Privacy

Every visit records which pages were opened, which links were followed, and roughly how long a page was read. This is measured by CityDekho itself, stays on CityDekho’s own database, and is not tied to a name, an email address or an advertising profile. It is what tells us that a destination page is being opened and abandoned, which is the difference between a page that exists and a page that works.

Our host, Vercel, also counts page views for us. It sets no cookies and stores nothing on your device: a visit is identified by a hash of the request itself, which is discarded after 24 hours, and it carries no identifier that could follow you to another site. We use it because it is the only count that includes people who decline the analytics below — without it we would only ever see the visitors who said yes, and have no idea how many that was out of.

We do not sell it, share it with advertisers, or use it to build a profile of you.

If you accept analytics cookies, three third-party services also receive your visit: Google Analytics, which tells us where visitors come from; PostHog, which tells us how the site is used once you are here; and Microsoft Clarity, which records the visit so we can watch it back. All of them set cookies on your device.

Clarity deserves its own paragraph, because it is the most intrusive thing named on this page and it would be wrong to bury it in a list. It records which pages you open, how far you scroll, and where you click or tap, and replays that to us as a silent, anonymous recording of the visit. It does not record your screen, your camera or your microphone, and it sees nothing outside CityDekho. Anything you type into a box, along with numbers and email addresses on the page, is hidden in your own browser before anything is sent, so Microsoft never receives it. We use it for one thing: to find the paragraph where a guide stops being read, which no page count can tell us.

None of the three loads at all until you choose Accept. If you choose Reject, or if your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, they are never loaded — not loaded-and-silenced, not loaded. You can change your answer at any time from Cookie settings at the bottom of any page.

Signing in stores your email address, the places you save, and the trips you plan. Sign-in is by emailed link, so we never hold a password. Accounts and content are stored with Supabase; the sign-in emails are sent through Supabase’s email provider, and other email from the site through Resend.

If you turn on push notifications, Firebase stores a device token so a notification can reach that browser. Turning them off removes it.

Images are served from CityDekho’s own storage and from photo libraries including Unsplash, Pexels and Wikimedia Commons. Loading a page therefore makes a request to those services, which — like any website you load an image from — can see your IP address.

You can ask for a copy of what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it entirely, including your account. Under the UK and EU GDPR and under India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 you are entitled to all three, and we will act on any of them.

Ask through the contact page. If your request is about analytics rather than an account, the fastest fix is Cookie settings at the bottom of this page — rejecting stops collection immediately.