Affiliate links
AlpFinder links to booking sites, such as Booking.com and Vrbo, so you can check real availability and prices. Some of these links are affiliate links. If you follow an affiliate link and then book, the booking site may pay us a commission. You pay the same price either way.
Every affiliate link is labelled “Affiliate link”; links without that label earn us nothing. Commissions never affect how ski areas are rated or ranked, or which booking sites we link to. The rating uses only published data (lift pass prices, ski area size and altitude), and each ski area card shows how its rating adds up.
We don’t accept payment for placement, and there are no sponsored listings.
English pages also show a banner for TradePricer, another site from the makers of AlpFinder. Nobody pays for it and it isn’t a recommendation. The image comes from this site and sets no cookies; its link tells TradePricer only that you came from AlpFinder.
What we collect
AlpFinder has no accounts. Apart from the visit counts below, the only tracking is Google Ads conversion measurement, and only if you accept it (see advertising cookies).
To count visits, we use Umami (external site, opens in a new tab), which we run on our own server. It sets no cookies and doesn’t identify you: it records the page you view (without your search), any campaign tag in the link you followed, the site that referred you, clicks on booking links, how quickly the page loaded and responded, and your browser, device, country and approximate city. Your IP address isn’t stored, and the data isn’t shared with anyone.
Your search (dates and number of guests) is part of the page address. Our server uses it to build the links to booking sites and doesn’t save it.
Like most websites, our web server records basic access logs: your IP address, the time and the page address, which includes your search. We use these only to keep the site secure and working.
Other services your browser connects to
The map is drawn with map tiles from OpenFreeMap (external site, opens in a new tab), so your browser connects to their servers and they can see your IP address. The shading of the mountains comes from open elevation data hosted by Amazon Web Services (external site, opens in a new tab), so your browser connects to Amazon’s servers too.
When you follow a link to another site, such as a booking site or an accommodation’s own website, that site’s privacy policy applies. Booking sites use cookies to record which site referred you.
Where our information comes from
We don’t show availability or accommodation prices yet; the booking sites we link to have them. Accommodation listings in French villages come from DATAtourisme (external site, opens in a new tab), published by local tourist offices, and from Atout France’s register of classified accommodation (external site, opens in a new tab), both under the Licence Ouverte. We locate register addresses with the Base Adresse Nationale (external site, opens in a new tab). Hotel listings in Swiss villages come from HotellerieSuisse’s directory, published by discover.swiss (external site, opens in a new tab) under the CC BY (external site, opens in a new tab) licence; we use their names, locations, star ratings, capacity and websites, not their descriptions or photos. Listings in Austrian villages come from Österreich Werbung (external site, opens in a new tab)’s open data, collected from the provincial tourism boards, under the CC BY (external site, opens in a new tab) licence; we use their names, types, locations, star ratings and websites, not their contact details, addresses, descriptions or photos, and we leave out private rooms. Listings in South Tyrol come from the Open Data Hub (external site, opens in a new tab)’s copy of LTS’s accommodation register, released into the public domain (CC0 (external site, opens in a new tab)); we use their published names, types, locations, star ratings and websites, and never download their contact details or addresses. Listings in Piedmont and Veneto villages come from the regions’ registers of accommodation (Regione Piemonte (external site, opens in a new tab) and Regione del Veneto (external site, opens in a new tab)), under the CC BY (external site, opens in a new tab) licence; we use their names, types, star ratings, capacity, locations or municipalities and websites, not their contact details, addresses, descriptions or prices. Listings in Bavarian villages come from BayernCloud Tourismus (external site, opens in a new tab)’s open data, where each record has its own licence (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA) and copyright notice, which we show with it; we use their names, types, capacity, locations and websites, and never download their contact details, addresses, descriptions or photos. Lift pass prices are entered by hand from ski areas’ published price lists or a magazine’s compilation of them, and each one links to its source. Typical snow depth on village pages, in the village and up its ski area, is worked out from daily snow depth measured at weather stations, including ski-resort and avalanche-service stations, from Météo-France (external site, opens in a new tab) under the Licence Ouverte, from MeteoSwiss (external site, opens in a new tab) open data (Source: MeteoSwiss), and from the SLF (external site, opens in a new tab), GeoSphere Austria (external site, opens in a new tab), Deutscher Wetterdienst (external site, opens in a new tab), Meteotrentino (external site, opens in a new tab) and Arpa Piemonte (external site, opens in a new tab) under the CC BY (external site, opens in a new tab) licence; it describes past winters, not a forecast.
Contact
AlpFinder is run by BertWeb. You can write to us at:
BertWebPiccadilly Business CentreUnit C, Aldow Enterprise ParkBlackett StreetManchesterM12 6AE