This page explains what happens on www.londonwildbirdwatch.co.uk when a page loads, when a search engine sends a visitor here, and when a link to another site is followed. It covers only the mechanisms that were verified when this site was built.
What Gets Counted When a Search Visit Arrives
The site records a small amount of visit data, but only for visits that arrive from a search engine: the page path, the type of event, the name of the referring search engine, and the text of any outbound button that gets clicked. This is sent to an edge analytics endpoint and stored in the operator's own logs on the same domain, alongside the country the hosting network reports for the request. Nothing more precise about location is collected. The purpose is limited to counting page views and outbound clicks; the data is not used for anything else. A session view flag in the browser makes sure a single page view is only counted once. A first-party cookie is set only on a search-engine visit, holds nothing but the name of that search engine, and expires within an hour; it exists solely so a later outbound click can be matched to the search engine that brought the visitor here.
How Pages Are Built and Served
Every page here is self-contained: the fonts are embedded locally in the site's own files, so nothing is fetched from an outside host while a page displays. The whole site is a set of static files served by a content delivery network, which handles the technical delivery of each request as the hosting provider. Outbound links to third-party sites pass first through a redirect path on this domain before reaching the partner, but no stored visitor data is shared with the partner in that process. Once the link resolves, the destination site receives the request directly from the visitor's browser and keeps its own separate record of it; this page has no say over what that other site does with a visit.
What Is Not Collected or Offered Here
There are no forms on this site, no third-party analytics, no external subresources loaded from other domains, and no contact channels of any kind. No names, e-mail addresses, account identifiers or payment details are collected. There is no login, no registration, no user account, and no browser storage beyond the single short-lived cookie and session flag described above. Because none of that data is gathered, this site does not ask for consent, does not require an account, and does not need any personal detail from a reader to function. Anything beyond what is described in this page — including the practices of any linked third-party site — sits outside what this page can speak to, and readers should treat those destinations as separate from this one.