Privacy notice

This notice explains what This Is Albania collects when you visit, why, and how to change your mind.

The short version

There are no accounts and no logins. Nothing is stored about you unless you accept analytics cookies or hand over your email address for the free guide. If you decline cookies, the only thing kept on your device is the record of that refusal, so the banner stops asking.

The email you give for the guide

If you download the free PDF guide, the form collects your email address. It is submitted through Netlify Forms and stored in this site's Netlify account. It is used to send you the guide and occasional updates about Albania, nothing else.

It is never sold, rented, or passed to any tour operator, hotel or partner. You can ask for it to be deleted at any time by writing to the contact address below, and it will be removed without argument.

Analytics

With your consent the site uses Google Analytics 4 to count page views, to see which destinations and guides are read, and which partner links are followed. This is measured in aggregate and used to decide which pages to improve. It is not sold and not shared for marketing.

Google Consent Mode v2 is in use, so the analytics tags load with storage denied by default and only switch on if you accept. IP addresses are truncated by Google before storage.

Affiliate partners

Links to accommodation, tour, ferry, car rental, eSIM, insurance and flight partners are affiliate links. When you follow one, the partner may set its own cookie to attribute a later booking. That happens on their site under their own privacy policy, not this one. The arrangement is described in the affiliate disclosure.

Third parties that load on these pages

• Google Analytics 4, for the measurement above, only after consent
• Travelpayouts, which converts partner links into tracked affiliate links
• Netlify, which hosts the site and receives the newsletter form submissions
• Google Fonts, which serves the typefaces used across the site
• Leaflet and OpenStreetMap tiles, on pages showing a map

Each receives your IP address as a technical necessity of delivering the file, as happens on any website you visit.

What is stored on your device

One entry in local storage recording your cookie choice, kept until you clear it. Google Analytics cookies, only if you accepted, which expire within two years and can be removed through your browser settings.

Changing your choice

You can change your mind at any time: use the Cookie choices link in the footer of any page, or reopen the banner here. Withdrawing consent takes one click, exactly like giving it. Analytics storage is switched off the moment you reopen the banner, before you choose again.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you can ask what is held about you, ask for it to be corrected or deleted, object to processing, withdraw consent, and complain to your national data protection authority. For most visitors there is nothing held at all. If you gave your email for the guide, that is the one thing there is, and you can have it deleted on request.

Contact

Anything on this page: hello@thisisalbania.com.