Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Tonse ("we," "us," or "our"), which operates the website gochinavisafree.com (the "Site"), collects, uses, stores, shares, and protects information about you ("you," "user," or "visitor") when you visit or interact with the Site.

By using the Site, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the Site.

This Policy is designed to explain our privacy practices and support compliance with applicable privacy laws, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the UK GDPR, the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CCPA/CPRA), and other similar privacy laws where they apply to us.

Not every privacy law applies to every user or every website. Where specific rights apply to your region, those rights are described below.

1. Who We Are

The Site is operated by Tonse, located in New York, USA.

For any privacy-related questions, you can contact us at: gochinavisafree@gmail.com

For the purposes of applicable data protection laws, the data controller is Tonse.

2. Important Note About the Site

GoChinaVisaFree.com is an independent informational website.

We provide general information about China visa-free entry policies, transit rules, travel preparation, and related travel topics.

• We are not a government website.
• We are not an embassy or consulate.
• We are not an immigration authority.
• We are not a visa agency.
• We do not issue visas.
• We do not approve entry into China.
• We do not make immigration decisions.

Any travel, visa-free, immigration, or entry information on the Site is for general informational purposes only.

It does not require you to submit personal documents to us.

Please do not send us passport numbers, visa numbers, residence permit numbers, government ID numbers, financial account details, health information, or copies of sensitive documents unless we specifically request them for a clearly stated purpose.

3. Information We Collect

We may collect the following categories of information depending on how you use the Site.

a) Information You Provide Directly

You may provide information to us when you:

• Subscribe to our newsletter
• Download a guide, checklist, or other resource
• Contact us by email
• Submit a contact form
• Send us feedback
• Ask a question
• Report an error
• Contact us for business, partnership, advertising, or affiliate inquiries
• Use any future forms, tools, checkers, or interactive features on the Site

This information may include:

• Name
• Email address
• Message content
• Business or company information, if relevant
• Country or nationality, if you choose to provide it
• Travel-related details, if you choose to provide them
• Any other information you voluntarily send to us

Please do not send us sensitive personal information unless it is necessary.

Sensitive personal information may include passport numbers, visa numbers, government ID numbers, financial information, health information, precise location, or other private details.

If you voluntarily send us sensitive information, you understand that we may receive and process it only as necessary to respond to your request, protect our rights, comply with legal obligations, or delete it.

b) Information Collected Automatically

When you visit the Site, certain information may be collected automatically through cookies, server logs, analytics tools, security tools, and similar technologies. This may include:

• IP address
• Approximate location based on IP address, such as country, region, or city
• Browser type and version
• Device type
• Operating system
• Screen size
• Referring website
• Pages viewed
• Links clicked
• Time spent on pages
• Dates and times of visits
• General usage and performance data
• Analytics data that may be aggregated, de-identified, or associated with cookie/device identifiers depending on the tool used

We use this information to understand how visitors use the Site, improve our content, fix technical issues, protect the Site, and measure performance.

c) Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We and our third-party service providers may use cookies, pixels, tags, scripts, local storage, and similar technologies. These technologies may help us:

• Operate the Site
• Keep the Site secure
• Remember preferences
• Measure traffic
• Understand how visitors use the Site
• Improve performance
• Track affiliate-link clicks
• Measure advertising or affiliate performance
• Detect spam, fraud, abuse, or technical problems

See Section 7 ("Cookies") for more details.

d) Information Entered Into Travel Tools

If the Site offers country checkers, route checkers, port checkers, destination checkers, calculators, forms, chat tools, or other interactive features, we may process the information you enter into those tools. This may include:

• Passport country
• Nationality
• Route
• Destination
• Intended travel dates
• Port of entry or exit
• Purpose of travel
• Visa-free policy questions
• Other travel-related information you choose to enter

Unless clearly stated otherwise, these tools are for general informational purposes only. They do not make official visa, immigration, airline, or border decisions.

Please do not enter passport numbers, visa numbers, government ID numbers, financial details, or other sensitive personal information into our tools unless we clearly request it for a specific purpose.

e) AI and Automated Tools

We may use artificial intelligence tools, automation tools, search tools, analytics tools, or other software to help us operate the Site, respond to inquiries, improve content, organize information, detect errors, or improve user experience.

If you submit information through forms, email, chat tools, or interactive features, that information may be processed by these tools or by the third-party providers that operate them.

We do not use AI tools or automated tools to make official visa, immigration, legal, airline, or border-control decisions. Only the relevant government authority, airline, border officer, embassy, consulate, or immigration authority can make those decisions.

