Privacy Policy

1.Who Is Responsible for Your Information?

ChinaCulturePro is a website about Chinese culture, traditions, history and related subjects. The website is operated by Anthony, based in China. This operator is responsible for the personal information processed for the website's own purposes.

For privacy questions or requests, contact hello@stagatlast.com. Please use “Privacy Request — ChinaCulturePro” as the subject line so that we can identify your message.

This policy covers ChinaCulturePro. Other websites have their own privacy notices, including websites linked from our articles.

2.Information We Collect

Information You Provide

• Comments: the name or display name, email address, optional website address, comment text and any other information you submit through a comment form.
• Comment notifications: your email address and the discussion or notification preferences you select when subscribing to comment updates.
• Messages and requests: your contact details, message contents and information needed to respond when you contact us, report a problem or exercise a privacy right.
• Accounts, where available: account details and information you provide for account administration. You do not need an account simply to read our public articles.

Please avoid including identity documents, financial details, health information or other sensitive information in public comments or ordinary messages. If you provide information about another person, make sure you are entitled to do so.

Information Collected When You Browse

Our website and the services used to deliver it may process technical information such as your IP address, browser and device information, requested pages, referring pages, access times and security events. Analytics and advertising services may also process cookie identifiers, interactions with pages or advertisements, and an approximate location derived from technical information.

Information comes directly from you, automatically from your browser or device, and from service providers supporting website delivery, comments, analytics and advertising.

3.Birth Dates and Zodiac Calculator Inputs

Our Chinese zodiac, lunar birthday and compatibility calculators use the dates or zodiac signs you enter to display cultural reference results. The current calculator interfaces perform their date and sign calculations in your browser and do not require your name or email address to generate a result.

Using a calculator page can still generate ordinary page-access records and analytics or advertising activity, as described elsewhere in this policy. Browser-based calculation does not mean that the entire webpage is free from third-party requests or tracking technologies.

Do not post your full birth date or another person's personal details in the public comment area. If you send calculator inputs or results to us in a message, we process that information as part of your correspondence.

4.How We Use Information

• Deliver articles, website features and cultural reference tools.
• Receive, moderate and display comments and maintain the context of public discussions.
• Send comment notifications you request and manage those preferences.
• Respond to questions, correction requests, technical reports and privacy requests.
• Understand readership and improve content, accessibility and website performance.
• Display and measure advertising, including personalized advertising where permitted and subject to applicable choices.
• Protect the website against spam, abuse, unauthorized access and other security threats.
• Meet legal obligations, resolve disputes and establish or defend legal claims.

Where data protection law requires a lawful basis, the relevant basis depends on the purpose: consent for activities requiring your permission; legitimate interests in operating, securing and improving the website and handling correspondence, where those interests are not overridden by your rights; performance of a service or agreement you request, where applicable; and compliance with legal obligations.

You may withdraw consent for consent-based processing. Withdrawal does not affect processing that was lawful before withdrawal.

5.Public Comments and Comment Notifications

Comments you publish, your display name and any website link you choose to include may be visible to other visitors and indexed by search engines. Your comment email address is not intended to be displayed publicly with your comment. Information you put inside the comment text itself is public.

The comment system may process IP addresses, browser information and interaction records for moderation, spam prevention and operation of discussion features. Its cookies or browser storage may remember preferences or previously entered details, depending on the options you select and the features enabled.

If you subscribe to comment updates, we use your email address to deliver the notifications you request. These notifications concern the selected discussion; they are separate from permission to send unrelated marketing. Use an unsubscribe option in a notification, where provided, or contact us to request removal from comment notifications.

Comment areas can display avatars through Gravatar. Loading an avatar involves a request to that service and may disclose technical information such as your IP address. An email-derived identifier may be used to match a Gravatar where that feature is enabled. See Automattic's Privacy Policy for information about Gravatar's processing.

6.Cookies, Analytics and Advertising

Cookies are small files stored by your browser. Similar technologies include local storage and identifiers used by website services. Their purposes can include maintaining functionality, remembering preferences, measuring use and supporting advertising.

Website Functionality and Preferences

Website features may use cookies or similar storage for security, login sessions, language preferences and comment settings. The cookies you encounter depend on the pages and features you use. Blocking necessary storage may affect those features.

Google Measurement Services

The website loads Google's tag and uses Google measurement services to understand website activity and content performance. Depending on the configuration, these services can process page addresses, device and browser information, identifiers and interactions. Google may receive technical information directly from your browser.

For details, read How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services and Google's Privacy Policy. Google also provides a Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on for supported browsers.

Google AdSense

Some pages include Google AdSense advertising services. Google and participating advertising providers may use cookies or similar technologies to deliver advertisements, measure performance, prevent fraud and, depending on your choices, location and the applicable configuration, personalize advertising using activity across websites or applications.

