Privacy

We want to know which pages help people on Madeira, not who you are. Here is everything this site measures and stores.

What we measure without cookies

Our own counter. When you open a page or use a feature, such as playing a webcam, searching the map or filtering trails, your browser sends a short note to our server. We add it to a daily total, for example “Pico do Arieiro webcam: 214 plays on 12 November”. We store no IP address, no browser details and no identifier, and nothing is kept in your browser. Searches typed on the map or the trail page are stored as text in the same daily totals, so please don’t type personal details there.

Cloudflare Web Analytics. Our host counts page views, countries and loading speed without cookies and without tracking you across sites.

Microsoft Clarity, only if you allow it

Clarity shows us anonymous heatmaps and replays of how pages are used, so we can see where people get stuck. It loads only after you press Allow. Form fields and text you type are masked, and Clarity may set cookies to connect the pages of one visit. If you choose No thanks, Clarity is never loaded. Microsoft processes this data under its own privacy statement.

What we store in your browser

A language cookie, only when you pick a language, so the site opens in it next time.
My trip and your Clarity choice are saved in your browser’s local storage. They never leave your device.

Videos and maps

Webcam videos come from YouTube (privacy-enhanced mode) and Windy, and load only when you press play. The map loads tiles from OpenFreeMap and terrain from Amazon Web Services; directions open in Google Maps only if you ask for them.

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