Privacy Notice
Privacy Policy for routefinder.cc
Last updated: October 2025
1. Introduction
This privacy notice explains how Lewis Burgess, the operator of https://routefinder.cc ("we", "us", "our"), collects, uses, and protects your personal information when you visit our website.
We are the data controller for the information collected via this website and are committed to protecting your privacy in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.
2. What Information We Collect
We collect the following types of personal information:
Information you provide: When you use our contact form, we collect your name, email address, and any message you send us. We use this information solely to respond to your enquiry.
Information collected automatically: Like most websites, we use cookies. This includes essential cookies for site functionality and third-party cookies for analytics and advertising.
3. Google AdSense & Advertising Cookies
We use Google AdSense to display advertisements on our website.
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies (such as the DoubleClick DART cookie) to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve personalised ads to you based on your visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.
This may involve collecting data about your IP address, browser type, and browsing behaviour.
How to Opt-Out of Personalised Ads: You can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google's Ad Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalised advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info/choices.
4. How We Use Your Data and Our Legal Basis
We use your information for the following purposes:
To respond to your enquiries: We use your Name, Email, and Message (from the contact form) for this purpose. Our Legal Basis (UK GDPR) for this is Legitimate Interest (to respond to your request).
To serve personalised advertising: We use Cookies, IP address, and Browsing data for this purpose. Our Legal Basis (UK GDPR) for this is Consent (which you provide via our cookie consent banner).
5. Your Data Protection Rights (UK GDPR)
As a UK resident, you have the following rights over your personal data
The right to access: You can request copies of your personal data.
The right to rectification: You can request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate.
The right to erasure: You can request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing: You can request that we restrict the processing of your data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing: You can object to our processing of your data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability: You can request that we transfer the data we have collected to another organisation, or directly to you.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
6. Data Security
We take reasonable steps to protect the personal information you provide to us. However, no internet transmission is ever completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your data.
7. How to Complain
If you are unhappy with how we have used your data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the UK's data protection regulator:
Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF Website: https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/
8. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this policy from time to time. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page will indicate the latest revision.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our data practices, please contact us.