Effective 20 September 2026. The short version: no cookies, no accounts, no advertising, no third-party analytics, and no stored IP addresses. The site keeps anonymous usage statistics so its maintainer can see which countries and months people explore.
Best Time to Go (monthtogo.com) is run by an independent traveller. For anything in this policy, contact hello@monthtogo.com — that address is the controller contact for the purposes of the EU and UK GDPR.
When you use the site, it stores small anonymous event records in a database we run ourselves (Cloudflare D1). Each record can contain: a timestamp; the event type (page visit, start city chosen, country picked in Quick budget, nights or travellers adjusted, month clicked, view switched, share button used); your country only, as estimated by our host from your connection; a coarse device class (mobile, tablet or desktop) and operating-system family (such as Windows, iOS or Android); a random session code that groups one visit’s clicks and is discarded when you leave; and, where relevant, the city, country, month, nights and traveller count you selected, plus how you arrived (a link tag such as “reddit”, the referring site’s hostname, or the platform of a shared link) and which platform you shared to.
No cookies or similar tracking technologies; no localStorage identifiers; no accounts, names or email addresses; no stored IP addresses; no precise location; no device fingerprinting; no advertising or third-party analytics scripts; no cross-site tracking of any kind. The random session code is generated fresh on every visit and cannot be linked back to you. If your browser sends the “Do Not Track” signal, the site sends no events at all.
On the opening screen the site suggests the start city nearest to you. To do this it asks our host (Cloudflare) for the approximate location it derives from your connection at that moment; the answer is used once, inside your browser, to pre-select a city, and is not stored by us. You can pick any other city from the list.
The statistics we keep are anonymous and are not used to identify anyone. To the extent that serving the website involves transient processing of personal data (for example, your IP address while our host delivers pages and estimates your country), that processing rests on legitimate interest (GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)) in operating, securing and improving the site, and the data is not retained by us. The same standard applies to every visitor worldwide — EU, UK, US and everywhere else. For California residents: we do not sell or share personal information, and we do not use it for targeted advertising.
The site and its database are hosted on Cloudflare’s global network, which acts as our infrastructure provider and processes traffic to deliver the site. Aggregated, anonymous statistics may be kept indefinitely. If you email us, we keep the email only as long as needed to deal with it.
If you are in the EEA, UK or a jurisdiction with similar rules, you have rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection and portability over personal data, and the right to complain to your supervisory authority. Because the usage statistics are anonymous, we cannot single out records belonging to you; for anything involving personal data (such as emails you have sent us), write to hello@monthtogo.com and we will act on it.
The site is a general-audience travel-planning tool and does not knowingly collect personal data from children.
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new effective date.