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Privacy Policy

The Waibaidu Bridge seen from above with the creek running under it
Photograph by Daniel Case, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

What we collect

We do not ask you for personal information and we do not have accounts, logins or newsletters. If you send us a message through the contact form, we hold what you wrote and the address you gave so we can reply, and nothing else.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to count visits and see which pages are read. It sets cookies and records a shortened form of your IP address. We use it to decide what to write next, not to identify anyone.

The fountain and topiary at the centre of People's Square
Photograph by kallerna, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Advertising

This site carries advertising served by Google, which may use cookies to show ads based on your previous visits to this and other sites. You can opt out of personalised advertising in Google’s own ad settings.

Affiliate links

Some pages carry affiliate links. If you book through one we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Those links are marked, and pages that rank or compare things do not carry them.

Cookies

The cookies set here come from the analytics and advertising services above. You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings; the site works without them.

A pavilion with upswept eaves reflected in the garden's water
Photograph by Stefan Fussan, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Your rights

If you are in the UK or the EU, you have rights over personal data held about you, including access and erasure. Because we do not collect or store personal data ourselves, a request of that kind is best directed at Google, whose services do the collecting.

Other sites

Where we link out, those sites have their own policies and we are not responsible for them.

Travelpayouts Drive and bookings

Pages on this site also load a script from Travelpayouts (tpembars.com), called Drive, which can add affiliate links, travel recommendations and previews to the page. It runs in your browser, and Travelpayouts and the travel services it links to may set their own cookies. Following one of these links does not identify you to this site; the service you land on has its own privacy policy. A content blocker stops the script, and the site still works.

Access Shanghai does not sell, book or reserve anything and handles no payments. Any booking you make is between you and the travel company, under its own terms, and this site is not a party to it.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date below changes with it.

Taikang Road at the entrance to Tianzifang with people walking
Photograph by Fabio Achilli from Milano, Italy, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0

Last updated 22 October 2026.

We do not book anything. Access Shanghai is a guide. It sells nothing, takes no bookings or reservations, handles no payments, and holds no tickets, rooms or seats. Some links here lead to travel companies, and some of those are affiliate links that may earn this site a commission at no extra cost to you. Any booking you make is a contract between you and that company, under its own terms, prices and cancellation rules. We are not a party to it and have no responsibility for it — including availability, prices, changes, cancellations, refunds or anything that goes wrong on the trip. Check the details with the company before you pay.