The fine print
Privacy and disclosure
What we collect, what we don’t, and how our lodging maps work.
Last updated October 22, 2026.
Affiliate disclosure
Mountain Insider earns money through lodging referrals. Our maps, the “compare stays” buttons and some links to booking and ticket sites are provided by Stay22, which shows live prices from booking sites such as Booking.com, Expedia and Vrbo. Stay22 also runs a script on our pages that can turn plain links to supported booking sites into affiliate links. If you book through any of these, the booking site pays us a commission at no extra cost to you (booking sites may still charge their usual service fees). Commissions never change what we recommend. More on how we make money.
What we collect
We don’t ask for your name or email, and the site has no accounts, forms or newsletter. We use Cloudflare Web Analytics, a cookieless tool that counts page views and measures how fast pages load without identifying you or tracking you across sites. Our hosting and content-delivery providers keep standard server logs (such as IP address and browser type) for security and troubleshooting.
Third-party services
Some features load content from other companies, which receive your IP address as a normal part of delivering it and may set their own cookies under their own privacy policies:
- Stay22 (lodging maps and affiliate links)
- Open-Meteo (live mountain weather)
- jsDelivr (the photo lightbox code)
- Cloudflare (security, caching and the analytics described above)
Local storage
The site stores a few small preferences in your browser, for example so a one-time prompt doesn’t reappear on every visit. You can clear them at any time in your browser settings.
Contact
Questions about privacy? Email [email protected]. Mountain Insider is published by Appalachian Frontiers LLC.