Last updated: 26 August 2026

Thailand Stay Guide respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information.

This Privacy & Cookie Policy explains what information may be collected when you visit thailandstayguide.com, why it may be collected, how it may be used and shared, how cookies and similar technologies are used, and the choices and rights available to you.

Who We Are

Thailand Stay Guide is an independent travel and hotel guide created and managed by Andy.

The website provides Thailand travel advice, destination guides, hotel reviews, itineraries, recommendations, travel news and related content.

For the purposes of UK data protection law, Thailand Stay Guide is the controller of personal information collected directly through this website.

If you have questions about this Privacy & Cookie Policy or how your information is handled, please contact:

Contact page: Contact Us

Information We May Collect

Depending on how you use Thailand Stay Guide, information we may collect or process includes:

Your name and email address when you contact us, leave a comment or subscribe to updates.
Information you voluntarily provide in a message, enquiry, comment or form.
Technical information such as your IP address, browser type, device type, operating system and approximate location.
Information about how you use the website, including pages viewed, links clicked, interactions with pages, traffic sources and referring websites.
Cookie identifiers, advertising identifiers and similar online identifiers where applicable.
Your cookie and consent preferences.
Records of communications you send to Thailand Stay Guide.

Please do not submit sensitive personal information through website contact forms or comments.

How We Collect Information

Information may be collected:

Directly from you when you complete a form, subscribe, leave a comment or contact us.
Automatically through cookies, pixels, analytics tools and similar technologies.
Through third-party services used to operate, secure, analyse, advertise or monetise the website.
When you interact with embedded content, advertising or affiliate links.

How We Use Your Information

Information may be used to:

Respond to messages, questions and enquiries.
Manage comments and prevent spam.
Send newsletters or website updates where you have requested them.
Operate, maintain and secure Thailand Stay Guide.
Understand how visitors find and use the website.
Improve our articles, hotel reviews, destination guides and user experience.
Measure website and content performance.
Measure advertising and affiliate-link performance.
Display and measure advertising.
Remember privacy and consent choices.
Detect technical problems, fraud, misuse or security threats.
Meet legal and regulatory obligations.

Thailand Stay Guide does not sell your personal information.

Lawful Bases for Processing

Where UK data protection law applies, we must have a lawful basis for processing personal information.

Depending on the circumstances, we may rely on:

Consent: For example, when you subscribe to email communications or consent to non-essential cookies, analytics or advertising technologies.

Legitimate interests: Where appropriate and permitted by law, to operate, protect and improve Thailand Stay Guide, respond to enquiries, understand website performance and prevent misuse.

Legal obligation: Where information must be processed or retained to comply with applicable law.

Contract: Where processing is necessary to provide something you have specifically requested.

Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal does not affect processing that lawfully took place before consent was withdrawn.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

Thailand Stay Guide uses cookies and similar technologies.

Cookies are small files that websites and online services may store on your computer, tablet or mobile device. Similar technologies can include pixels, tags, local storage and other identifiers.

They may be used to operate the website, remember preferences, understand website usage, measure performance, provide advertising and measure advertising or affiliate activity.

Cookies and similar technologies used on Thailand Stay Guide may include:

Necessary Cookies

These are required for essential website functions, security, fraud prevention and recording or respecting privacy choices.

Functional Cookies

These may be used to provide additional functionality or remember preferences.

Analytics Cookies

These help us understand how visitors find and use Thailand Stay Guide, including which pages are popular, how visitors navigate the website and how the site performs.

Advertising Cookies

These may be used to deliver, personalise, limit and measure advertisements, subject to your consent and applicable law.

Affiliate Cookies

Affiliate companies and tracking platforms may use cookies, tracking parameters or similar technologies to record when a visitor follows an affiliate link and subsequently makes a qualifying booking or purchase.

Cookie Consent and Your Choices

Where required by law, non-essential cookies and similar technologies will only be used after the appropriate consent has been obtained.

Our consent system may allow you to:

Accept non-essential cookies.
Reject non-essential cookies.
Manage or customise your privacy choices.
Withdraw or change consent.

