Privacy Policy
At Start China Travel (accessible from https://startchinatravel.com), one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by Start China Travel and how we use it.
1. Who We Are
Our website address is: https://startchinatravel.com.
We are a travel resource guide dedicated to helping international travelers navigate China. We provide content regarding travel logistics, including eSIMs, VPNs, payments, and booking services.
2. Affiliate Disclosure (Important)
Start China Travel engages in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.
Start China Travel is a participant in several affiliate programs, including but not limited to:
- Trip.com Affiliate Program
- VPN Affiliate Programs (e.g., Astrill, ExpressVPN, NordVPN)
- eSIM Affiliate Programs (e.g., Airalo, Holafly)
This means that when you click on links to these sites and make a purchase, this can result in a commission that is credited to this site. This comes at no extra cost to you. We only recommend products and services that we believe add value to our readers.
3. Cookies
Like any other website, Start China Travel uses “cookies”. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.
Third-Party Cookies: Our affiliate partners (such as Trip.com) may use cookies and web beacons on our site. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Start China Travel.
4. Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it.
5. Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos from YouTube, maps from Google Maps, images). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content.
6. Analytics
We may use third-party Service Providers (such as Google Analytics) to monitor and analyze the use of our Service. Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services.
7. How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
8. Your Data Rights (GDPR & CCPA)
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
9. Contact Us
If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.
Email: info@startchinatravel.com