Last updated: 22 September 2026
This policy explains what information is collected when you visit Metal Detecting Guide (metaldetectingguide.co.uk), and how it’s used. The short version: we don’t run analytics, we don’t set cookies, and we don’t collect any personal information through the site.
Who we are
Metal Detecting Guide is an independent website publishing information about metal detecting in the UK. For any privacy question, email [email protected].
Information we collect
We don’t collect personal information through this site. There are no forms, accounts, comments or newsletter sign-ups, and we don’t use analytics, advertising or tracking scripts.
Hosting. The site is hosted by Cloudflare. Like any web host, Cloudflare processes technical information such as your IP address and browser type in order to deliver pages to you and protect the site against attacks. This is handled under Cloudflare’s privacy policy. We don’t use this information to identify you.
Emails you send us. If you email us, we’ll use your email address and message only to reply to you, and we won’t share them with anyone else. We delete correspondence when it’s no longer needed.
Cookies
This site doesn’t set any cookies of its own.
Affiliate links
Some links on this site are Amazon affiliate links. If you click one, you leave this site and Amazon’s own cookies and privacy policy apply, including cookies that tell Amazon the visit came from us so we can earn a commission. We only ever see aggregated sales reports from Amazon, never who you are or what you bought. See our affiliate disclosure for more.
Fonts
Pages load fonts from Google Fonts, which means your browser connects to Google’s servers to download them. Google receives your IP address as part of that request, under Google’s privacy policy.
Your rights
Under UK data protection law you have the right to ask what personal data we hold about you, and to have it corrected or deleted. In practice the only personal data we could hold is an email you’ve sent us. To make a request, email [email protected]. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ico.org.uk).
Changes to this policy
If what the site collects changes, for example if we add analytics, we’ll update this page and the date at the top.