This Cookie Policy explains the cookies AfterYouLand.com uses, what each one does, and how you can control them. It sits alongside the Privacy Policy, which covers personal information more broadly.
Last updated: 2 November 2026.
What cookies are
Cookies are small text files that a website asks your browser to store on your device. They let the site remember things between pages and between visits — a choice you made, a search you started, or simply that your browser has visited before. Some last only until you close the browser (session cookies); others stay for a set period (persistent cookies).
The cookies this site uses
Strictly necessary cookies keep the site and its forms working and remember the choice you make in the cookie banner. They always run, because the site cannot work without them. Analytics cookies are stored only if you accept them in the banner — if you decline, or ignore the banner, analytics runs in a limited mode that stores nothing. Booking cookies come from the hotel and tour services built into the guides, and are listed so you can see exactly what they are.
| Cookie | Set by | What it does | How long it lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| ayl_consent | After You Land | Remembers the choice you made in the cookie banner, so the site does not have to ask on every page | 12 months |
| session_id | Hostinger Reach, the email form service | Keeps the guide-by-email signup form working while you use it | Session — it ends when you close the browser |
| __cf_bm | Cloudflare, on the domains of Stay22, GetYourGuide and Hostinger | Bot management — helps those services tell real visitors from automated traffic | About 30 minutes |
| _ga | Google Analytics | Helps count visits and tell one visitor from another, so I can see which guides readers find useful | 13 months |
| _ga_WF9EHWCSEK | Google Analytics | Keeps the page views of one visit together as a single session | 13 months |
| session22 | Stay22, the hotel booking service (set on stay22.com) | Keeps the hotel search and booking layer working when you open a hotel search from a guide | 3 days |
| g_state | Google, for Sign in with Google | Remembers your Google sign-in state for the Sign in with Google button on the sign-in page and the homepage, so the button can show the right option when you come back | 6 months |
| wordpress_logged_in | WordPress, this site | Keeps you signed in to your account as you move between pages | Up to 14 days, or until you sign out |
| wordpress_test_cookie | WordPress, this site | Checks that your browser accepts cookies when you use the sign-in page | Session: it ends when you close the browser |
| googlesitekit_auth_nonce | Google Site Kit, for Sign in with Google | A short-lived security value that helps complete the Google sign-in safely | Minutes |
Stay22 also keeps three small entries in your browser’s local storage (named partner_id, sid22 and hip22) so a hotel search you start in a guide stays connected to After You Land when it opens. Local storage is not a cookie, but it does a similar job, so it is listed here for completeness.
The site itself also keeps entries in local storage. When you tick items on a guide’s packing checklist, the ticks are stored on your device under a key that starts ayl_pack_ so your progress is still there when you come back. Choices to save a guide use keys that start ayl_save_. These entries stay in your browser and are not sent to the site, and you can clear them at any time with your browser’s site-data controls.
Cookies set after you click out
Some links on this site are affiliate links to partners such as Expedia, Travelpayouts, Amazon and GetYourGuide (see the Affiliate Disclosure). When you click through, the partner’s own site may set cookies under its own cookie and privacy policies, so a booking can be attributed and completed. Those cookies are set on the partner’s domain, not this one, and this site does not control them.
How to control cookies
The cookie banner is the main control. Accept stores the analytics cookies described above; Decline keeps them off. Either choice is remembered for 12 months, and you can change your mind at any time: the Cookie settings link in the footer of every page re-opens the banner, and your new choice replaces the old one straight away.
You can also block or delete cookies in your browser’s own settings. Every major browser lets you clear cookies for a single site or for all sites, and block them entirely. The site and its guides keep working if you decline or block cookies; hotel and tour links still take you to the booking services, although a booking service may ask for its own cookies again on its own site.
Changes to this policy
If the cookies this site uses change — a service is added or removed, or a cookie’s job or lifetime changes — this page will be updated and the date at the top will change with it.
Contact
Questions about cookies on this site: hello@afteryouland.com.