Privacy & cookies
LithuaniaLinks is a small free travel guide. No shop, no signup, no newsletter, no clever tricks. We don't collect anything about you ourselves. The site does run two third-party scripts that drop cookies, and in the EU those need your blessing first, so here's what's actually going on.
Who is behind this
A multilingual travel guide about Lithuania, run from outside the EU by people who think more of the world should know about cepelinai. If you've got a question about this page, the contact page is the place.
What we collect ourselves
Honestly? Nothing. There's no login, no newsletter, the contact form just opens your own email app. The server keeps short access logs (IP, browser, where you came from) so we can spot abuse and keep the site standing, but we don't link them to you and we don't use them for marketing. We wouldn't even know how.
The two third-party scripts
If you accept, two scripts load:
- Google Analytics 4 (Google Ireland Ltd / Google LLC). Counts you as one of however many visitors so we can see which guides actually get read. Sets cookies
_gaand_ga_T1WEY33D5X, usually for 13 months. Like with most Google services, processing happens on US servers under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. Google's privacy policy. - Stay22 Let Me Allez (Stay22 Inc., Canada). Watches for links to the usual booking sites (booking.com, expedia, hotels.com, vrbo, tripadvisor, trivago, kayak, agoda, getyourguide) and slips our affiliate ID into them, so we earn a few cents if you book through us. That's what pays for the domain. May set its own cookies on its own domain. Stay22's privacy policy.
Refuse and neither one runs. The booking links still work, but you lose the on-page price comparison that pulls hotel deals from all those sites side by side, often with rates you wouldn't catch on any single one of them. Without it, finding the best price means opening each site in a separate tab and squinting at the totals yourself.
The little note we leave in your browser
Your consent decision itself, in your browser's localStorage, under ll_consent_v1. Without it we'd have to ask on every page load, which would drive everyone up the wall. The note holds your answer (yes or no) plus a date. Nothing else, no tracker.
Changed your mind?
There's a cookie preferences link in every page footer. Click it, the banner comes back, you flip your answer. Clearing cookies in your browser does the same job.
Your GDPR / UK-GDPR rights
If you're in the EU, EEA, or UK, you can ask to see, fix, delete, or take with you any personal data held about you. You can object to processing. You can complain to your national data protection authority (in Lithuania that's VDAI). Since we don't actually hold any personal data about you ourselves, most requests are better aimed straight at Google or Stay22 using the links above. For anything we can help with, the contact page is open.
If anything changes
If we ever add a new third-party script or change how the existing ones work, we update this page and ask for your consent again. The date at the top is the version you're reading.