What this website does with your information

Here is the short version. Everything below explains it properly.

• You don't need an account, a password, or your name to use the map, the list, or a club's page.
• Two tools called Vercel Analytics and Vercel Speed Insights run on every page automatically, to check how many people visit and whether pages load quickly. We don't ask first: the law lets us do this under a basis called “legitimate interests” rather than needing your permission, as long as it stays fair to you. You can ask us to stop counting your visits; see below.
• If you tap “Show my location” on the map, or pick a distance in the filters, your location stays on your phone or computer. Find Your Club never sees it or saves it.
• If you type a postcode into the search box on the map or list, it's matched on your phone or computer. What you type isn't sent to Find Your Club or anyone else.
• The map pictures come from a company called CARTO. When the map moves to where you are, or to a postcode you picked, CARTO can tell roughly which area you're looking at.
• If a club has added Instagram or TikTok posts to its page, those posts load from Instagram or TikTok directly, and they can set cookies just like visiting instagram.com or tiktok.com would. It only happens on a club's page that has added posts.
• This website can never turn on your camera or microphone. That is blocked automatically.
• Your phone or computer remembers a few small things, like whether you've seen the welcome pop-up and the reading settings you picked. That stays on your device too.
• If you're a youth worker who signs in to edit a club's page, we store your email address so we know you're allowed to edit it, and the sign-in page checks you're a human using a service called hCaptcha. That's covered on its own, further down.

Every page on Find Your Club loads two small tools made by Vercel, the company that hosts this website: Vercel Analytics and Vercel Speed Insights. They keep track of roughly how many people visit, which pages they look at, and whether the site is loading quickly.

They run automatically, for every visitor, as soon as a page opens. They don't ask you first, and right now there is no button on the site to switch them off. That's because our lawful basis for running them isn't your consent, it's called legitimate interests: the law lets an organisation use personal data without asking each time, as long as it has a real reason, only uses what it needs for that reason, and that reason doesn't override your rights. Ours is checking the site works properly and reporting visitor numbers to Islington Council, who fund Find Your Club. We've written down why we think that's a fair balance in a document called a Legitimate Interests Assessment, which you can ask to see using the contact details at the bottom of this page. If you'd rather we didn't count your visits this way, email us and we'll look into it.

They don't ask for your name, your email address, or anything you type. Vercel shows the totals, like how many people visited a page today, to the people who run Find Your Club. It's designed to show overall numbers, not a list of named visitors. For exactly what Vercel collects, see Vercel's own privacy policy.

Some clubs show their 360° tour on their own website. That tour is still a Find Your Club page, shown inside theirs, so the same two tools count visits to it in the same way. It doesn't use cookies either. The club's own website may have its own privacy notice for everything else on it.

Find Your Club can use your location in two places on the map. Neither happens by itself: your phone or browser always asks you first.

• Tapping the target button (“Show my location”) on the map draws a green dot to show roughly where you are, and zooms the map to show clubs nearby.
• Picking a distance in the filters (like “1 mi”) works out which clubs are close to you.

Either way, your location stays on your phone or computer. It's used right there, in your browser, to draw the dot or work out distances. It is never sent to Find Your Club or saved. If you say no when asked, the site keeps working. It just can't show you what's nearby.

There is one thing to know about the map itself. It's made of lots of small square pictures, called map tiles, and your browser downloads them from a company called CARTO (from basemaps.cartocdn.com). That happens on every map on the site, including the small map on a club's page. When the map moves to show where you are, or a postcode you picked, your browser asks CARTO for the tiles of that area. So CARTO can tell roughly which area you're looking at. Like any website, it also sees your IP address, a number for your internet connection that can show roughly where you are. CARTO doesn't get your name, the exact spot of your green dot, or anything you typed. For what CARTO does with this, see CARTO's privacy notice.

You can also type a postcode, or the start of one like “N7 8”, into the search box on the map or the list. Your phone or computer downloads a list of London postcode areas from this website and finds the match itself, then moves the map to the middle of that area, or puts the nearest clubs first. What you type is never sent to Find Your Club or anyone else. (Moving the map there does mean CARTO sends the map tiles for that area, as explained above.) The postcode list is based on open data from the Office for National Statistics, Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, used under the Open Government Licence.

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. From the ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026.

If you tap “Get directions” on a club's page, you leave Find Your Club and open Google Maps, Apple Maps, or Citymapper in a new tab. Whatever happens with your location there is covered by their own privacy information, not this page.

This website can also never turn on your camera or microphone. That is blocked automatically, so it is not something to worry about.

