Privacy notice

Last updated 9 November 2026 · Ελληνικά

Parga.co.uk is a small, independent guide to Parga and a directory of local businesses. We collect as little as we can, we don’t sell anything to anyone, and we don’t run ads. Here’s exactly what we hold and why, in plain English.

Who we are

Parga.co.uk is run by Stuart Morgan, trading as d1gital, a sole trader, who is the “controller” of the personal information described here.

Email: hello@parga.co.uk

What we collect, and why

1. When you use one of our forms

Our forms to claim a listing, ask about an upgrade, or add a new business ask for: your name, an email address and/or phone or WhatsApp number, the business (or the listing you’re claiming), the listing type you’re interested in, and an optional message. We also note the date and time.

We use this to reply to you, check that you really run the business, and update or add the listing. Our reason (lawful basis) is that you’ve asked us to do something, and our legitimate interest in running an accurate directory. We never take payments through the site.

2. Business listings in our directory

Each listing shows a business’s name, category, area, address, phone, website, map location and opening hours. We gathered these from the businesses’ own public websites and from public listings, then checked them by hand. Where a business is run under someone’s own name, or a contact detail belongs to a person, that counts as personal information too.

We list businesses because a useful guide needs them, and visitors want to find them. That’s our legitimate interest, and it’s balanced by being easy to correct or remove (see below).

3. Emails to listed businesses

We may email a business at the address it publishes, to check its listing is right and to tell it about our optional paid Premium listing. Every email has a one-click unsubscribe link. Once you unsubscribe we keep your address on a short “do not contact” list (just the address, the date and how you unsubscribed) so we never email you again.

4. Listing stats

When someone views a listing, or taps its phone, website, email or directions link, we record: which listing, which of those actions, the date and time, the page they came from, and the country (worked out by our host from the connection). We do not store IP addresses, names or anything else that identifies the visitor. We use these counts to see what’s useful, and to show businesses how many people looked at their listing.

5. Cookies and similar storage

• Google Analytics (cookies named _ga and _ga_…). Only if you press “Accept” on our cookie banner. It helps us count visits and see which guides help people. IP addresses are anonymised and advertising features are switched off. If you press “Reject”, or ignore the banner, no analytics cookies are set.
• Your cookie choice (parga-consent, kept in your browser’s local storage), so we don’t ask you every time. Clear your browser data to change your mind, and the banner will come back.
• “Already counted” note (pv:…, in session storage, deleted when you close the tab), so one visit to a listing is only counted once.
• Vercel Web Analytics, our host’s privacy-friendly visit counter. It uses no cookies and doesn’t identify you; it gives us totals like page views, plus the listing actions above.

We don’t use advertising, social media or tracking pixels.

Who else handles it

We use a few trusted services to run the site, and they only process information on our behalf:

• Vercel: hosts the website and provides Web Analytics. Like any web host, it handles your IP address to deliver pages and keeps short-term technical logs.
• Supabase: stores form submissions, listing stats and the do-not-contact list, on servers in London.
• Google: Google Analytics, only if you accept cookies.
• Purelymail: our email provider, which receives and stores email sent to us.

Some of these companies are based in the USA. Where information leaves the UK or EU, they use the legal safeguards the law requires, such as standard contractual clauses or the EU–US Data Privacy Framework. We never sell or rent personal information.

How long we keep it

• Form submissions: up to 2 years after we last dealt with you, then deleted.
• Listing details: while the business is listed. If it closes or asks to be removed, we take it down within 30 days.
• Records of our emails to businesses: up to 2 years after the last contact.
• Do-not-contact list: for as long as we email businesses, because it’s the only way to make sure we don’t contact you again.
• Listing stats: up to 26 months, then deleted or rolled up into monthly totals with no detail.
• Google Analytics data: no longer than 14 months, the longest standard setting Google Analytics allows, then deleted automatically.

Your rights

You can ask us to:

• see what we hold about you (access);
• correct anything that’s wrong;
• delete it;
• object to us using it, including any email about our listings, which we’ll stop straight away;
• restrict how we use it, or have a copy to take elsewhere, where the law allows.

Just email hello@parga.co.uk. It’s free, and we’ll reply within a month. If you think we’ve got something wrong, please tell us first and we’ll try to put it right. You also have the right to complain to the Greek data protection authority, the Hellenic Data Protection Authority (www.dpa.gr), or to the data protection authority where you live, such as the ICO in the UK.

Unsubscribe, or change or remove a listing

• Stop our emails: use the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any email from us, or email hello@parga.co.uk with “unsubscribe”.
• Fix your listing: use “Claim this listing” on your business’s page in the directory, or email hello@parga.co.uk.
• Remove your listing: email hello@parga.co.uk with the business name, and we’ll take it down. We may ask a quick question to check you’re connected to the business.

Changes

If we change how we use personal information, we’ll update this page and the date at the top.