You can also delete or block cookies through your browser settings. Blocking certain cookies may affect some website functionality.

Your consent choices may be stored so that the website can remember and respect your preferences.

Google Analytics

Thailand Stay Guide uses or may use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google.

Google Analytics helps us understand how visitors find and use Thailand Stay Guide.

Depending on your consent choices and Google’s configuration, information processed by Google Analytics may include:

Device and browser information.
IP address and approximate geographic information.
Pages viewed.
Referring websites or traffic sources.
Website interactions.
Session and usage information.

We use this information to understand website performance, improve our content and provide a better visitor experience.

Where consent is legally required for analytics cookies or related technologies, these technologies will be controlled according to your consent choices.

For more information about how Google processes information from websites and apps that use its services, see:

How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services

Google AdSense and Advertising

Thailand Stay Guide uses or may use Google AdSense and other advertising services to display advertisements and help fund the website.

Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve advertisements based on a visitor’s previous visits to Thailand Stay Guide or other websites.

Google’s use of advertising cookies enables Google and its advertising partners to serve advertisements to visitors based on their visits to Thailand Stay Guide and/or other websites on the Internet.

Advertising technologies may be used to:

Display advertisements.
Measure advertising performance.
Prevent advertising fraud and abuse.
Limit how frequently an advertisement is shown.
Measure interactions with advertisements.
Provide personalised advertising where permitted and where the required consent has been obtained.
Provide non-personalised or limited advertising where appropriate.

As a consequence of advertising being served on Thailand Stay Guide, Google and other third parties may place or read cookies on your browser or use technologies such as web beacons, IP addresses or other identifiers to collect information.

Where required by applicable law, advertising cookies and the collection, sharing and use of personal information for personalised advertising will be subject to your consent choices.

Personalised Advertising

Where permitted and where you have provided the necessary consent, Google and its advertising partners may use information to provide advertisements that are more relevant to your interests.

You can manage or opt out of personalised advertising through:

Google My Ad Centre / Ads Settings

You can also find additional information about Google’s advertising technologies at:

Google Advertising – How Google uses cookies

Other third-party advertising vendors or advertising networks may also use cookies or similar technologies when their advertisements are displayed on Thailand Stay Guide.

Where applicable, information about participating advertising providers and the purposes for which data is processed may also be made available through the website’s consent-management interface.

Consent Management

Thailand Stay Guide uses consent-management technology to communicate and record privacy choices where required.

For visitors in regions where consent requirements apply, including the United Kingdom, European Economic Area and Switzerland where applicable, visitors may be presented with controls allowing them to make choices about cookies, advertising and the processing of personal information.

Google and other advertising technology providers may receive consent signals reflecting the choices made through the consent interface.

Consent choices can affect whether personalised, non-personalised or limited advertising is available.

Visitors can change or withdraw their choices using the privacy or consent controls provided on the website where available.

Affiliate Links and Commissions

Thailand Stay Guide participates in affiliate programmes.

Some pages may contain affiliate links to hotels, accommodation providers, travel services, tours, attractions, transport providers, eSIM providers, insurance providers, products, booking platforms and other travel-related services.

If you follow an affiliate link and subsequently make a booking or purchase, Thailand Stay Guide may receive a commission.

This does not normally increase the price you pay.

Affiliate companies and tracking platforms may use cookies, tracking parameters or similar technologies to determine that you were referred by Thailand Stay Guide.

When you leave Thailand Stay Guide and visit an affiliate partner’s website, information collected by that website will normally be governed by the partner’s own privacy and cookie policies.

Participation in an affiliate programme does not guarantee or influence a positive review or recommendation. We aim to keep our recommendations independent, useful and honest.

Embedded Content and Third-Party Services

Thailand Stay Guide may include embedded or linked content from third-party websites and services, including:

YouTube.
Maps.
Social media platforms.
Hotel and accommodation providers.
Booking services.
Travel and attraction providers.
Affiliate services.

Embedded content may behave in a similar way to visiting the third-party website directly.

Third-party services may collect information, use cookies or similar technologies, and monitor your interaction with their content according to their own privacy policies and your consent choices where applicable.

