Privacy policy

tello runs directories of places. This policy covers what tello stores, the cookies used on the site, and the third parties involved in serving it.

Last updated: 24 September 2026

Account information

You can create an account. tello stores your name, your email address, a hashed password, and the places you mark as favorites. The iPhone app can sign you in with Apple, which stores an Apple user id.

Sessions and cookies

A session cookie keeps you signed in. Sessions store the IP address and the browser user agent of the device used to sign in.

Advertising

The site shows ads from Google AdSense. Google and its partners use cookies to show ads based on your visits to this and other sites. You can turn off personalised ads at https://www.google.com/settings/ads. Google describes how it uses data from sites that use its services at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Other third parties

Cloudflare serves the site and can cache pages. Maps use Leaflet with OpenStreetMap tiles served from tile.openstreetmap.org. Some place pages embed YouTube videos from youtube.com/embed. Place descriptions and facts come from Wikipedia and are available under the CC BY-SA licence, and photos come from Wikimedia Commons.

Deleting your account

You can ask for your account and your favorites to be deleted by writing to [email protected].

Contact

Questions about this policy can go to [email protected].