The paperwork: privacy and terms, kept short
Paperwork nobody reads protects nobody. This is short enough to actually read.
Privacy
No accounts, no comments, no email pop-ups. One analytics property (GA4) counts visits and shows us which guides earn their tape; decline it and the bench works identically. Email us and the address is used to reply, then left alone.
What ends up on that tape: Google Analytics 4, supplied by Google LLC (with Google Ireland Ltd. standing in for EEA and UK listeners), notes the pages viewed, the referrer, an approximate city- or country-level location, device and browser type, and session timing. IP addresses are neither logged nor stored. Ad personalisation, advertising features and Google signals are all cut from the reel — the analytics data never goes toward ads and is never sold. Google’s handling is spelled out in its privacy policy.
Two cookies, _ga and _ga_<ID>, can last up to 2 years. Neither is laid down until analytics is allowed, and both are erased if you decline later. Listeners in Europe — the EEA, UK and Switzerland, read off your device’s time zone — are asked before anything rolls: no Accept, nothing sent to Google. Elsewhere it records by default and you can stop it any time. Global Privacy Control from your browser counts as an opt-out unless you choose Accept. The choice is stored in your browser’s local storage, not a cookie; re-mark your analytics choice whenever you like, or fit Google’s opt-out add-on to keep GA off every site.
Terms
The guides are working notes, not guarantees: rooms differ, voices differ, and vendors rename menus without calling us. Worksheet numbers are arithmetic on list prices as of the printed date (July 30, 2026) and the stated assumptions — re-run the division for your cadence before budgeting. Where a page and a vendor’s current pricing disagree, the vendor’s page wins and ours owes a dated fix.
Affiliate links
Links through /go/ may pay us a commission at no cost to you — labelled on every tin, itemized in the sponsor note, which is part of these terms. Quote the bench with a link; wholesale reprints aren’t quoting.