Privacy Policy

Place Name Guide and the Agg Social publishing application · Effective 11 September 2026

What the Agg Social application is

Agg Social is a private publishing tool operated by its owner, Bill Alderson. It is used for one purpose: to publish posts, photographs and road-status updates to Facebook Pages that the owner himself administers, including the Plaskett Family page. It is not offered to the public and has no users other than its owner.

What data it collects

None from you. The application does not request, collect, store or share personal data of any Facebook user. It reads and writes only the owner's own Page content through access tokens for Pages he administers. It has no database of people, runs no analytics on visitors, and sets no cookies.

What the websites collect

placenameguide.com, plaskett.family and their related sites keep ordinary, anonymised web server statistics (counts of visits by country) provided by their content delivery network. If you choose to subscribe to road and fire status email, your address is stored only after you confirm it by email, is used only to send you what you asked for, and every message carries an unsubscribe link that works immediately.

The driving guide app

The guide at app.placenameguide.com keeps an ordinary web server log of downloads (network address and the coarse location the content network derives from it), which we use to understand where the guides travel.

When you drive a guide, a technical log of what the app did — which stops played, where it fired or failed, and your positions along the route — is sent to us when the drive ends, or with a review you submit, so the guide can be fixed where it fails. It carries no name, account or contact detail.

Your route is used for one more thing, and we want to say it plainly. The guide talks about places to eat, sleep and stop along the road, and we are studying whether hearing about a place makes people stop there. For that we count how many drives stopped at a place and for how long. What we keep is a count per place, with no route attached. The full route of a drive is kept for at most thirty days and then deleted. A random install identifier — a token the app makes up on your phone — lets us tell two drives on one phone from two phones; it is tied to no name, account or email.

If you mark a place as interesting while a guide plays, the list you make stays on your phone; which places were marked (never who marked them) travels with the drive log, so a place chosen at home can be told from a place merely passed.

If you ask for your plan to be sent to you, by email or by text, the address or number you give, your plan, and the app's install identifier are kept together in our own records, so we know who our travelers are and what they hoped to do. We do not write to you again unless you ticked the reminder box; with the tick we remind you before you go and tell you if a place on your plan closes or the road does. Your name is optional throughout, and a note to the address below removes the record.

This is a study, not a business arrangement. No money, credits or goods change hands between us and any place the guide mentions, and no business is told anything about you. If that ever changes, this page will say so before it does.

You can keep your route to yourself. The Share my route switch on the drive page turns this off, and then no positions leave your phone at all, not even in the technical log. Nobody is turned away for that, and nothing else about the guide changes. More at placenameguide.com/support.

Accounts

Creating an account — for custom drives, or to keep a plan — stores your email address and a salted, irreversibly hashed form of your password. The password itself is never stored, logged or emailed, and cannot be recovered from what we hold. Your account records which drives belong to you, and nothing else.

If you give us an email address any other way — subscribing to road and fire status, asking for a plan to be sent to you, or writing to us — that address is kept so we can do the thing you asked for. It is not sold, rented, or passed to anyone, and it is not added to any other list.

Nothing here costs money. We charge nobody, sell nothing, and take no payment of any kind. There is no card form anywhere on these sites, no payment processor, and no card, bank or billing detail is ever asked for, handled or stored. If that ever changes, this page will say so before it does.

Delete an account any time by writing to the address below.

Businesses along the road

The guide lists the places on the route — where to eat, sleep, fuel up or find a restroom — and says what each one offers. This section is about what we hold on those businesses, because they did not ask to be listed and are owed a plain account of it.

Where the information comes from. We read what a business publishes about itself: its own website and pages, and other public listings and published sources such as agency pages and news reports. We do not buy data about businesses, and we take nothing from behind a login.

What we keep. For each place: its name, address, telephone number, public email address, website, what it offers, how it may be booked, and our notes on where each of those came from and when we last checked. Where a business's own published pages name the people who run it, we may record a name, a job title and the address that business itself publishes — so that we write to the right person rather than to a stranger.

What we never publish. We do not put any individual's name or contact details on the site as a contact for a business. If a business tells us who to deal with, that person's name and address stay in our own records; what reaches the page is what they say about the place, never who said it. A check runs on every build and fails it if a contact's name reaches a published page.

Why we write to them. Because reading a website from the outside is guesswork, and we would rather be corrected than be wrong in public. We write to the address a business publishes, show it exactly what we are saying about it, ask whether it is right, and ask who we should be dealing with.

Correcting an entry. That letter carries a link unique to that business, signed and time-limited, which opens its own entry. Anyone holding the link can tick what the place offers, add a line in their own words, and give us a booking page. They cannot change whether we say the road reaches them — that is the highway authority's answer, not ours or theirs — and they cannot change the date we last checked, because a business editing its own freshness stamp would make that date worthless for everybody else on the road. A business that has not been written to can ask to claim its entry; we only ever send the link to an address that business has itself published, so that a stranger cannot take over somebody else's listing.

Nothing is bought or sold. No money, credit or goods pass between us and any business the guide mentions. A business cannot pay to be listed, to be listed better, or to be mentioned more. Nothing a business tells us is passed to anybody else.

Being removed. Any business can ask to be taken out, and we will do it — the entry, the people, the notes, the correspondence, all of it, from the guide and from our own records, with no argument and no attempt to talk anybody round. One request to the address below is enough, and it need not give a reason.

One thing will survive, and only because removing it would undo the request: a single line recording that this business and these addresses are not to be contacted or listed again. Without it, the next time we read the road we would add the place back and write to it afresh. That line holds nothing but what is needed to keep the place out — no history, no notes, and nothing that could be published. If you would rather we kept nothing at all and accepted that risk, say so and we will do that instead.

Data deletion

There is no Facebook user data to delete, because none is collected.

Everything else we hold can be removed on request, and a single message to the address below is enough. We do not ask why.

If you ask us to delete your email address or your account, we expunge the drives with it. Not just the login — the account, the address, every custom drive built for you, every plan we sent you, and every drive log and position we still hold that belongs to that install. It goes out of the live system and out of the backups as they roll. What is left is nothing: no shadow record, no archived copy kept in case you come back.

If a business does not wish to be listed, the same. The entry comes off the guide, and the people, the notes, the research and the correspondence come out of our records with it. Nobody is asked to justify it and nobody is talked round.

Email subscriptions also carry an unsubscribe link in every message, which works immediately and without writing to anybody.

Contact

Bill Alderson · [email protected]