Legal and privacy
This is a small site run by one person. Here is who that person is, and what happens to the details you send me.
Who runs this site
My name is Gordon Rankin and I run this site under the name Go With Gordy. I am a private guide and host, I live in St. Johann in Tirol, and I answer every enquiry that arrives here myself.
- Registered name
- Andrew Gordon Rankin
- Trading as
- Go With Gordy
- Legal form
- Sole trader (Einzelunternehmer), Austria
- Registered address
- Pulverturmweg 13, Top 13, 6370 Kitzbühel, Austria
- Phone
- +43 676 346 0628
- Trade authorisation
- Reisebetreuung (travel support services), held since 2024
- Supervisory authority
- Bezirkshauptmannschaft Kitzbühel, Austria
- Chamber membership
- Wirtschaftskammer Tirol (Austrian Economic Chamber)
- Trade regulations
- Gewerbeordnung 1994 (GewO), www.ris.bka.gv.at
Media disclosure under §25 of the Austrian Media Act: the media owner of this site is Andrew Gordon Rankin, address as above. The purpose of this site is to present my guiding and hosting services in Tirol and southern Africa and to receive trip enquiries.
Your data
I will keep this in plain words, because I would rather you actually read it.
The enquiry form
When you send the form, what you filled in becomes an email to me: your name, your email address, your phone number if you gave one, the dates, how many of you are travelling, the budget you set on the slider and anything you wrote in the last field. The email is delivered by Resend, the service this site uses to send mail, and it lands in my mailbox. A copy also goes to Fabio Zimmermann, who built this site and keeps it running, so that an enquiry which fails to arrive gets noticed rather than lost.
That is the whole journey. Your details are not added to a mailing list, they are not sold, they are not handed to an advertising network, and nothing on this site asks you to make an account. Your enquiry stays in my mailbox the way any other email does, because that is where I need it when we are still talking about your trip.
You also get a confirmation email straight away, sent the same way, so that you can see what reached me and correct me if I got something wrong.
There is no database behind this site and no account for you to create. Your enquiry exists as an email and nowhere else, which also means it lives as long as an email does: I keep it while we are planning, and for a while after, the way anyone keeps the correspondence about a trip they arranged. If you would rather I did not keep it, the last section says how to tell me.
The bit that keeps out the machines
Two small things happen while the form is being sent, and I would rather name them than have you discover them. There is a field in the form that you cannot see and only an automated script would fill in, and if it comes back filled the message is dropped. And the address your browser connects from is held in the memory of the server for a few minutes, long enough to notice that the same sender is submitting the form over and over. It is not written to a file, it is not kept, it never reaches me, and it is not part of any of the counting below.
What gets counted
I use PostHog to see whether the site is working: how many people came, which pages they read, and whether anyone found the enquiry button. It runs on European servers, it sets no cookies, it does not record your screen, it does not capture what you type, and it honours the do-not-track setting in your browser if you have one switched on.
When an enquiry is sent, the count that reaches me carries only the shape of the trip: the category, the number of nights, how many of you there are and roughly where the budget slider sat. Your name, your email address, your phone number and your message are not part of it.
Vercel, who host the site, count visits as well. That one comes with the hosting rather than by my choosing, it also sets no cookies, and it counts pages rather than people.
Cookies
There are none. That is the whole section, and it is the reason no banner appeared and asked you to agree to anything. Nothing here follows you off this site, and the fonts, the images and the few scripts the pages need are all served from this site rather than fetched from somebody else while you read.
Where the site runs
The site is hosted by Vercel and the mail is sent by Resend. Both are companies I pay to do one job each, they act on my instructions, and neither has any use for your details beyond doing that job. Like any web host, their servers briefly record the technical details of a request, such as the page asked for and the address it was asked from. That is how a web server works, and it is not something I look at.
What you can ask me to do
Write to me and I will tell you what I still have from you, send you a copy of it, correct it, or delete it. One email is enough and you do not have to give a reason. If something on this page does not match what you experienced, tell me that too, because then one of us is wrong and I would like to know which.
For the formal part: I handle the details from the form because you sent them to me to prepare a trip, which the law calls steps taken before a contract (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR), and the small technical measures against abuse and the visit counting rest on my legitimate interest in a working site (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). The person responsible for all of it is me, Andrew Gordon Rankin, at the address above. And if you think I have handled your details badly and talking to me did not fix it, you have the right to complain to the Austrian Data Protection Authority (Datenschutzbehörde, dsb.gv.at).