Privacy & analytics
We keep the travel tools usable without an account. Analytics choices depend on your region. You can reject analytics at any time without losing access to tools or locally saved choices.
What stays on your device
Your answers in the route and app planners are used in the page to show a result. We do not send your selected country, passport, itinerary or other answers to our analytics service. The public Master Checklist does not require an account or create a personal list.
Guide feedback is saved in this browser so you can see or change your answer. When analytics is enabled under the regional settings below, we also send a coded helpful/not-yet response and a coded reason, without free text. Clearing your browser storage removes the locally saved feedback and analytics preference.
Optional analytics
China Travel Basics uses Google Analytics 4 to understand page visits and a small number of interactions: guide links, planner starts and result categories, reading depth, FAQ openings, helpful feedback and external link destinations. The event data uses page and guide IDs. It does not include your planner answers or exact travel route. Advertising storage and advertising personalisation remain disabled.
Google Analytics can use first-party cookies and process technical information such as device type, approximate location and browser language. Google explains its own data practices in its Privacy Policy ↗.
In the European Economic Area (the EU, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein), the United Kingdom and Switzerland, we ask before loading Google Analytics. If we cannot identify your region, we also wait for your choice. In other identified regions, analytics loads by default unless you have rejected it.
We check our hosting network’s country information using same-site requests, not your browser language or travel-planner answers. If needed, your browser reads Cloudflare’s diagnostic response, which includes connection details such as your IP address; we use only its country field for this decision and do not save or send the diagnostic response to analytics. VPNs and network routing can affect detection. Other regions may have additional privacy requirements.
Choose “Accept analytics” or “Reject” in the notice, or open “Cookie settings” at the bottom of any page. Rejection stops future analytics events and removes first-party Google Analytics cookies where possible; it does not undo information already sent. We preserve your existing rejection in every region. New explicit choices, their date and the policy version are saved on this device. Rejecting or changing your choice does not reload the page or clear tool answers and guide feedback.
Search data
Google Search Console may provide aggregated search queries, impressions, clicks and country or device reports. It does not tell us who you are or what you entered in our planners.
Contact and updates
Our editorial responsibility and content review process are described on the About & Editorial Method page. We will update this page when our data practices change.
For privacy questions, contact contact@chinatravelbasics.com.
If you email us, we use your address and message to respond to your enquiry. Please do not send passport details, payment card information or other sensitive documents.