This explains what Manche Hound keeps about you, why, who helps us run it, and your rights. We keep as little as we can: you can use the guide, save places and make lists without giving us your name or email.

Who is responsible

Manche Hound is run by 2 Magpies SEO Limited, a company registered in England and Wales (number 08354155), registered office Grosvenor House, 3 Chapel Street, Congleton, Cheshire, CW12 4AB, United Kingdom. Contact: hello@manchehound.com.

2 Magpies SEO Limited is the controller of your personal data under the UK GDPR and, for visitors in the European Union, the EU GDPR.

What we keep, and why

• Without an account. Your device gets a random device number. If you save a place or make a list, we keep that number with your saves so they are not lost, and so we can count how many people want to go somewhere. It carries no name. Why: to provide the service you asked for (contract).
• Your settings (dogs' names and sizes, trip dates, language, cards you skipped) stay on your device. If you sign in we copy them to your account so they follow you to a new device. Why: contract.
• Where you are. If you tap "Use my location", your device works out distances. Your position is not sent to us. When you check in, we only send whether you were more than 3 km from the place, so a check-in from far away can be held back. Why: contract, and our legitimate interest in honest check-ins.
• An account: your email address, and your Google account ID if you sign in with Google. Why: contract.
• Check-ins: the place, season, your answers, your note, and whether you asked us to keep the note private. Shared notes are shown to other people with the month and, if you have given one, your first name. Why: contract.
• Checking notes. Before a shared note is shown, its text (without your name or email) is checked automatically by an AI service (Anthropic) to keep out abuse and personal details. A note it declines stays visible only to you. Why: legitimate interest in keeping the guide safe.
• Corrections you send about a place, with your device number. Why: legitimate interest in accurate rules.
• Tips emails, only if you tick the box. You can turn them off in Settings or from any email. Why: consent.
• Proof of your choices. When you answer the cookie question or turn tips emails on or off, we record the answer, the date, the wording version, your device number and a scrambled form of your IP address that cannot be turned back into it. Why: legal obligation to show consent.
• Server logs: our host briefly keeps IP addresses and pages requested to keep the service secure and working. Why: legitimate interest.
• Visit statistics (Google Analytics), only if you say yes to cookies. Why: consent. See the cookie policy.

We do not sell your data, show advertising, or build advertising profiles.

Who helps us run it

These companies process data for us under contract, only on our instructions:

• Vercel Inc. (USA): hosting. Our server functions run in Frankfurt.
• Neon Inc.: our database, stored in Frankfurt.
• Twilio SendGrid: sends sign-in and tips emails from its EU region.
• Google: only if you choose "Sign in with Google", or say yes to visit statistics.
• Anthropic PBC (USA): automatic checking of shared check-in notes.
• Cloudflare Inc.: delivers place photos.
• OpenStreetMap Foundation (UK): map tiles. Your browser fetches them directly, so it sees your IP address.

Where data goes to the USA, it is protected by the UK and EU adequacy decisions for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or by standard contractual clauses. The UK has an EU adequacy decision, so EU data can come to us in the UK.

How long we keep it

• Your account, saves and check-ins: until you ask us to delete them.
• Saves made without an account: until you clear them, or 2 years after the device was last seen.
• Sign-in links: they expire after 20 minutes. Sessions last up to a year unless you sign out.
• Records of consent: for as long as we use the data they cover, plus 3 years.
• Server logs: usually a few days at our host.

Your rights

You can ask to see, correct, delete or take a copy of your data, object to what we do on legitimate interests, and withdraw consent at any time (it does not undo what came before). Email hello@manchehound.com. We reply within one month.

"Clear everything on this device" in Settings removes what is on your device and signs you out. To delete your account and check-ins from our servers, email us.

You can complain to the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk) or to the data protection authority where you live, for example the CNIL in France, the BfDI or your Land authority in Germany, or the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens in the Netherlands. We'd like the chance to sort it out first.

Age

Accounts are for people aged 16 and over.

Changes

If we change this policy we update the date below, and ask again where your consent is needed.

Last updated 10 November 2026. The English text is the binding version.