Who we are
Slow Passport — operated by Paul Armytage, based in the United Kingdom, is an independent travel content brand.
For general enquiries, privacy requests or concerns, email hello@slowpassporttravel.com.
Information used when you visit
Our website hosting receives technical information needed to send pages to your browser and keep the service reliable and secure. This can include your IP address, the time and requested page or file, browser/device information and request or error details. Hostinger provides our hosting, related delivery/security services and email service.
The website serves its own images, font and site scripts. Optional Google Analytics is loaded only if you accept analytics. We do not add advertising pixels, newsletters or contact forms. This does not remove the hosting provider's operational request and security records.
Purposes and lawful bases
| Use | Basis and purpose |
|---|---|
| Delivering pages and proportionate service/security diagnostics | Legitimate interests under UK GDPR Article 6(1)(f): making the travel-content website available, detecting faults and preventing misuse or unauthorised access. We limit our use of technical records to those purposes. |
| Answering ordinary enquiries | Legitimate interests under Article 6(1)(f): responding to messages people choose to send and managing the resulting correspondence. |
| Handling data-protection requests and complaints where the law requires us to act | Legal obligation under Article 6(1)(c), limited to information necessary to meet the relevant data-protection duty. |
| Initiating an optional embedded YouTube connection | Consent under Article 6(1)(a) for the optional connection initiated by this site when you choose to load the player. Google's handling of information through its services is explained in its own policy. |
| Optional website analytics | Consent: understanding page use, traffic sources and interest in approved Amazon and Viator recommendations only after your affirmative choice. |
You do not have to email us or load an embedded video to read the website. If you contact us, we use your email address, any name you provide and the contents of your message to deal with it. Please avoid sending unnecessary sensitive information. We may need limited additional information to identify the relevant records or handle a privacy request properly.
Optional Google Analytics
If you accept analytics, Slow Passport uses the existing Google Analytics 4 service to understand page visits, useful content, traffic sources and interest in our approved Amazon and Viator recommendations. Google receives usage information such as the public page and title, browser/device information and validated campaign information. It also processes connection information, including your IP address. We do not use this setup for personalised advertising, remarketing or Google signals.
We load the Google Analytics tag only after an affirmative analytics choice. Before you choose, or if you reject, we do not load that tag or send analytics measurements, including denied-consent pings. Reading the guides, watching films and following booking links do not require you to accept website analytics.
Your choice: the local preference records only the choice, its version and expiry. We remember either acceptance or rejection for up to 180 days in this browser, after which analytics stays off until you choose again. If you accepted the earlier page-visit-only purpose, we ask you to choose again before the updated analytics starts. Existing rejections remain respected for their original expiry. If the preference cannot be read or safely stored, analytics remains off.
Analytics cookies: if you accept, Google Analytics may create first-party session cookies for this website to distinguish browsers and maintain session state. We configure these as host-only cookies at this website’s root path, with no fixed long-lived expiry. Your browser controls when its session ends and may restore a previous session.
Change or withdraw: use Analytics preferences at the foot of any page, then choose Withdraw analytics consent. This implementation stops further collection, remembers rejection, removes the first-party analytics cookies it created and reloads a clean page without the analytics tag. Other open pages on this same website respond to the updated preference. Withdrawal cannot recall an already sent or in-flight request and does not itself erase information Google has already received.
We limit the page address sent to Google to a known public route and four validated campaign fields. Arbitrary query strings and fragments are excluded; referrer information is limited to an external origin or a known internal route. If you accept optional analytics, we also record when you choose one of our approved Amazon or Viator recommendation buttons. Alongside the existing page and traffic-source information, Google receives the provider, public product reference and the guide or equipment-card label. We do not add the full booking link or personal information to this event. This records interest, not a completed purchase, booking or commission. Rejecting or withdrawing analytics consent stops this measurement. Amazon and Viator handle visits to their own services under their own privacy notices. We do not add custom film-playback, purchase or booking events. A page view is not proof that a film was watched or an experience booked.
User- and event-level data retention is set to two months, with reset on new user activity switched off. Most aggregated standard reports are not governed by that setting. Google also applies its own processing, security and legal requirements. Google may process information internationally; the Google privacy and transfer information linked below explains its processing and applicable safeguards. For privacy questions or requests about previously collected information, email hello@slowpassporttravel.com.
