A short, honest privacy notice.

On the website

• No advertising, and no tracking across other sites. Nothing here follows you around the web.
• No cookies that need consent. The only thing stored in your browser is a light/dark theme preference, a functional setting that never leaves your device.
• Visitor counts. We use GoatCounter to count page views. It runs without cookies and does not identify you: it records the page, the time, the country, the device type and the page you came from, nothing more. Your IP address is used only to work out the country and is not stored by us. GoatCounter processes this on our behalf; its own notice is at https://www.goatcounter.com/help/privacy.
• There is no sign-up form at present. Nothing you type on this site is sent anywhere.

If you email us

The site invites corrections, photo submissions, and business updates by email to hello@whereedinburgh.co.uk. If you write to us, we hold:

• Your email address, name if you give one, and the content of the correspondence (including any photos you send with permission details).
• Simple contact records — ledgers of who we have contacted or heard from about a page, so corrections and photo permissions can be tracked and honoured.

Purpose: keeping pages factually correct, crediting and honouring photo permissions, and replying to you. The lawful basis is legitimate interest in running an accurate guide and responding to the people who write to it. We do not sell this information or add it to marketing lists. It is handled only by Where Edinburgh and the service providers needed to operate email and maintain these records.

Retention: routine enquiries and correction correspondence are kept for up to 12 months after the last meaningful contact, then deleted. Records needed to document a photo licence, credit, or other publication permission are kept while the relevant material is published and for 12 months after it is removed. We may keep a record longer where this is reasonably necessary to establish, exercise, or defend legal rights.

Your rights

Under UK GDPR you can ask what we hold about you, ask for a copy, ask for corrections or deletion, restrict how it is used, or object to its use. Email hello@whereedinburgh.co.uk. If you are not satisfied, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office.

Controller: James Simpson, trading as Where Edinburgh, contactable at hello@whereedinburgh.co.uk.

This page updated: 2026-10-05