Privacy Policy

Who is responsible for your data

Off The Junction (offthejunction.co.uk) is an independent, one-person website. For the purposes of UK data protection law, the site owner is the data controller for the limited data described on this page.

You can reach us at hello@offthejunction.co.uk.

The short version

What is collected

Analytics

This site uses Google Analytics to understand how it is being used — which junctions people look up, which pages are slow, and whether anyone ever finds the thing they came for. This collects:

• your IP address (used by Google to approximate your location, typically to town or city level, and then discarded or shortened);
• device and browser information, such as screen size, operating system and browser version;
• behaviour on the site — pages viewed, time on page, what you clicked, and the site or search that sent you here.

This is used in aggregate. It is not used to try to work out who you are, and it is not combined with any other source to build a profile of you.

Advertising

This site carries advertising served through Google Ad Manager, and may serve Google AdSense advertising. Advertising is active on the site now. These services set cookies and similar identifiers in order to deliver adverts, measure whether they were seen, limit how often you are shown the same advert, and detect fraudulent clicks. Depending on your settings and location, advertising may be personalised based on your browsing.

What is not collected

• No accounts, logins or passwords — there is nothing to register for.
• No payment details. Nothing is sold through this site.
• No newsletter or mailing list.
• No contact forms. If you email us, we hold that email in order to reply to it, and nothing more.

Cookies

Cookies on this site fall into two categories:

• Analytics cookies — set by Google Analytics to measure site usage as described above.
• Advertising cookies — set by Google Ad Manager and AdSense to deliver and measure adverts.

You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings at any time. Blocking them will not stop the site working — junction pages and maps will behave normally. You can also control how Google personalises advertising to you at My Ad Center, and opt out of Google Analytics entirely using Google's browser add-on.

Third parties

The following third parties may receive data about your visit:

• Google Analytics — site usage measurement. Active.
• Google Ad Manager — advert delivery and measurement. Active.
• Google AdSense — advert delivery. Active or pending approval.
• Google Fonts — the site loads its typeface from Google's servers, which means your browser makes a request to Google when a page loads.
• Affiliate partners — planned, not yet active. We intend to add accommodation booking links (for example Booking.com and Travelodge) through affiliate networks such as CJ and Awin. These would set cookies to attribute a booking to this site. Nothing of this kind is running today, and this page will be updated before it is.

Each of these operates under its own privacy policy, which governs what they do with the data they receive.

Your rights under UK GDPR

You have the right to:

• ask what personal data is held about you, and get a copy of it;
• ask for inaccurate data to be corrected;
• ask for data to be deleted;
• object to processing, or ask that it be restricted;
• withdraw consent where processing relies on it.

In practice this site holds almost nothing that could identify you directly — there are no accounts and no records tied to a name. Most requests of this kind are better directed at Google, who hold the analytics and advertising data described above. We will help where we can, and will point you to the right place where we cannot.

If you are unhappy with how your data has been handled, you can complain to the UK's data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner's Office, at ico.org.uk.

We do not sell your personal data

Off The Junction does not sell, rent or trade personal data to anyone, and never has. The site is funded by advertising, which means adverts are displayed alongside content — not that information about you is sold to advertisers.

Changes to this policy

This page will be updated when what the site does changes — in particular before affiliate links go live. The date below always reflects the most recent revision.

Last updated: 14 August 2026