Privacy
This page is short because the site does very little. It counts visits and nothing else: no advertising, no profiling, no cookies, and nothing that follows you to another website. Most of what a privacy policy normally has to confess does not happen here.
Who is responsible
The controller for the purposes of the UK and EU General Data Protection Regulation is:
Pilgrim Compass
Kardinala Stepinca 55
88266 Međugorje
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Email: info@pilgrimcompass.com
What the site itself collects
No cookies are set by this site, by us or by the visit counter described below. Nothing is stored in your browser, and there is no consent banner because there is nothing to consent to.
The pages are served from a web host that keeps standard server logs — IP address, the page requested, time, browser string — for a short period, to deliver the site and to defend it against abuse. That is the legitimate interest basis under Article 6(1)(f). We do not read those logs to build a picture of any individual and could not do so usefully.
The visit counter
We use Umami, which we run on our own server rather than renting from a company whose business is the data. It records the page you landed on, the site you came from if any, your country, your browser and your screen size — and how quickly the page loaded, which is how we know whether it is fast enough on a bad connection.
It does not store your IP address, sets no cookies, and cannot recognise you on a return visit or on any other website. There is no profile, because there is nothing to build one from. The basis is again legitimate interest under Article 6(1)(f): we need to know whether anybody is reading this, and this is the least we could collect to find out.
If you would rather not be counted at all, any tracker blocker will stop it, and nothing on the site breaks when it does — the page has no JavaScript that it needs in order to work.
What happens when you follow a link to a booking site
Some links here are affiliate links, explained in full inhow we make money. When you follow one, the company at the other end — Booking.com, for example — sets its own cookie so it can tell that you arrived from us and pay a commission if you book.
That cookie is theirs, not ours, set on their site under their privacy policy, and we never see who you are. What we receive later is a count: how many bookings came from a given page of this site. There is no name, no email and no address in it.
The identifier we attach to a link records which page and which position on it you clicked — for examplewhere-to-stay_comparison-table. It says nothing about you.
If you email us
We keep the correspondence so we can answer it and, where you have told us something is wrong on the site, so we can record what was checked and when. Corrections may be credited by first name, and only if you agree to it.
What we do not do
- No analytics, first or third party.
- No advertising, retargeting or audience pixels.
- No newsletter or list unless you deliberately sign up for one.
- No selling, renting or sharing of anything, to anyone, ever.
- No embedded social widgets, comment systems or fonts fetched from third parties.
Your rights
Under the GDPR you may ask for a copy of any personal data we hold, ask for it to be corrected or deleted, object to processing, or complain to your national supervisory authority. In practice the only personal data we are likely to hold about you is an email you sent us.
Write to info@pilgrimcompass.com and we will answer within a month.
Changes
If this policy changes materially we will say so on this page with the date, in the same way we date every other fact on this site.