Privacy Policy

Information automatically collected

LocallyChina does not currently offer user accounts or newsletters. Our Contact form lets you submit private feedback and an optional email address.

Contact feedback

When contact submission is enabled, your feedback type, message and optional email are processed by Web3Forms and sent to the website operator to handle your inquiry. Web3Forms may process technical information, including your IP address, for spam prevention. These third-party services may process information outside your country. Please do not include sensitive personal information.

Contact messages are private and are not automatically published as Traveler Notes. We use your email only to respond to your feedback. Web3Forms states that form submissions are retained for up to three years unless deleted earlier or a shorter plan limit applies. Its spam prevention providers may also process your IP address and email. Copies are also retained in the operator’s mailbox to handle your inquiry; contact us to request deletion of copies we control. Web3Forms has its own privacy policy.

Server and technical logs

Our hosting provider may automatically record limited technical information needed to deliver and protect the website, such as an IP address, browser type, requested page, date and time, and basic error or security information. These logs are controlled and retained according to the hosting provider’s operational practices.

Cookies and analytics

Optional Google Analytics 4 (GA4) is disabled by default. If analytics is enabled on this site, we load it only after you select “Accept analytics”. Until then, or if you reject analytics, we do not load the Google Analytics tag or send analytics requests to Google. You can use our guides without accepting analytics.

With your consent, Google Analytics uses cookies such as _ga and _ga_* to measure visits, pages viewed, navigation and device/browser information. Google processes technical information, including your IP address when receiving requests, and may process information outside your country. We do not enable advertising storage, advertising personalization or Google signals in this integration, and do not intentionally send contact messages or email addresses to GA4. See Google’s privacy policy.

We store your analytics choice in local storage on your device for up to 180 days. Analytics cookies are configured with a 180-day lifetime; their expiry can be renewed while you use analytics. The preference record only remembers your choice and is not sent to Google. If browser storage is unavailable, your choice may not persist across visits.

You can reopen “Analytics preferences” in the footer at any time. Rejecting after accepting disables further collection for this GA4 property, clears accessible first-party GA analytics cookies for this site, and refreshes the current page to remove the loaded tag. Already transmitted data is not erased by withdrawing consent. Data retention in the GA4 property is managed separately by the website operator; privacy inquiries can be sent through our Contact page when available.

Third-party links

Articles may link to official authorities, travel services or other third-party websites. Those websites have their own privacy practices, and LocallyChina is not responsible for how they collect or use information.

Future updates

This policy may be updated when the website adds new features or when its privacy practices change. The latest version will remain available on this page with an updated date.

Privacy inquiries

Privacy questions and deletion requests can be submitted through our Contact page when message submission is available.