Privacy

The short version

This site has no accounts, no logins and no user profiles. It does not ask who you are to show you a listing. What follows is the full list of places data does go.

Analytics

The site uses Google Analytics 4 to count page views and understand which pages are useful. It records the usual web analytics data: pages visited, approximate location derived from IP address, device and browser type, and referring site. It is not used to identify individuals and the data is not sold or shared with anyone other than Google as the processor.

Advertising

The site is funded by display advertising served by Google AdSense. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.

You can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings, and out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info (US) or youronlinechoices.eu (UK and Europe). How Google uses information from sites that use its services is explained at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Visitors in the UK, the European Economic Area and Switzerland are asked for consent, through Google's consent message, before personalised ads or advertising cookies are used, and can change that choice at any time from the privacy link the message leaves on the page.

Your rights

If you are in the UK or the European Economic Area you have the right to ask what personal data is held about you, to have it corrected or deleted, and to object to its use. This site holds very little: an email address if you joined the newsletter, and the text of any message you sent through the contact form. Ask through the contact page and it will be answered within one month. Analytics and advertising data held by Google can be managed from your Google account and the settings linked above.

Your location

The "nearest to me" feature uses your browser's geolocation, and only after you allow it when the browser asks. Your coordinates are used inside your own browser to sort the list and are not sent to this site's servers and not stored. Decline the prompt and everything else on the page continues to work; you just sort by something other than distance.

The newsletter and the correction form

Both forms are submitted through Web3Forms, a form-handling service, which passes the message to the editor's mailbox. For the newsletter, the only field required is an email address, and it is used for nothing except the newsletter. Every newsletter email carries an unsubscribe link, and an unsubscribe request removes the address rather than suppressing it.

For the correction form, an email address is optional and is used only to reply to you about that message.

What is not here

• No accounts, no passwords, no profiles
• No selling or renting of personal data to anyone
• No tracking pixels beyond the analytics and advertising described above
• No collection of review text, reviewer names or reviewer photographs. Where a rating is shown it is a numeric average and a count, and nothing else

Business information in the listings

Listings are drawn from public government registers of licensed businesses. They contain business information: trading name, business address, license class and license dates. Where a register happens to publish a business phone number, it is shown. If you believe a listing contains information that should not be there, use the contact page and say which record and why.