Cookie Policy

Last updated: July 23, 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how Country Living Guide (“we,” “us,” or “our”), an editorial website affiliated with Mason Genie, uses cookies and similar technologies.

For information about our broader handling of personal information, see our Privacy Policy.

What Cookies Are

Cookies are small text files placed on a browser or device when you visit a website. They can remember information between page views or visits.

We may also use related technologies, such as local storage, tags, pixels, and software development tools. In this policy, “cookies” includes these similar technologies where appropriate.

Why We Use Cookies

We may use cookies for the following purposes.

Essential

Essential technologies help the site operate securely and remember basic choices, such as privacy preferences. These technologies are not used to build advertising profiles.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors find and use Country Living Guide. Analytics may help us measure:

Page views and navigation
General traffic sources
Device and browser categories
Approximate geographic region
Site performance and errors
Interactions with links or page elements

Google Analytics may receive cookie identifiers, IP address, page URL, browser and device details, approximate location, and interaction data. Reports generally help us understand audiences in aggregate.

Advertising Measurement

We may use Google Ads conversion measurement to understand whether an advertisement led to a visit or another action on the site. Depending on configuration and your consent choices, Google may set or read cookies or other identifiers for attribution, measurement, fraud prevention, and advertising services.

Country Living Guide does not currently serve third-party display advertising on its pages. If that changes, we will update this policy.

Third-Party Technologies

Google controls the cookies and data processing associated with its services, subject to Google’s terms, settings, and privacy policies.

For more information:

Our hosting, security, or content-delivery providers may also use essential technologies to deliver and protect the site.

Your Choices

Where required by law, non-essential analytics and advertising cookies are used only after the choice presented through our cookie controls.

You can:

Accept or reject categories through the cookie banner or preference controls
Change your choice later through the cookie-settings link or icon in the site footer
Block or delete cookies using browser settings
Adjust Google advertising preferences through My Ad Center
Use Google’s Analytics opt-out browser add-on

Blocking cookies may reduce measurement accuracy and may prevent certain preferences from being remembered. Essential site functions should remain available where practical.

Your choice is stored for a reasonable period, after which we may ask again. We may also ask again if our cookie practices materially change.

Do Not Track and Global Privacy Signals

Browsers and extensions may send “Do Not Track” or legally recognized opt-out signals. There is not one universal standard for all such signals.

Where applicable law requires us to honor a recognized browser-based opt-out preference signal, we will treat it as a request to opt out of covered sale, sharing, or targeted-advertising processing for that browser or device.

Cookie Duration

Cookies may last only for a browsing session or remain for a set period. Duration depends on the cookie’s purpose and the configuration of the service that provides it.

You can remove stored cookies at any time through your browser. Google may change its cookie names and durations, so the most current technical details are available in Google’s own documentation and browser storage controls.

Updates to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy when our technologies, providers, or legal obligations change. The revised policy will be posted here with a new “last updated” date.

Contact

Questions about cookies or privacy may be sent to us through this website.