Privacy & cookies

LatviaLinks is an independent English-language travel guide to Latvia, created as a companion to LithuaniaLinks. The LatviaLinks editorial team controls the content and the limited site data described on this page.

The guide is designed for reading without registration. You do not need to provide a name, email address or profile to use its destination, planning, language or accommodation pages.

Like any website, the server receives technical request information needed to deliver a page. This can include the IP address, requested address, date and time, browser identifier and referring page. Hosting systems may keep access and error logs for security, reliability and fault investigation. LatviaLinks does not use those logs to create advertising profiles.

LatviaLinks does not operate user accounts, newsletters or checkout services. The contact form, recipe tools and recipe-rating control process only the details described below.

When you use the contact form, LatviaLinks receives the name, email address, subject and message you submit. These details are used to review and answer the enquiry, correct the guide or investigate a website problem. They are not published, added to a marketing list or sold.

The form also uses a short-lived signed request token with replay protection, keyed hashes of the network address and email address for rate control, and Cloudflare Turnstile to check for automated abuse. The token is submitted with the form rather than stored in a LatviaLinks cookie. Turnstile receives the challenge response and necessary technical request data for server-side verification; LatviaLinks does not use it for advertising or analytics. Rate records are automatically removed after 24 hours. A short acknowledgement is sent to the address entered, and contact emails are kept only as long as reasonably needed to answer the message and manage the correspondence.

The five-star recipe control sends the recipe identifier and the rating you select. It does not ask for a name, email address or written comment. LatviaLinks retains only the combined rating total and count for each recipe.

To limit repeated ratings, the server keeps a keyed hash derived from the network address and browser identifier for up to 30 days. The ratings database does not store the raw network address. If you selected Agree to all, the browser can also remember your rating locally so the page can show that you have already rated the recipe.

The Save Recipe, Recently Viewed Recipes and Shopping List tools work entirely in your browser. They store recipe identifiers, titles, same-site URLs, images, cuisine labels and ingredient text in localStorage on your device. LatviaLinks does not receive a saved-recipe collection, shopping list or browsing history from these tools.

You can print saved recipes and shopping-list items, remove individual saved recipes, clear the shopping list or clear the full recipe collection from the My recipes page. Clearing LatviaLinks site data in your browser removes these local records too.

You can use the site without selecting Agree to all. If you select it, LatviaLinks stores that consent decision in this browser for up to 12 months and may save your best phrase-quiz score and recipe-rating choices. Saved recipes, recently viewed recipes and shopping lists are separate practical tools that store only when you use those recipe buttons. These records stay on your device in localStorage and are not used as cross-site profile data.

Agree to all covers every optional cookie and browser-storage purpose currently listed on the Cookie rules page. It does not load Google Analytics, an advertising tag or a third-party tracking script.

LatviaLinks is a progressive web app. Its service worker can keep copies of same-site pages, styles, scripts, images, fonts and audio in the browser cache so previously opened material can remain available during a poor connection. This cache is not an analytics identifier and is not used to follow you between websites.

You can remove cached files through the browser's site-data or storage controls. Removing them may make offline pages unavailable until the site is opened again.

Accommodation searches are prepared through a server-side Stay22 connection. LatviaLinks may temporarily cache the returned search information to keep the page responsive. When you open a sponsored accommodation link, you leave LatviaLinks and the destination provider applies its own privacy and cookie rules.

The social sharing buttons do not load social-network scripts when the page opens. They create an outbound sharing address only when you choose a network. The receiving network may process your visit under its own terms.

You can continue without optional preferences, clear LatviaLinks site data in your browser, reset the phrase-quiz score from the quiz, or clear saved recipes and shopping lists from the My recipes page. You can use the Contact page to ask about a message you submitted or the anonymous rating records described here. If an external booking or social platform holds information about you, direct requests about that information to the provider.

People protected by the General Data Protection Regulation may have rights of access, correction, erasure, restriction, portability and objection, depending on the processing involved. Latvia's Data State Inspectorate publishes guidance on these rights and accepts complaints within its remit.

This page and the Cookie rules page will be updated if LatviaLinks adds a new data-collection feature, analytics service or browser-storage purpose. A change that needs fresh consent will not be treated as covered by an older agreement. The date at the top identifies the version you are reading.