Privacy notice

ThailandStats is a statistics website. It is built to collect as little personal information as possible. This notice explains what is collected and why.

What we collect

When you browse the site: we use DataFast, a visitor analytics service, to count visits and see which pages are useful and how people find them. It records the page you view, the page that linked to it, your browser, device type, screen size, language, time zone and approximate country (worked out from your IP address). To tell new visits from returning ones it stores two first-party cookies in your browser: a random visitor ID that lasts 365 days and a session ID that lasts 30 minutes. These do not contain your name or contact details, and we do not use them for advertising or to build profiles. We do not use advertising or social media tracking, and we do not load fonts from third-party servers.

Like any website, our hosting provider also records technical request logs (such as IP address, browser type, the page requested and the time) to deliver the site and protect it from abuse. We do not use these logs to identify you.

Automated visitors: when a known search engine or AI crawler (for example Googlebot, Bingbot, GPTBot or ClaudeBot) requests a page, our server reports the page, the crawler's user agent and its IP address to DataFast so we can see how our statistics are indexed and used by search and AI services. These reports concern automated software, not people; requests from ordinary browsers are not reported this way.

Turning analytics off: you can switch analytics off for this browser here. The setting is stored in your browser, so you need to set it again on other devices or if you clear your browser data.

Analytics settings need JavaScript and browser storage.

When you use the contact form: we receive the email address you give, your name if you give one, the topic, any page you mention and your message. We use this only to read and reply to your message and, where you report an error, to check and correct the data. Before a message is accepted, Cloudflare Turnstile checks that a person sent it. Cloudflare receives the IP address and browser signals needed for that check. It does not receive the contents of the form.

When you download data: downloads are ordinary files. We do not ask for or record any details about you.

Who processes it

• Hosting: the site is hosted by Vercel, which processes request logs on our behalf.
• Email delivery: contact form messages are delivered to our inbox by an email delivery service (Resend).
• Bot check: Cloudflare Turnstile runs the contact-form check described above.
• Visitor analytics: DataFast processes the analytics data described above on our behalf.

We do not sell personal information or share it with anyone else, except where the law requires it.

How long we keep it

Analytics data is kept by DataFast for reporting and is not linked to your name or email address. Contact messages are kept for as long as needed to deal with them and for a reasonable period afterwards in case of follow-up, normally no longer than two years. Hosting request logs are kept by our provider for a limited period under its own retention settings.

Your choices and rights

You can ask us what information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete your messages, by using the contact form. Depending on where you live, you may have further rights under data protection law, including the right to complain to a data protection authority.

Changes

If we start using any other service that processes personal information, we will update this notice first and change the date above.