Disclosures

Short version: if something was free or paid for, it says so at the top of the post, and the opinion is mine either way.

Gifted and comped

Occasionally a restaurant, venue or publisher offers a meal, a ticket or a book at no cost. Where that happens the post carries a clear label (gifted, press ticket or ARC) in the first few lines. Accepting an invitation is never a promise of a positive review, and a place that disappoints is written about as it was.

Paid partnerships

Any post that has been paid for is labelled ad or paid partnership at the very top, in line with the UK ASA and CAP Code guidance. Paid posts are rare and only run for things I would have written about anyway.

Affiliate links

Some book and travel links may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Where a post contains them it is stated up front. Commission never determines what gets recommended.

Corrections

If something here is wrong (a price, a date, a name), send a note through the contact form and it will be corrected, with a note on the post explaining what changed.

Your data

This site sets no advertising cookies and shows no ads. Google Analytics runs only if you accept it in the banner, and no analytics cookie is set and no usage data is sent until you do. If you accept, Google receives the page you looked at, roughly where in the world you are, and a random identifier stored in a cookie. If you reject, no cookie is set and no usage data is sent, and the journal works exactly the same. You can change your mind at any time using the Cookie settings link in the footer of any page.

One thing happens regardless of your choice, and it is fair that you know: the typefaces used here are served by Google Fonts, so your browser requests them from Google on every page and Google sees your IP address in doing so. No cookie is involved and it is not analytics, but it is a request to Google. Moving those fonts onto this site’s own server is on the list.

Apart from that, the only thing kept in your browser is the last weather reading for the masthead, so it is not re-fetched on every page, and it never leaves your device. The contact and comment forms send what you type straight to Liv’s inbox and nowhere else, and their contents are never sent to Google. Live weather in the masthead is fetched from Open-Meteo, which receives only the coordinates of Leeds city centre, never yours.

Photography

Unless credited otherwise, every photograph on this site was taken by Liv. Reuse with a credit and a link back is fine; reuse without is not.