Privacy Policy

The short version

We don't sell personal data. We use Google Analytics to understand which guides are useful, and we link to a small number of affiliate partners (see below) that may set their own cookies when you click through to them. That's the whole picture — the rest of this page is the detail.

Analytics

This site uses Google Analytics (gtag.js) to collect anonymised usage data — pages visited, general location at a country/city level, device type, and how visitors found the site. This helps us understand which guides are useful and which need work. Google Analytics uses cookies to do this. If you're visiting from the EU, you'll see a cookie notice that lets you decline analytics cookies before they're set; see "Cookie consent" below.

Affiliate links and third-party widgets

This site links to a small number of affiliate partners — currently Wise, Amazon, Hotels.com and Expedia. If you click through and sign up or make a purchase, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Full detail on this is in our affiliate disclosure.

The flight and hotel search widgets on this site are provided directly by Expedia Group and may set their own cookies to function (for example, to remember a search). We don't control what Expedia Group's widget does with that data — see their own privacy policy for detail on their end.

Cookie consent

Visitors whose browser indicates a European timezone are shown a cookie notice before analytics cookies are set, with the option to accept or decline. Declining means Google Analytics will not run for that visit. This is a browser-based heuristic, not precise IP-based geolocation, so it may occasionally show for non-EU visitors or miss an EU visitor travelling outside Europe.

What we don't do

• We don't sell or rent personal data to third parties.
• We don't run display advertising networks on this site.
• We don't require an account or collect personal information just to read the site.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or a request relating to your data, can be sent to [email protected].

Changes to this policy

We may update this page as the site grows — for example, if we add new affiliate partners or analytics tools. Check back periodically for the current version.