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The site also stores a small amount of technical data locally in your browser to support features like the search box and language switcher — this stays on your device and isn't transmitted to us. This site doesn't run any third-party ad networks or display banner advertising.
Affiliate Links
Some links on this site — currently to Wise, Amazon, Hotels.com and Expedia — are affiliate links. If you sign up or make a booking or purchase through one of these links, we may earn a small commission, at no extra cost to you. We only link to services we actually use ourselves, and this never affects the editorial content of our guides. Some pages also include search widgets provided directly by Expedia Group (covering flights and Hotels.com stays); these load content directly from Expedia Group's own servers and are subject to Expedia Group's own privacy practices while you interact with them.
Cookies
Google Analytics, and the affiliate partners linked above, may set their own cookies or similar technology when you visit this site or click through to them — used for analytics and for tracking referred sign-ups or bookings, not for advertising profiles. If you're visiting from the EU or a nearby European country, you'll see a short cookie notice on your first visit; accepting it just dismisses the notice; it doesn't turn tracking on or off, since the underlying tools are third-party services governed by their own policies.
We do not sell personal data. If you contact us by email, we'll use your email address only to reply to you, and we won't add it to a mailing list without asking first.
If you're located in the UK or EU, you have rights under GDPR to request access to, or deletion of, any personal data we hold about you — in practice, for most visitors this is limited to the contents of any email you've sent us. Contact us using the details on our Contact page for any such request.
This is placeholder policy text — replace with a policy reviewed against your actual data practices and local law (e.g. UK/EU GDPR) before launch. In particular, the cookie notice on this site uses a simple, offline-friendly heuristic (the visitor's browser timezone) to decide who sees it, rather than IP-based geolocation — this is a reasonable approach for a small independent site, but a legal reviewer may want a stricter consent management solution before this goes live.