Cookie Policy
Last updated: 5 August 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how The Jumpseat Boy, available at https://www.thejumpseatboy.com, uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit the website.
This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer, smartphone, tablet or other device when you visit a website.
Cookies allow websites to recognise a visitor’s device, remember certain preferences, improve website functionality, measure traffic and support advertising and affiliate services.
Similar technologies, including pixels, tags, scripts, local storage and web beacons, may perform comparable functions. In this Cookie Policy, the term “cookies” also includes these similar technologies where appropriate.
2. How We Use Cookies
The Jumpseat Boy may use cookies and similar technologies to:
- Keep the website secure and functioning correctly
- Remember visitor preferences
- Improve website performance
- Understand how visitors use the website
- Measure page views, traffic and engagement
- Display and measure advertisements
- Prevent fraud and abuse
- Support embedded content and third-party services
- Record referrals to affiliate partners
- Determine whether an eligible affiliate booking or purchase has been completed
3. Types of Cookies We May Use
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are required for the website to operate properly.
They may be used for purposes such as:
- Website security
- Fraud prevention
- Cookie-consent preferences
- Page navigation
- Contact-form functionality
- Basic website administration
Strictly necessary cookies do not normally require consent because the website may not function correctly without them.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies allow the website to provide additional features and remember visitor preferences.
These may include:
- Language preferences
- Display preferences
- Embedded website features
- Previously selected cookie choices
Disabling these cookies may affect the availability or performance of some website features.
Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use the website.
They may collect information such as:
- Pages visited
- Time spent on the website
- Approximate geographical location
- Browser and device type
- Referring website
- Links clicked
- Website errors
- General interaction with website content
This information may be used to improve our articles, website design, navigation and performance.
The website may use services such as Google Analytics or similar analytics tools.
Where legally required, analytics cookies will only be activated after you provide consent.
Advertising Cookies
The website may use advertising services, including Google AdSense.
Advertising cookies may be used to:
- Display advertisements
- Personalise advertisements where permitted and consented to
- Display non-personalised or limited advertisements
- Measure advertising performance
- Limit how frequently advertisements are shown
- Prevent advertising fraud
- Produce aggregated advertising reports
Third-party advertising providers, including Google, may use cookies, web beacons, Internet Protocol addresses and other technologies as a result of advertisements being displayed on the website.
Google and its advertising partners may use advertising cookies to serve advertisements based on a visitor’s previous visits to this website or other websites, where legally permitted and where the required consent has been provided.
Affiliate Cookies
Some articles on The Jumpseat Boy contain affiliate links or booking widgets.
Affiliate partners, including GetYourGuide and other travel-related providers, may place cookies or use similar tracking technologies when you click an affiliate link or interact with a booking widget.
These technologies may be used to:
- Record that you were referred by The Jumpseat Boy
- Attribute a booking or purchase to the website
- Calculate an affiliate commission
- Prevent fraudulent transactions
- Measure affiliate-link performance
Affiliate cookies are generally managed by the relevant third-party provider and are subject to that provider’s own privacy and cookie policies.
Embedded Content Cookies
The website may include content or tools from external platforms, such as:
- YouTube
- Google Maps
- GetYourGuide
- Social-media platforms
- Travel booking services
- Other external websites
These providers may place cookies or collect information when you view or interact with their embedded content.
They may also be able to connect your interaction with an existing account if you are logged into their service.
4. First-Party and Third-Party Cookies
First-Party Cookies
First-party cookies are placed directly by The Jumpseat Boy and are associated with the website’s domain.
They may be used for website functionality, security and remembering your cookie choices.
Third-Party Cookies
Third-party cookies are placed by external services whose content, analytics, advertising or booking tools appear on the website.
These may include services provided by:
- GetYourGuide
- Social-media platforms
- Video-hosting providers
- Analytics providers
- Advertising partners
- Website-security providers
The Jumpseat Boy does not directly control the duration or operation of cookies placed by third parties.
5. Cookie Consent
Where required by law, non-essential cookies will not be activated until you have provided consent through the website’s cookie-consent banner or consent-management platform.
When you visit the website, you may be given the option to:
- Accept optional cookies
- Reject optional cookies
- Manage your cookie preferences
- Select specific categories of cookies
For visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, the website may use a consent-management platform to collect and manage choices relating to analytics, advertising and personalised advertising.
Your selection may be stored in a necessary cookie so that the website can remember your preferences.
6. Changing or Withdrawing Your Consent
You may change or withdraw your cookie consent at any time through the website’s cookie settings, where available.
Withdrawing consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.
After changing your preferences, you may need to refresh the website for the new settings to take effect.
7. Managing Cookies Through Your Browser
Most internet browsers allow you to control or delete cookies through their settings.
Depending on your browser, you may be able to:
- View stored cookies
- Delete individual cookies
- Delete all cookies
- Block cookies from specific websites
- Block third-party cookies
- Block all cookies
- Receive a warning before a cookie is stored
Blocking or deleting cookies may affect the appearance, performance or functionality of the website.
Browser controls do not necessarily prevent all forms of online tracking or local storage.
8. Google Advertising Choices
Google provides tools that allow users to manage how advertisements are personalised.
Visitors may manage Google advertising preferences through Google’s My Ad Center.
You may also be able to reject or manage advertising cookies through the consent options displayed on this website.
The availability of personalised advertising may depend on your location, consent choices and applicable law.
9. How Long Cookies Remain on Your Device
Cookies may be classified according to how long they remain on your device:
Session Cookies
Session cookies are temporary and are generally deleted when you close your browser.
Persistent Cookies
Persistent cookies remain on your device for a specified period or until you manually delete them.
The duration of third-party cookies is determined by the relevant third-party provider and may change over time.
10. Updates to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when:
- We introduce new website features
- We use new advertising, analytics or affiliate services
- Our cookie practices change
- Legal or regulatory requirements change
- A third-party provider changes its services
The updated version will be published on this page with a revised “Last updated” date.
11. Contact Us
For questions regarding this Cookie Policy or the use of cookies on the website, contact:
The Jumpseat Boy
Website: https://www.thejumpseatboy.com
Email: info@thejumpseatboy.com