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Privacy Policy

The short version: there are no accounts, no newsletter and nothing to buy here, so there is very little of you to collect. What follows is the longer version, in plain English.

Last updated August 10, 2026.

The basics

What This Site Collects

Analytics
Pages you visit, roughly where in the world you are, which site or search sent you, and what kind of device you used. This arrives through Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics, and it is reported to me in aggregate. I use it to see which guides people actually read.
Server logs
The hosting provider records requests, including IP addresses, as any web server does. These are kept for security and troubleshooting, not for building a profile of you.
Nothing else
There are no accounts, no sign-in, no comment box and no payments. Some pages offer an email signup for new guides: if you use it, I hold the address you give me, use it only to send those guides, and delete it when you unsubscribe. If you email me instead, I have your address because you sent it, and I keep the thread until it is clearly finished.
Cookies

Cookies, and How to Refuse Them

This site shows ads served by Google AdSense. AdSense and the analytics above set cookies in your browser. Nothing on this site breaks if you block them. You can refuse or delete cookies in your browser settings, use private browsing, or install the Google analytics opt-out add-on (opens in a new tab).

Google AdSense may use cookies to show ads based on your visits here and to other sites, and it may use ad personalization data if you allow it above. This site does not sell anything about you to anyone.

Your current choice
No choice made yet.
Your rights

Your Rights, and How to Use Them

Access and deletion
You can ask what I hold about you and ask me to delete it. In practice this is usually an email thread, because that is the only place your name would appear.
Analytics data
Analytics data is aggregated and not tied to your name, so I cannot pull out the history of a single visitor. Blocking the cookies stops the collection at your end.
EU, UK and California
The rights those laws give you apply here: access, correction, deletion, and objecting to processing. Email me and I will handle it rather than send you through a portal.
Children
This is a travel guide for adults planning trips. It is not aimed at children and does not knowingly collect anything from them.
Changes and contact

If This Policy Changes

If the site ever adds a form, an account system or anything that collects more than it does today, this page gets updated first and the date at the top changes with it.

[email protected]