Your privacy, in plain English.

The short version

We collect as little as possible. There are no adverts, no tracking cookies and no accounts. We never sell or share your details.

Our forms (contact, destination suggestions and the newsletter) are for grown-ups. If you’re under 13, please ask a parent, carer or teacher to fill them in for you.

Things that stay in your own browser

Your time-travel passport stamps, the name you type on your certificate, the destination you voted for, and a random ID that lets your browser vote once are saved in your browser’s local storage. They are not cookies, and they never leave your device except for the random voting ID (see below). You can clear them at any time from the passport (“Start again”) or by clearing your browser’s site data.

Where Next? votes

When you vote, we receive the destination you picked and the random voting ID created by your browser. We store these on Cloudflare so each browser counts once, and only for as long as that round of voting is open. To stop people spamming the vote, your IP address is briefly checked in a scrambled (hashed) form and automatically deleted within a minute. We can’t use any of this to work out who you are.

Contact form and destination suggestions

If you send us a telegram or a destination idea, we receive your name, email address and message. They are delivered to our inbox by our email provider, Resend, and used only to read and reply to you. We delete messages we no longer need, and you can ask us to delete yours at any time.

The postcard newsletter

If you sign up, we first send a confirmation email. Your address is only added to our list (held by Resend) after you click the link. We email you when a new episode or new classroom resources are out, and every email has an unsubscribe link. If you don’t confirm, your address is not added.

YouTube videos

Our videos are hosted on YouTube. Nothing loads from YouTube until you press play. We use YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com), but once a video is playing, YouTube’s own privacy policy applies.

Hosting

The website is hosted by Cloudflare, which processes basic technical information (like IP addresses) to deliver pages and keep the site secure. If we turn on visitor statistics, we will only use Cloudflare’s cookie-free Web Analytics, which doesn’t track individuals.

Your rights

You can ask to see, correct or delete any personal information we hold about you by emailing vlogginghistorywithmiles@gmail.com. If you’re in the UK and unhappy with how we’ve handled your information, you can also contact the Information Commissioner’s Office (ico.org.uk).