Your data
Last updated 27 October 2026
China Hike is a small-group trekking operator working across China. We run treks for guests from Europe, North America, Australia, Asia and elsewhere, and this policy is written to one standard for all of them rather than a different one per country.
By using this site or contacting us you accept this policy. It explains what we collect, why, who sees it, how long we keep it, and how you can get it back or get it deleted. If anything here is unclear, email us and we will explain it in plain terms.
What you give us directly.
If you give us information about someone other than yourself — a partner, a friend joining you — it is your responsibility to make sure they know you have passed it to us and understand how it will be used.
When you send an enquiry. The enquiry form on this site does not transmit anything to us or to anyone else. When you press send it opens a WhatsApp message on your own device, with the details you entered already written into it, and you decide whether to send it. Until you press send in WhatsApp, we receive nothing — and we never hold what you typed before that point.
What we collect automatically. Nothing beyond what the server needs to deliver a page to you. The fonts on this site are served from this site, so loading a page sends no request to Google Fonts or any other third party on your behalf. This site sets no analytics, advertising or tracking cookie, so we do not record which pages you read, we do not build a profile of you, and nothing follows you to another site. See Cookies.
We do not collect payment card numbers through this website. See Payments.
Privacy laws in different countries describe permitted processing in different ways, and some do not require a stated basis at all. We apply one standard everywhere, and the table below sets out, in plain terms, why we hold each kind of data.
| Purpose | Reason we hold the data |
|---|---|
| Answering your enquiry and quoting a price | Your consent, and steps taken at your request before a contract |
| Delivering the trek you booked | Performance of a contract |
| Permits, park entry and hotel registration | Legal obligation, and your vital interests |
| Medical information used for pacing and safety | Your explicit consent, and your vital interests |
Only where it is necessary to run your trek:
When you write to us by WhatsApp or email, your messages are carried by WhatsApp (Meta) and Gmail (Google). They handle those messages under their own privacy policies; we do not pass your data to them for any other purpose.
We do not sell your data. We do not trade it. We do not share it with advertising networks, and we do not run behavioural ad targeting. We will disclose data if a law requires it or a competent authority demands it, and we will tell you unless we are legally barred from doing so.
We do not take payments through this website. Payment details are sent to you with your written booking confirmation, and we keep only the record of what was paid, when and for which booking.
Your booking records are stored and processed in China. Messages you send us by WhatsApp or Gmail pass through those services, which operate outside China; by writing to us that way you agree to your message being carried by them.
Some transfers cannot be avoided: permit applications and hotel registration require your passport details to be given to Chinese authorities, because that is the condition on which the permit is issued.
Wherever you live, we offer the same set of choices. You can ask us to:
Email chinahiketravel@gmail.com and we will respond within 30 days. We may ask you to confirm your identity first, so that we do not hand your data to someone else.
If you are not satisfied with our answer, you can complain to a data protection or consumer authority. If you live in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, that is the authority in your country of residence, and you may also complain to us first. If you live elsewhere — the United States, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Japan, China, the Gulf, Latin America — you can raise it with the privacy or consumer regulator that covers your address, and we will co-operate with any such body. Where a local law gives you a specific right that is not listed above, tell us what it is and we will honour it.
We do not send newsletters or marketing emails.
This site sets no cookies. It keeps one small note in your own browser's local storage, recording that you have seen the cookie notice; it is never sent to us. There is no analytics, advertising or tracking of any kind. Details are on our Cookie Policy, and you can clear the note at any time through your browser settings.
Encrypted connections (HTTPS) across the site, access limited to the staff who need it, and no card data stored by us at all. We keep the number of people who can see medical information deliberately small. No system is perfect; if a breach ever affects you we will tell you, and the relevant authority, as the law requires.
Our treks are designed for adults. We do not knowingly collect data from anyone under 16, and where a minor joins a family booking we hold only what is needed to run the trek and we take it from the parent or guardian, not from the child. If you believe we hold a child's data without consent, email us and we will delete it.
This site links to Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, and we sometimes point to other companies' pages. Once you leave our site, their privacy policy applies, not ours. We have no control over what they collect.
We may update this policy as our service or the law changes. The version published here at the time you book is the version that applies to that booking, and the date at the top shows when it was last revised. We will not reduce your rights retrospectively.
China Hike, a brand of Beijing Seeker Adventure International Travel Agency Co., Ltd. — chinahiketravel@gmail.com · China.
See also: Cookie Policy · Terms & Conditions.