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Privacy policy

Last updated: July 5, 2026

Chinese Food Atlas is a public editorial website. You can browse it without creating an account or providing personal profile information.

Information we collect

When you visit the site, our hosting and security providers may process standard technical information such as your IP address, browser type, device type, requested URL, approximate location and request time. This information is used to deliver the site, prevent abuse and maintain security.

If you contact us by email, we receive the information you choose to include and use it only to respond to your message or handle the matter you raise.

Privacy-friendly analytics

We use Vercel Web Analytics to understand aggregate page views, referral sources, devices and general geographic trends. Vercel Web Analytics is designed without cookies and reports anonymized or aggregated usage information. We do not use it to build personal profiles.

Advertising and Google AdSense

Chinese Food Atlas may display advertising supplied by Google AdSense. When advertising is enabled, third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies, local storage or similar technologies to serve and measure ads.

• Google and its partners may use advertising cookies to show ads based on a visitor’s prior visits to this website or other websites.
• Advertising identifiers may be used to limit repeated ads, measure performance, detect fraud and, where permitted, personalize advertising.
• Visitors can manage or opt out of personalized Google advertising through Google Ads Settings. Additional industry opt-out choices are available at AboutAds.
• Google’s handling of information is described in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.

If other advertising vendors are added, this policy and our consent controls will be updated to identify them and explain available choices.

Consent and cookie choices

Where consent is required by law, non-essential advertising storage and personalized advertising will not be activated until the visitor has made a choice through the consent controls shown on the site. You can review the current status on our Cookie settings page.

Service providers

We rely on Cloudflare for domain and network services, Vercel for hosting and analytics, and Google for advertising if AdSense is enabled. These providers may process technical data under their own privacy terms and applicable data-protection agreements.

Data retention and your choices

We keep information only for as long as reasonably necessary for site operation, security, analytics or legal obligations. Depending on where you live, you may have rights to request access, correction or deletion of personal information. Because the site does not offer user accounts, most requests will relate to information you supplied directly, such as an email.

Children’s privacy

This site is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Changes and contact

We may update this policy as the site, advertising setup or legal requirements change. The latest version will always appear on this page. Questions or privacy requests can be sent through our contact page.