Advertising-related information can include online identifiers, browsing activity, technical device information and approximate location. Disclosures for advertising may be treated as a “sale,” “sharing” or “targeted advertising” under some privacy laws, even without a direct payment for the information.

You can review Google's advertising choices through My Ad Center. Turning off personalized advertising does not necessarily stop all advertising, measurement, fraud prevention or other permitted processing.

Your Cookie and Advertising Choices

Where a consent or privacy-settings panel is presented, use it to review available purposes and providers and to change your choices. You can also manage or delete cookies through your browser, use the Google controls linked above, and contact us about choices or rights relating to our website.

Where applicable law requires prior consent, optional technologies require that consent. Merely visiting the website or reading this policy does not itself provide consent for processing that requires it. Deleting cookies may remove previously saved choices, so you may need to set them again. Provider-level controls do not necessarily replace choices required on this website.

7.Who Receives Information?

Information may be disclosed to the following categories of recipients for the purposes described in this policy:

• Website hosting, infrastructure, technical support, security and backup providers.
• Providers supporting email delivery, comments, notifications and avatar display.
• Google and participating providers supporting measurement and advertising.
• Advisers, authorities or other parties where disclosure is required by law or necessary to handle a legal claim, protect rights or address abuse.
• Other visitors and the public, for information you choose to publish in comments.

Some providers process information on our behalf; others process certain information for their own purposes under their own privacy notices. A privacy request to us does not automatically change information held independently by another provider.

8.How Long Information Is Kept

Retention depends on the type of information and the reason it is held:

• Correspondence and privacy-request records are kept for the period needed to handle the matter, document the response and meet applicable legal requirements.
• Published comments and related moderation records may remain while the discussion is available, unless removed or subject to an applicable deletion request.
• Comment-notification details are retained while needed to provide the requested notifications, with limited records where necessary to respect an unsubscribe request.
• Technical logs, analytics records, advertising information and backups follow the relevant operational settings, security needs and provider retention arrangements.

In deciding the period, we consider the purpose, sensitivity and amount of information, whether it is still needed, and applicable legal or dispute-related requirements. Backup copies may remain until replaced through the normal backup cycle. Contact us if you need more specific retention information for a particular record or service.

9.International Processing

The website's operator and service providers may process information in countries other than the country where you live. Privacy laws and government-access rules may differ between countries.

International processing remains subject to any transfer requirements that apply to the information. Contact us for details about the relevant processing locations and any applicable safeguards. This policy does not ask you to waive your rights or treat continued browsing as consent to an international transfer.

10.Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your location and the laws that apply to the operator and the processing, you may have rights to:

• Obtain information about processing and access personal information held about you.
• Correct inaccurate information and request deletion, subject to applicable exceptions.
• Request restriction of processing or receive a portable copy where available.
• Object to certain processing, including direct marketing.
• Withdraw consent where processing relies on consent.
• Opt out of a sale or sharing of personal information or targeted advertising, where those rights apply.
• Use an authorized agent or appeal a request decision where applicable law provides those options.
• Complain to the data protection or privacy authority responsible for your location.

Send requests to the privacy contact in Section 1. Identify the relevant page, comment, email address or interaction so that we can locate the information. We may request proportionate information to verify your identity or an agent's authority, and will respond within the period required by applicable law. Do not send identity documents unless we explain why they are necessary and how to provide them securely.

Browser “Do Not Track” settings are not the same as a legally recognized opt-out preference signal such as Global Privacy Control. Where applicable law requires recognition of such a signal, that requirement applies to the relevant sale, sharing or targeted-advertising processing. You can also contact us about an opt-out request. Exercising an applicable privacy right will not result in unlawful discrimination.

11.Security

We use safeguards intended to protect information against unauthorized access, loss, alteration and misuse. No website, storage system or method of transmission can be guaranteed completely secure. If you believe information connected with this website has been exposed or misused, contact us promptly.

12.Children and Information About Other People

ChinaCulturePro is a general-audience cultural information website. Its interactive submission features are not intended for children under 13 to provide personal information independently. A parent or guardian who believes a child has submitted personal information can contact us to request review and deletion where appropriate.

When using a calculator for a child or another person, avoid adding names or other identifying details, and do not publish their inputs or results in comments without appropriate permission. Additional protections apply where required by local law.

13.External Links and Embedded Content

Articles may link to other websites or include externally hosted content such as videos or images. When external content loads, its provider may receive technical information or use its own cookies, depending on the content and your choices. Clicking an external link takes you to a service governed by its own privacy practices. Review that service's notice before providing information.

14.Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy when website features, service providers, data practices or legal requirements change. The updated version will appear on this page with a revised date. Where required, material changes will receive additional notice or a new request for consent. Publishing an update does not itself obtain consent for a new purpose.