Privacy & Data Policy

New Orleans Beautiful is an independent local discovery, news-linking and community website. This policy explains the information the site may process when you browse, create an account, submit a place, join the email list, contact us about partnerships, or participate in community discussions.

Information you choose to provide

Account registration, community posts and replies, place suggestions, newsletter signups and partnership forms may include your name, username, email address and the content you submit. Community posts and replies are intended to be public. Administrative submissions and signup records are private to site administrators unless you separately authorize publication.

Local news aggregator

The local-news section retrieves headlines and limited feed metadata from third-party publishers and links readers to the original publisher. New Orleans Beautiful does not intentionally republish full third-party articles. When you follow an external link, the destination publisher’s privacy practices apply.

Location and maps

Map pages may offer a “Near Me” or browser-location feature. Browser geolocation is requested only when you choose to use it. The theme does not need to permanently store your precise location to show nearby results.

Cookies and account sessions

WordPress may use cookies for login sessions, comments, security and preferences. Embedded content, analytics, advertising, maps and other services may set their own cookies when those services are enabled by the site administrator.

Analytics, advertising and external services

The site may use services such as analytics, advertising platforms, map tiles, email delivery providers and anti-spam/security tools. Those providers may receive technical information such as IP address, browser/device information, referrer and page activity as required to provide their services. Authorized advertising sellers are published through the site’s ads.txt endpoint when configured.

Community moderation

To operate the subscriber discussion area, the site may retain account identifiers, thread and reply history, voting activity, moderation status and anti-abuse timing records. Administrators may remove or restrict content that violates site rules, applicable law or platform safety requirements.

Retention

Aggregated news records are automatically removed according to the configured retention window. Form submissions, account records and community content may be retained for operational, security, editorial and legal purposes until they are no longer needed. Administrators can delete records from WordPress when appropriate.

Your choices

You can unsubscribe from marketing email, stop using browser geolocation, update your WordPress profile, and contact the site administrator to ask about information associated with your account or a private form submission. Public community posts may remain visible where retention is necessary for conversation integrity, moderation or legal reasons.

Children

The community is not designed as a service directed to children under 13. Do not submit personal information for a child through public community features.

Changes

This policy may be updated as the site adds or changes services. The date shown on the page reflects the current published version.

My Places private travel lists

When My Places registration is available, we store your email, confirmation date, saved places, visit status, private notes and uploaded photos to provide your personal travel list. Notes remain private. Photos start private and are shared only when you explicitly enable an album link as described below. My Places and shared albums are excluded from search sitemaps. Site operators can access stored data for support and administration. Photos are resized and re-encoded to remove embedded metadata, including location information. Confirmation codes expire after 15 minutes. Temporary hashed network identifiers help limit abuse. Account sessions use WordPress login cookies for up to 14 days.

You can export your saved list, download your photos, and delete your saved content in My Places. You can also contact the site administrator to request account deletion or use the WordPress privacy-request process. Registration does not automatically subscribe you to marketing emails. Uploaded photos must be yours or used with permission.

Account confirmation and sign-in emails are delivered through Brevo. Brevo processes the recipient email address and email message for delivery; private saved-place notes and uploaded photos are not included in those emails. Registration does not subscribe you to a newsletter.

Optional shared photo albums

Photos uploaded to My Places start private. If you select photos and confirm sharing, anyone with the generated album link can view and download those photos and their captions without signing in, and can forward the link. Your notes, email, saved-list status and unselected photos remain private. Albums are not listed in public galleries or search sitemaps, and carry noindex instructions. Each album update replaces its link. Stop sharing disables the link, but cannot erase copies already saved by recipients. Only share photos and captions you have permission to share.