Privacy policy

Who this is

The Long Weekends is an independent project operated by an individual based in India ("we", "us"). It is not a registered company. You can reach us at hello@thelongweekends.com, which is also the address for any question about this policy.

What we do not collect

Stated plainly, because most of this policy is about absences rather than practices. We do not:

• ask you to create an account, or collect a name, phone number or address;
• set any advertising cookie, or share what you do here with an ad network;
• show advertising, or embed any advertising or social media tracking pixel;
• upload your holiday list — the calculator and the office optimizer both run entirely in your browser;
• have a mailing list, and so cannot add you to one;
• operate any server that receives your data — the site is a set of static files, with no database and no backend to send anything to.

There is no form anywhere on this site. Nothing you type into the calculator or the office optimizer is transmitted, because there is nowhere for it to be transmitted to.

What is stored on your device

One item that we set, in your browser's local storage — not a cookie, so it is never attached to a network request and never sent to us or to anyone else:

• theme — the value "light" or "dark", written when you use the theme toggle. It exists so the site does not flash the wrong colour scheme on your next visit.

That is the whole list of what we store. Your region and work-week choices are deliberately not kept: they last for the page view and reset when you leave. Google Analytics separately sets two cookies, described in the next section. To remove all of it, clear site data for this domain in your browser settings, or use private browsing, where nothing persists at all.

Analytics

This site uses Google Analytics 4 to count page views. It was added in August 2026; before that the site measured nothing at all, and earlier versions of this page said so.

What it records on each page view:

• which page you looked at, when, and which site or search you arrived from;
• your approximate location, derived by Google from your IP address — country and city level, not an address;
• your device type, screen size, browser and operating system;
• a randomly generated identifier that lets Google tell a returning browser from a new one. It is not tied to a name, an email or an account, because we hold none of those.

To do that it sets two cookies on this domain, _ga and_ga_BR986NK1GM. They contain the random identifier and a timestamp, and Google's default retention for them is two years.

We use this to see which pages people actually reach and which are dead ends — nothing more. Your holiday list is never part of it. The file you upload to the office optimizer is read in your browser and never leaves it, and no date you enter is sent to Google or to us.

If you would rather not be counted, any of these works: install Google's official Analytics opt-out add-on, block cookies for this domain in your browser settings, or use any content blocker — nearly all of them block this script by default. The calculator works exactly the same either way; none of its features depend on analytics loading.

Your office holiday list stays with you

The office holiday optimizer accepts pasted text, PDFs and images of your company's holiday list. All of it — reading the file, extracting dates, running the optimiser — happens inside your browser. The file is never uploaded, never transmitted, and no copy of it reaches us or any third party.

We therefore have no ability to see your company's holidays, and no copy to hand over, lose, or be compelled to disclose. Closing the tab is all it takes to discard the data.

Third parties your browser contacts

Beyond the analytics above, the site loads resources from other people's servers. Any HTTP request necessarily reveals your IP address, browser and operating system, and the page you were on, to whoever serves it. This is the complete list:

• Google Analytics (googletagmanager.com,google-analytics.com) — the page-view counting described above. Loaded on every page.
• Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com) — the two typefaces the site is set in. Loaded on every page. Google's handling of these requests is governed by its own privacy policy.
• cdnjs (Cloudflare) — the PDF reader used to open a holiday list. Loaded only on the office optimizer page.
• jsDelivr — the text-recognition engine for scanned or image-based holiday lists, which also downloads its English language model the first time you run it. Loaded only on the office optimizer page.

None of these receive the contents of your holiday list. They serve code and fonts, or count a page view; the planning work is done locally. If you visit only the national calendar, the two Google services above are the only third parties involved.

The two libraries are requested at a fixed version and with a cryptographic fingerprint of the exact file we expect. If either server ever returned different code — through compromise or simple re-publication — your browser would refuse to run it rather than run it silently. That protects the code, not the connection: the requests above still happen, and still reveal what any HTTP request reveals.

Server logs

The static files are served by a hosting provider, which keeps standard access logs — IP address, timestamp, requested URL, browser string — for security and operational purposes. This is ordinary web-server behaviour, retained by the host under its own terms rather than at our request. We do not analyse those logs to build any profile of you.

If you email us

Writing to us means we hold your email address and whatever you chose to put in the message, in a mailbox, for as long as the correspondence is useful — typically until a reported bug or wrong date is fixed. It is not added to any list and not used to contact you about anything other than your message. Please do not include sensitive personal information; a holiday date correction never needs any.

Children

The site is a holiday calculator and is not directed at children. Because it collects nothing from anyone, it collects nothing from children either.

Your rights

Indian data protection law, including the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, gives you rights over personal data held about you — access, correction and erasure among them. In practice the only personal data we can hold is an email you sent us, so a request to delete it is a request to delete that correspondence, and we will do so on request.

The theme value is under your control, not ours: it sits in your browser and you can clear it at any time without asking us.

Changes to this policy

If a script, font host or stored value is ever added to the site, this page gets updated in the same change, and the date at the top moves. There is no notification mechanism, because there is no mailing list — the date is the record.