LAST UPDATED: 30 AUGUST 2026
Snappytappy respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information.
This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, why we collect it, how it is used and protected, who it may be shared with, and the rights you have when you visit snappytappy.com, join Base Camp, subscribe to emails, purchase a product or otherwise use Snappytappy.
Snappytappy is operated by David Taplin, trading as Snappytappy, a sole trader based in England.
For the purposes of UK data protection law, David Taplin trading as Snappytappy is the data controller responsible for personal information collected through Snappytappy.
For privacy enquiries or to exercise your data protection rights, contact:
Throughout this Privacy Policy, “Snappytappy”, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to David Taplin trading as Snappytappy.
The information we collect depends on how you use Snappytappy.
This may include:
If you subscribe only to a free Snappytappy email list, we may only need your email address and information relating to your subscription preferences.
If you join Base Camp, we may process information including:
We do not currently ask members to create detailed personal profiles or provide information about their travel preferences, interests or personal circumstances.
Paid Base Camp memberships are currently available at £10 per month or £100 per year (with a discounted Founding Circle Member rate of £5 per month or £50 per year for the first 50 members), and we may also offer other products or paid services in the future.
Payments are processed by Stripe.
Stripe may process information including your name, email address, billing information, payment method information, transaction details and technical information necessary to process payments, authenticate transactions and help prevent fraud.
Snappytappy does not directly store your full debit or credit card details.
We may receive limited information relating to your transaction, such as:
When you visit Snappytappy, certain technical information may be collected automatically.
This can include:
Some of this information will only be collected through non-essential technologies where you have provided the consent required by law.
We may use your personal information to:
We do not sell your personal information.
UK data protection law requires us to have a lawful basis for processing personal information.
Depending on what we are doing, we may rely on one or more of the following.
We process information where it is necessary to enter into or perform a contract with you.
For example, this includes creating and administering your Base Camp membership, providing access to paid content, processing your subscription and communicating with you about the service you have purchased.
We may process and retain information where necessary to comply with legal obligations, including accounting, taxation and regulatory requirements.
We may process information where necessary for our legitimate business interests, provided those interests do not override your rights and freedoms.
These interests may include:
Where required, we rely on your consent for activities including:
Where we rely on consent, you may withdraw it at any time.
We use Outseta to help operate Base Camp and other membership functionality.
Outseta provides services including:
Outseta may therefore process information such as your name, email address, account information, membership status, subscription information, communications, support history and technical information associated with your account.
We only use this information for purposes connected with operating and improving Snappytappy and providing services to you.
We use Stripe to process payments for Base Camp and may use Stripe for other products and services offered by Snappytappy in the future.
When you make a payment, information required to process that transaction is provided to Stripe.
Stripe may process information for purposes including:
We do not receive or directly store your complete card details.
Stripe processes information in accordance with its own privacy documentation and applicable data protection requirements.
Snappytappy may send different types of email communications.
If you are a Base Camp member, we may send emails that form part of your membership or are necessary to operate it.
These may include:
These operational or membership communications are separate from optional general marketing.
Snappytappy may also operate a separate free newsletter or other optional email lists.
Joining Base Camp does not automatically enrol you in a separate free marketing list.
Where consent is required, you will only receive these optional communications if you have chosen to receive them or another lawful basis permits us to contact you.
Marketing emails will include an unsubscribe option.
Unsubscribing from optional marketing will not prevent us from sending essential messages necessary to administer an active account, transaction or membership.
Snappytappy uses cookies and similar technologies.
Some are strictly necessary for the website to operate correctly. These may be used for purposes such as:
Other technologies are non-essential and may be used for analytics, measurement or advertising.
Where consent is required by law, non-essential technologies will not be activated until you have made the appropriate choice through our cookie controls.
You will be able to reject non-essential cookies without being prevented from accessing the main public content of Snappytappy.
You may change or withdraw your consent through the cookie settings available on the website.
We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use Snappytappy.
Google Analytics can help us understand information such as:
We use this information to understand audience trends and improve the website, content and membership experience.
We use Google Tag Manager to manage website tags and tracking technologies.
Google Tag Manager itself is primarily a tag-management system, but tags deployed through it may collect information depending on the technologies enabled.
Where required by law, Google Analytics and other non-essential tracking will only operate after you have provided consent.
We may use Google Ads conversion tracking to understand whether advertising leads to actions such as visits, sign-ups or purchases.
Where this involves storing or accessing information on your device or other non-essential tracking, it will only be used where the appropriate consent has been obtained.
