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WHAT THIS SITE COLLECTS, AND WHAT IT DOES NOT
Analytics, marked affiliate links, one travel script and web fonts, and nothing else
Privacy
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Analytics
This site uses Google Analytics to count visits and to see which pages are read. It records the page you are on, roughly where in the world you are, and what kind of device you are using.
It does not record your name, your address or anything you type, and the data is kept for fourteen months. If you would rather not be counted, any browser setting or extension that blocks analytics will stop it.
Affiliate links
Some links on the planning pages (getting here, where to stay, booking ahead and day trips) and on a few planning articles in the journal may be affiliate links, provided through the Travelpayouts network. If you book something through one of them, this site may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you.
Those links are marked on the page, above the first link, and no sight page carries one. Nothing is recommended because it pays. Following such a link takes you to the partner's own site, which sets its own cookies and has its own privacy policy.
This site does not sell anything, take bookings or reservations, handle payments or hold tickets or rooms. Any booking you make is a contract between you and the travel company, under its terms, and this site is not a party to it and carries no responsibility for it.
The Drive script
Every page also loads a script from Travelpayouts (tpembars.com), called Drive, which can add affiliate links, travel recommendations and previews to the page. It runs in your browser, and Travelpayouts and the travel services it links to may set their own cookies.
Following one of those links does not identify you to this site; the service you land on has its own privacy policy. A content blocker stops the script and every page still works.
Fonts and hosting
The typefaces are served by Google Fonts, which means your browser requests them from Google when a page loads.
The site itself is a set of static files served through Cloudflare, which also adds its own Web Analytics script to count visits; Cloudflare describes it as collecting no personal data and setting no cookies. There are no accounts, no logins and no comment forms, so there is nothing to sign up to and nothing to delete.
Images and links
The photographs are served from this site's own server, not loaded from Wikimedia while you read. Official sites, such as the museums, the transport operators and the venues, are named on the pages rather than linked.
Changes
If this site starts doing anything else with data, this page will say so before it happens.
Three ways on
Where to next
- Twenty places, one page eachThe SightsFrom Westminster to the Tower, and out to Greenwich and Kew: what each one is, what you see there, and where it stands.Open the page →
- A temperate climate with rain in every monthWhen to ComeA temperate oceanic climate, cool winters, warm summers and rain spread through the year — season by season, with the events and the quieter weeks.Open the page →
- The Underground, buses, boats and your own feetGetting AroundThe world's oldest rapid transit system, the Elizabeth line, the Overground and the Docklands Light Railway, buses, river services and the walks that join the sights.Open the page →