BECOMING A GEORDIE

Privacy

What we collect

Only what the drop box needs. No accounts, no newsletter, no tracking cookies.

The drop box

When you drop a lesson on the Roadmap, the site keeps the lesson, the kind you picked, and, only if you typed them, a name and a place. Those are shown on the road once Gus approves the lesson. The site also keeps a one-way hash of your network address for an hour, purely to stop floods; the address itself is not stored. Lessons stay until Gus removes them. To have one taken down, message the Instagram account in the footer.

Hosting and traffic

The site is hosted on Vercel, which keeps standard server logs (IP address, user agent, requested page) for a short period to run the service. Vercel Analytics counts page views without cookies and without identifying you.

Cookies

One cookie exists, and only on Gus’s own devices: it keeps him signed in to the desk. Nobody else gets one.

Instagram

Journey posts are shown as still frames hosted here and link out to Instagram. Nothing from Instagram loads on this site until you follow a link, at which point Instagram’s own privacy policy applies.

Changes

If this site ever collects anything from you (a fan map, a newsletter, comments), this page will say exactly what, why, and how to opt out before the feature ships.

Last updated 06 Sep 2026, when the drop box opened.