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Privacy policy

Last updated 14 November 2026

This policy explains what information RoamingScanner collects and how it is used. Questions about privacy: hello@roamingscanner.com.

What we collect

  • No account, no personal details. You can use RoamingScanner without signing up or giving us your name or email.
  • Your search settings. Your chosen destination, trip length, data use, language and currency are stored only in your own browser (local storage) so the tool remembers them next time. They are not sent to us.
  • Where you came from. For the current browser session only (session storage), the site remembers the website that sent you, for example a search engine, a social network or ChatGPT. It is used for the link labels and the anonymous counts described below, and it is deleted when you close the tab.
  • Anonymous visit statistics. We use Cloudflare Web Analytics, which counts page visits without cookies and without tracking you across websites. Our own counter also counts one visit per browser session together with the website that sent you and the page you arrived on. It contains no personal data and no identifier.
  • Services your browser contacts. Fonts and scripts come from our own site. Destination photos are loaded from Unsplash (images.unsplash.com), and if you choose a currency other than US dollars your browser downloads the day's exchange rates from ExchangeRate-API (open.er-api.com). Like any website, these services see your IP address when your browser requests a file. We do not use advertising or tracking scripts.
  • Technical logs. Our hosting provider, Cloudflare, processes technical data such as IP addresses to deliver the site and protect it from attacks.
  • Emails you send us. If you email us, we use your message and address only to reply.

Links to eSIM providers

When you click a link to a provider, we add three short labels to the link: the website you came from (for example a search engine), the RoamingScanner page you clicked on, and which button on that page you used (for example "best value" or "#1 in the list"). This shows us which pages and recommendations are useful. It contains no personal data. We also count these clicks in our own anonymous statistics (provider, page and button only), so we can check the numbers that the affiliate networks report. When you click a link to a provider, you leave RoamingScanner. The provider, and any affiliate network it uses, may set cookies to record that you came from us. Their own privacy policies apply to what happens on their websites.

The eSIM helper (the chat button) runs in your browser. When it cannot understand a message, it sends that message to our statistics without any details about you, so we can teach it new words and questions. Email addresses, phone numbers and links are removed first, and we cannot tell who wrote a message. Please do not type personal information into the helper.

Our social media posts and Google / YouTube data

RoamingScanner posts a daily price picture and a short video on its own Facebook page, Instagram account and YouTube channel (@RoamingScanner). For YouTube this is done by a small app of ours, "RoamingScanner poster", which uses the YouTube Data API. The app is used only by RoamingScanner itself, signed in to our own channel. It asks for two permissions: to upload videos to our channel (the "youtube.upload" scope), and to read our own channel's public numbers, such as subscriber, view and like counts of our videos, for our weekly growth report (the "youtube.readonly" scope). It does not read, collect, store or share any data about YouTube viewers or other Google users, and it does not access anything else in our Google account. The only Google data it keeps is a sign-in key for our own channel, stored as an encrypted secret on GitHub and used only for these two tasks. We can remove this access at any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions.

When you watch our videos on YouTube, YouTube's own Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy apply. The same is true for Facebook and Instagram and Meta's privacy policy.

Your rights

Under the EU General Data Protection Regulation you can ask for access to, correction of or deletion of personal data we hold about you, and you can complain to the Finnish Data Protection Ombudsman. Email us at hello@roamingscanner.com to make a request.

Changes

We will update this page if we change how we handle data, and show the date of the latest update at the top.