Privacy & Cookies Policy – The Faraway Journal
Last updated: February 15, 2026
Data Controller:
The Faraway Journal
Website: https://thefarawayjournal.com
Email: thefarawayjournal.blog@gmail.com
This Privacy & Cookies Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you visit The Faraway Journal (the “Blog”). We are committed to GDPR compliance and protecting your privacy.
1. Personal Information We Collect
We may collect the following personal information:
a) Newsletter Subscriptions
If you subscribe to our newsletter, we collect:
- Email address
You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in our emails.
b) Contact Forms
If you contact us, we collect:
- Name
- Email address
- Message content
This information is used only to respond to your inquiry.
c) Cookies and Analytics (optional)
We may use cookies and analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics) to understand how visitors use the Blog. This may include:
- IP address (anonymized if enabled)
- Pages visited
- Time spent on pages
- Device and browser type
This data helps us improve the Blog and user experience.
d) Affiliate Links (future use)
We may use affiliate links to earn commissions. Clicking these links may track basic data necessary for affiliate programs.
2. Cookies
The Faraway Journal uses cookies to:
- Ensure proper website functionality
- Improve user experience
- Analyze traffic
You can manage or withdraw your consent for cookies at any time via the cookie banner or your browser settings.
3. Legal Basis (GDPR)
We process personal data under the GDPR legal bases:
- Your consent (e.g., cookies, newsletter)
- Legitimate interests (e.g., improving the Blog)
- Legal obligations where applicable
4. Data Retention
We retain personal data only as long as necessary:
- Newsletter emails are kept until you unsubscribe
- Contact form messages are kept only as long as needed to respond
- Analytics data is anonymized or stored as per tool policy
5. Sharing Personal Data
We do not sell or trade your personal data. We may share data with trusted third parties:
- Website hosting provider
- Newsletter provider
- Analytics provider
- Affiliate networks
All providers comply with GDPR.
6. Your Rights
If you are in the EU/EEA, you have the right to:
- Access your personal data
- Correct inaccurate data
- Request deletion of your data
- Withdraw consent
- Lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority
To exercise your rights, contact: thefarawayjournal.blog@gmail.com
7. Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your data against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.
8. Third-Party Links
Our Blog may contain links to external sites. We are not responsible for their privacy practices.
9. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy & Cookies Policy. All changes will be posted here with a new “Last updated” date.
10. Cookie policy
This Cookie Policy was last updated on February 15, 2026 and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the European Economic Area and Switzerland.
1. Introduction
Our website, https://thefarawayjournal.com (hereinafter: "the website") uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience all technologies are referred to as "cookies"). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.
2. What are cookies?
A cookie is a small simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.
3. What are scripts?
A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.
4. What is a web beacon?
A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.
5. Cookies
5.1 Technical or functional cookies
Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website and, for example, the items remain in your shopping cart until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.
5.2 Advertising cookies
On this website we use advertising cookies, enabling us to gain insights into the campaign results. This happens based on a profile we create based on your behavior on https://thefarawayjournal.com. With these cookies you, as website visitor, are linked to a unique ID but these cookies will not profile your behavior and interests to serve personalized ads.
5.3 Marketing/Tracking cookies
Marketing/Tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage, used to create user profiles to display advertising or to track the user on this website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Because these cookies are marked as tracking cookies, we ask your permission to place these.
5.4 Social media
On our website, we have included content from Pinterest to promote web pages (e.g. “like”, “pin”) or share (e.g. “tweet”) on social networks like Pinterest. This content is embedded with code derived from Pinterest and places cookies. This content might store and process certain information for personalized advertising.
Please read the privacy statement of these social networks (which can change regularly) to read what they do with your (personal) data which they process using these cookies. The data that is retrieved is anonymized as much as possible. Pinterest is located in the United States.
6. Placed cookies
7. Consent
When you visit our website for the first time, we will show you a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. As soon as you click on "Save preferences", you consent to us using the categories of cookies and plug-ins you selected in the pop-up, as described in this Cookie Policy. You can disable the use of cookies via your browser, but please note that our website may no longer work properly.
7.1 Manage your consent settings
8. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies
You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.
Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you visit our website again.
9. Your rights with respect to personal data
You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
- You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.
- Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data that is known to us.
- Right to rectification: you have the right to supplement, correct, have deleted or blocked your personal data whenever you wish.
- If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.
- Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
- Right to object: you may object to the processing of your data. We comply with this, unless there are justified grounds for processing.
To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this Cookie Policy. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority (the Data Protection Authority).
10. Contact details
For questions and/or comments about our Cookie Policy and this statement, please contact us by using the following contact details:
The Faraway Journal
Trondheim
Norway
Website: https://thefarawayjournal.com
Email: thefarawayjournal.blog@ex.comgmail.com
This Cookie Policy was synchronized with cookiedatabase.org on February 15, 2026.