Privacy

Last updated: 23 August 2026.

The short version

• There are no ads and no advertising networks, so you are not profiled to sell you anything.
• There is nothing to sign up for: no user accounts are requested or stored.
• Traffic is measured in aggregate, to see which pages help and which do not.
• Whatever you save to «My trip» never leaves your browser.
• No data is sold or handed to anyone for commercial purposes.

Who is responsible

santiago.es is a personal editorial project by Cesar Rodriguez, based in Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain). For anything to do with this policy or with your data: rasekrodriguez9@gmail.com.

Usage analytics

The site uses PostHog to count visits and see which pages get read. Events are sent through a subdomain of this site (e.santiago.es) and processed on PostHog servers in the United States. What is collected is browsing data: page visited, referrer, language, device type and browser, approximate country and city derived from the IP address, and a few specific interactions —a search, a page saved to «My trip», a shared plan, a Camino calculator used. JavaScript errors that happen on the page are also recorded, so they can be fixed.

PostHog stores an anonymous identifier in your browser (a cookie and local storage) for the sole purpose of not counting the same visit twice. It is not linked to any account and is not used for advertising. Analytics only loads after the page has finished loading, and if you block it the site works exactly the same.

What stays in your browser

Pages you keep with the «Save» button, and the «My trip» list, are stored in your browser's localStorage. They are never sent to a server: clear your browser data or switch device and they are gone. Interface preferences work the same way.

Newsletter

The newsletter form sends your email address to Buttondown, the provider that handles the mailings (servers in the United States). It is used only to send you the weekly email, and every issue carries an unsubscribe link that works first time. It is not shared with anyone else.

Third parties involved

• Vercel — hosting. Like any web server, it processes requests and logs technical data, including the IP address, in order to serve pages and protect them from abuse.
• PostHog — analytics, as described above.
• CARTO and OpenStreetMap — only on pages with a map (the Camino map): your browser requests the map tiles from them, and those requests include your IP address.
• Buttondown — only if you submit the newsletter form.

The site's typefaces are served from this domain: there are no requests to Google Fonts or any other font network. Outbound links to official sites, businesses or webcams lead to places with their own policies, over which santiago.es has no control.

Emails you send

If you write to the contact address, your message and address stay in that inbox (Gmail) for as long as it takes to reply and to keep a record of the correction you suggested. Your address is not added to any mailing list unless you ask.

Your rights

You can request access to, correction of or deletion of your data, and object to its processing, by writing to rasekrodriguez9@gmail.com. In the case of analytics the data is anonymous and aggregated, so the most effective way to stay out of it is to block the script in your browser or with an extension. If you believe your data has been handled improperly, you can complain to the Spanish Data Protection Agency (aepd.es).