Privacy Policy & Data Protection Rules

Overview and Core Privacy Principles

HolidayExplore operates as an open public calendar gazette and banking schedule reference. We believe in strict privacy by design. We do not maintain user account registration systems, do not store customer passwords, and do not harvest personal identity records such as full names, residential addresses, or precise GPS coordinates.

Technical Data We Process

To display accurate sovereign public holidays and localized banking statuses, and to understand basic site usage through analytics, our application processes limited technical signals:

• Coarse Geographic Location: We query anonymous country-level IP headers through external routing APIs (api.country.is) to automatically resolve your sovereign jurisdiction (such as United States vs. United Kingdom). IP addresses are never retained in our databases.
• Browser Timezone Heuristics: We read the native client timezone offset provided by your browser (Intl.DateTimeFormat) to calculate real-time midnight countdowns and dynamic date verification.
• Local Browser Storage: We use client-side localStorage solely to remember your chosen country filter, interface language, and cookie consent preferences across page reloads.

European Economic Area (EEA) & GDPR Compliance

If you reside within the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom, or Switzerland, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) grants you specific rights regarding your data:

• The right to be informed about how anonymous technical identifiers and coarse geolocation are utilized.
• The right to withdraw cookie consent at any time via your browser settings or by clearing your browser cache.
• The right to lodge complaints with your local data protection supervisory authority.

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA / CPRA)

HolidayExplore does not sell personal information to commercial brokers. Under CCPA, California residents have the right to know what categories of technical signals are tracked and request the cessation of third-party cookie sharing for cross-context behavioral advertising.

Children's Privacy (COPPA)

HolidayExplore is a general public utility and does not knowingly solicit or collect identifiable data from children under the age of 13. If you believe technical data has been inadvertently collected from a minor, notify our editorial desk immediately.

Updates to This Policy

We reserve the right to revise this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect technological changes or regulatory updates. Any modifications will be posted directly to this URL with an updated effective timestamp.

Privacy Contact Inquiries

For questions regarding this policy or our data practices, contact our compliance desk:

Entity: HolidayExplore Editorial & Data Compliance Desk

Official Contact Email: privacy@holidayexplore.com or support@holidayexplore.com

Website: https://holidayexplore.com

Advertising and Cookies

This section describes third-party advertising technologies used on the Website.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The "help" feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

IP Address
Operating System type
Operating System version
Device Type
Language of the website
Web browser type
Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.