Privacy

Richard's Foodie Maps does not ask you to create an account and does not collect personal details. The map loads tiles from OpenStreetMap, and video thumbnails load from YouTube, so those services receive your IP address in the normal way when your browser requests them. Clicking a review thumbnail loads the video in YouTube's embedded player on the page, so YouTube (Google) may receive your IP address and set cookies once you press play, under its own privacy policy.

YouTube API Services

Richard's Foodie Maps uses YouTube API Services to find public review videos and to show their title, channel and link. By using this site you are also agreeing to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service. YouTube is owned by Google, and its handling of your data is described in the Google Privacy Policy. We do not access any YouTube or Google account data, and we do not ask you to sign in. We store only public video information (video ID, title, channel, description and public view counts) and the review summaries we write ourselves.

Removal requests and deletion

If you own or appear in a venue, review or channel listed here and want it removed or corrected, email removal@foodiemap.org with the page address and what you would like changed. We will reply and act on genuine requests promptly. Because we do not ask for accounts or personal details, we hold no visitor profiles to delete; the only data we keep is the public video information and our own summaries described above, and we delete it for any video, channel or venue removed on request.

Website statistics

We count visits to this site, for statistics only, using our own counting tool. It sets no cookies and does not store your IP address. For each page view it records the page, the site you came from, any campaign label in the link you used, your country (approximate) and whether the visitor looks like a person or a robot. To count unique visitors it uses an identifier. We do not share this data with anyone except our hosting provider, which stores it on our behalf. We respect Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control. If you click "Don't count my visits" in the footer, we remember your choice in this browser with one small local-storage flag called na_ignore; our counter stores nothing else in your browser. Our lawful basis is our legitimate interest in understanding and improving our site.