Privacy

Last updated 31 July 2026

The short version: we count visits using privacy-first, cookieless analytics. No cookies, no personal data, no ads, and no following you around the web.

Analytics — what we measure

To understand roughly how many people use EdFringeNow, we use Cloudflare Web Analytics — a privacy-first tool chosen precisely because it doesn't use cookies, doesn't store personal data, and can't identify you or follow you to other sites. It records anonymous, aggregate signals only: page views, the referring site, and a broad region worked out from your request (your IP address is used to derive that, but is never stored).

So this site is not analytics-free, and we would rather say so plainly than imply otherwise: we do count visits. What we don't do is build a picture of you. There is no cross-site tracking and no advertising profile — which is also why there's no cookie-consent banner to click through.

What we don't do

We don't sell your data, and we don't track you across the web. No ads. No advertising trackers. No cookies set by us. No accounts and no sign-up.

EdFringeNow is a static website. It runs entirely in your browser, with no server of ours behind it — so beyond the anonymous, aggregate analytics described above, there is nothing about you for us to log or keep.

Your location

If you allow location access, your position is used only in your browser to work out which shows are near you. It is never sent to us or to anyone else. Deny it and the app simply falls back to central Edinburgh — everything still works.

What your browser loads

Like any web page, opening EdFringeNow fetches a few files from other services. Those services see your IP address and browser as part of a normal web request, the same as visiting any website:

• Map tiles from OpenStreetMap.
• The map library (unpkg) and typefaces (Google Fonts) from their content delivery networks.
• The privacy-first analytics beacon (a small script) from Cloudflare.

The show and venue listings are plain files served from this site. They describe the festival, not you.

Links out

“Open in Maps” opens Google Maps, and ticket links open edfringe.com. Once you follow a link, that site's own privacy policy applies — not this one.

Questions

Email support@edfringenow.com.