Your privacy choices

This notice describes the analytics and privacy controls in this version of Eat Live Wander. It supplements our Privacy Policy with the current choices for this website.

Readership analytics

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand page views, engagement, affiliate clicks, confirmed site searches and newsletter interactions. Readership analytics starts on for visitors globally under this site’s U.S. notice-and-opt-out model. You may turn it off at any time through Privacy settings; an explicit opt-out always takes priority.

We send public page paths and selected campaign labels, public product information and generic interaction results. For a deliberate search, we may send a sanitized search term, result count and whether it returned zero results. We reject email addresses, phone numbers, URLs, long numeric strings, credentials or tokens, and terms longer than 80 characters. We do not measure type-ahead keystrokes or send raw search query strings in page URLs or referrers.

We do not send newsletter email addresses, email hashes or form contents to Google Analytics. Google Ads storage, ad-user-data, ad personalization, Google Signals, retargeting and advertising integrations are disabled.

Analytics cookies distinguish browsers and sessions; they do not give us a list of identified readers. Our configuration limits their lifetime to six months after an eligible visit. Turning off Readership analytics stops optional measurement and removes accessible analytics cookies. We do not replace rejected analytics with hidden server-side or cookieless behavioral tracking.

Learn how Google uses information from sites that use its services, or read Google’s Privacy Policy.

Advertising and social media

This website does not use Google AdSense, personalized advertising, Google Signals or retargeting. Any future advertising launch will require an updated privacy notice and appropriate privacy choices.

Articles may load YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and X embeds normally. Those providers receive information needed to load their content under their own privacy policies. YouTube embeds use the privacy-enhanced youtube-nocookie.com domain where supported.

Necessary services and storage

We use necessary storage to remember privacy choices and provide requested services. Preferences are saved in this browser for up to six months; a stored explicit refusal remains effective until you change it. Clearing site storage removes those preferences. Your choices do not automatically follow you to another browser or device.

Search requests are processed to return results. Newsletter addresses go to EmailOctopus to handle the subscription you request; a pending email confirmation is not a completed signup. Newsletter signup and affiliate links remain usable when optional analytics is off. Hosting and security services may process request information to operate the website, independently of readership measurement.

Opt out or change your choices

Use Privacy settings or Do Not Sell Or Share My Personal Information in the footer at any time. We honor Global Privacy Control for covered sale, sharing or targeted-advertising uses. Non-advertising readership analytics remains on under this model unless you turn off Readership Analytics.

For privacy questions or rights requests, contact eatlivewander+legal@gmail.com. Additional rights and contact information appear in our Privacy Policy.