Privacy
Last updated 2026-08-11
Hoby is a directory of hobby classes. You can read all of it without an account, and we have deliberately built it so there is very little about you to collect.
What we store
- Messages you send us. If you use a form on the site, we keep what you typed — and your name and email only if you chose to give them — so we can act on the correction and reply. Nothing else is attached.
- Anonymous click counts. When someone clicks through to a provider we increment a counter for that business and month. No IP address, no browser fingerprint, no session or user identifier is stored with it — the record is a number, not a person.
- A city preference. A cookie named
hoby_cityremembers which city you were browsing so pages open on it. It holds a city name and nothing more.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics to understand which pages people find useful. It sets its own cookies and Google processes that data under its own privacy policy. If you block analytics — with a browser setting or an extension — the site works exactly the same; nothing on Hoby is gated behind it.
What we never do
We don't sell or rent data, we don't run advertising networks, and we don't build profiles of readers. Providers who claim a listing can see how many people clicked through to them — a count, never who those people were.
Content about businesses
Listings describe businesses, not individuals. Ratings and photos come from Google Places and are shown with attribution and a link to the source. If you own a business and want something corrected or removed, get in touch and we'll deal with it.
Your data
Ask us what we hold about you, or ask us to delete it, and we will — contact us. In practice, unless you have sent us a message, the answer is that we hold nothing.
Hoby is a small independent project, not a company with a legal department. This page describes what the site actually does, in plain language.