Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy explains how this website — an independent travel-information guide to Heraklion International Airport “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER), Crete — handles information when you visit. We keep data collection to the minimum needed to run an informational site, and this page sets out what is collected, why, and the choices you have. It applies to this website only, not to the airport operator, airlines, or any third-party service you reach through our links.
Who we are
This guide is published by Global Online Travel, 127 area, 11/11 Argishti street, Kentron 0015, Yerevan, Armenia, which is the data controller for this website. We are an independent editorial team: the site is not affiliated with, operated by, or endorsed by the airport or its operator. You can reach us at [email protected], or by post at the address above.
What information we collect
You do not need an account or to submit personal details to read the guide. Two kinds of information are involved:
- Information you send us. If you email us, we receive your address and message, and use them only to reply.
- Information collected automatically. As on most websites, our server and providers record technical data such as your IP address, browser and device type, the page that referred you, and the pages you view. This supports security, troubleshooting, and understanding which content is useful.
Cookies and similar technologies
Cookies are small files kept by your browser. We and our providers use them to remember basic preferences (such as your language and light or dark theme), to measure traffic, and to support advertising. You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings; some features may then work less smoothly.
Advertising and Google AdSense
This guide is supported by advertising, including Google AdSense. To fund the site we display ads served by Google and, where applicable, other advertising partners.
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites.
- Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
- You may opt out of personalised advertising through Google’s Ads Settings at adssettings.google.com. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info/choices and youronlinechoices.eu.
- Where advertising networks other than Google are used, they may also set cookies; their own privacy policies govern that use.
Consent for visitors in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland
If you visit from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, we ask for your choice before any non-essential cookie is set. The choice is collected through Google Funding Choices, a consent management platform certified by Google and registered with the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework.
What waits for your answer. Advertising and analytics storage start in a denied state through Google Consent Mode. The transfer booking panel supplied by our partner GetTransfer is not loaded at all until you agree, because it comes from their domain and sets its own cookies. Nothing loads quietly in the background while the question is still open.
How to change your mind. Use the Privacy settings link in the footer of any page. It reopens the same window, and a new choice takes effect immediately.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics 4 to see which pages are read and how the site performs. The reports we work with are aggregate: visits, pages, countries and devices. For visitors in the EEA, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, analytics storage stays switched off until you consent, so no analytics cookie is set before your answer.
We also count clicks on partner blocks in a log on our own server. That log deliberately holds no IP address, no browser identifier and nothing that could identify you: only which block was clicked, on which page, and when.
How we use and share information
We use the information above to operate, secure, and improve the site, to show advertising, and to answer your messages. We do not sell your personal information. Data is processed by the providers that host the site, deliver content, and serve ads — for advertising, primarily Google — each acting under their own terms and privacy policies.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, or delete personal data we hold about you, to object to certain processing, to ask us to restrict it, and to withdraw your consent. To make a request, email [email protected]. You also have the right to complain to your local data-protection authority.
Data retention and security
Technical logs are kept only as long as needed for security and maintenance, then deleted or anonymised. We take reasonable measures to protect information, though no website can guarantee absolute security.
Links to other sites
Our guide links to third parties such as the airport operator, airlines, and transfer or car-hire partners. Once you follow a link, that site’s own privacy policy applies; we are not responsible for their practices.
Children
This is a general travel-information site and is not directed at children under 16. We do not knowingly collect their personal data.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy as the site or the law changes. The “last updated” date below shows the current version, and material changes will be reflected here.
Contact
Questions about privacy? Email [email protected]. Last updated: 23 July 2026.