How we handle personal information

The corrections form

The form sends us three things: your name, whatever contact details you type in, and your message (the provider, the fact, the link). We gather nothing more and ask for no account.

Neither your name nor your contact details ever appear on the site; we use them only to get back to you about your message.

The form is meant for adults; children under 13 should not use it, and we do not knowingly keep their information.

Counting page views

Page views are tallied by a small script that this site serves itself, with no cookies and no profile of the reader. A press on a contact button on a provider’s page is logged as one event: which kind of button, which provider and its activities. Nothing about the person pressing it is logged.

Your location

We learn your position only if you press the location button, and even then it never leaves your browser: it is used there, while the tab stays open, to calculate distances, and is sent nowhere, not even to this site.

A station, school or community you pick by name is remembered by your browser for the next visit.

The filter map is drawn from OpenStreetMap. Opening it loads map tiles straight from OpenStreetMap’s servers; as any website would, they see your IP address and the stretch of map you look at. The point you set stays in your browser.

Listed providers and your rights

What the directory shows about providers is what they publish for their own customers on their websites and Google listings. For a provider who is a single person, a phone number or address is shown only when that person has made it public.

It is kept for one reason alone, so that parents can weigh up activities for their kids, and it is never sold, passed on for advertising or used to build profiles.

If the directory names you, the form lets you ask what information we hold on you and have it fixed or removed; we answer within 30 days.

Deleting a message

Want a message you sent erased? Send the form once more saying which message, and it will be erased within 30 days.