Cookies

Cookies we set

None. This site has no accounts, no basket and no preferences to remember, so there is nothing for us to store on your device. We also use no local storage and no similar technology.

That is why there is no consent banner: there is nothing to ask permission for.

But you do count visits

We do, and it needs saying plainly, because "no cookies" is not the same as "we are not looking". Our server counts each page it serves. That count happens on our side, not yours: nothing is written to your device, no identifier is given to you, and there is no way for us to tell that two page views came from the same person rather than from two people.

What each row holds: the page, the site that linked you to it if there was one, the country your connection appears to be in, whether the request came from a phone or a computer, and whether it was a person or a search engine's robot.

What no row holds: your IP address, the search words you typed, anything naming your browser or device beyond phone or computer, and anything at all that could join one visit to the next.

The law asks for consent to store or read something on your device. We store and read nothing, so there is nothing to consent to. That was the deliberate choice: it means we count everyone honestly instead of counting whoever happened to click Accept.

What third-party content might set

Parts of a page are fetched from other companies, and those companies can set their own cookies when your browser asks them for a file. We do not control that and we receive nothing from it.

Google

Business photographs and logos on listings, the typeface, and the Preferred Sources button. The button does nothing unless you click it; clicking it is you telling Google something about your own preferences, and Google handles that, not us.

OpenFreeMap and Cloudflare

Map tiles and the mapping library, loaded only when a map scrolls into view. Neither is an advertising company.

Businesses' own websites

Where a listing shows an image the business hosts itself, it is fetched from their server.

How to block any of it

Every browser can block third-party cookies, and most can block them by default. Doing so will not break this site. Maps and images will still load; they are fetched with a normal request either way.

When this changes

This site will gain advertising and an email newsletter. Advertising in particular will require consent, a banner with a genuine reject option will appear, and this page will be rewritten in the same change. Until then the answer for cookies is genuinely none.

Wrong or out of date? Tell us: hello@nearbyuk.com. This is a plain description of what the site does, not legal advice.