Please do not submit sensitive personal documents or sensitive personal information unless it is necessary and clearly requested.

f) Sensitive Documents

We do not need copies of your passport, visa, residence permit, government ID, bank card, or other sensitive documents to provide general information on the Site.

Please do not send or upload these documents to us unless we specifically request them and explain why they are needed.

If you send sensitive documents or sensitive personal information voluntarily, you understand that we may receive and process them only as necessary to respond to your request, protect our rights, comply with legal obligations, or delete them.

4. How We Use Your Information

We may use the information we collect to:

• Operate, maintain, and improve the Site and its content
• Send newsletters, updates, travel guides, checklists, or related materials you requested or opted into
• Respond to your inquiries
• Provide user support
• Analyze how the Site is used
• Improve articles, tools, checkers, and user experience
• Detect, prevent, and address technical issues, fraud, abuse, spam, or security incidents
• Monitor Site performance
• Display, manage, and measure affiliate links
• Display or measure advertising, if applicable
• Manage business, partnership, advertising, or affiliate inquiries
• Comply with legal obligations
• Enforce our Terms of Use
• Protect our rights, property, safety, users, or the public

We do not use your information to make official visa, immigration, airline, or border-control decisions.

5. Legal Bases for Processing

Depending on where you live, we may need a legal basis to process your personal information. Where applicable, we may process your information based on:

• Consent — for example, when you subscribe to our email list, accept optional cookies, or submit information voluntarily.
• Legitimate interests — for example, to operate, secure, analyze, and improve the Site, prevent abuse, respond to inquiries, and run our business.
• Contract or pre-contractual steps — for example, if you contact us about a business relationship, partnership, or service.
• Legal obligation — where we are required to process information to comply with the law.
• Protection of rights and safety — where processing is necessary to protect our rights, users, Site security, or the public.

If you are located in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, we process your personal data only where we have a lawful basis to do so.

6. Email Marketing

If you subscribe to our email list, we will use your email address to send you newsletters, travel guides, updates, promotional content, or other related materials.

These emails may include affiliate links, sponsored links, or promotional content.

Every marketing email will include an unsubscribe link or other opt-out method. You can opt out at any time, and we will stop sending you marketing emails.

We may still send you non-marketing messages where necessary, such as replies to your messages, administrative notices, or legal notices.

We may use a third-party email service provider to manage subscriptions and send emails. See Section 9.

7. Cookies

Cookies are small text files stored on your device. We may use the following types of cookies and similar technologies:

• Essential cookies — required for the Site to function, load properly, stay secure, or remember basic settings.
• Analytics cookies — used to understand how visitors use the Site and how content performs.
• Functional cookies — used to remember preferences or improve user experience.
• Advertising cookies — used to show, measure, or improve ads, if advertising is used.
• Affiliate cookies — used to measure clicks on affiliate links and attribute referrals to partners.
• Security cookies — used to detect abuse, spam, bots, or security threats.

You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings.

Where required by law, we will request your consent before placing non-essential cookies through a cookie banner or similar consent tool.

Disabling some cookies may affect how the Site works.

If we later add a cookie-management tool, users may be able to manage cookie preferences directly through that tool.

8. Opt-Out Signals and Cookie Choices

Some browsers or devices may offer privacy signals, such as Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control.

Because there is no universal industry standard for all privacy signals, our response may depend on the technology available to us, the tools we use, and the laws that apply.

Where required by applicable law and where technically supported by our systems or service providers, we will honor legally recognized opt-out preference signals.

We are reviewing technical options for honoring legally recognized opt-out preference signals where required.

9. Third-Party Service Providers

We may share limited information with trusted third-party service providers that help us operate, protect, improve, or monetize the Site. These may include providers for:

• Website hosting
• Domain management
• DNS and infrastructure
• Website security
• Analytics
• Search performance
• Email newsletters
• Contact forms
• Spam prevention
• AI or automation tools
• Content management
• Affiliate tracking
• Advertising, if used
• Payment processing, if payments are introduced in the future
• Business operations
• Legal, accounting, or professional services

These third parties may process information only as needed to provide services to us or as described in their own terms and privacy policies.

We do not control every third-party provider's privacy practices. We encourage you to review their privacy policies.

As the Site develops, we may update this Policy to identify specific providers where appropriate.

10. Affiliate Links and Third-Party Websites

The Site may contain affiliate links, referral links, sponsored links, advertising links, and links to third-party websites.

When you click an affiliate link or third-party link, the third party may collect information about your click, device, browser, referral source, and any resulting purchase, booking, sign-up, or other action.

This tracking is usually handled by the affiliate network, merchant, advertiser, or third-party platform.

We do not control and are not responsible for the content, privacy practices, data handling, security, terms, prices, services, or policies of third-party websites.

