beyondthekasbah.com — Beyond the Kasbah
This page explains what information we collect when you use beyondthekasbah.com, contact us about a journey, or communicate with us through WhatsApp or email. We have tried to keep this as clear and honest as possible — it is not written to obscure what we do, it is written to explain it plainly.
Beyond the Kasbah is operated by Taoufiq — a private driver/guide based in Rissani, Morocco, specialising in private Sahara journeys. This is a small, owner-operated business. When you contact us, you are communicating directly with Taoufiq, not a team or a company with departments.
When you make a travel enquiry — by email or via WhatsApp — you may share:
We only receive this information because you chose to send it. We do not collect it passively or pull it from other sources.
We use the information you send solely for planning and communicating about your journey:
We do not sell your information. We do not pass it to marketing companies. We do not use it to send you newsletters or promotional emails unless you have specifically asked to hear from us.
Many enquiries and bookings are handled through WhatsApp. When you message us on WhatsApp, your messages are received and read by Taoufiq directly. WhatsApp is operated by Meta (formerly Facebook) and subject to their own terms and privacy policy. We have no control over how Meta processes data that passes through their platform. If you are concerned about WhatsApp privacy, email is an alternative — see below.
WhatsApp conversations are kept as a record of our planning correspondence. We do not share the contents of your WhatsApp messages with third parties except where directly needed to organise your journey (for example, passing your arrival date to an accommodation provider).
Emails sent to hello@beyondthekasbah.com are received by Taoufiq and kept as a correspondence record. We use email to answer enquiries, send route proposals, confirm bookings, and follow up as needed. Your email is processed through a trusted third-party email hosting provider. We do not use your email address for marketing purposes.
The primary contact methods for this website are WhatsApp and email. WhatsApp messages go directly to Taoufiq. Email enquiries go to hello@beyondthekasbah.com. Both are handled personally — not by an automated system. If a contact form is added to this website in future, this section will be updated to name the form provider used.
We do not currently use analytics tools on this website. No Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, or similar tracking scripts are installed. If analytics are added in future, this policy will be updated before they are activated.
This website uses a cookie consent banner. If you click Accept, a small cookie is stored in your browser to remember your preference and avoid showing the banner again on future visits. If you click Decline, no preference cookie is saved.
As analytics tools are not currently installed on this website, the only cookie in use is the consent preference cookie described above.
You can clear cookies at any time through your browser settings. This will reset your cookie consent preference and the banner will reappear on your next visit.
All text on this website was written by or for Beyond the Kasbah. All photographs were provided by the owner or are confirmed approved images. No stock photography from unrelated sources is used. The content on this site is the property of Beyond the Kasbah and may not be reproduced without permission.
This website connects to or uses the following third-party services, each with their own privacy policies:
We keep enquiry and booking correspondence as long as it is needed for the journey and for a reasonable period afterwards. Enquiries that did not lead to a booking may be kept for reference or follow-up for up to 12 months, after which they are deleted or archived. If you have booked a journey with us, we may keep records of the correspondence longer for accounting or dispute purposes.
If you would like us to delete your information, contact us at hello@beyondthekasbah.com and we will do so.
You have the right to ask what information we hold about you, to correct inaccurate information, and to ask us to delete it. To exercise any of these, contact us directly — details below.
We are a small, owner-operated business in Morocco. We are not a data processor operating under EU GDPR or UK GDPR in a formal corporate sense, but we treat your information with care and will respond to reasonable requests promptly.
If you have a question about how we handle your information, or would like to request access to, correction of, or deletion of data we hold about you:
We aim to respond within 3 working days.
We may update this page if our practices change — for example, if we add analytics, change our form provider, or update our contact details. The date at the top of this page reflects the most recent revision. We do not send notifications when this page is updated, but we keep the content accurate.