This page explains how Totally Queenstown ("this site", "we") handles information when you visit, and how we make money from the site.
Analytics
This site uses Google Analytics (GA4) to understand how pages are used — for example, which guides are popular and how visitors navigate between them. Google Analytics uses cookies and similar technologies to collect information such as pages visited, approximate location (country/city level), device type and referring site. This data is aggregated and used to improve the site's content; it is not used to personally identify individual visitors by us.
You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking using browser extensions such as the official Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, or by adjusting your browser's cookie and tracking settings.
Cookie consent
Visitors who appear (based on browser timezone) to be located in the EU, EEA or UK are shown a cookie banner before analytics cookies are set, and can choose to accept or decline them. That choice is remembered in your browser (using local storage, not a tracking cookie) so you aren't asked again on future visits, and analytics only runs if you've accepted. This detection is a reasonable best effort based on browser settings rather than a precise location check, and everyone — regardless of location — can control cookies through their own browser settings at any time.
Affiliate links & advertising disclosure
Totally Queenstown participates in several affiliate and referral programmes. This means that if you click certain links on this site and then sign up for a service or make a purchase or booking, we may earn a commission or referral reward at no extra cost to you. We only link to brands and services we trust and use ourselves. Affiliate and referral partners currently include:
- Wise — a money transfer and travel card service, linked via a personal referral link.
- Amazon — as an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.
- Hotels.com and Expedia (Expedia Group) — accommodation and flight search, including embedded search widgets provided directly by Expedia Group, which may set their own cookies when you use them.
These relationships don't influence which destinations, activities or general advice we cover — we write those guides the same way regardless of whether an affiliate link is involved.
Third-party links
Pages on this site link out to third-party operators, accommodation providers, booking platforms and other travel services, some of which are affiliate links as described above. Once you leave this site, that third party's own privacy policy applies — we encourage you to review it.
Contact
Questions about this policy can be sent to [email protected].
Changes
This policy may be updated as the site grows. Material changes will be reflected by an updated date at the top of this page in future revisions.