Privacy: What This Site Collects

What we do not collect

None of the following exists on this site, either on the pages or behind them.

No accounts, sign-ups or passwords.
No advertising, ad networks or profiling.
No payment details — every booking and payment happens on somebody else’s site.
No newsletter list, and no email address is ever asked for.
No name, address or contact details of any kind.
No analytics before you make an affirmative choice.

Who your browser contacts

This is a static site with no server of our own, so the pages fetch what they need directly from the organisations that publish it. Each request carries your IP address and browser type to that organisation, in the same way as visiting their own website would. We receive none of it.

Google Ireland LimitedOnly after analytics consent
www.googletagmanager.com, www.google-analytics.com
Counts page views, engagement, scrolls and selected link or search interactions so we can judge which guides are useful and whether the site merits further investment. It loads only after you allow analytics. Advertising storage, Google Signals and ad personalisation are disabled; search terms, form values and precise location are not sent.
Their privacy policy (opens in a new tab)
Cloudflare, Inc.Every page
madeiracentral.com
Hosts and delivers the site. Every request reaches Cloudflare before it reaches anything of ours.
Their privacy policy (opens in a new tab)
Norwegian Meteorological InstituteEvery page
api.met.no
Publishes the Madeira airport report and forecast used by the island-status rail on every page and by the full landing outlook.
Their privacy policy (opens in a new tab)
Open-MeteoOnly on pages that use it
api.open-meteo.com
Publishes the mountain and coast forecasts.
Their privacy policy (opens in a new tab)
Portal NetmadeiraOnly when you ask for it
stream.madeirawebcams.com
Serves selected live cameras on the webcam directory. Nothing is requested from this host until you choose one of its cameras.
Their privacy policy (opens in a new tab)
Instituto Português do Mar e da AtmosferaEvery page
api.ipma.pt
The Portuguese meteorological service. Its official Madeira warnings feed the island-status rail on every page.
Their privacy policy (opens in a new tab)
Google Ireland LimitedOnly on pages that use it
i.ytimg.com, www.youtube-nocookie.com
Serves the still images on embedded videos, which load from Google when the page opens. Many pages also carry live cameras, which are YouTube streams and start playing by themselves as you scroll to them — so Google is contacted on those pages whether or not you watch. Recorded videos still wait for you to press play.
Their privacy policy (opens in a new tab)
OpenStreetMap FoundationOnly when you ask for it
www.openstreetmap.org, tile.openstreetmap.org
Draws the embedded maps. Nothing is requested from OpenStreetMap until you choose to show a map — the placeholder before that is drawn by this site. Chosen over Google Maps, which sets identifying cookies and offers no cookie-free version.
Their privacy policy (opens in a new tab)

What is kept on your device

Four small preferences are stored in your browser so the site remembers your choices. They are never sent by MadeiraCentral, and clearing your browser data removes them.

madeiracentral-theme: Whether you chose the light or dark theme.
madeiracentral-language: Which of the four languages you last used.
madeiracentral-cameras: Whether you left the live cameras open or closed.
madeiracentral-analytics-consent: Whether you allowed or refused optional analytics.

Analytics

Google Analytics is optional. Before a choice, and after a refusal, no Google Analytics script or request is loaded. If you allow it, Google Analytics uses cookies to distinguish visits and measures pages, engagement time, scrolls and bounded actions such as outbound-link categories. It does not receive search terms, names, email addresses, form values or precise location from this site. You can change your choice through “Analytics choices” in the footer.

Links to other sites

The site links out to official Madeira services, transport operators and a small number of commercial partners. Some of those links earn a commission, and every one of them is labelled where it appears. Following a link takes you to somebody else’s site under somebody else’s privacy policy; nothing about you is passed along beyond the fact that you arrived from here.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you have rights over personal data an organisation holds about you. MadeiraCentral does not ask for your identity or contact details. If you allow analytics, Google processes pseudonymous usage data for the MadeiraCentral property; the organisations listed above also receive the network information needed to answer browser requests. Their policies are linked in the table.

Access — a copy of what is held about you.
Rectification — correction of anything wrong.
Erasure — deletion of what is held.
Objection — an end to processing you did not ask for.
Portability — your data in a form you can take elsewhere.
Complaint — you may complain to your national data protection authority.

Children

The site is a planning tool for travel and everyday life in Madeira. It is not aimed at children and does not ask for a child’s name, contact details or account.

Changes to this page

If what the site does changes, this page changes with it and the date above moves. There is no archive of previous versions; the page history is public in the site’s source repository.

Island today

What this site collects, and what it does not