Affiliate Disclosure

This page explains, in plain terms, how this site earns money, what that costs a reader, and who actually stands behind the walks and free places listed here.

What We Earn

This site runs no tours and sells nothing. Its only income comes from links to GuruWalk and freetour.com that carry a referral code. If you reserve a walk after following one of those links, the platform may pay this site a commission, at no extra cost to you. The price model does not change because of the link. The walk stays free.

The commission, when one is paid, comes from the platform rather than from the guide or from you. It raises no price, because the walk itself is free. At the end, the walker gives the guide whatever they think the walk was worth. That tip goes to the guide. None of it reaches this site.

What It Costs You

Following a referral link costs you nothing extra, and the price of the walk does not change. Every reservation happens on the walk's own page on GuruWalk or freetour.com, not here. This site takes no bookings and handles no payments. The tip you give the guide at the end is your own decision, in your own amount, and it goes to the guide.

There are no accounts, no registration, no newsletter and no comments on this site, and no contact form either. The single channel is info@freethingstodoinbilbao.com. Nothing is sold here, so there is no price to pay and no hidden charge attached to any link. If you write, the email is used only to answer it, and for nothing else.

Who Runs The Walks

The walks listed here are run by independent local guides, not by this site. There are 18 in total: 16 on GuruWalk and 2 on freetour.com. Every one is a pay-what-you-want walking tour. This site operates none of them, sets no routes and leads no groups. When you reserve a place, the arrangement is between you, the platform and the guide.

The site also lists free places: parks, plazas, churches, and museums with free hours. Each place appears with its own condition. A museum, for example, is listed with the hours in which entry costs nothing. The condition belongs to the place.

How Ratings Are Shown

GuruWalk rates walks out of 5. Freetour.com rates them out of 10. This site shows each rating exactly as its platform shows it, scale and all, and never converts one into the other. A rating is never merged, averaged or compared across the two platforms here. What you see on a listing matches what the platform displays.

Review counts are shown as the platforms report them, and they cover all languages of a walk, not only some. A walk reviewed in several languages carries its full count here. When two walks sit close on rating, the count tells you how many people have actually reviewed each one. Both numbers come from the platform; neither is adjusted by this site.

Questions About This Disclosure

Write to info@freethingstodoinbilbao.com with any question about this page, a listing, or a link. Email is the only channel. There is no contact form, no account system and no comment section, and any email you send is used only to answer it. Readers in the EU or elsewhere may ask what email data is held about them, and may ask for it to be deleted, by writing to that address.

Readers may also complain to their local data protection authority. For context: these are static pages hosted on Cloudflare, which processes requests and may keep standard server logs. Google Analytics 4 measures aggregate visits and clicks on outbound GuruWalk and freetour.com links, recording the link address, link text and page path, and may set cookies. Map tiles come from OpenStreetMap, whose servers see the visitor's IP address. No advertising is shown, and this site sets no advertising cookies of its own.