Privacy policy

Last updated: September 27, 2026.

This page explains what data The Offbeat Map receives from visitors, what it does with that data and how you can exercise your rights.

What the site collects today

The Offbeat Map has no sign-up and no login. You can read everything without giving a name, an email address or any other personal data. The only place where you hand us any data is the contact form, and only if you choose to use it.

Like any website, it runs on a server. Hosting is provided by Cloudflare, which logs technical data for each visit, such as IP address, browser type and the page requested. Those logs keep the site running and protected from abuse, and they are covered by Cloudflare’s own privacy policy.

To count visits, the site uses Cloudflare Web Analytics. It loads a small script from Cloudflare, does not use cookies and does not follow you across other sites. It only gives us totals, such as how many people read each page.

Article photos come from Unsplash, but they are resized and delivered from our own domain. Your browser does not connect to Unsplash when you open the site. Fonts are served by the site itself too.

Contact

The Contact page gives you our email address. If you write to us, we receive whatever you include in that email and use it only to read and answer your message. We keep messages for as long as they are useful for the conversation or for correcting an article. If you want yours deleted, just ask.

Cookies

The site sets no cookies of its own and no tracking cookies. Cloudflare, which protects the site from attacks, may use technical security cookies when needed. They are not used for advertising and do not follow you across other sites.

Ads and third-party cookies

The site may show Google AdSense ads. When it does, the following applies:

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website and other websites.
• Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and other sites on the internet.
• You can opt out of personalized advertising in Google Ads Settings. To learn more about how Google uses this data, see How Google uses cookies in advertising.
• Visitors from the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland will be asked for consent before advertising cookies are used.

This page will be updated on the day ads are switched on.

Your rights

Under Brazil’s General Data Protection Law (LGPD) and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you can ask to access, correct or delete personal data related to you. To do that, email theoffbeatmap@gmail.com or see the Contact page.

Changes to this policy

Whenever this policy changes, the date at the top of the page will be updated.