The fine print

What I do with your details

Almost nothing, is the short answer. Here is the long one.

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This site is written and run by one person. There is no marketing department behind it and no data business attached to it. I collect the least I can get away with, and this page says exactly what that is.

What you give me on purpose

There are only two ways you can hand me anything, and both require you to type it yourself.

• The newsletter. If you sign up for the monthly letter, I get your email address and nothing else. You will be sent a confirmation email first, and you are not on the list until you click the link in it. If you never click, the address is discarded.
• Writing to me. Whether you use the form on the Say hello page or email hello@thesuitereport.com directly, I get your name, your address and whatever you chose to put in the message. The form posts straight to that same inbox — nothing is stored on the website and no third party handles it. I keep correspondence so I can pick up a conversation where it left off, and I do not add anyone to the newsletter because they wrote to me.

Who else handles it

The newsletter runs on Buttondown, which stores the list and sends the letters. They act on my instructions and do not use the list for anything of their own.

The letters themselves record whether a message was opened and which links were clicked. That is on by default and I have left it on, because it tells me which reviews are worth writing more of. If you would rather not be counted, most email apps will block it if you turn off remote images, and you can always reply and ask me to switch it off for your address.

What happens just by reading

Nothing you did on purpose, but worth knowing.

• Server logs. The site is hosted on Bluehost, whose servers keep the ordinary web-server record of requests — an IP address, a browser type, a page and a time. I do not read them, and I use nothing from them.
• Typefaces. Some of the fonts load from Google’s font service, which means Google sees the request. Most of the fonts on this site are served from my own server; a few are not yet.
• Placeholder photographs. On the Hotels, Destinations and Restaurants pages, the cards for places I have not written up yet use stock images hosted by Unsplash, so your browser fetches them from Unsplash rather than from me. Every photograph attached to an actual review is mine and comes from this server.

What I do not do

• I do not run analytics on this site. No visitor tracking, no heatmaps, no session recording.
• I do not sell, rent, share or trade your email address. Not to anyone, at any price.
• I do not run advertising, and there are no ad networks loaded on any page.
• I do not set tracking cookies. WordPress sets a cookie only if you log in, and you cannot log in.
• There are no affiliate links on the site today. If that ever changes, the review carrying one will say so plainly, in the review.

What you can ask me to do

Every letter has a one-click unsubscribe at the bottom, and using it removes you immediately. No confirmation step, no “are you sure”, no winning you back.

Beyond that, write to me and I will do it: tell me what I hold about you, correct it, delete it, or send it to you. There is no form and no waiting period. It is one person and a short list.

Children

This is a blog about expensive hotels. It is not aimed at children and I do not knowingly collect anything from anyone under 16.

If this page changes

The date below is the last time I edited it. If I ever start doing something materially different with your details — analytics, advertising, anything that touches the list — I will change this page first and say so in the letter.

Last updated 23 August 2026