Privacy, in plain language

Last updated: 13 September 2026

Who we are

Hungary Unlocked (hungaryunlocked.com) is an independent Budapest travel guide. For anything privacy-related, write tohello@hungaryunlocked.com.

What we collect

• Newsletter: your email address, the language and page you signed up from, the time, and a one-way cryptographic fingerprint (a salted hash of your IP and browser) kept only as proof of consent. We never store your raw IP address. Legal basis: your consent (GDPR art. 6(1)(a)), which you can withdraw any time with the unsubscribe link in every email or by writing to us.
• Analytics: Google Analytics 4 helps us understand visits and use of our guides. It loads only after analytics permission is available. Analytics may process page views, interactions, device information and cookie identifiers; reports do not make the underlying data anonymous.
• Affiliate links: some links (for example to Booking.com, Viator, or GetYourGuide) earn us a commission at no extra cost to you. Those sites have their own privacy policies once you land on them. Details onhow our affiliate links work.

Advertising, analytics and your choices

We use Google AdSense to fund the site. Google and its advertising partners may use cookies, identifiers and device information to deliver and measure ads, and to personalize them when permitted. The consent message lists the partners and purposes. Advertising availability depends on Google approval and your privacy choices.

Use Cookie settings in the footer to manage or withdraw your choices. Where available, this opens Google’s consent controls; otherwise it opens our analytics settings. Closing our fallback panel does not grant consent. Earlier analytics refusals remain effective until you make a new choice. Google processes data under its own privacy terms, which can include processing outside your country. Read how Google uses information from partner sites. Google Privacy & Terms

What we do not do

• No selling or renting your data. Ever.
• No spam. The newsletter is occasional and every email has an unsubscribe link.
• No storing raw IP addresses with your email.

Where your data lives

Newsletter data is stored in our own database on Cloudflare's infrastructure (EU-capable processing under their data processing addendum). Analytics data is processed by Google.

Your rights (GDPR)

You can ask for a copy of your data, correct it, or have it deleted entirely. Emailhello@hungaryunlocked.com and we handle it within 30 days. Unsubscribing from the newsletter is instant via the link in any email. You also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.

Retention

Newsletter data is kept while you are subscribed. Unsubscribed addresses are kept on a suppression list (so we never email you again by accident) unless you ask for full deletion.