Privacy & cookies
LithuaniaLinks is a small free travel guide. No shop, no signup, no newsletter, no clever tricks. We do not collect anything about you ourselves. Optional visitor-stat cookies only load if you accept them.
Who is behind this
A multilingual travel guide about Lithuania, run from outside the EU by Lithuanians 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.
Optional visitor stats
If you accept, one optional script loads:
- 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_L6BM029RH1, 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.
If you refuse, Google Analytics does not load. Hotel suggestions can still appear, but no Stay22 map or browser script loads automatically.
Booking links
We use Stay22 to show hotel suggestions. When you click a hotel link, you may be taken through Stay22 or a booking partner in a new tab. Stay22's privacy policy.
The little note we leave in your browser
Your consent decision itself, in your browser's localStorage, under ll_consent_v2. Without it we would have to ask on every page load. The note holds your visitor-stats answer plus a date. Nothing else, no tracker. We do not use any session cookies for the main site - the only one (PHPSESSID) is set briefly if you use the photo submission form, to block CSRF attacks, and lives only as long as your browser tab.
When you send us a photo
If you choose to send us a photo via the submission form, we store: the photo itself (re-encoded, with all EXIF metadata including GPS coordinates stripped before saving), your email (only to let you know if we publish it), and a one-way hash of your IP address (used to count submissions per day and prevent abuse - the raw IP is never written to disk). Submissions sit in a quarantined queue until we review them by hand. If we publish, we credit you with only the name you typed in the optional credit field. If you ask us to remove a photo later, we delete it on request. Rejected submissions: the file is deleted, the record kept briefly for audit. We never share submitted photos or details with any third party.
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 personal data about you ourselves, most requests about visitor stats are better aimed straight at Google using the link 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.