Privacy Policy & Data Protection

Transparency on how we handle your data, comments, and cookies.

1. Who We Are

Our website address is: https://visitdananghoian.com.

We are an independent travel media publication. For data protection purposes, we operate under the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom & Hong Kong.

2. Comments & Media

📝 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. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

📸 Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

3. Cookies & Tracking

  • 🍪 User Convenience: If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
  • 🔐 Login Cookies: If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year.
  • 📢 Google AdSense & Affiliates: We use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements. These companies (including Google and TravelPayouts) use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this website. You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.

4. Embedded Content

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). 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, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

5. Your Rights & Data Retention

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. For users that register on our website, we store the personal information they provide in their user profile.

What rights you have: 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. 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.

To request data deletion, please email: visitdananghoian@gmail.com