We recommend reviewing the privacy policies of third-party services you choose to use.

External Links

Thailand Stay Guide contains links to websites that we do not own or control.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security, availability or content of external websites.

When you follow an external link, the privacy policy and terms of the destination website will apply.

Comments and Spam Prevention

If comments are enabled, information entered into a comment form may be collected along with technical information such as your IP address and browser information.

This information may be processed using automated spam-detection or website-security services.

Approved comments and the name supplied with them may be displayed publicly.

Please do not include private, sensitive or confidential information in a public comment.

Email Communications

If you subscribe to receive Thailand travel news, travel tips or website updates, we may use your email address to provide those communications.

We will only send electronic marketing where we have an appropriate lawful basis.

Marketing emails will provide a way to unsubscribe.

If you unsubscribe, limited information may be retained where necessary to record your preference and ensure that marketing communications are not inadvertently sent again.

Who We May Share Information With

Where necessary, information may be processed or shared with trusted third parties that help us operate Thailand Stay Guide, including:

Website hosting and technical-support providers.
Website security and backup providers.
Spam-prevention services.
Analytics providers, including Google.
Email and newsletter providers.
Advertising providers and advertising networks, including Google.
Consent-management providers.
Affiliate networks and tracking platforms.
Professional advisers.
Regulators, law-enforcement bodies or other authorities where disclosure is legally required.

Depending on the circumstances, these organisations may process information on our behalf or act as independent controllers under their own privacy policies.

Thailand Stay Guide does not sell or rent personal information to third parties.

International Data Transfers

Some organisations and services used by Thailand Stay Guide may process information outside the United Kingdom.

Where UK data protection law applies and personal information is transferred internationally, appropriate safeguards will be used where required.

These may include UK adequacy regulations, recognised contractual protections or another lawful transfer mechanism.

How Long We Keep Information

Personal information is retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, subject to legal and operational requirements.

Generally:

Contact enquiries may be retained for up to 24 months following the last communication.
Newsletter subscription information may be retained until you unsubscribe.
Comment information may remain while the relevant article and comment remain published.
Website security logs may be retained for a limited period for security and troubleshooting.
Cookie and consent records may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to record and demonstrate privacy choices.
Analytics information may be retained according to the settings and retention periods of the relevant analytics provider.

Information may be retained for longer where necessary for legal, accounting, fraud-prevention, security or dispute-resolution purposes.

How We Protect Your Information

We take reasonable technical and organisational measures designed to protect personal information against accidental loss, misuse, unauthorised access, alteration or disclosure.

However, no method of transmitting information over the Internet or storing information electronically can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on your location and the circumstances, data protection law may give you rights concerning your personal information.

Under UK data protection law, these may include the right to:

Request access to personal information held about you.
Ask for inaccurate or incomplete information to be corrected.
Request deletion of personal information in certain circumstances.
Request restriction of processing in certain circumstances.
Object to certain types of processing.
Request transfer of information you supplied in a portable format where applicable.
Withdraw consent where processing relies on consent.
Complain about how your personal information has been handled.

These rights are not absolute and may not apply in every situation.

To exercise a privacy right, contact us using the details at the beginning of this policy.

We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain requests.

You also have the right to complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO):

Information Commissioner’s Office – Make a Complaint

Children’s Privacy

Thailand Stay Guide is intended for a general audience and is not specifically directed at children.

We do not knowingly seek to collect personal information from children.

If you believe that a child has provided personal information through Thailand Stay Guide, please contact us so the information can be reviewed and, where appropriate, deleted.

Changes to This Privacy & Cookie Policy

We may update this Privacy & Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes to Thailand Stay Guide, the services we use, advertising or analytics technologies, or applicable legal and regulatory requirements.

The latest version will be published on this page and the Last updated date at the top will be changed accordingly.

We recommend reviewing this policy periodically.

Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy & Cookie Policy, your personal information or your privacy choices, please contact:

Thailand Stay Guide

Website: thailandstayguide.com

Contact: Contact Thailand Stay Guide