Privacy Policy
Last updated: 10 September 2026
This page sets out what NYC Chinese Supermarket Weekly (chaoshiweekly.com) does and does not learn about you. Every item below corresponds to code that actually runs on this site, or to a vendor's own published policy. Nothing we do not do is listed here.
We collect no personal information ourselves
There are no accounts, no sign-in, no back-end user database, and we take no payment information. You do not need to give a name, an email address or a phone number to use anything on this site.
Three things kept in your own browser and never uploaded
The three items below are written only to local storage on your own device. They are never sent to our servers, and clearing your browser data removes them:
- csw.followedStores — the stores you follow
- csw.trackedItems — the items you track
- elderMode — whether large-text mode is on
Google Analytics 4
The live site loads Google Analytics 4 (measurement ID G-35BK2N0BCD, script served from googletagmanager.com; it is not loaded in local development). It sets _ga cookies in your browser and automatically records page views (including in-site navigation), scrolling and clicks.
In addition to that automatic collection, we send eight events of our own: search and search_no_result — both of which carry the term you typed into the search box; follow_store and unfollow_store; track_item and untrack_item — these four carry a store or item ID; elder_toggle, which carries only whether large-text mode was switched on or off; and geo_resolve, which records the city-level location we infer from your IP address, namely the city name and whether it falls within a city this site covers. That is a coarse IP-based inference, not precise positioning: this site never asks your browser for location permission and does not record your exact coordinates.
Vercel Web Analytics
The site is hosted on Vercel, with its Web Analytics enabled.
- Web Analytics uses no cookies: it identifies a visitor by a hash computed from the request, and discards it after 24 hours. Each data point stores a timestamp, the URL, the dynamic route, the referrer, filtered query parameters, coarse location (country/state/city), device operating system, browser and device type.
The vendor's own privacy notice: Vercel Web Analytics privacy
About cookies
Our own code sets no cookies at all — even NEXT_LOCALE, which would remember your language choice, is explicitly switched off. The third parties above do set them: Google Analytics sets the _ga cookies, and Google and its partners set advertising cookies. So the accurate statement is "this site sets no cookies of its own; third parties do", not "this site uses no cookies".
Advertising
This site has joined Google AdSense, so ads may appear on its pages; the notes below explain how advertising cookies are used and how to opt out.
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
- Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
You may opt out of personalised advertising at any time: Google Ads Settings · www.aboutads.info
Contact us
If you have a question about this policy, or want something removed, write to:
Changes to this page
When this policy changes we will update the "last updated" date at the top of this page.