This policy explains what data VisaProAdviser receives from its readers, why it is needed and what you can do about it. It is written to meet the requirements of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), since a significant part of our audience lives in the EU.

1. Who is responsible

Data is handled by the VisaProAdviser editorial team. The single point of contact for anything on this page is [email protected].

2. What we receive

  • Your email address — if you subscribed to the newsletter yourself. The address and nothing else: the form does not ask for a name, a country, an age or anything further.
  • Your message — if you wrote to us. The sender address and the text of the email stay in the mailbox for as long as handling the request requires.
  • Anonymous reading statistics. How many times a page was opened, which country and which source the reader arrived from, what type of device was used. We look at this in aggregate; it does not identify an individual.
  • Technical web server records. IP address, time of request, page address, browser version. Every web server keeps such records; they are needed to run the site and to fend off abuse.

3. What we do not collect

  • There are no accounts on this site, so we store no registrations, logins or passwords.
  • We do not ask for and do not accept copies of passports, visas, case numbers or any other documents.
  • We build no advertising profiles and do no cross-site tracking. There are no ad networks and no social media pixels on the site.
  • We collect nothing about your own immigration situation: the publication has no intake form, no questionnaire and no consultant chat.

If you send us scans of documents anyway, we did not ask for them and do not need them; such an email will be deleted.

4. Cookies and browser storage

The site is static and sets no cookies of its own. The interactive checklists inside articles keep your ticks in the browser’s localStorage: that data stays on your device, is never sent to the server, and disappears as soon as you clear site data.

  • The newsletter — your consent, Article 6(1)(a) GDPR. It can be withdrawn at any time.
  • Replying to your message — processing at your own request, Articles 6(1)(b) and 6(1)(f) GDPR.
  • Reading statistics and server records — legitimate interest, Article 6(1)(f) GDPR: understanding which topics readers need, and protecting the site.

6. Who can access the data

We do not sell data and do not pass it to third parties for advertising or marketing.

Technical access exists for the providers without which the site could not run: the hosting provider and the email service. They act as processors, within our instructions and their own data protection obligations. Data may also be disclosed where the law requires it.

7. How long we keep it

  • A subscriber’s address — until you unsubscribe.
  • Correspondence — while the request is being handled, and afterwards only as long as needed to document the correction that was made.
  • Server records — the short period required for diagnostics and security.
  • Reading statistics — in aggregate form, from which no individual can be reconstructed.

8. Your rights

Under the GDPR you have the right to access your data; to have it corrected; to have it erased (the “right to be forgotten”); to restrict processing; to object to processing based on legitimate interest; to receive your data in a machine-readable format; and to withdraw consent. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection authority in your country of residence.

9. How to have your data deleted

Write to [email protected] and say what you would like done. We do not require a copy of an identity document: for a newsletter address it is enough that the request comes from that same address. We reply within the period set by the GDPR — up to one month.

You can also unsubscribe without writing to us, using the link in any newsletter email.

10. Transfers outside the EEA

The hosting provider and the email service may be located outside the European Economic Area. Where that is the case, transfers rely on the mechanisms provided for by the GDPR, in particular the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses.

11. Children

This publication is written for adult readers. We do not knowingly collect data from anyone under 16. If it has happened, write to us and we will delete it.

12. Changes to this policy

The date of the latest revision is shown at the top of this page. Subscribers will be notified of substantial changes by email.