Privacy notice · updated 30 August 2026
Privacy.
This notice explains what information you give us, why we use it, and the choices you have.
This notice describes the service you can use today. It will be updated when the service or its providers change.
Information you give us
When you send a report, message, product idea, or newsletter signup, we collect the fields shown on that form. Your newsletter address stays pending until you confirm it. We keep limited security records to prevent abuse, but we do not deliberately log your form text or raw verification token.
Why we use it
We use your reports to check listings, your messages to respond to your request, and your confirmed email address to send the weekly roundup. We also use limited security records to protect the forms and their data.
Services that help us
expatDB uses Payload, Supabase-hosted PostgreSQL, Vercel, Cloudflare, Resend, and privacy-reviewed analytics to run the site. We review production settings and provider terms as the service changes.
How long we keep it
Contact and report records have a one-year review date in the data model. We keep newsletter consent, confirmation, unsubscribe, bounce, and complaint records as needed to honor your email choices.
Cookies and analytics
Payload Admin uses secure sign-in cookies. Public analytics do not receive your raw search terms, email address, messages, or report text.
Your choices
You can unsubscribe from any email issue. To ask about, correct, or remove information you sent, use the contact page.
Privacy-minimized analytics
expatDB uses a cookieless, storage-denied Google Analytics configuration to understand whether public pages and key actions work. It sends only the page path, fixed action names, and coarse performance measurements. Search terms, query strings, email addresses, form content, newsletter tokens, advertising identifiers, and referrers are not sent.
Because analytics storage and advertising features stay disabled, there is no analytics preference switch. If this implementation changes, this notice and the user controls will change before the new behavior is enabled.