Privacy Policy
Free Things to Do in Edinburgh is a directory, not a shop. There are no accounts to create and no forms to fill in, because the pages are meant to be read and then left. You arrive looking for a free afternoon in the Old Town or a pay-what-you-want ghost walk, you read the page, and you either go back to browsing or follow a link to a guide's GuruWalk page. Since nothing can be bought here, the site has almost nothing it could collect about you.
What This Site Records
Measurement on this site happens in aggregate only. The script records which pages get read, an approximate country, the type of device, and whether a GuruWalk link was followed. That last part is the useful signal: when someone moves from a page about Harry Potter walks to a guide's GuruWalk page, the click shows the page helped. Names, email addresses, card details and passport scans are never stored, for the simple reason that no page on this site ever requests them.
Cookies And Outside Content
Cookies here are few, and some belong to others. The measurement script drops a handful of its own. An embedded map showing where a Dean Village walk meets, for instance, loads from the map provider's servers, and anything that provider sets is governed by its policy, not this one. Embedded video works the same way. No part of this site follows a reader around the wider web.
Each walk link leads to the guide's own page on GuruWalk. Once you click through, GuruWalk may set its own cookie so a reservation can be connected to this site, which is how the site is paid without costing you or the guide anything extra. From that point onward you are on GuruWalk's terms rather than this site's. The disclosure page explains the referral arrangement in full.
What Never Happens
- Nothing personal is sold, shared, or handed to anyone, full stop.
- These pages carry no ad networks, no tracking pixels, and no retargeting cookies.
- Your email address is never asked for: no newsletter, no sign-up form, nothing to join.
- No money for any walk passes through this site. A spot on a tour is reserved on the guide's GuruWalk page, and GuruWalk sends the confirmation, so booking details never reach these pages at all.
- No form exists anywhere on the site. The contact page simply opens your own email program, so a message goes straight from you to the inbox without touching a server here.
Hosting
Like most websites, this one runs on a third-party host, and that host keeps standard server logs, IP addresses included, for routine security and abuse prevention. Those logs exist to keep the site online, not to profile anyone. Nobody queries them to identify a visitor, and no effort is made to link an IP address to the pages a person reads or the walks they compare.
Your Choices
Readers keep genuine control. An ad blocker, tracking protection or a Do Not Track setting prevents the measurement script from loading, and every page reads just the same without it. Disabling JavaScript costs you nothing except the mobile menu. If you would rather leave no footprint whatsoever, you can skip this site and find each of these Edinburgh walks on GuruWalk's own pages, since every guide featured here runs their tour there.
Anything unclear can be raised through the contact page. The disclosure details give the fuller picture of how this site earns money and stays independent.