Privacy

The short version

Locale has no accounts, no logins, no cookies and no advertising. We count visits with an anonymous, cookieless analytics service that cannot identify you (details below). The only personal data we ever receive is what you choose to type into the contact form — and we use it for one thing: replying to you.

Who we are

Locale (this website) is run by its owner as a free service. For anything about your data, use the contact form.

Browsing the site

• Hosting. The site runs on Vercel, whose infrastructure keeps standard, short-lived server logs (including IP addresses) for security and operations — as virtually all web hosting does.
• Maps. Map imagery loads from third-party tile servers (CARTO / OpenStreetMap, and Mapbox on the map explorer). Like any image request, those servers see your IP address when tiles load. We add no identifiers to those requests.
• Anonymous analytics. We use Umami, a cookieless, EU-hosted analytics service, to count page views and to see which places and schools people look up — the search term only, never who searched it. It sets no cookies, stores nothing in your browser, does not store your IP address, and cannot identify or follow you.
• Nothing else. No cookies are set, nothing is stored in your browser, and nothing we collect has any identity attached — there is no identity to attach.

If you write to us

The contact form asks for a message, an email address to reply to, and (optionally) a name. Sending it emails those details to our inbox via Resend, an email delivery service — this website itself stores nothing.

• Why we can use it (lawful basis): our legitimate interest in reading and answering messages people send us.
• Where it lives: our email inbox (and briefly with Resend, which delivers it). It is not shared with or sold to anyone.
• How long: as long as needed to deal with your message, at most two years, then deleted.

Your rights

UK data-protection law gives you rights over personal data we hold about you — to see it, correct it, or have it deleted. Ask via the contact form and we will simply do it. If you are unhappy with how we have handled your data, you can complain to the UK regulator, the Information Commissioner's Office.

Changes

If the site ever starts collecting anything new, this page will say so first, and the date at the top will change.