Privacy policy

ShortStoriesTravel is a two person travel blog. We are not running an ad network and we are not building a profile on you. This page explains what actually happens when you visit, in plain language.

The short version

We do not set cookies. We do not ask you to log in. We do not collect your name, your email, or your location. We do not sell anything about you, because we do not have anything about you to sell.

What our host sees

This site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Like every web host, Cloudflare processes basic technical information to serve the page and to block attacks. That includes your IP address, your browser type, and which page you asked for. We do not have access to a dashboard of individual visitors, and this data is not linked to you by name.

YouTube content

Our Watch page and some posts show video thumbnails, which load from Google's servers. Loading an image from Google means Google can see your IP address and which page you were on. This happens on page load and we cannot prevent it while still showing you what the video is.

We do not load the YouTube player until you click it. When you do, the video plays through youtube-nocookie.com, which limits the tracking Google does compared to a standard embed. Once you press play, Google's privacy policy applies to that player, not ours.

Affiliate links

Some links to gear are affiliate links, mostly Amazon. If you click one and buy something, we earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Clicking the link tells that retailer you came from us, usually through a tag in the URL, and the retailer may set its own cookies once you are on their site. What they do from that point is covered by their privacy policy.

We only link gear we have actually used. The commission does not change what we recommend.

Email

The email signup form on this site is not connected to anything yet. It is a placeholder, the fields are disabled, and nothing you type into it is sent or stored. When we do turn it on, we will update this page and say who processes the list.

Analytics

We are not running analytics today. When we add it, the plan is Cloudflare Web Analytics, which is cookieless and does not fingerprint visitors. If that ever changes to something that tracks you across sites, this page gets updated first.

Children

This site is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect anything from them.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to ask what data a site holds about you, and to have it deleted. In our case the answer is that we hold nothing about you, so there is nothing to hand over or erase. If you want to ask anyway, email us and we will answer honestly.

Changes

If we change how any of this works, we will update this page and change the date at the top. We are not going to quietly swap the text and hope nobody notices.

Contact

Questions about any of this go to hello@shortstoriestravel.com.