Last updated: 19 October 2026
Travel Like a Pilot respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information.
This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected when you visit or interact with this website, why it is collected, how it may be used and the rights you have in relation to your personal information.
Who we are
Travel Like a Pilot is operated by James Lee Gardner, trading as Travel Like a Pilot, in the United Kingdom.
For the purposes of UK data protection law, James Lee Gardner is the data controller for personal information collected directly through this website.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, would like to exercise your data protection rights, or wish to make a data protection complaint, please contact:
Email: [email protected]
You can also contact us through the Contact page on this website.
Information we may collect
Depending on how you use the website, we may collect the following information.
Information you provide to us
This may include your name, email address and any other information you choose to provide when you:
- contact us using a contact form or by email;
- subscribe to an email newsletter or other updates;
- leave a comment, if comments are enabled; or
- otherwise communicate with Travel Like a Pilot.
Please do not send sensitive personal information unless it is genuinely necessary.
Technical and usage information
When you visit the website, certain technical information may be collected automatically by the website, hosting provider, security services or analytics tools.
This can include information such as your IP address, browser and device type, operating system, pages visited, referring website, approximate geographic information derived from your IP address and the date and time of your visit.
Some of this information may be collected using cookies or similar technologies.
How we use your information
We may use personal information to:
- operate, maintain and secure the website;
- respond to questions, messages and other enquiries;
- understand how visitors use the website and improve its content and usability;
- send newsletters or other communications where you have chosen to receive them;
- detect spam, abuse, fraud or security threats;
- administer affiliate relationships and understand the performance of affiliate links; and
- comply with legal, regulatory or tax obligations.
The legal basis we rely upon will depend on the purpose for which information is being processed. This may include your consent, our legitimate interests in operating and improving Travel Like a Pilot, taking steps at your request, or complying with a legal obligation.
Where we rely on consent, you can withdraw that consent at any time.
Analytics
We may use analytics services to understand how people find and use Travel Like a Pilot. These services may collect information about visits to the website, such as pages viewed, approximate location, device information and how visitors arrived at the site.
Where consent is required for analytics or similar tracking technologies, these technologies will only be used in accordance with the choices you make through our cookie controls.
Cookies and similar technologies
Travel Like a Pilot may use cookies and similar technologies for purposes such as essential website functionality, security, remembering visitor preferences, measuring website usage and affiliate tracking.
Some cookies are necessary for the website to operate. Other cookies or tracking technologies will be used in accordance with applicable consent requirements.
You can use the cookie controls provided on the website to manage your preferences where applicable.
Further information about the technologies currently in use, their purposes and how long they operate should be provided in our Cookie Policy or cookie-preferences tool.
Affiliate links
Some pages on Travel Like a Pilot may contain affiliate links.
If you follow an affiliate link, the relevant affiliate network, retailer or service provider may use cookies or other tracking technologies to determine that you arrived from Travel Like a Pilot and whether a qualifying transaction subsequently took place.
Travel Like a Pilot may receive reports containing information such as clicks, transactions and commissions. Affiliate partners may separately process information about you when you visit their websites or make a purchase or booking.
Those organisations are responsible for explaining how they process information on their own websites. You should review their privacy policies if you would like further information.
For more information about our commercial relationships, please see our Affiliate Disclosure.
Email communications
If you choose to subscribe to a Travel Like a Pilot newsletter or other marketing emails, we will use the information you provide to send those communications.
Where required, we will ask for your consent before sending marketing communications.
You can unsubscribe at any time using the unsubscribe link included in our emails or by contacting us.
Comments
If comments are enabled and you leave a comment, information entered into the comments form may be collected along with technical information used for spam detection, moderation and website security.
Comments may remain publicly visible for as long as the relevant content remains on the website unless there is a reason to remove them.
Who we share information with
We do not sell your personal information.
We may share or allow access to information where necessary with organisations that help us operate Travel Like a Pilot, such as website hosting and security providers, analytics providers, email and newsletter services, spam-prevention services and affiliate networks.
We may also disclose information where required by law, regulation, court order or another lawful authority, or where reasonably necessary to protect the security, rights or property of Travel Like a Pilot or others.
Third-party services have their own privacy practices and may act as processors or as independent data controllers depending on the service they provide.
International transfers
Some of the services used by Travel Like a Pilot may process information outside the United Kingdom.
Where personal information is transferred internationally and UK data protection law requires additional protection, appropriate steps will be taken to ensure that the transfer is made in accordance with applicable data protection requirements, such as relying on applicable adequacy regulations or appropriate contractual safeguards.
How long we keep information
We keep personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including where information must be retained for legal, accounting, security or regulatory purposes.
Contact correspondence will normally be retained for no longer than is reasonably necessary to deal with the enquiry and any related follow-up.
Newsletter subscription information may be retained while you remain subscribed. Where necessary, limited information may subsequently be retained to ensure that an unsubscribe request continues to be respected.
Technical, security, analytics and cookie-related information is retained according to the purpose for which it is collected and the settings of the relevant service.
We will periodically review the information we retain and delete or anonymise information that is no longer required.
Your data protection rights
Depending on the circumstances, UK data protection law may give you rights relating to your personal information, including rights to request access to it, ask for inaccurate information to be corrected, request deletion or restriction of processing, object to certain processing, request transfer of certain information and withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
These rights are not absolute and may not apply in every situation.
To exercise your rights, contact us at [email protected]
We may need to request information to confirm your identity before responding to certain requests.
Data protection complaints
If you are concerned about how Travel Like a Pilot has handled your personal information, please contact us first so that we have an opportunity to investigate your concern.
You also have the right to raise a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK's independent data protection regulator.
Security
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information against unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration or disclosure.
However, no internet transmission or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Children
Travel Like a Pilot is a general travel-information website and is not designed to collect personal information from children.
If you believe a child has provided personal information to us inappropriately, please contact us so that we can investigate and, where appropriate, remove it.
Third-party websites
Travel Like a Pilot contains links to websites operated by third parties.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those websites. When you leave Travel Like a Pilot, you should review the privacy information provided by the website or service you are visiting.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time to reflect changes to the website, the services we use or applicable legal requirements.
The latest version will always be published on this page with the date of the most recent update shown at the top.