Privacy Policy
Effective date: November 1, 2026
This policy describes what happens to information when you read rockpoolmousehole.co.uk, a blog about coastal travel, food and drink, and restaurants. The operator is the person or organisation that runs the site, and the words we and us mean the operator.
Visit logs
The servers that deliver our pages record routine details about each request. These can include your IP address, the time of the visit, the page asked for, your browser and device type, and the page that sent you here. We use them to keep the site working, to spot faults and misuse, and to see in broad terms whether readers prefer a seaside guide or a restaurant piece.
Cookies and similar tools
Pages here can store small files or use comparable browser storage. Some are essential for pages to load properly. Others, where switched on, count visits, remember a choice, support advertising, or note that a reader arrived at a booking or shopping site from one of our links so that any affiliate commission is credited to the right place.
When a cookie comes from an advertiser, a map provider or a video host, the company behind it decides how that cookie is used, not us.
Controlling cookies in your browser
You can block or delete cookies in your browser, browse privately, or add tools that reduce tracking. If your browser sends a do-not-track or similar privacy signal, we will honour it as an opt-out wherever the tools we use make that possible. Blocking certain cookies may stop some features from behaving as expected.
When you email us
If you write to [email protected], we receive your address and whatever you include, such as a note that a harbour cafe has closed. We use it to reply, to correct articles and to keep a record of the exchange. Your email is never sold, and if we wanted to quote your tip about a beach kiosk we would ask you first.
Newsletters and forms
If we offer a newsletter or a form, what you enter is used only for the purpose stated, such as sending the digest you requested. Every issue would carry a clear way to opt out, and an email to us asking to be taken off the list works just as well.
Outside services behind the pages
Putting travel and restaurant articles online relies on companies we do not run. These may include hosting and delivery networks, audience measurement, advertising and affiliate networks, and embedded content such as maps, videos or social posts about a restaurant or beach. To work at all, such a service may be sent technical details of your visit, and what it does with them is set by its own privacy notice.
How long information is kept
Visit logs are kept only for a limited time before they are erased or boiled down to figures that identify nobody. Emails are kept while they remain useful for answering you, correcting a page or meeting a legal duty, and are then deleted.
Asking about your data
Depending on where you live, you may be able to ask what personal information we hold about you, have it corrected or erased, object to certain uses, or withdraw consent you gave earlier. Email [email protected] with your request. Before acting we may need proof that the request really comes from you, and we will answer within the time the applicable law allows.
Younger readers
Because the site discusses restaurants, drinks and travel, it is aimed at adults and general readers, not at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect information from children, and if one has written to us, tell us and we will delete the message.
Keeping information safe
Pages are served over encrypted connections, and access to the mailbox is kept to the operator. No online storage or transfer is entirely free of risk, so we cannot guarantee complete protection.
Data moving between countries
Some providers behind a UK-focused food and travel blog may still handle data in other countries, where the rules may differ from those where you live. Reading the site means your visit data can be processed in those places.
Updates to this policy
This policy will be rewritten when the site adds new features, such as a newsletter or new advertising, or when the law requires it. The effective date above shows when this version began, and continuing to read the site after a change means you accept the updated version.
Complaints and consent
Where we rely on your consent, you can withdraw it at any time; this does not affect anything done before. The cookie policy page lists every cookie this site sets and explains how to change your choice. If you live in the EU, EEA or UK you can complain to your local data protection authority (in the UK, the Information Commissioner’s Office); in Australia, to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.