Once you leave our Site, this Privacy Policy no longer applies.

Please review the privacy policy and terms of any third-party website before using it.

See our separate Affiliate Disclosure for more information about how affiliate links work.

11. How We Share Information

We may share information:

• With service providers and partners as described in this Policy
• With analytics, email, hosting, security, affiliate, advertising, or AI-tool providers, where applicable
• To comply with the law, legal process, court order, or lawful government request
• To protect our rights, property, safety, users, or the public
• To investigate fraud, spam, abuse, security incidents, or technical issues
• With professional advisors, such as lawyers, accountants, or consultants
• In connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, sale of assets, restructuring, or business transfer

We do not sell your personal information for money.

However, some privacy laws define "sharing," "selling," or "targeted advertising" broadly to include certain cookies, analytics, advertising tools, affiliate tracking, or cross-context behavioral advertising.

To the extent our use of these technologies is considered "sharing," "selling," or "targeted advertising" under applicable law, you may have the right to opt out as described in this Policy.

13. Data Retention

We retain personal information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy. Retention periods may depend on:

• The type of information
• Why it was collected
• Whether you subscribed to updates
• Whether you contacted us
• Legal requirements
• Security needs
• Business records
• Whether you ask us to delete it
• Whether we need it to protect our rights

Examples:

• Email subscriber data may be kept until you unsubscribe or request deletion.
• Contact messages may be kept as long as needed to respond and maintain reasonable records.
• Analytics data may be kept according to the settings of our analytics provider or as configured by us.
• Affiliate tracking data may be kept by affiliate partners according to their own policies.
• Legal, security, or fraud-prevention records may be kept longer if needed.

When information is no longer needed, we delete, de-identify, or anonymize it where reasonably possible.

14. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the following rights:

• Access — request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• Correction — request that we correct inaccurate or incomplete data.
• Deletion — request that we delete your personal data.
• Restriction — request that we limit certain processing.
• Objection — object to certain processing.
• Portability — request your data in a portable format.
• Withdraw consent — withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
• Opt out of marketing — unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time.
• Opt out of sale, sharing, or targeted advertising — where applicable under U.S. state privacy laws.
• Non-discrimination — we will not discriminate against you for exercising your privacy rights.

To exercise any right, contact us at gochinavisafree@gmail.com.

We may need to verify your identity before responding.

We will respond within the timeframe required by applicable law.

Some requests may be limited by law, legal obligations, security needs, fraud-prevention needs, free-expression rights, or our legitimate business interests.

If you are in the EEA or UK and believe we have not handled your data properly, you may have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

15. International Data Transfers

We operate online, and your information may be processed and stored in countries other than your own.

These countries may have different data protection laws from your country.

Where required, we take steps designed to provide appropriate safeguards for international transfers, such as using service providers that offer contractual protections or other legally recognized transfer mechanisms.

By using the Site, you understand that your information may be transferred, stored, or processed internationally by us or our service providers.

16. Children's Privacy

The Site is intended for general audiences and travelers. It is not directed to children.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13, or under the minimum age required by applicable law in your jurisdiction.

For users in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 16, or under the lower minimum age set by your country's law, which, depending on the EU member state, may be as low as 13.

If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us at gochinavisafree@gmail.com, and we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

If you are under the age of majority in your country, you should use the Site with permission from a parent or guardian.

17. Data Security

We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

However, no website, server, database, email system, or internet transmission is completely secure.

We cannot guarantee absolute security.

You use the Site and send information at your own risk.

Please do not send highly sensitive information through ordinary email, contact forms, or Site tools unless necessary.

18. Do Not Track

Some browsers offer a "Do Not Track" signal.

Because there is no single accepted standard for how websites should respond to Do Not Track signals, we currently do not respond to Do Not Track signals.

Where required by applicable law and where technically supported, we will honor legally recognized opt-out preference signals, such as Global Privacy Control.

We are reviewing implementation options and will update this Policy when our technical setup changes.

19. User Submissions

If you send us messages, feedback, corrections, suggestions, questions, or other content, you give us permission to use that content to:

• Respond to you
• Improve the Site
• Correct errors
• Develop new content
• Maintain internal records
• Protect our rights
• Comply with legal obligations

We will not intentionally publish your private personal information without permission.

Please do not send confidential, sensitive, or private information unless necessary.

20. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.

When we do, we will revise the "Last updated" date at the top.

Material changes will be posted on this page.

If required by law, we may provide additional notice or request consent for certain changes.

Your continued use of the Site after changes take effect means you accept the updated Policy.

21. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, contact us at:

Tonse

New York, USA

Email: gochinavisafree@gmail.com

Website: https://gochinavisafree.com