Your choice to load YouTube
A player is added only when you choose Load YouTube player. We use the privacy-enhanced youtube-nocookie.com embed and do not request autoplay. Loading it connects your browser to YouTube and related Google services, which may receive IP, browser/device and viewing information and use cookies or similar technologies. Privacy-enhanced mode limits personalisation; it does not mean no information is processed.
You can leave the player unloaded and use the direct YouTube link instead. Remove player removes the embedded player from this page; you can also withdraw permission for us to initiate future player loads by leaving it unloaded. Removal does not erase information already received by Google or automatically clear its cookies/storage. On YouTube itself, Google's policies apply.
Read Google's privacy policy and YouTube's privacy-enhanced embed information.
Providers and international processing
Information needed for hosting, email and service/security delivery is handled by Hostinger and the relevant infrastructure, network/security and email service providers it uses. Google/YouTube receives information if you load a player or follow a link to its service. Google also receives the analytics information described above if you accept optional website analytics. Email delivery also involves the providers used to send and receive your message.
These providers operate internationally, so information may be processed outside the United Kingdom. Hostinger's privacy policy describes its processing locations and recipients, while its Data Processing Addendum sets out contractual protections, including standard contractual clauses and the UK transfer addendum where applicable. Google's transfer information describes its use of adequacy arrangements, the UK Extension to the Data Privacy Framework and standard contractual clauses, as applicable. Contact us for further information about relevant transfers or how to obtain applicable safeguards. Being UK-based is not a promise that all provider processing stays in the UK.
How long information is kept
We use the following criteria rather than one period for every record:
- Technical and security records: the time needed to keep the service working, diagnose a fault, investigate a specific incident or misuse, and complete necessary follow-up or a legal requirement. An unresolved incident may need a record longer than routine operation.
- Ordinary correspondence: until the enquiry is resolved, plus any reasonably necessary follow-up or dispute handling. We avoid keeping unnecessary extra information from messages.
- Privacy requests and complaints: the record needed to show what was requested and how it was handled, and to meet applicable obligations or deal with related complaints or claims. This does not require retaining unrelated material indefinitely.
These criteria apply to copies we control. Provider-managed operational, security and backup records are also subject to their service and legal retention criteria; we cannot promise immediate removal from every provider system. We review information under our control and remove or anonymise it when it is no longer needed for the relevant purpose. You can ask us about information relevant to you.
Your rights and concerns
Depending on the processing and the applicable conditions, you can ask for access to your personal information, correction, erasure, restriction or a portable copy.
You can object to processing based on legitimate interests. Contact hello@slowpassporttravel.com and explain the relevant circumstances so we can consider your request.
Where we rely on consent, you can withdraw it without affecting the lawfulness of earlier processing. The video controls above explain how to stop this site's optional player loads. For optional analytics, use Analytics preferences at the foot of any page. You can contact us about other information we hold.
You can raise a concern with us and complain to the Information Commissioner's Office. Information about your rights is available from the ICO.
Viator booking links
Our travel guides identify their Viator booking options as affiliate links. These ordinary links carry Slow Passport’s partner ID and a campaign label. We do not install Viator widgets, advertising pixels or Viator tracking scripts on these pages. Our own optional, consented recommendation-click measurement is explained in Optional Google Analytics above.
If you choose to follow a Viator link, your browser connects to Viator. Viator may receive technical information such as your IP address and browser details, and use cookies or similar technologies to operate its service and attribute eligible bookings. Its own privacy notice explains this processing. Read Viator’s privacy notice before using its booking service.
Amazon equipment links
The My filming kit page labels its Amazon purchase links as affiliate links. These ordinary links carry Slow Passport’s Amazon Associates ID. We do not add Amazon widgets, advertising pixels or Amazon tracking scripts to this site. Our own optional, consented recommendation-click measurement is explained in Optional Google Analytics above.
If you follow an Amazon link, your browser connects to Amazon. Amazon may receive technical information, including your IP address and browser details, and use cookies or similar technologies to operate its service and attribute eligible purchases. Read Amazon’s privacy notice for its processing.
External links and changes
External services have their own privacy practices. YouTube comments may be public; please use email for a private request. We will review this notice if we add services or change how information is handled.