Introduction
Blue Sky Media, under the business operating name “Your Krabi”, is committed to transparency about its sources of income. Previous incarnations of www.yourkrabi.com (“this website”) sold accommodation and tour products for a commission (i.e. a travel agent); our current business model uses affiliate linking and advertising to generate revenue.
The affiliate and advertising disclosure on this page explains how and why Blue Sky Media (“we”, “us” and “our”), places ads and links on this website directing readers to third party websites that may lead to payment.
The privacy notice on this page sets out how we use and protect any information that you provide when you use this website.
We have written these in plain English, and offered advice on steps you can take if you do not agree with these terms.
We remain editorially independent, and the fact that we receive income from third parties has no bearing on our content.
We may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. This policy is effective from 30 March 2018.
Affiliate & Advertising Disclosure
In order to keep this site running, we have decided to partner with Booking.com as an affiliate. This means whenever we mention and link to a hotel, or list of hotels, that link will send you to their site for more information.
We chose Booking.com because of its coverage in the Krabi area, and its flexible payment and cancellation policy, which – though a pain for most hotel owners – is good for you, the guests. Map markers for hotels are 99% accurate (unlike Google Maps); and the reviews can be helpful.
We choose the hotel pages we link to because we believe they are the best or most suitable options for whatever topic we are writing about (see individual links for context), and will add value to your research. We are never paid to make recommendations: all affiliate links follow our content, and not the other way around.
Booking.com will track your visit to their site (it will do this regardless of whether you click on our links, a Google search result or from anywhere) and, if you then go on to make a booking at any hotel, we will receive a small percentage of any commission they earn. This is known as “revenue share”.
The hotel pays this commission directly to Booking.com after you check out: it is never added to the price you pay.
The income helps us to keep the information on this site totally free and up to date. Thank you for your support! ❤
We have also – somewhat reluctantly – signed up to the Google Adsense program, which allows them to display a minimal number of adverts on our pages. This is known as “monetising content”. Google Adsense has its own privacy policy, which you can read here.
In the coming months, we hope to replace these with more interesting ads from local businesses in Krabi. These will also be paid for, but hopefully more relevant to our readers.
Note: as we are committed to editorial independence, we do not accept “guest posts” or any other form of “advertorial” content. Unsolicited emails about such will not receive a reply.
Privacy Notice
Blue Sky Media is committed to protecting your personal information. For this reason, we do not collect any! Below we set out what types of information we do receive and collect when you use and visit this website, and how we safeguard this data.
Log files
This website logs data. We record information such as your location (up to city level only), browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), landing/exit pages, device type, date/time, and the length of time you spend here. This could then be used to analyse trends, gather broad demographic information to show to potential advertisers, or fine tune site information to the needs of our readers. This data does not contain any personally identifiable information.
Tracking and cookies
This website uses cookies. These are small files stored on your device that are used to gather non-personally identifiable information such as how many times you (=your browser) have visited our site. This allows us to provide new readers with certain information, for example; or ensures settings and preferences are not lost when you refresh a browser window.
Additionally, some of our business partners or advertisers are likely to use cookies and other methods of tracking.
Google for example uses cookies to enable it and its partners to serve ads based on your visit to this site, and/ or other sites on the internet – that pair of trainers you looked at last month will forever haunt you! (You can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google’s Ad Settings page.)
Blue Sky Media has no access to, or control of any third party web cookies or other trackers.
If you wish to disable cookies, or set your browser to “Do not track”, this is usually possible via your browser settings or preferences, or your internet security software (e.g. Avast or Norton); check their help menu for instructions.
Do note that simply deleting the cookie(s) does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising or tracking program. You will need to disallow or disable them, otherwise next time you visit any site running ads, a new cookie will be added.
Links to other websites
This website may contain links to other websites we believe are of use or interest to our readers. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over these other websites. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.