The small print
Privacy
What this site knows about you. The short version is: almost nothing.
- No accounts, no cookies, no tracking
- There is nothing to sign up for. The site sets no cookies, runs no analytics and shows no ads, so there is no profile of you here to keep or sell.
- If you send a postcard
- We keep the photo, the line you wrote and the name you gave, and once a person has approved it they are shown publicly on the site. Before the photo is stored, the location and camera details hidden inside the file are removed. Until it is approved, nobody outside the site's team can see it. To have a postcard taken down, use the suggestion box and say which one.
- If you send us a suggestion
- We keep what you wrote, the page you were on, and a contact only if you chose to give one. It is read by the people who run the site and shown to nobody else. To stop a flood of spam, the server briefly remembers the address a note came from; that is not stored with the note.
- If you ask Ask Bombay a question
- Your question is sent, with the site's guide, to an AI service (Google's Gemini, or Groq when Gemini is busy) to be answered. We do not store it, and it is not sent with your name or address. Those companies handle it under their own terms, so leave out anything personal.
- The weather is fetched by us, not by you
- The live readings come from Open-Meteo. Our server asks for them and passes them on, so Open-Meteo never sees your device or your address.
- The sound never leaves your phone
- The sea and rain you hear are generated inside your browser. Nothing is recorded, and the site never asks for your microphone, camera or location.
- What a web server always sees
- Like any website, the server that delivers these pages receives your IP address and browser type in order to answer you, and the hosting provider may keep those logs for a limited time. We do not use them to identify anyone.
- Links that leave the site
- Photo credits link to Wikimedia Commons and the licence pages, and every place in the guide has a link that opens Google Maps. Once you follow one, that site's own privacy policy applies.