Privacy policy

• No accounts, no logins, no forms, no comments and no newsletter.
• The Plug Finder saves your last country in your own browser. Your browser never sends it to us.
• We use Google Analytics to count visits, and it sets cookies.
• Our host, Cloudflare, sees basic details of each visit so it can send you the page.
• When you click a "Check price" button, Amazon sets its own cookies to credit the sale to us.
• We don't sell personal information.

Heading To runs the website at headingto.com.au. In this policy, "we", "us" and "our" mean Heading To. We write the site for Australian readers.

We see very little personal information, and this page lists all of it.

When you pick a country in the Plug Finder, your browser remembers it, so the Plug Finder can show it next time. It saves the country in your browser's local storage, under the name ht-dest. It saves nothing else.

This stays on your own phone or computer. Your browser never sends it to us, and we can't see it. To remove it, clear this site's data in your browser settings. A private or incognito window forgets it when you close the window.

Heading To doesn't set any cookies of its own. Three things can still store data in your browser:

• Google Analytics sets cookies to count visits, as the analytics row explains.
• Our host, Cloudflare, may set a cookie to block attacks and bad traffic.
• Amazon sets its own cookies once you click through to it, as the Amazon row below explains.

You can block or clear cookies in your browser, and the site still works if you do.

We use Google Analytics to count visits, loaded through Google Tag Manager. It runs only on headingto.com.au itself, and never on preview copies of the site.

Google Analytics records the pages you view and how you reached them. It also records your device, your browser and a rough location, down to about the city. It uses cookies to tell a new visit from a return one. Google says it works out your rough location from your IP address and then drops the IP address.

We use these reports to see which pages help people and which need work. We don't use them to find out who you are, and we don't use them for advertising.

Google handles the data under its own privacy policy. To stop Google Analytics on every site, you can block cookies or install Google's opt-out add-on.

Site search runs in your browser. As you type, your browser downloads small parts of the search index from our host, but the words you type stay on your device. If you open a search link with words in the page address, our host sees that address like any other.

Cloudflare hosts Heading To and delivers its pages. To do that, Cloudflare handles basic details about each visit, such as your IP address, the page you asked for, the time and your browser type. Cloudflare uses them to send you the page and to block attacks. It keeps them under its own privacy policy.

Our "Check price" short links also run on Cloudflare, so Cloudflare handles the same basic details when you click one.

Cloudflare shows us totals, such as visits per day and visits by country. Its security tools can show us the IP address of a visit they blocked. We use these only to keep the site running and safe, not to work out who you are.

Our fonts and our search come from our own site, not from an outside service.

Our "Check price" buttons take you to Amazon Australia through a short link on our site, which adds our Amazon Associates tag. We don't keep a record of who clicks.

Once you reach Amazon, Amazon sets its own cookies so it can credit a purchase to us. Amazon's own privacy notice covers those cookies, and it covers what you do on Amazon too. Amazon's reports show us which products sold, but not who bought them.

Where a guide shows a product photo, that photo loads from Amazon's servers. So Amazon can see that your browser asked for it, as with any image on the web.

If you email us at [email protected], we get your email address and whatever you wrote, and we use them only to reply to you. We keep your email and our reply as a record of what we said.

Please don't send us passport details, booking numbers or other private details. We don't need them to answer a question about gear or rules.

We don't run a mailing list, and we don't send marketing emails or messages. We don't sell personal information or share it for advertising.

Cloudflare and Google are based in the United States and run servers around the world, so data about your visit may leave Australia. Amazon Australia belongs to a group based in the United States.

The privacy laws in those countries may differ from Australia's. Each company handles data under its own policy and the laws where it works.

Every page on Heading To loads over a secure, encrypted connection. We hold almost no personal information, which is the best protection we can give it. We also keep the accounts that run the site locked down.

If a data breach is likely to cause you serious harm, we'll tell you.

You can use the whole site with cookies blocked. You can also clear the Plug Finder's saved country at any time. You never have to tell us who you are to use Heading To.

You can ask us what we hold about you, and ask us to correct it or delete it. Email us at [email protected], and we'll reply within a reasonable time at no charge. If we can't do what you ask, we'll tell you why. Unless you've emailed us, we almost certainly hold nothing that names you.

If you think we've mishandled your data, please email us and we'll try to put it right.

We write Heading To for adults. It isn't aimed at children, and we don't knowingly collect data from them. If a child has sent us personal details, ask us and we'll delete them.

If this policy changes, we'll post the new version here and change the date at the top.