Privacy Policy

Nothing on this site asks who you are. Its whole job is comparison: putting Madrid's pay-what-you-want walks side by side, from the Austrias routes past Plaza Mayor to Civil War walks, ghost tours and tapas routes, alongside notes on museum free-entry hours and open spaces like Retiro. There is no account, no login, no form anywhere. Looking up where the Literary Quarter walk starts, or which dusk tour reaches the Arab wall and the Temple of Debod, leaves no trace that identifies anyone.

What This Site Collects

Data collection here is deliberately thin. A small script counts page views, an approximate country, the browser family, and clicks on the outbound links to GuruWalk and freetour.com. Those exit clicks earn their keep: they show whether a write-up on the Haunted Madrid walk or the Civil War tour actually moved someone to reserve a spot. That is the entire picture. There are no accounts, no mailing list and no payments handled here, so no name, email address or billing detail ever sits on this site's servers.

Cookies, Maps And Outside Services

Cookies here stay minimal, and the ones that matter are not set by this site. The measurement script drops one or two. A map embedded to mark a walk's meeting point loads from the provider's own servers, and anything that provider sets answers to its policy, not this one. The same goes for embedded video. Nothing on these pages follows a reader across the wider web or builds a profile out of their reading.

Few cookies load here, and the ones with any real effect belong to other companies, not to this site. Every one of the 21 pay-what-you-want walks points to a reservation listing on GuruWalk or freetour.com, and those platforms may record a referral marker once a reader clicks through. Such links are how the site earns, and they never raise what a free tour costs: the guide is tipped at the end, nothing more. The disclosure page covers the details.

What Stays Off These Pages

• No personal detail gets sold, shared or passed to any third party.
• No advertising networks, pixels or social buttons load anywhere on these pages.
• Email addresses are never collected: no newsletter, no sign-up box, no membership exists here.
• Nothing is booked here and no payment passes through these pages. Pick the Haunted Madrid walk or the tapas and markets tour, and the reservation still happens on the operator's listing at GuruWalk or freetour.com, with any confirmation email sent by that platform alone.
• No form exists anywhere on these pages. The contact page opens your own email program instead, so a message never passes through this site and lands directly in an inbox.

Hosting

This site runs on ordinary commercial hosting, whose provider keeps the standard server logs every website keeps: request times, page paths and IP addresses. Those logs exist to keep the pages reachable and to block abuse. Nobody combs them for reader profiles, and no attempt is made to link an address to whichever walk description, museum free-entry note or park page was open at the time.

Your Choices

Anyone uneasy about even that minimal script can switch it off. A tracking blocker, a private browsing window or a browser's built-in protection will stop it loading, and nothing breaks: the walk comparisons, the notes on the Templo de Debod booking requirement and the Real Jardín Botánico's free Tuesday hours, and the neighbourhood write-ups all render as normal. Turning JavaScript off entirely only affects the mobile menu. Readers who would rather skip this site altogether can go straight to the platforms, since every operator covered here, from Tourstilla to independent guides like David, lists on GuruWalk or freetour.com.

Questions about any of the above can go via the contact page. For the full account of how the site earns money, and what that money never buys anyone, read the disclosure details.