Privacy Policy

— Journey Junket —

How we handle advertising, cookies and reader data

The policy below explains our advertising partners and cookies. The final section covers the anonymous reader signals behind our research.

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.

Email Newsletter and “Save This”

If you give us your email address, to join our newsletter or to have an article emailed to you with “Save This”, we collect your email address, the page you signed up on, the date and time, and your IP address at signup. We keep these as a record of your consent.

  • Save This: we email you the link you asked for. You only receive our newsletter if you tick the box to join it.
  • Newsletter sign-up: we first send a confirmation email, and you’re only added after you click to confirm.
  • How we send: our emails go out through Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon Web Services) from our own mailing-list server. We record which links in our emails are clicked, so we know which stories readers like.
  • Unsubscribe anytime: every email has a one-click unsubscribe link. You can also email us to be removed, or to have your data deleted.
  • We never sell or rent your email address.

Reader Signals & Research Data

Alongside its articles, Journey Junket offers optional one-tap tools: emoji reactions on images, “Save this” buttons, short polls, a one-tap “why?” follow-up and rows such as “Lived it / Remember it / Before my time” and “Been there / Want to go / Not for me”, and image matchups. We also measure which images are viewed, scroll depth and time on page.

Each of these signals is stored with a random session ID created in your browser (not linked to your name, email or any account), your device type, how you arrived at the site, and an approximate region (state or province) read from the network edge. We do not store your IP address. For visits that arrive from one of our ads, we attach the advertising platform’s aggregate audience breakdown for that ad, never information about you individually.

These features do not collect names, email addresses, accounts, precise location or anything you type. Images are described by their attributes (style, colour, era), and people in them are never identified. Items you save are kept in your own browser’s storage.

We use these signals to understand what readers prefer and publish the results only as totals and percentages across many readers; small groups are never reported. Participation is optional. Read more on our Data Collection page.

Last updated October 2026