Cookie and Tracking Notice

A cookie is a small file stored on your device by a website. We also use similar technologies that do a comparable job, including pixels, tags, local storage, and device or browser identifiers. This notice covers all of them, and calls them all cookies for short.

2.1Strictly necessary. These make the site work. They keep you signed in, keep your session secure, remember your cookie choices, and protect forms from abuse. They cannot be switched off, and the site does not function properly without them. We do not need your consent for these.

2.2Analytics and measurement. These tell us how the site is used: which pages are visited, how people arrive, where they leave, and which listings get attention. We use this to decide what to build and what to fix. These are set only with your consent.

2.3Advertising and retargeting. These let us run and measure our advertising, and reach people who have visited WildHQ with advertising elsewhere. They involve sharing information about your visit with advertising providers. These are set only with your consent.

Some things on our pages load directly from another company. When that happens your browser contacts them, and they can see your IP address, your browser details, and which page you were on, whether or not you interact with the content.

3.1Map images appear on trip and outfitter pages that have a location. The map picture is loaded from a mapping provider.

3.2Video players appear on outfitter profiles where the outfitter has added a video. Video providers commonly set their own cookies when a player loads.

Both are listed on our Vendor List. These are part of the page content rather than tracking we add, but you deserve to know they are there.

4.1Our cookie banner. The first time you visit we ask whether you accept non-essential cookies. Nothing in category 2.2 or 2.3 is set before you accept.

4.2Changing your mind. Use the cookie preferences link in our footer at any time. Withdrawing consent stops further use and does not require you to leave the site.

4.3Global Privacy Control. If your browser or an extension sends a Global Privacy Control signal, we treat it as a request to opt out of analytics, advertising, and any sharing for advertising. You do not need to use our banner as well.

4.4Your browser. You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. Blocking strictly necessary cookies will stop you signing in.

4.5Advertising opt-outs. Industry tools at optout.aboutads.info and optout.networkadvertising.org let you opt out of interest-based advertising from participating companies. Those are separate from our controls and we do not operate them.

4.6By email. Write to privacy@thewildhq.com and we will apply an opt-out for you.

We do not sell personal information for money. Our use of advertising and retargeting technologies may count as “sharing” for cross-context behavioral advertising under California law. Refusing category 2.3, or sending a Global Privacy Control signal, opts you out of that. There is also a Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information link in our footer that does the same thing.

6.1We do not use session replay. We do not record your screen, your mouse movements, or your keystrokes.

6.2We do not log your IP address or your browser details against an inquiry you send. Our inquiry records hold what you typed and nothing about your device, so we cannot connect an inquiry to your browsing.

6.3Our error monitoring is configured not to collect personal information, including IP addresses, cookies, and request headers.

6.4We do not use cookies to track children, and WildHQ is not directed at children.

Session cookies are deleted when you close your browser. Persistent cookies last for a set period, which varies by cookie and by provider, and is generally between a few days and two years. Your cookie preference itself is stored for up to a year so we do not have to ask on every visit.

The current providers in each category are named on our Vendor List, which we update as our providers change. We keep the names there rather than here so that changing a provider does not require reissuing this notice.

We will update this notice when what we use changes materially, and we will change the effective date above. Where a change means we need consent we did not previously need, we will ask again.

privacy@thewildhq.com.