privacy
Privacy on halongbaycruise.info: what is kept, and why
halongbaycruise.info, an independent guide to Halong Bay, Vietnam, sets no cookies and stores nothing in your browser. Visits are counted by Cloudflare Web Analytics without following you from site to site. The site has no contact form and no accounts; an email you send goes to the editor's mailbox. The site sells no data and shows no ads. Once you follow a partner link, you are on the partner's site, and its own privacy rules apply.
addresses
Every address a page talks to
A page of this site can only load from, and report to, the addresses in its security policy, which travels with every page. This is that list.
| Address | Who | What for |
|---|---|---|
halongbaycruise.info | This site, on Cloudflare Pages | The pages, the fonts (Newsreader and Public Sans), the photos, the map library MapLibre GL and the map tiles drawn from OpenStreetMap data, all served from the site itself; the /go/ click counter. |
static.cloudflareinsights.com | Cloudflare Web Analytics | The counting script, added to each page by the host. |
cloudflareinsights.com | Cloudflare Web Analytics | Where that script reports the page address, the page you came from, your browser type and load speed. |
Cookies set by this site: none. Browser storage used: none. Anything else is blocked by the page's security policy.
Only after you click a partner link
From the click on, each partner decides what it collects and which cookies it sets.
- GetYourGuideOvernight and day cruises, tours and transfers. GetYourGuide privacy policy
- ViatorOvernight and day cruises and tours. Viator privacy policy
- KlookCruises, day tours and transfers. Klook privacy policy
- TourRadarMulti-day cruises and tours from Hanoi. TourRadar privacy policy
- Booking.com, through Stay22Hotels and places to stay; the link passes through Stay22 first. Booking.com privacy policy Stay22 privacy policy
reading
Reading a page: host logs and visit counts
The host. The site runs on Cloudflare Pages, a service of Cloudflare, Inc. in the United States. To deliver a page, Cloudflare's servers receive what any web server receives: your IP address, the page asked for and your browser's technical details. Cloudflare handles this for the guide, to send the page and keep the service secure, and it shows the editor totals such as requests by country, never a named reader. How long Cloudflare keeps its logs is in its privacy policy. The site's own code keeps no IP address.
Cloudflare Web Analytics. Cloudflare adds its counting script to each page. It reports the page address, the page you came from, your browser type and how fast the page loaded. It sets no cookie and stores nothing in your browser; Cloudflare states that it does not use this data to identify visitors or follow them across sites (Cloudflare Web Analytics).
Nothing else. Fonts, photos, the map and its library come from the site itself, and the photographers named on the photo credits page receive nothing when a page shows their work. There are no ads, no social media buttons and no embedded videos.
partners
Following a partner link
Partner links are the ones whose address starts with /go/; the affiliate disclosure explains how they pay for the guide. A click goes to this site's server first, which sends your browser on to the partner.
The click counter. For each click the server notes three things: which link, the path of the page it was on and the country Cloudflare places the request in, with the time. No IP address, no identifier and no cookie: the count says which pages send readers to partners, never who.
What reaches the partner. The address you are sent to carries the guide's account id and a tag naming the page, so a booking is credited to the guide. Your browser also tells the partner the page address you came from. No name, email address or account of yours goes with it, because the guide has none.
Writing to the editor
The site has no contact form. If you write to info@halongbaycruise.info, the email arrives in the editor's own mailbox and is kept there like any other mail. It is used to fix a page or answer you, and for nothing else; the contact page says what a message can and cannot do.
rights
Your rights, and how to make a request
Wherever you live, you can ask what the guide holds about you, ask for a copy, have it corrected or deleted, or object to its use. Send the request to info@halongbaycruise.info, with the address and date of any email you sent, since an email is the only thing the guide can look up. Click counts and visit counts hold nothing that points to a person. For Cloudflare's logs or anything a partner holds, the guide tells you where to send the request. Asking costs nothing.
In Australia: the Australian Privacy Principles
The principles give you the right to see the personal information held about you (principle 12) and to have it corrected (principle 13). If an answer does not settle it, you can complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
In the EU, the EEA and the UK: the GDPR
Each use above rests on a legitimate interest (Article 6(1)(f)): delivering pages and keeping the site secure, being credited for a booking and seeing which pages send readers to partners, and answering what you wrote. The GDPR gives you the rights of access, correction, deletion, restriction, portability and objection, with an answer within one month. You can complain to the data protection authority where you live or work (EU authorities, the ICO in the UK).
Cloudflare is a US company, so data about a request can be processed in the United States. Cloudflare is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, and its data processing addendum carries the EU standard contractual clauses. The addendum applies to the account that hosts this site.
Nothing on the site needs data from you: every page can be read without typing anything. The site makes no automated decisions about you, builds no profile and is not directed at children.
Who is responsible, and changes to this page
halongbaycruise.info is published and edited by Rainer Lang, who decides what the site does with personal data. It is not the website of the Ha Long Bay Management Board, the Quang Ninh or Hai Phong authorities or any cruise operator; the About page says more about who makes it, and the terms of use set out how the guide can be used.
The site has no reader accounts and no mailing list, so changes are announced here: the date under the title moves, and a new partner or a new counting script each count as a change.
- Controller
- Rainer Lang
- Postal address
- None published
- How to reach him
- By email at info@halongbaycruise.info.
- Supervisory authority
- The data protection authority where you live or work (GDPR Article 77)