Privacy policy

From visitors, essentially none. You don't need an account to use Campare. We don't ask for your name, email, postcode or any other personal detail to browse or search the directory. There are no parent sign-up forms, no newsletters, and no booking flow — bookings happen on the camp provider's own website, not here.

The only personal data that reaches us is what someone chooses to send by email — for example, a takedown request. If you email us, we hold your email address and whatever you write in the message, for as long as we need to deal with your request.

We use Plausible Analytics to understand which pages are popular and how people find the site. Plausible is cookieless and self-hosted — we run it on our own infrastructure, so analytics data is not exported to a third-party advertising network.

Plausible records aggregate, non-identifying information: the page URL, the referring site, and a coarse, pseudonymised note of your browser and device type. It does NOT store your IP address, it does NOT build a device fingerprint, and it does NOT track you across other websites. There is no profile of you, because there is nothing to profile.

Campare's crawler indexes camp listings from public provider websites — names, dates, age ranges, activities, locations. That is business listings data about camps, not personal data about you. When the site shows you a camp, it is showing you public information about that camp, not anything we know about you.

When you email us about a takedown request, we use your email address for one thing only: to deal with your request and reply to you about it. We do not add you to any mailing list, we do not use your address for marketing, and we do not share it with anyone else.

Campare does not set any tracking or advertising cookies. Our analytics are cookieless, so there is no analytics cookie either. Because we set no non-essential cookies, there is no cookie-consent banner — there is nothing to consent to.

We keep takedown-request emails for as long as the request is open and for a short period afterwards so we have a record of what we did and why. Once that is no longer needed, the email is deleted.

The aggregate analytics Plausible records are not personal data and are kept as long as they are useful for understanding how the site is used.

Under UK data-protection law (the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018) you have rights over personal data we hold about you — including the right to ask what we hold, to ask us to correct it, and to ask us to delete it.

In practice, unless you have emailed us, we almost certainly hold no personal data about you at all. If you have emailed us and you would like to know what we hold, or you would like us to delete it, just email us and ask. We will respond within the time the law allows.

Campare is hosted on our own infrastructure, and our analytics are self-hosted, so your browsing data is not handed to a third-party analytics or advertising company. The links on Campare point to camp providers' own websites; once you follow a link, that provider's own privacy policy applies, not this one.

Maps. Some pages have a "Show map" button. Nothing loads from Google until you click it — the map you see before clicking is drawn by us, not by Google. When you click "Show map", we load an interactive map from Google Maps. At that point Google receives your IP address, an approximate location worked out from it, and the address of the page you are on. Google does not set any cookies for this map, and nothing is stored on your device. What Google does with the data it receives is governed by Google's privacy policy. If you would rather not load Google's map, you don't have to — every map has an "Open in Google Maps" link that takes you to Google's own site instead, and the camp's address is always shown as plain text.

This is why we can still say there is no cookie-consent banner (see "Cookies" above): no map loads, and nothing is read from or written to your device, until you choose to click. The click is your decision, and we tell you up front that it loads Google Maps.

For anything about this policy or the data we hold, email support@campare.uk. For listing removals, please use the takedown request page so we can track and batch them.

We may update this policy from time to time — for example, if we add a new feature or the law changes. The "last updated" date at the top of this page tells you when the current version was published.