Privacy Policy

Treat this site as a reading room, not a sign-up desk. It exists to lay out 3 verified free and pay-what-you-want walking tours, all clustered on and around the National Mall, plus the city's free museums and monuments. To do that job it asks nothing of you. There is no account to create, no newsletter to join, no comment box to fill, no login wall between you and any page. You read about the day monument walk or the moonlight tour, then either move on or follow a link out to GuruWalk or freetour.com to hold a spot. Reading is the whole exchange.

What Gets Counted Here

Measurement stays coarse and nameless. A script tallies page views, records a broad region and device type, and notes when a reader clicks out toward a walk, the DC Monuments by Moonlight tour on GuruWalk, say. Outbound clicks are the figure that carries weight, since they reveal which pages genuinely help someone plan time on the Mall. Nothing deeper is gathered, for the plain reason that no email, account or payment detail is ever requested here. A visitor arrives, reads about the Einstein Memorial or the WWII Memorial, and departs without leaving anything this site can attach a name to.

Cookies And Outside Content

Most cookies dropped while you browse here are not set by this site. A small set belongs to the analytics tool that counts visits in aggregate. Embedded pieces, a map marking where the Mall walking tour gathers, for instance, load from another company's servers, and that company's own policy governs whatever it places. Photos and other embedded media work the same way. Nothing on these pages trails a reader around the wider web or stitches together activity from other sites.

No booking ever happens on these pages. Each of the 3 walks points somewhere else: 2 to GuruWalk, the day monument tour and the moonlight tour among them, and 1 to freetour.com. Once you click through, that platform may set its own cookie, which is how it knows a booking started from a link here. Those referral links are the site's only income, and they add nothing to what a reader pays, since every walk runs on tips you decide yourself. Past that click, the platform's terms apply. The full arrangement is spelled out on the disclosure page.

What This Site Never Does

• Visitor data is never sold, rented, traded or handed to anyone outside this site, period.
• These pages carry no ad networks, no tracking pixels and no scripts that shadow readers onto other websites.
• No newsletter or registration exists anywhere, so an email address is never collected or kept.
• Nothing is bought on these pages. Every walk listed here, Lisa's day and night monument tours on GuruWalk and the Blue Umbrella Tours Mall walk on freetour.com, gets reserved on its own platform, which handles the transaction and stores whatever details you give it. This site takes no payment and keeps no record of who books what.
• No account, mailing list or comment form exists anywhere on these pages. If you want to reach out, the contact page simply prepares an email in your own mail program, which means the conversation stays between your inbox and this one and nothing gets stored in a form on this end.

Hosting

These pages sit on a third-party host, and like nearly every host it records basic server logs, including visitor IP addresses, mainly to block spam and malicious traffic. That is the whole reason the logs exist: keeping the site up and running. They are not mined to build reader profiles, and no effort is made to connect an address to a specific page, whether someone is reading about the Washington Monument ticket process or comparing the Mall walks.

Your Choices

Readers stay in charge of their own data here. Blocking the analytics script with an ad blocker or browsing privately stops all measurement, and the pages still work fine; turning JavaScript off entirely leaves the articles readable too. Prefer zero trace? You can skip this site altogether: all three walks, the two GuruWalk tours and the freetour.com Mall walk, are listed on their platforms under Lisa and Blue Umbrella Tours, so you lose nothing by going there directly.

Questions about how information is handled, or about a specific tour such as DC Monuments by Moonlight? The contact page answers personally. For the commercial side, the disclosure details explain the earnings model: this site is paid when readers book the GuruWalk and freetour.com walks through its links, and no operator can pay its way into the roster.