Privacy and cookies

Updated 2 September 2026

Controller

Merirantala Oy (Business ID 1053087-3)
Orssaarentie 115, 21590 Karuna, Finland
Phone: +358 40 545 8845
Email: jarkko.rantala@merirantala.fi

For questions about privacy, you can contact us using the details above.

Cookies

We don't set any cookies ourselves. The site sets no cookies of its own in your browser and stores nothing in browser storage (such as local storage or session storage). The one exception is the Instagram feed on the home page, which is loaded from an outside service — see Third-party services below.

We don't collect personal data

The site has no contact or booking forms, no newsletter and no user accounts. We don't collect names, email addresses or any other personal data through the website.

It is what's called a static site: it is made of pages built in advance, with no database behind it where information about visitors could be stored.

Visitor tracking

We don't use analytics tools or advertising trackers. The site has no Google Analytics, Facebook pixel or anything similar.

Server logs

The site is delivered by Cloudflare. Like every web server, the service processes the technical information needed to deliver the pages and keep them secure — for example your IP address, browser type and the address of the page you asked for. The legal basis is legitimate interest (General Data Protection Regulation, Article 6(1)(f)): making sure the site works and is secure. We don't use these logs to track or profile visitors ourselves.

Third-party services

We have aimed for a site that doesn't send visitors' data to outside parties. The fonts and the map software are served from our own server, so loading them involves no third parties.

One exception is the map on the contact page. Its background images (map tiles) are fetched from OpenStreetMap's servers, so your browser connects to tile.openstreetmap.org and passes on your IP address. This happens only on the contact page, and only when the map is shown. See theOpenStreetMap Foundation's privacy policy.

The other exception is the Instagram feed on the home page ("Life at Merirantala"). It is embedded through SnapWidget, which fetches the public photos of the @merirantala account from Instagram. When you open the home page, your browser connects to snapwidget.com and Instagram's servers; they receive your IP address and may set cookies of their own. SeeSnapWidget's privacy policyand Meta's privacy policy.

The site also links to outside services, such as Lomarengas's booking pages, Instagram and Facebook. Once you go to them, their own privacy policies apply. We don't share your data with them — opening a link is always your own choice.

Cottage bookings

Bookings are made on Lomarengas's website, a separate service with its own privacy policy. When you book a cottage through Lomarengas, its privacy policy covers the details you give when booking.

If you contact us by phone or email, we use the details you give only to deal with your enquiry, and we don't use them for marketing without your consent.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you have the right to access your data, to have it corrected or erased, to restrict its processing and to object to it. Since we don't collect personal data through the website, we usually hold no data about you that these rights could apply to.

If you believe your personal data is being processed unlawfully, you can lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Ombudsman in Finland (tietosuoja.fi).

Changes

If we later add a contact form, visitor tracking or other features to the site, we will update this page to match.