Privacy & data practices

Malls.info has no user accounts, no sign-in, and builds no personal profiles. We never ask for your name, email address or any identifier unless you voluntarily type one into a submission form — and none of our forms require it.

To understand which deals and links are useful, we log anonymous click events when you copy a promo code, open a deal link, open an Amazon shelf link, get directions, call a mall, or visit an official mall or retailer site from our pages. Each event records only: what was clicked (a label and the page it was on), the kind of link, and a random per-browser session id stored in your browser's localStorage.

We also use Google Analytics to count page views and the same anonymous click events. Google receives the page address and a coarse event label only — never your name, email or coordinates. Google may set its own cookies to recognise a returning browser.

The search boxes on the home page, search page and trip planner log the same kind of anonymous event: the trimmed search text or filter you used and generic yes/no flags such as "a location was set". They never include your coordinates or the place name you typed into a location box.

That session id is a random string we generate — it is not tied to your identity, your IP address is not stored with events, and it exists only so a coupon copy and a later Amazon click in the same browser can be counted as one journey. Clearing your browser storage resets it.

The postcode and "use my location" search on the directory, cities and events pages works locally: when you allow location access, the coordinates are read by your browser and used only to sort results by distance on the page. They are never stored and never sent to our servers.

When you type a postcode or city name, that text (and only that text) is sent to the OpenStreetMap Nominatim geocoding service to resolve it to map coordinates, subject to the OSM Foundation privacy policy.

Saving a mall, brand or store and planning a shopping trip both work without an account: everything you save lives only in this browser's localStorage. Your saved list and trip plans are never uploaded to our servers, and a trip's share link encodes the plan in the link itself rather than storing it anywhere. Clearing browser storage deletes your saves and plans.

Malls.info participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. Amazon links on this site carry our affiliate tag, and qualifying purchases earn us a commission at no cost to you. Amazon may set its own cookies when you follow those links — that happens on Amazon's domain under Amazon's privacy policy, not ours.

Deal and coupon links go to the merchant or the publishing coupon site. We label where each offer was sourced and when it was last checked.

• No third-party advertising or tracking pixels.
• No sale or sharing of any data — there is nothing personal to sell.
• No precise location collection: geolocation runs in your browser on your action only.
• No fingerprinting, no cross-site tracking, no email harvesting.

The deal submission, review and report a correction forms store exactly what you type, so we can verify and act on it. Submissions are reviewed by a person before anything appears on the site.

Use the correction form for any data question, correction or removal request — it reaches the same inbox our editors work from.