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RaftFinder

Privacy policy

Last updated November 5, 2026

RaftFinder collects as little as possible. In short: no accounts, no newsletters, no advertising cookies, and only aggregate visitor statistics.

What we record

  • Outbound link clicks. When you click a link to a merchant, we record which link, the page you were on, the referring page, and any campaign tags in the URL (utm parameters). We don’t record your IP address, browser details or any identifier, so these records can’t be tied to you.
  • Server logs. Our hosting provider (Railway) keeps standard request logs, which include IP addresses, for security and troubleshooting. They are kept for a short period and not used for marketing.
  • Visitor statistics (Google Analytics). We use Google Analytics 4 to see which pages people read and how they found us: pages viewed, the referring site, rough location (country or city), device and browser type. Google Analytics doesn’t store IP addresses. We’ve turned off Google signals and ad personalization, and we run no ads, so this data isn’t used to show you ads. You can block it with Google’s opt-out add-on or any content blocker.

Cookies

Google Analytics sets first-party cookies (_ga, _ga_*) to count returning visitors; they hold a random ID, not your name or email. Visitors in the EU, EEA, UK and Switzerland get no analytics cookies: there, Google Analytics only receives cookieless page counts. We set no advertising cookies anywhere. (The site’s private admin area uses a login cookie for its editor only.)

When you leave RaftFinder

Merchant and affiliate links take you to other sites, such as Amazon, Viator, REI, NRS, Sea Eagle or OARS, and through affiliate networks (AvantLink, Awin). Those sites and networks set their own cookies so a purchase can be credited, under their own privacy policies.

Your choices

Because we don’t hold personal data about visitors, there’s nothing to access or delete on our side. Google keeps analytics data for at most 14 months, then deletes it.