How here.co.uk works
Tell us where you are, when you're going, who's coming and what you're in the mood for. We show you up to twelve things to do nearby, one at a time on a map. Swipe through, keep the ones you like and go. You don't need an account to swipe.
How we choose what you see
Every idea has to fit what you asked for: open when you're going, within your travel time and a match for your mood. Then we put the best fits first, using how well a place suits your mood, what people who went thought of it, who it suits and how far away it is.
A business can't pay to move up. Claiming a page, or paying for a plan, never changes where a place appears, its rating or its reviews.
"Not this" only affects the set you're looking at. Nothing is hidden for good.
Your location
We use where you are to find things nearby, then forget it. We never store your location, in our database, our logs or our analytics. We may record which area and county a search was in, so we know where people look, but never where you were.
We help you decide what to do. We don't plan routes or days: directions open in your own maps app.
Paid promotion
Businesses can pay to be shown to more people. This is how here.co.uk stays free for you. Paid promotion follows strict rules:
- Never more than one promoted place or event in a set of twelve.
- It's always labelled "Promoted ยท Paid for by" the business, with a "Why?" link that tells you who paid and who they asked to reach.
- It has to fit what you asked for, like every other idea: open when you're going, within your travel time and a match for your mood.
- It never changes ratings, reviews or the order of anything else.
A business chooses a mood, how far people can be from them and a budget. Each time their promoted card is shown, a small fixed amount comes off the budget.
Our review policy
Reviews must be your own honest experience.
- Only people signed in to here.co.uk can write a review, one per place, which they can edit.
- Owners and staff of a business can't review their own place.
- We don't allow paid or rewarded reviews, or reviews written in return for anything.
- A business can reply to a review once, and edit its reply. It can't remove reviews.
- A rating shows only once a place has three reviews.
Reviews go up straight away after automatic checks. We hold a review for a person to check if it contains contact details or other personal information, abusive language or links, or if a burst of new accounts reviews the same place.
Anyone can report a review: as not a real experience, offensive or abusive, about a different place, containing personal information, or something else. It stays up while we check it, and we'll check it as soon as we can. We tell the business and the reviewer what we decided. We keep a record of every decision.
Where the information comes from
Places come from the Overture Maps Foundation's open map data, and from businesses themselves, including their own websites. Maps use OpenStreetMap data. We never copy Google, Google Maps or review sites.
Some descriptions are written by AI. They use only facts we hold about the place and never make anything up. A business that claims its page can change anything that's wrong.
For businesses
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