Information collected through Google Ads may be processed by Google in accordance with its own privacy practices.
You can reject advertising-related tracking through our cookie controls.
We may use Google reCAPTCHA to help protect forms, accounts and other parts of Snappytappy from spam, bots, fraud and automated abuse.
reCAPTCHA may collect technical information about your device and interaction with the website in order to determine whether activity appears legitimate.
We use security technologies where reasonably necessary to protect Snappytappy, our systems and our users.
We use Google Search Console to understand how Snappytappy appears and performs in Google Search and to identify technical or indexing issues.
Search Console primarily provides aggregated information about search performance and is not used by us to build individual member profiles.
Snappytappy is hosted using services provided by IONOS.
As part of providing hosting and infrastructure services, IONOS may process technical information such as:
This processing may be necessary to deliver the website, maintain infrastructure, diagnose problems and protect the website against malicious activity.
Snappytappy may introduce affiliate links in the future.
An affiliate link allows a third-party company to identify that a visitor reached its website through Snappytappy. If you subsequently make a purchase, Snappytappy may receive a commission.
Affiliate programmes may use cookies or similar tracking technologies.
Where an affiliate technology requires consent under applicable law, it will not be activated until the required consent has been obtained.
Where appropriate, content containing affiliate relationships will also be identified clearly.
Snappytappy contains links to external websites and social-media services.
These may include travel companies, booking services, retailers, Instagram, TikTok or other third-party websites.
We currently link to social platforms rather than embedding their feeds directly into Snappytappy.
When you follow an external link, the third party may collect information about you in accordance with its own privacy practices.
Snappytappy does not control those external websites and is not responsible for their privacy practices.
We recommend reviewing the privacy information provided by any third party you choose to visit.
We only share personal information where reasonably necessary to operate Snappytappy, provide services, comply with legal obligations or protect our legitimate interests.
Service providers may include:
We expect service providers processing personal information on our behalf to handle it appropriately and in accordance with applicable data protection requirements.
Some of the technology providers used by Snappytappy operate internationally, including in the United States.
This means that personal information may in some circumstances be transferred outside the United Kingdom.
Where UK data protection law requires additional safeguards for an international transfer, we take reasonable steps to ensure an appropriate transfer mechanism is used.
Depending on the provider and destination, this may include:
We do not keep personal information for longer than reasonably necessary.
Our general retention approach is:
Member account information: retained for the duration of your membership and for a reasonable period afterwards where necessary to close the account, resolve issues or meet legal obligations.
Financial and transaction records: normally retained for up to six years where required for accounting, taxation and legal purposes.
Enquiries and support communications: normally retained for up to two years, unless there is a reason to retain them for longer.
Marketing information: retained while you remain subscribed. If you unsubscribe, we may retain limited information on a suppression list so that we can honour your request not to receive further marketing.
Analytics information: retained according to the retention settings configured within the relevant Google Analytics service.
Legal disputes: relevant information may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to establish, exercise or defend a legal claim.
When information is no longer required, we will delete, anonymise or securely dispose of it where reasonably practicable.
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information from unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, destruction or loss.
We also use established third-party providers to handle sensitive functions such as payments and account authentication.
However, no website, electronic transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
If you have a Snappytappy account, you are responsible for keeping your password and login credentials confidential.
Please contact us promptly if you believe your account or personal information may have been compromised.
Under UK data protection law, you may have rights including the right to:
These rights are subject to certain legal conditions and exemptions.
To exercise a data protection right, contact:
We may need to confirm your identity before completing a request.
We will respond within the time required by applicable data protection law.
If you have concerns about the way we use your personal information, please contact us first and we will try to resolve the issue.
You also have the right to make a complaint to the UK’s data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
Information about your rights and how to make a complaint is available from the ICO.
Snappytappy provides general travel, photography and adventure content.
Our public website is not intended to contain content that is unsuitable simply because a visitor is under 18.
However, if you are under 18, you should only purchase a paid Base Camp membership with the involvement and permission of a parent or legal guardian.
We do not intentionally seek unnecessary personal information from children.
If we become aware that personal information relating to a child has been collected in circumstances where it should not have been, we will take appropriate steps to address this.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.
This may happen because of changes to:
The latest version will be published on this page and the “Last updated” date will be changed accordingly.
Where a change materially affects how we use your personal information, we will take reasonable steps to bring it to your attention where required by law.
For questions about this Privacy Policy, your personal information or your data protection rights, contact: