Overview
FairFinder (fairfinder.cc) is a directory of craft fairs, markets and vendor events, operated by VARØ Industries. Browsing the directory needs no account and we do not ask you for personal details to look at listings. This page describes the few places where data does move.
Browsing the directory
When you open the site, your browser requests the page and then fetches the list of markets from our own /api/markets endpoint. Searching, filtering by state, type or vendor fit, and switching between grid, table and map views all happen in your browser. Our server keeps ordinary access logs (IP address, time, URL, browser user agent) for security and troubleshooting. The map view loads the Leaflet library from unpkg and base-map tiles from CARTO and OpenStreetMap, so those services see your IP address when you open it. Fonts come from Google Fonts, and the shared navigation bar is loaded from vendortools.app.
Suggesting a market
The Suggest a Market form sends the market name, location, type, website, Instagram handle, hashtags and notes you enter, plus your email address if you choose to include it, to our server. We store the submission in a review queue, email a notification to the site administrator, and keep it until it has been reviewed. If you supply an email address we may use it to ask a follow-up question about that listing. Submissions are used only to maintain the directory.
Contacting us
The Contact form sends your name (optional), email address and message to the FairKeep API at api.fairkeep.app, which delivers it to us. It is protected by Cloudflare Turnstile, which receives your IP address and browser information to tell people from bots; see the Cloudflare Privacy Policy. The Suggest form uses Turnstile in the same way.
FairKeep links
Buttons such as “Track in FairKeep” open fairkeep.app in a new tab and pass the market's name and details in the link. Anything you do once you are on FairKeep is covered by FairKeep's own policy.
Cookies and local storage
FairFinder does not set its own tracking cookies and has no user accounts. The administrator area uses a session cookie, which is only for the site operator. Third-party services described on this page, including Google, may set their own cookies.
Google Analytics and advertising
This site uses Google Analytics to measure how many people visit and which pages they use, and it may display ads served by Google AdSense. Both are loaded from Google servers and can set or read cookies in your browser.
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this and other websites. Google's advertising cookies enable it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet. You can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. To learn how Google uses data from sites that use its services, see How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.
Sharing, retention and children
We do not sell personal information. Suggestions and contact messages are kept only as long as needed to act on them. The site is a general-audience directory and is not directed at children under 13.
Contact
Questions about this policy? Use our contact form or the VARØ Industries contact page. We may update this policy; the date above shows the latest revision.