Privacy and personal data

Data and features

Creating a walk may save a draft in your browser’s local storage so you can resume it on the same device. No account is needed for this feature. This data remains in the device’s browser; you can remove it by clearing site data in that browser’s settings. If you email contact@anadarchi.com, the information you choose to include is received to respond to your enquiry.

Cookies and local storage

The site uses a language-preference cookie named NEXT_LOCALE, which remembers for one year the last language in which a page was opened (your browser language alone does not create it), and local storage for walk drafts and the audience-measurement choice. Local storage is not a cookie. The site uses Google Analytics 4 audience measurement, subject to your consent: no Google script is loaded, no measurement cookie is set and nothing is sent to Google until you have accepted. Once accepted, measurement sets two cookies, _ga and _ga_<stream ID>, whose default lifetime is two years according to Google’s documentation (adjustable by the publisher). It records visits and four actions (starting a walk, opening a place card, clicking through to a map, continuing to another place); in the address sent, only the campaign parameters (utm_*) are kept. No advertising or ad personalisation is enabled (advertising storage permissions are denied by default and stay denied). You can withdraw your consent at any time from this page; measurement then stops immediately and this site’s _ga and _ga_* cookies are deleted. External maps/content may make requests to their provider when loaded; those requests may disclose technical data, including your IP address.

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Purposes and legal grounds

Draft storage lets you resume a walk on the device in use. The language cookie remembers a technical preference. Messages sent to the contact address are used to respond. Audience measurement (Google Analytics 4) shows which places and walks are read, so the site can be improved; it relies on your prior consent, which you can withdraw at any time.

Retention

Drafts and preferences stored in the browser remain until you delete or replace them; ANAD has no server-side retention period to state for those local data alone. Email enquiries are kept for as long as needed to handle the request, then deleted or archived where justified; no fixed period has yet been set. In Google Analytics, event-level data retention is set by the publisher to 14 months (a setting offered by Google). The _ga and _ga_* cookies last two years by default according to Google, unless you withdraw your consent. Technical hosting logs follow Vercel’s terms.

Your rights

Where the GDPR applies, you may request access, rectification or erasure, restriction of processing, object to certain processing and, where conditions are met, request portability or withdraw consent. You can send a request to contact@anadarchi.com. A reasonable identity check may be needed. Rights depend on the processing and are not absolute; you may also complain to the competent supervisory authority.

Recipients and transfers

Data may be processed by Vercel to provide hosting and by technical providers actually contacted by the site (including external map providers when loaded). If you accept audience measurement, measurement data is sent to Google: Google Ireland Limited for users in the European Economic Area and Switzerland, Google LLC (United States) for the United Kingdom, under Google’s terms (Google Measurement Controller-Controller Data Protection Terms); Google and Vercel may process data outside the European Economic Area; these transfers rely on the mechanisms provided by the GDPR (adequacy decision or standard contractual clauses), according to each provider’s commitments.

Security and incidents

This page does not claim that an audit has been carried out or that an incident-notification process is operational.

Contact and updates

For questions about this notice, email contact@anadarchi.com. This page is updated when the publisher, features or service providers change. Last updated: November 2026.