Privacy, simply.

Last updated: 30 October 2026.

Fareham & Gosport is an independent personal publication run by Zoe Stimpson, who is responsible for the personal information described here. Contact us through our contact form.

What we use and why

You can browse without an account. Our website services process technical details such as IP addresses, browser information and requests to deliver pages, investigate faults and prevent abuse. We rely on our legitimate interests in operating a secure, reliable local guide.

If you use our contact form, we receive your email address, name, enquiry type and message. We use these to reply, investigate corrections and assess suggestions. The form sends that message by email. It is not saved in the website database. This is in our legitimate interests in responding to enquiries and maintaining accurate editorial content. Please send only the information needed for your enquiry.

Author names, biographies and appropriate public business or organiser details may appear in our guides. These come from contributors, direct correspondence or the official sources linked in the relevant guide. We use them to credit work and help readers find local services. Sending a suggestion does not automatically put your private correspondence on the website.

Editor accounts contain a name, email address, securely hashed password and authentication information. We use these to control access to publishing and send password reset messages. Public visitors cannot register editor accounts.

The services involved

• Vercel hosts the website.
• Vercel Blob stores photographs uploaded through the editor.
• Supabase stores the editorial database.
• Cloudflare manages our domain records.
• Resend sends contact form messages to our contact address and sends editor password reset emails. It also keeps delivery records.
• Google Analytics provides optional audience measurement, and only after you accept analytics.
• Google AdSense may provide display advertising when advertising is enabled.

These providers may process operational information outside the UK. A hosting region does not mean every service keeps information in the UK. Their privacy information explains their locations and international transfer arrangements: Vercel, Supabase, Cloudflare, Google and Resend. Contact us for information about the arrangements relevant to your enquiry.

Walking maps

Some walking guides include OpenStreetMap area maps. When a map loads, your browser connects to OpenStreetMap to request the map and tiles, sharing technical information such as your IP address. See the OpenStreetMap Foundation privacy policy.

How long we keep information

We keep correspondence while it is needed to respond or resolve an issue. If it supports a published guide or correction, we may keep the relevant record while it is needed to explain or verify that material. We review retained information and remove unnecessary personal details. Editor accounts are kept while access is needed. Service logs follow the providers’ retention settings. Restricted recovery copies may retain deleted information until they are replaced or expire.

Your choices and rights

You can ask to see or correct your personal information, or request its deletion or restricted use. The rights that apply depend on the circumstances. You can object to our use of your information based on legitimate interests. Use the contact form and tell us what your request concerns. We may need enough information to confirm your identity.

You can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office. We do not sell personal information or make automated decisions with legal or similarly significant effects.

Optional analytics

If you accept analytics, Google Analytics 4 processes information about the pages you view, interactions, device and browser, and approximate location to help us improve the guide. Google receives technical connection information, including your IP address. We rely on your consent for this optional analytics. We do not load the Google tag until you accept. Advertising personalisation and Google signals are disabled in our analytics tag configuration.

You can withdraw analytics consent using Cookie settings at the bottom of any public page. This stops future analytics collection in that browser and removes this site’s analytics cookies; it does not automatically erase information already received by Google. Analytics information is retained according to the property’s Google Analytics retention settings.

Display advertising

We may use Google AdSense to fund the publication. If advertising is enabled, Google and its advertising partners may use cookies, local storage, IP addresses and other identifiers to select, deliver and measure adverts, prevent fraud and produce reporting.

Where consent is required, advertising storage and personalised advertising will not be enabled unless you make that choice through a Google certified consent platform. The consent message will let you accept, refuse or manage advertising choices and withdraw them later. See how Google uses information from partner sites and our cookies page.

Cookies and future features

There are no newsletter signup forms enabled. Fonts are hosted on this site. Our preference storage, optional analytics cookies, advertising technology and essential editor login cookie are explained on the cookies page.