Last updated: 2026. This page explains what happens when you visit Totally Santorini — what we collect, why, and how the affiliate and referral links on this site work. If anything here is unclear, contact us directly.
Affiliate and referral disclosure
This site participates in a small number of affiliate and referral programs. When you click certain links and make a purchase or sign up, we may earn a commission or referral bonus — at no extra cost to you. Specifically:
- Wise — links to Wise are a personal referral link. We use Wise ourselves for travel money and may receive a referral benefit if you open an account through our link.
- Amazon — as an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Links to Amazon on this site are affiliate links; if you make a purchase after clicking one, we may earn a small commission from Amazon, at no additional cost to you.
These links are clearly marked wherever they appear (look for the "Trip Essentials" box on guide pages), and we only link to products or services we'd genuinely recommend regardless of any commission — see our how we research and write guide for our broader editorial approach. Affiliate relationships never influence which destinations, villages, wineries or businesses we choose to write about in our actual guides.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use this site — which pages are popular, how people navigate between them, and general traffic patterns. Google Analytics uses cookies and collects information such as your approximate location (derived from IP address, not precise GPS location), device and browser type, and which pages you visit and for how long. We use this in aggregate to improve the site; we don't use it to identify individual visitors personally.
You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking using browser extensions such as Google's own Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, or by using your browser's tracking-protection or "do not track" settings, which many modern browsers respect to varying degrees.
Cookies
Beyond analytics cookies described above, this site does not use cookies for advertising or cross-site tracking. We don't run display ad networks, and we don't sell visitor data to third parties.
What we collect directly
If you contact us via the details on our contact page, we collect whatever information you choose to send us (typically your email address and message content) solely to respond to you. We don't add contacts to a mailing list without explicit consent, and we don't share this information with third parties.
Third-party links
This site links extensively to external sources — official tourism resources, government advisories, named hotels, wineries, restaurants, and (as described above) a small number of affiliate partners. We aren't responsible for the privacy practices or content of external sites once you leave ours; check their own privacy policies if you have concerns.
Your rights
Depending on where you're located, you may have rights under regulations like the EU's GDPR or various US state privacy laws (such as the CCPA) regarding data collected about you — including the right to know what's collected, request deletion, or opt out of certain processing. Given this site's limited direct data collection (see above), most of these rights relate to the Google Analytics data described in the Analytics section — see Google's own privacy resources for how to exercise rights specifically over that data, or contact us with any request and we'll do our best to help.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy as the site adds new features or partnerships — for instance, if we add further affiliate relationships as the site grows. Significant changes will be reflected in the "last updated" date at the top of this page.
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