Privacy note

Port Pal is published at portpal.gentleseastravel.co.uk. This note says what the site stores. It is not a long policy stuffed with categories we do not use.

If you subscribe, we store your email address and whether it was added to our Resend audience. We use it to send the weekly port of the week. To ask for it to be removed, use the form on the sponsor page and say it is a privacy request.

Messages

Operator submissions, reader tips and sponsor enquiries are stored so we can review them. We keep the name and email you give us. We do not publish your email.

Page counts and clicks

We count page views ourselves, one number per path per day. We do not use Vercel Analytics and we do not set an analytics cookie. When you follow an outbound link we store the time, the listing, the kind of destination, the referring page and the browser’s user agent. We do not store your IP address.

Spam control

Forms keep a hash of the network address, with a salt, for about two days, so one network cannot submit endlessly. The address itself is not stored.

Sponsor bar

If you close the sponsor bar, a cookie remembers that sponsor’s id for about 30 days so the bar stays hidden. It is not used for advertising profiles.

Selling data