Last updated: 13 September 2026
CeylonFarer (“we”, “us”, “our”) operates https://ceylonfarer.com, a travel and transport guide to Sri Lanka. This policy explains what data we collect, why we collect it, and the choices you have. It covers visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and everywhere else we are read.
What we collect
We do not ask you to create an account and we do not sell personal data. The data we handle falls into three groups.
- Analytics data. Pages viewed, approximate location from your IP address, device and browser type, referring site and time on page. We use this to understand which guides help people.
- Advertising data. If advertising is served on this site, our advertising partners may set cookies or read device identifiers to measure and personalise ads.
- Messages you send us. If you email us, we keep the message and your address so we can reply.
Advertising and Google AdSense
This site is supported by advertising. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your previous visits to this website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our site and/or other sites on the internet.
You can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings, or opt out of third-party vendor cookie use at aboutads.info. In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland you can also refuse or withdraw consent at any time through the consent banner on this site, which is provided by a consent management platform and records your choices.
Where required, we serve non-personalised ads or limited ads to visitors who have not consented to personalised advertising.
Cookies
Cookies on this site fall into these categories:
- Essential. Needed for the site to work, including remembering your consent choices. These cannot be switched off.
- Analytics. Help us understand aggregate traffic and which pages are useful.
- Advertising. Set by us or our advertising partners to measure and, where you have consented, personalise advertising.
You can change or withdraw your cookie consent at any time from the consent settings link in the footer, or by clearing cookies in your browser. For more on how our consent tool records choices, see our Cookie Notice.
Legal bases and your rights
For visitors in the EEA and the UK we rely on consent where required for analytics and advertising cookies, and on our legitimate interest in keeping the site secure and understanding aggregate readership. You have the right to access, correct, delete or restrict processing of your personal data, to object to processing, and to complain to your national data protection authority. To exercise any of these rights, email us using the address on our Contact page.
Data retention and security
Aggregate analytics data is retained for up to 26 months. Email correspondence is kept while it is useful and deleted when it is not. We use HTTPS across the site and keep our software updated.
Children
This site is written for adult travellers and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect data from children.
Third-party services
Depending on the page, we may use analytics, advertising, affiliate tracking, embedded media and email services. Each has its own privacy policy and each is listed with its purpose inside the consent tool.
Changes to this policy
We update this page when our tools or the law change, and the date at the top always shows the current version. Questions about this policy can be sent through our Contact page.