Privacy

This site is static and sets no advertising cookies. We measure how it is used, and this page says exactly how, because the honest version of that sentence is longer than "we don't track you".

We count pages ourselves. When you open a page, this site increments a counter: the page, the day, and the website that linked you here if there was one. That is the entire record. No cookie, no stored id, no IP address, no session, and no clock finer than the day — so two readers on the same page are one number, and neither can be told apart from the other or from themselves yesterday. It lives in our own database, not a third party's.

Other analytics that cannot identify you may also run, and set nothing on your device either: no cookie, no stored id, no attempt to recognize you between visits. They count pages, the country a request came from, the kind of device, and which site linked you here. None of it is tied to a person.

Analytics that use cookies — Google Analytics, if it is switched on — load only if you press Accept on the banner. Press Decline and nothing from Google is requested at all: not the script, not a single byte. You will not be asked again, and you can change your mind by clearing this site's data in your browser.

If you click through to a tour operator we count that too: which partner, which port page you clicked from, and the name of the tour. It is how we find out whether the excursion research is of any use to anyone. Same shape as everything else here — a counter, no identifier, nothing that could say it was you. A click on Book on NCL is counted the same way: which cabin type, and the day.

What you type into search is recorded as a count: the words, how many results they found, and the day. There is no identifier attached — not your address, not a session, not a hash — so it tells us "forty people looked for Alaska and twelve found nothing", and it can never tell us what any one person looked for. We use it to decide which guides to write next.

Two small values can be stored in your browser, both kept on your own device and never sent anywhere: your light/dark theme preference, and, once you have used the quote form, a note that lasts only until you close the tab so the form is not offered to you twice.

If you email us, we keep that message so we can reply to it. Nothing more.

If you use the quote form, your name, email, phone number, the size of your party, your message and the sailing you were looking at are sent by email to Off The Grid Getaways, the independent travel advisor who answers it, so they can reply to you. They are not stored in this website's database. They do reach Off The Grid Getaways' inbox, and pass through Resend, the service that delivers the email, which keeps a copy for a limited time. To have your details deleted, email [email protected].

Accessibility needs are health information, so the form only takes them if you tick a box agreeing to share them. They go in that same email and nowhere else: never into our database, never into a log, never into an automatic reply.

The form is protected by Cloudflare Turnstile, a check that tells people from robots. Its script loads only when you open the form, never on an ordinary page visit. We also keep a count of inquiries by day and sailing, with nothing that identifies you.

If you join the newsletter, we store the address you give us and the date you gave it, so we can send you the thing you asked for. We do not sell it, share it or pass it to any other service, and every email will carry a way to leave. Ask us and we will delete it.

We do not keep your IP address. The signup, group-submission and quote forms are rate-limited, which needs some way to tell one connection from another, so we store a one-way hash of the address and a secret — enough to count, not enough to recover the address itself. For the quote form, that hash is erased after a day.