Privacy policy

Wildwood Living publishes an independent local magazine for Wildwood, Florida. This policy covers this website.

Browsing this site. Our hosting and delivery infrastructure processes the technical information any web server needs to serve a page: your IP address, browser and device type, the page requested and the time of the request. These records exist to deliver the site securely and diagnose faults.

Measurement. Every advertising and analytics permission starts switched off on every page load, and what happens next depends on where you are visiting from.

In the United States and Canada, privacy-friendly analytics is on when you arrive, and a small notice at the bottom of the page says so with an Opt out link. Opting out is remembered on this device. That is a notice, not consent: if you later visit from a region where consent is required, analytics cookies stop and we ask you properly instead.

Where prior consent is required (including the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, anywhere we have not reviewed, and any visit where we cannot tell the region), we ask first. No analytics cookie is set until you choose Accept analytics.

Anonymous counting (Google Consent Mode v2). We load Google Analytics 4 with Consent Mode. If you have not allowed analytics, or you decline or opt out, no analytics cookie is stored and no identifier is kept: Google receives only a cookieless signal that a page was viewed, which it uses to estimate overall visit totals. It cannot be linked to you or to your other visits.

What measurement means here. When analytics is allowed, Google Analytics 4 records which pages are viewed and which links are followed. Advertising storage, ad personalisation and advertising identifiers stay switched off permanently, everywhere, for everyone. We run no advertising tags at all. We never pass anything you type (a message, an address, a form answer or a file name) into measurement. Staff sign-in, our editorial workspace and private preview pages are never measured.

Opting out, and Global Privacy Control. Use the Opt out link or Privacy Choices in the footer at any time, in any region. Opting out deletes our analytics cookies and we remember that choice; no regional rule can switch it back on. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, we treat it as an opt-out everywhere and send nothing at all, not even anonymous counts.

Contacting us. When you use the contact and corrections form, we store the name, email address, message and optional page link you choose to give us, together with the reason you selected and the page you sent it from. We use that only to answer you and to check and fix the record you told us about, and it is emailed to our editorial desk. We keep it for as long as we need to handle the enquiry and to keep a record of any correction we made. We do not add you to a mailing list.

To limit automated abuse of that form we also store a one-way, salted fingerprint of the sending network address. It cannot be turned back into an IP address and is not used to profile you.

Accounts. Sign-in exists only for our own editorial staff. Readers do not need an account, and we do not create one for you.

• We do not sell or rent personal information.
• We do not build advertising profiles or run retargeting.
• Wildwood Living may display paid sponsorships and advertising. Sponsored content and paid placements are identified as such. Advertising relationships do not determine our organic rankings, recommendations, editorial coverage or verification decisions.
• We do not knowingly collect information from children.
• We do not require an account to read anything on this site.

This site sets measurement cookies from the analytics services named above. They tell us how many people used a page and how they moved through the site. You can block or delete cookies in your browser at any time; nothing on this site depends on them.

Pages may embed video from YouTube. We use the privacy-enhanced player and it does not load until you choose to play the video, so no YouTube cookie is set unless you press play.

Links out to a business's own website, booking system or map take you to a service with its own privacy policy. We are not responsible for what those services collect.

Technical server logs are kept only as long as needed for security and diagnosis. Aggregate measurement data is kept for as long as it is useful for improving the site. Correspondence is kept for as long as needed to handle and evidence a correction.

You can browse without giving us any information about yourself. You can block cookies and analytics in your browser or with an extension. If you have written to us and want your message deleted, ask and we will delete it.

If this policy changes materially, the effective date above changes with it. Questions about privacy go to the contact page.