Privacy and cookies
Last updated 7 September 2026
The short version
The site sets no cookies. The only thing it keeps on your device is your answer about Travelpayouts, held in your browser and never sent to us. We ask before loading the optional Travelpayouts Drive script, because it may add partner features and store or access cookies or similar browser data. Visits are counted anonymously, without cookies. Some pages link to a car rental company: following one hands you to a partner, under their privacy policy rather than this one.
Who we are
Road rules abroad is an independent project run from the United Kingdom by Connagh Jacobi, who is the data controller for this site — the person who decides what is collected and why, and who answers for it.
Cookies
We do not set cookies ourselves. If you choose “Allow Travelpayouts features”, we load the Travelpayouts Drive Tool. It may add partner features and store or access cookies or similar browser data. Once it is loaded, it can also contact Travelpayouts and Google advertising domains. We do not load it until you actively choose Allow. Saying no does not affect any road-rule content or comparison. Read their privacy policy and their cookie policy.
We remember your choice in your browser's local storage so we do not ask on every page. You can change it at any time: .
If you previously allowed the script, changing your choice stops it loading
on future pages. To remove data already placed by Travelpayouts, use your
browser's site-data controls for emrldtp.com.
Rental links
Some pages carry a link to a car rental company, and we earn a commission if
you book through it. The link starts on this site, at an address beginning
/go/, and redirects through our partner network, Travelpayouts,
to the rental company. From the moment you follow it you are on their sites,
under their privacy policies, and they may set cookies of their own.
We set no cookie on you and store nothing about the click. The link carries a label saying which page it came from, so Travelpayouts can report how many clicks each page produced. It carries nothing that identifies you.
This is separate from the choice above. A rental link behaves the same whether you allowed the Travelpayouts Drive features or refused them, because nothing is contacted until you click it. See how we make money for what the commission does and does not change.
Visit counting
We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to see how many people visit and whether pages load fast. It is a small script loaded from Cloudflare. It uses no cookies, no local storage and no fingerprinting, and it does not follow you to other sites. We see totals — page views, countries, load times — never you.
What is processed anyway
The site is delivered by Cloudflare. To serve a page to you, Cloudflare processes your IP address and standard connection information, and keeps short-lived technical logs. This is the minimum any website needs to reach your browser. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in operating the site securely. See Cloudflare's privacy policy for how they handle it.
The fonts, images and road-rule data come from this site itself. Cloudflare supplies the visit-counting script above. Travelpayouts is contacted only if you allow its optional features or follow a rental link.
When you email us
Emailing us is the one way to give us personal data, and it is entirely your choice. We receive your address and whatever you write. The message is delivered by Cloudflare Email Routing, which forwards it to a private inbox.
We use it to reply to you and for nothing else. There is no mailing list, we send no marketing, and we pass your address to nobody.
What we never see
There are no accounts, no sign-ups and no comments. The only controls are the two country menus on the comparison page, and there is nowhere to type anything. Which countries you compare is computed in your browser and not sent to us. Unless you email us, nothing you do here is attached to a name or an address.
Where your data goes
We are in the United Kingdom. The companies behind the site are not, and the two that matter are different in kind.
Cloudflare works for us. Cloudflare, Inc. is in the United States, and it delivers the site, counts the visits and routes our email. It is certified under the UK Extension to the EU–US Data Privacy Framework and falls back on the standard contractual clauses, which are the mechanisms UK law recognises for sending data to the United States. See Cloudflare's privacy policy.
Travelpayouts does not. The network is run by Go Travel Un Limited, a company in Hong Kong. We pass it no personal data: your browser contacts it directly, and only if you allow the Drive script or follow a rental link. From that point Travelpayouts decides for itself what it collects, under its own privacy policy rather than this one. The same is true of the Google advertising domains the Drive script may reach, and of the rental company at the end of the link.
How long anything lasts
Your Travelpayouts choice sits in your browser's local storage under the key
rrab-travelpayouts-consent. It stays until you change it or
clear this site's data, and it never reaches us.
The technical logs behind serving a page are Cloudflare's, kept on their schedule rather than ours. Email we keep while it is useful — a correction to a road rule is worth holding on to next to the data it fixed — and you can ask us to delete yours at any time.
Your rights
You have the right to ask what personal data we hold about you, to have it corrected or deleted, to object to how we use it, and to receive a copy. Honestly, there is little to ask for: unless you have emailed us, we hold nothing that identifies you.
Ask at [email protected] and we will answer within one month. You never have to pay, and we will not ask you for more identification than it takes to find what we hold.
If you think we have handled your data badly, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office, the UK regulator. If you are in the EU, you may complain to your own country's data protection authority instead.