Balkan Borders

Privacy

Short, because there is not much to say: no accounts, no cookies, nothing sold about you.

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No cookies. None at all.

This site sets no cookies, so there is no banner: there is nothing to consent to. Open your browser's storage panel on any page here and the cookie list is empty.

What we count, and what we cannot see

Cloudflare Web Analytics records that a page was opened. It is cookieless: it does not follow you from site to site, it builds no profile, and it cannot tell us who you are or that you have been here before. What we read from it is a total per page — which crossings people open — and nothing finer than that.

The few things we count ourselves

Besides the above, we count a handful of actions on our own server: that a page was opened, that search was opened, that a camera was started and whether its picture then played or failed to load (with a one-word reason, such as a timeout), that a trip was planned. No cookie is set and no identifier is created, so these cannot be joined into a visit or a person — each one is a tally mark and nothing more. What travels with it: which page, which language, which camera, and whether you arrived from a search engine, a social network, an AI assistant (and which one, such as ChatGPT) or straight to us — the kind of source, never the address of the page you came from. When another website shows our border widget, we count that it was viewed: which crossing, which language, and that website's name (its hostname, never the address of its page). If you followed a link we posted somewhere, the label we put on that link travels too, which is how we learn a post was worth making. If your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control, we count nothing at all.

What stays on your device

Pinned crossings, your chosen language, your chosen currency, a dismissed language banner, your Cars/Trucks choice and the direction you last picked at each crossing are remembered in your browser's own storage. They are written only when you use those features, they never leave the device, and clearing your browser data removes them. There is no account here to log into and nothing to delete on our side.

The cameras belong to someone else, and most load straight from their servers

The camera pictures are not ours. On a Croatian crossing page the images load straight from the road authority's own servers, so those servers see your request, exactly as if you had opened their site yourself. Video from North Macedonia and Serbia works differently: nothing is requested from the streaming host until you press play, though your browser may open a connection to it as you scroll near the picture, so playback starts faster. Montenegro is the one exception. Its police cameras publish only over an unencrypted connection, which browsers block on a secure site, so we pass those short clips through our own server: your browser asks us, we ask them, and they see our server, not you.

If you write to us

The feedback form sends us what you typed and which page you were on. If you want an answer you can add your email — that is the only reason we would ever have it, it is attached to the message as the reply address, and it is never used for anything else. It arrives as an email, it is used to correct the page, and there is no mailing list here for you to end up on. The contact form for business inquiries works the same way: the same inbox, and your address only so that we can answer you. When you send a wait report, we also keep the country your connection comes from, your browser type, and a scrambled code of your connection that changes every day. We use it only to tell two drivers' reports apart; it cannot be turned back into your address.

No advertising, no third-party tracking

There are no ad networks here, no social widgets and no embedded trackers. Advertising is something this site may carry one day, if it is ever read widely enough to be worth it. If that happens, this page changes before the advertising appears, and it will say what was added.