Find Your Club saves three small things directly on your own device until you clear them (sometimes called “local storage”):

• Whether you've already seen the welcome pop-up, so it doesn't show it again every time.
• Whether you chose light mode or dark mode.
• Any reading settings you changed, like the font, text size or spacing. If you never change them, nothing is saved.

It also saves two things only until you close the tab (sometimes called “session storage”):

• The filters you picked on the map or list, like activities, wheelchair access or ages, so they're still there when you come back from a club's page. Distance and what you typed in the search box aren't saved.
• Whether you were last on the map or the list, so a club page's back button can say which.

They're simple notes of your choices. They don't include your name or anything that identifies you, and they're never sent to Find Your Club or anyone else. If you clear your browser's site data, or open the site on a different browser or device, it starts fresh.

Find Your Club itself doesn't use cookies anywhere on the map, the list, or a club's page. Two things load a cookie of their own: Instagram/TikTok posts a club has chosen to show (covered next), and the Studio, where youth workers sign in to edit a club's page (covered after that).

Some clubs add a few Instagram or TikTok posts to their page, under a “Follow us” heading. When a club has done that, your browser loads those posts directly from Instagram or TikTok, the same way it would if you visited instagram.com or tiktok.com yourself. This never happens on a club's page that hasn't added any posts, and it never happens on the map or list.

Loading those posts sends your IP address and information about your browser and device to Instagram (Meta) or TikTok (ByteDance), and lets them set a cookie in the same way their own websites would, including for tracking you across other sites that embed their posts. Find Your Club doesn't control what they do with this, and it's covered by their own privacy policies, not this page: Instagram's privacy policy and TikTok's privacy policy.

This section is about the adults who run a youth club and edit its page in the Studio, not about young people using the map or list.

To edit a club's page, a youth worker signs in with a work email address. There's no password: typing the email sends an email with a one-time sign-in link, a “magic link”, and a 6-digit code that can be typed in instead. This is handled by a company called Supabase, which stores Find Your Club's data and handles sign-ins.

The Studio sign-in page also uses hCaptcha, a service run by a company called Intuition Machines, Inc., to check that the person signing in is a human and not an automated program. To do that, hCaptcha receives the youth worker's IP address and information about their browser and device. hCaptcha only loads on the Studio sign-in page. It never loads for young people using the map, the list, or a club's page. For what hCaptcha does with this information, see hCaptcha's privacy policy.

Supabase stores that email address, so the system knows which club that person is allowed to edit. The people who run Find Your Club can see which email is linked to which club. Signing in also sets a cookie (a small file saved in the browser) that keeps the youth worker signed in, so they don't need to click a new link every few minutes.

This sign-in list is not shown to young people browsing the map, the list, or a club's page. Some clubs choose to put a contact email on their own page, for parents or young people to use; that is separate from the sign-in list, and is entirely up to the club.

Every night, a copy is saved of each club's page and of the list of which email address can edit which club. This is so it can be put back after a mistake or if something goes wrong with the website. The copy is locked with a password (encrypted) and kept by GitHub, the service that holds the website's code. Each copy is deleted automatically after 90 days.

Photos and 360° pictures uploaded in the Studio are also copied every night, to a private storage area at Cloudflare, the same company that stores the originals. When a photo is deleted from a club's page, its backup copy is deleted 30 days later.

If you'd like your information removed from the backups sooner, email admin@marys.org.uk.

Find Your Club is run by Mary's Youth Club. Under UK data protection law that makes Mary's Youth Club the “data controller”, which is the legal way of saying it is the organisation responsible for everything described on this page.

Its full registered name is Mary's Youth Club Ltd., registered charity number 1127269 and company number 06734354.

The person responsible for it is Sally Baxter, CEO and Youth Work Development Manager.

The welcome pop-up (the question mark button at the top of every page) has a “WhatsApp us” button. Tapping it opens WhatsApp with a message ready for you to send to Mary's Youth Club. If you send it, Mary's Youth Club will see your phone number, as with any WhatsApp message. What WhatsApp itself does is covered by WhatsApp's own privacy information, not this page.

You can also write to us or ring us:

Phone: 020 7704 1895

You can look us up, using charity number 1127269, on the Charity Commission register, or using company number 06734354 on Companies House.

You can ask what information is held about you, ask for it to be corrected, or ask for it to be deleted. You don't have to say why. To do any of those things, or if something on this page doesn't make sense, email admin@marys.org.uk.

For anything else about the youth club itself, email youthclub@marys.org.uk.

If you've asked us and you're still not happy with how we've handled your information, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK's independent regulator for data protection. You don't have to complain to us first if you'd rather not.

ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint or call 0303 123 1113.