Privacy and cookies
Who's responsible?
The data controller for this website is Peter Taylor trading as Does Your Duck Quack?, 5 South Charlotte Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4AN. Contact: webmaster@offtothedarts.co.uk.
What the site itself collects
The site code has no analytics, advertising scripts, forms or marketing cookies. You don't need an account to read the guides.
Ticket purchases and hotel bookings happen on the provider's site, not here.
The trip calculators run in your browser. The code doesn't send your estimates, party size or travel costs to us.
If you email us, we'll receive your address and anything you include. We use that information to answer your message or handle a correction.
We rely on legitimate interests to answer enquiries and run a safe, useful visitor guide.
We'll keep correspondence only while it's needed to resolve the enquiry, follow up a correction or meet a legal duty.
Don't send payment details or sensitive personal information.
Hosting and access logs
The site is hosted through OpenAI's ChatGPT Sites, using Cloudflare infrastructure.
The host processes technical information to deliver pages, investigate problems and protect the service.
OpenAI's privacy documentation describes IP addresses, browser information, request dates and times, and service interactions.
Cloudflare's Workers documentation describes request URLs, request methods, responses, errors and related metadata in invocation logs.
Cloudflare documents Workers Logs retention of three days on its Free plan and seven days on its Paid plan.
Those are the product's published limits, not a confirmed retention setting for this managed site. OpenAI hasn't published a fixed period for every Sites visitor log.
Its policy keeps personal data while needed for the service, security, resolving disputes or legal obligations. Ask us if you need more detail about a particular record.
OpenAI's Sites guidance doesn't offer a fixed hosting country or data-residency option. Hosting data may be processed outside the UK.
The applicable OpenAI agreement and data-processing terms govern that processing and any international transfers.
Sources and checked date
Sources: OpenAI Sites data protection guidance; OpenAI Europe privacy policy; Cloudflare Workers Logs. Checked 9 October 2026.
Cookies, affiliate links and other providers
Cloudflare may set the strictly necessary __cf_bm security cookie to protect the site from automated traffic.
See Cloudflare’s cookie information (checked 8 November 2026).
We earn commission from Booking.com hotel bookings made through our CJ links, at no extra cost to you. Clicking one takes you through CJ to Booking.com.
CJ and Booking.com may set or read cookies on those sites to record the referral and run their services. Their privacy notices and consent choices apply there.
Simply reading this site's guides doesn't load a Booking.com widget or CJ tracking script. Other external links also take you to the provider's website and privacy policy.
Read our affiliate disclosure for how commercial links work.
Sources and checked date
Source: CJ UK services privacy policy. Checked 9 October 2026.
Self-hosted fonts and your theme choice
The Zilla Slab and Libre Franklin font files are served from this website. Reading a page does not require a request to Google Fonts.
Your light or dark theme choice may be stored locally in your browser.
The light or dark theme preference is saved in your browser's local storage under ottd-theme. It stays on your device until you change it or clear this site's data.
Clearing site data removes it; your next visit follows your device's colour preference. We don't receive that saved value.
Sources and checked date
Sources: Google Fonts privacy FAQ; the site's theme and calculator code. Checked 9 October 2026.
Your UK GDPR rights
You can ask what personal information we hold about you and request a copy.
You can also ask us to correct it, delete it or limit its use, and object to processing based on legitimate interests. Data portability applies where the legal conditions are met.
Where processing relies on consent, you can withdraw it.
These rights depend on the circumstances. Contact webmaster@offtothedarts.co.uk to make a request.
We'll normally respond within one month and explain any lawful extension or limit. We may ask for enough information to identify the records and confirm they're yours.
If you're unhappy, tell us so we can look into it. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office, the UK's data protection regulator.
Sources and checked date
Sources: ICO guidance for the public; ICO access rights guidance. Checked 9 October 2026.
Site search
The guide’s search filters a downloaded list of page titles and descriptions in your browser. It does not send search queries to an advertising or analytics provider.
A query can appear in the search page address and your browser history.