Privacy & cookies
FindeAlicante is an events guide for Alicante. We don't ask you to register, we use no advertising cookies, and we measure the audience without identifying you.
Analytics
We measure the audience with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which counts visits in aggregate and without cookies. If you sign in, we ask separately whether you also want Google Analytics as well (anonymised IP); you can decline with no loss of features, and if you do not sign in it never loads. In addition, when you leave a page your browser sends one signal to a server of ours and we store it in our own database: language, how many pages you have seen and which ones, roughly how long you stayed on the site, how far down you scrolled, whether the device is a phone, a tablet or a computer, whether you arrived directly, from a search engine, from social media or from another page of ours, a visit band (1, 2, 3-5, 6+), and what kind of actions you used — for example that the search box was opened, or that a filter was applied, with the name of the filter and how many values, never which ones. We do not store your IP address, your user agent, any permanent identifier, the full address you came from, or what you type when you search. Only the person who runs the site looks at these numbers.
What is stored in your browser
Local storage holds a few values, all prefixed fv_: the language and theme you pick (fv_lang, fv_theme), whether you have donated, to unlock the secret spots (fv_donor), whether we have already shown you the donation prompt (fv_prompted), how many times you have come back, together with the date of your first visit, which resets itself after 13 months (fv_visits, fv_visits_since), and a per-page marker so your vote, your view or your share is not counted twice (fv_vote_…, fv_viewed_…, fv_shared_…). Separately, session storage — the kind that clears itself when you close the tab — holds fv_sid, a random key that ties together the pages of one visit and cannot be linked to any later visit, and fv_an, where what is sent at the end of the visit builds up. None of this is a cookie and none of it is passed to third parties, and only the band (1, 2, 3-5, 6+) ever leaves the visit counter, never the exact number. You can delete all of it from your browser settings.
Cookies and permissions
If you do not sign in, you will see no cookie notice, because there is nothing to consent to: article 22.2 of the Spanish LSSI requires consent to store information on your device, with exceptions, and two apply here — preferences you ask for yourself (language, theme) and first-party audience measurement, which the AEPD cookie guidance of 11 January 2024 exempts when the data is aggregated, used for this site only, and you are informed about it. This page is that information. The notice does appear if you sign in, and only then, to ask you about Google Analytics, which is a third party and therefore falls under no exception. What is sent to our server is a separate question: it is ordinary processing under the GDPR, it does not touch your device and does not rely on that exemption; we do it on the legitimate interest of knowing which parts of the site are of use to anyone.
How long it is kept
Analytics data is kept for at most 25 months and is then deleted automatically: the first record of each day triggers the deletion of whatever has expired. It is never joined to accounts or to the donor list: that join would turn anonymous measurement into a profile, and it is a rule we do not break.
Account & comments
If you sign in with Google, we only store your name, email and profile picture to show your comments and ratings. You can sign out whenever you like.
External links
Events link to their original sources (organiser websites, Telegram), which have their own privacy policies.
Contact
Questions, or want an event removed? Reach us through the suggestions page.