Summary
Visit Israel does not collect personal data. We do not maintain user accounts. We use Plausible for cookieless, anonymised analytics. We do not place tracking cookies on your browser. We do not run third-party advertising networks. Affiliate-link clickthroughs are tracked by the booking partners (Booking.com, Viator, Civitatis, GetYourGuide, Skyscanner, RentalCars, SafetyWing, Hostelworld, DiscoverCars) under their own privacy policies — we have no insight into those flows beyond knowing whether the click landed.
If you came here looking for the minimum-viable answer: we know how many people read each page, in aggregate, no names attached. That is the entire dataset.
What Plausible Records
Plausible is a privacy-respecting, cookieless analytics product hosted in the European Union. For every page view it records:
- The page URL (e.g.
/en/jerusalem/) - A truncated, hashed referrer (e.g.
google.com— we cannot reverse-engineer the specific search query) - The visitor’s country, derived from IP at request time, then immediately discarded — only the country code persists
- A device-class bucket (mobile / tablet / desktop) and a browser-family bucket (Chrome / Safari / Firefox / Edge / other)
- A daily hash that lets Plausible deduplicate “unique visitor” counts without persisting any cross-session identifier
That is the entire data surface. No cookies are placed in your browser. No personal identifiers — no email, no IP address, no advertising ID — leave Plausible’s servers. Plausible does not engage in cross-site tracking or sell data to advertisers. Their full technical statement is published at plausible.io/data-policy.
What We Never Collect
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No user accounts. You cannot register on this site. There is nothing to register for. Saved trips, favourites, and personal profiles are not features of v1.
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No tracking cookies. Open your browser’s developer tools, check the cookie jar — you will find Plausible has placed zero cookies. Any first-party cookies you see were placed by the affiliate partner’s site after you clicked an affiliate link, not by us.
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No third-party ad networks. We do not run AdSense, Taboola, Outbrain, Criteo, or any retargeting pixel. The site is monetised exclusively through eleven disclosed affiliate programmes (see affiliate disclosure).
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No advertising identifiers. We do not access or transmit IDFA / GAID / advertising IDs.
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No fingerprinting. Plausible does not run canvas fingerprinting, audio fingerprinting, or any of the device-signal-stacking that lets traditional analytics products approximate identity without cookies.
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No newsletter mailing list (v1). Phase 6 may add an opt-in email subscription for region updates; if it ships, the subscription form will publish its own privacy notice describing what email-marketing provider stores the list and how to unsubscribe. Today, no list exists.
Affiliate Clickthroughs
When you click an affiliate link, three things happen.
First, your browser navigates to the partner site (booking.com, viator.com, etc.) carrying a UTM tag we appended that identifies Visit Israel as the referring source. The tag does not include any personal information about you — just our affiliate ID and, in some programmes, an encoded campaign string.
Second, the partner site loads under their own privacy policy. They may place cookies, run advertising pixels, and apply their own tracking — that is governed by their policy, not ours. We link to each partner’s privacy policy on the affiliate disclosure page.
Third, the partner reports an aggregate “this click came from Visit Israel” event to us. We see counts, not individuals. We do not know who clicked or whether they booked unless the partner pays a commission, at which point we see an anonymised booking event tied to our affiliate tag.
GDPR, CCPA, and the Israeli Privacy Protection Law
Because we do not collect personal data, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and the Israeli Privacy Protection Law (5741-1981) impose minimal obligations on us. We still publish the following commitments:
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Right to access. If you believe we hold data about you, write to the contact email below and we will respond within 30 calendar days. The expected response is “we do not hold any data about you” because Plausible’s aggregate counts cannot be tied to an individual.
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Right to erasure. Since we do not store individual records, there is nothing to erase. If you object to your country code contributing to a daily aggregate, the only mechanism is to use Plausible’s exclude-self option or run a browser extension that blocks
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Children’s privacy. This site is not directed at children under 13. We collect no data that could distinguish a child visitor from an adult.
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Cross-border transfers. Plausible is hosted in the EU; aggregated, non-personal analytics data is held there. We do not transfer personal data anywhere because we do not collect any.
Data Retention
Plausible retains aggregate page-view counts indefinitely for the lifetime of this site so we can compare year-over-year traffic patterns. Country-level and device-class buckets are stored at daily granularity. Referrer and URL data are stored verbatim. None of this is tied to an individual.
If we ever close the site, the Plausible dashboard is deleted. We do not export historic aggregates to any third party.
How to Contact Us
For privacy questions: hello@visitisrael.site. For accessibility-specific privacy concerns (for example, whether a screen-reader assistive technology is being recorded — it is not), contact our named accessibility coordinator on the accessibility statement page.
This policy was last updated on 11 May 2026. We will note material changes in the page header when they occur; routine clarifications without changes in data practice may not trigger a re-dating.