPress plugin (the basic, free one). And centuries old mouth-to-mouth way of advertising.
The number of views you see in the bottom of articles and homepage previews is an incorporated part of Carrie/Malina WordPress theme used by indievoyager.com.
Cookies
What are cookies?
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What cookies is indievoyager.com using?
Indie Voyager for mapping purposes uses Google Maps Easy WordPress plugin solely to make easier to its visitors to see locations of festivals and travel destinations from across Europe. According to Google Maps Easy WordPress plugin authors: “Our plugin does not use cookies, but Google maps can.” (link)
How Google uses cookies?
According to Google: “We use cookies for many purposes. We use them, for example, to remember your safe search preferences, to make the ads you see more relevant to you, to count how many visitors we receive to a page, to help you sign up for our services, to protect your data, or to remember your ad settings.” Find out more about it here
Indie Voyager for SEO purposes uses SEO by Yoast WordPress plugin. According to plugin support: “Our WordPress SEO plugins do not collect any personal data that affect the GDPR regulations.” (link)
Indie Voyager for statistics purposes uses WP Statistics plugin. Here’s what they are saying about cookies: “One of the most significant advantages of WP Statistics is that it saved all data locally in WordPress. It helps a lot while implementing the new GDPR restrictions; because it’s unnecessary to create a data processing contract with an external company!” (link). Furthermore, on a question asked: Is WP Statistics plugin GDPR Compliant?, they answer: “From this new version on, the answer is YES. V12.4.0 is GDPR compliant by default.” (link). “”Even in the previous versions, WP Statistics wouldn’t collect personal data or store information based on users. You should know that when installed and activated on your website, WP Statistics doesn’t collect, store or send any personal data of your site’s visitors.” (link) Plus, “WP Statistics doesn’t store any cookies on your visitors’ browsers.” Read all about it on this page here.
Disclaimer
Festival information:
Indie Voyager is not responsible for possible errors or changes that may occur regarding the festivals or events. To be sure, always go visit organizers’ websites for possible updates or change of information before starting your trip.
Indie Voyager is not involved in any way in organization of the featured events.
Content:
There is no guarantee that the content, opinions, travel tips are perceived by you in the same way and that in some cases given information haven’t been changed. Indie Voyager is not responsible for changes that may occur regarding the given information, however it is our goal to update them so that they can be of use to website visitors.
Opinions on the website are our own, created in the spirit of supporting inspiring indie artists and traveling experiences & stories and the website is not paid for featuring them on indievoyager.com.