PRIVACY POLICY
Effective Date: July 29, 2026
Last Updated: July 29, 2026
1. INTRODUCTION
Welcome to The Oregon Coast Guide (“Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). We operate the website located at www.theoregoncoastguide.com (the “Site”), offering comprehensive travel guides, curated recommendations, local tips, interactive community features (including user-submitted content, community posts, anonymous confessions, and missed connections), and related services (collectively, the “Services”).
We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our Site or use our Services. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not access the Site or use our Services.
2. INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We may collect information about you in a variety of ways when you use our Site:
A. Personal Information You Provide to Us
- Account and Contact Information: When you sign up for our newsletter, create an account, submit a community post, participate in interactive features (such as anonymous confessions or missed connections), or contact us directly, we may collect your name, email address, username, and any other information you choose to provide.
- User-Generated Content: Content you voluntarily submit to the Site, including comments, reviews, photos, community board posts, anonymous confessions, and missed connections. Please note that information you post publicly may be viewed by other users.
B. Automatically Collected Information
- Device and Usage Information: When you access the Site, our servers automatically collect certain information about your device and browsing activity, including your IP address, browser type, operating system, access times, pages viewed directly before and after accessing the Site, and links clicked.
- Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies, web beacons, pixels, and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our Site and store certain information. For more details, please refer to Section 5 (“Cookies and Tracking Technologies”) below.
3. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We use the information we collect for various business and operational purposes, including to:
- Operate, maintain, and improve our Site and Services;
- Personalize your experience and deliver tailored travel recommendations and content;
- Process and manage newsletter subscriptions, communications, and promotional materials;
- Moderate, review, and manage user-generated content, including community submissions, anonymous confessions, and missed connections, in accordance with our Community Guidelines and Content Removal policies;
- Respond to customer service inquiries, comments, and legal requests;
- Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Services;
- Detect, investigate, and prevent fraudulent transactions, unauthorized access, and other illegal activities; and
- Comply with legal and regulatory obligations.
4. SHARING OF YOUR INFORMATION
We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties for monetary consideration. However, we may share information in the following circumstances:
- Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf (e.g., hosting providers, email delivery services, analytics providers, and customer support tools).
- Legal Obligations and Safety: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, protect and defend our rights or property, prevent fraud, protect the personal safety of users or the public, or protect against legal liability.
- Business Transfers: If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction.
- With Your Consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your explicit consent.
5. COOKIES AND TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect and track information and improve our Services.
- Types of Cookies: We may use session cookies (temporary cookies that expire when you close your browser) and persistent cookies (cookies that remain on your device until deleted or expired) for authentication, preference remembering, and analytics.
- Analytics: We use third-party analytics services (such as Google Analytics) to help analyze how users use the Site. These tools use cookies to collect standard internet log information and visitor behavior information in an anonymous form.
- Your Choices: Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. You can choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies. Please note that removing or rejecting cookies could affect the availability and functionality of our Site.
6. USER-GENERATED CONTENT & MODERATION
Our Site features community interaction spaces, including user submissions, anonymous confessions, and missed connections.
- Public Nature: Any content you submit to these sections may be publicly visible.
- Moderation: We reserve the right (but have no obligation) to monitor, review, edit, or remove any user-generated content, anonymous confessions, or missed connections at our sole discretion, particularly if content violates our Community Guidelines, infringes copyright, or poses safety risks.
- Disclaimer: We assume no liability for any user-generated content posted on the Site. Users interact with and rely upon user-generated content at their own risk.
7. YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS
Depending on your place of residence (such as California under the CCPA or Oregon under the OCPA), you may have specific rights regarding your personal information:
- Right to Know / Access: You have the right to request confirmation of whether we process your personal information and request access to specific pieces of personal data we have collected about you.
- Right to Correction: You have the right to request that we correct inaccuracies in your personal information.
- Right to Deletion: You have the right to request the deletion of personal information you have provided to us or that we have collected, subject to certain legal exceptions.
- Right to Opt-Out: You may opt out of receiving marketing communications from us by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in our emails or by contacting us directly.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact details provided in Section 10 below.
8. DATA SECURITY
We implement reasonable administrative, technical, and physical security measures designed to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, no electronic transmission over the internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
9. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
Our Site and Services are not directed to individuals under the age of [Minimum Age, 18]. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under [18]. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under the applicable age without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to delete that information promptly.
10. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time at our sole discretion. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Effective Date” at the top of this policy. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting your information.
11. CONTACT US
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:
- Company Name: The Oregon Coast Guide
- Website: www.theoregoncoastguide.com
- Email: info@theoregoncoastguide.com
- Address: 967 inlet loop Coos Bay OR 97420