Privacy policy
This policy explains what information this website handles, why it is used, which services receive it, and the choices you have.
Last updated Nov 7, 2026
Who this policy covers
Southern Lake Tahoe (southernlaketahoe.com) is part of Brendan Norman’s Sidequests portfolio. This policy covers this website. Other portfolio sites publish their own version with their own services and settings.
A link to another website does not make its operator our service provider. Merchants, booking operators, advertisers and other linked services have their own privacy policies.
Information we handle
When you visit, our hosting and security providers process technical information needed to deliver and protect the site. This can include your IP address, browser and device information, requested pages, timestamps, referring addresses and error reports.
If you contact us, we receive your email address, the contents of your message and any information you choose to include. Please do not send passwords, payment-card details or other information we do not need to help you.
Photo submissions
The photo form sends your uploaded image, photographer credit, location, publication permission and any optional caption, date or email to Netlify Forms for our review. Originals can contain embedded information, including location metadata.
If selected, we publish the photo and the credit and description intended for publication. A contact email is for follow-up, not for publication with the image. We remove embedded EXIF/GPS metadata from versions prepared for the public gallery. Please submit only images you are entitled to share, and avoid including other people’s private information.
You can contact us about a submission or request removal. Removal from this website cannot recall copies someone else already downloaded or shared.
Trip planning accounts and sharing
The planner saves trips in this browser, including information you choose to add such as names, dates, stops, notes, budgets or booking details. Optional account features, when available and selected, use Supabase for email sign-in and cloud trip storage. Saving to an account is separate from saving on the device.
A full trip download can include notes and reservation information. Read-only sharing excludes organizer fields described in the trip-data notice; editor invitations give recipients access to the full trip. Anyone receiving a shared link or downloaded file may be able to use that copy. Check the sharing preview before sending it.
Read-only share links are designed to expire after 30 days and editor invitations after seven days. Removing a local trip does not remove cloud trips or files already downloaded. Use the separate account and cloud deletion controls when available.
Ask a local
When you send a message to Ask a local, your message, recent conversation, selected trip dates, general lodging area and transport preference are sent to our hosting and planning services. The planning service uses Anthropic when the live feature is connected. Do not include information you would not want those services to process.
Trip names, saved notes, bookings and account identifiers are not automatically added to the planning request. The displayed conversation lasts for the page session; clearing it does not itself establish that every provider-side request log has been deleted. Provider retention and any configured account controls also apply.
How we use information
We use information to operate and secure the website, provide features you request, answer messages, review submissions, understand use where analytics is enabled, and maintain advertising or referral services described in this policy.
We may also use or disclose relevant records to meet legal obligations, investigate abuse, protect people and services, or establish or defend legal claims.
Hosting analytics and service providers
The site is hosted on Netlify. Hosting, delivery, security and form-processing services may receive technical request information independently of our analytics settings. Turning off analytics does not stop the network requests needed to load the website.
Google Analytics runs on public production pages after you accept analytics cookies, to measure visits and selected interactions. It stays off until you accept. It can use cookies and receive browser identifiers, IP addresses, device information, page addresses, referrers and event data. Google may derive approximate location from technical information. Use Cookie settings to change the site’s analytics choice. Saved opt-outs and supported browser privacy signals are respected by the site adapter.
The trip planner, account/authentication routes and pages marked noindex are excluded from the site’s GA4 adapter. This does not mean those pages make no requests: services you use, such as sign-in or Ask a local, still receive their requests.
Our custom events describe actions, such as a click, a share or completion of a sample action. They are not intended to send form values, private trip notes, profile descriptions or chat text. Google’s automatic measurement features can also record configured page, link, search and form metadata.
Classify’s contextual house-ad service uses public page context to choose a card and count delivery, visibility and clicks. The client sends the page’s public origin and path, not its query string or fragment, and does not add profile or conversation text. Ad-decision and event records have a 90-day retention setting; ordinary hosting logs are separate. A saved hide-ads preference stays in the browser until changed or cleared.
The separate Classify visitor-measurement pixel is not currently active on this site. It is different from contextual house-ad delivery. Enabling additional visitor measurement requires a further disclosure and the applicable choices.
Google advertising
Public pages include Google AdSense. Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses and other identifiers to serve and measure advertising. Google’s advertising cookies can enable Google and its partners to show ads based on prior visits to this website or other websites.
Personalized advertising depends on the applicable settings and consent choices. Where a Google consent message is available, use it to accept, decline or manage the purposes offered. You can also manage Google personalized-ad preferences in My Ad Center. Opting out of personalization does not remove all ads or stop all technical processing.
Advertising data uses may count as targeted advertising, a sale, or sharing under some privacy laws. Where those rules apply, you may exercise the relevant opt-out rights through the available privacy controls or contact us. Analytics-cookie choices and advertising choices are separate; turning off one does not automatically change the other.
Pinterest measurement and advertising
Pinterest measurement is off unless you choose Allow Pinterest in Cookie settings. It is separate from Google Analytics and Google advertising choices. On eligible public production pages, the Pinterest tag can use cookies and receive page addresses, referral and campaign information, IP addresses, browser and device information to measure visits and support advertising audiences.
Our Pinterest integration excludes the trip planner, account/authentication routes, noindex pages and previews. It does not pass account emails, private trip details or conversation text to Pinterest. Enhanced matching and server-side Conversions API are not part of this implementation.
Choose Reject Pinterest in Cookie settings to withdraw permission. The site clears known first-party Pinterest cookies and reloads the page if the tag was already active. Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track prevent the tag loading. You can also manage Pinterest personalization in your Pinterest account. Withdrawal does not remove information previously received by Pinterest.
Shopping and booking links
Some links are affiliate links. If you follow one, a retailer, affiliate network or booking operator may receive referral information and use cookies or identifiers to attribute a purchase. We may earn a commission. This site supports merchant links through Sovrn, Amazon Associates and direct merchant programs; the programs used depend on the link you select.
The merchant or booking operator handles the purchase, reservation and payment under its own policy. A click, saved stop or planner checklist item is not a confirmed booking or sale. Any partner report opened in the report workspace is processed in page memory and cleared when that page reloads.
Cookies and your choices
Browser storage may hold preferences, consent choices and feature data. You can manage cookies and site storage in your browser. Clearing them can remove local content and saved choices, and can cause a consent message or default setting to appear again.
Use Cookie settings on the site to turn off site-managed analytics. The adapter also checks Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track. These controls apply to the site’s analytics integration; they do not automatically control every independent provider or website you visit.
For advertising, use the advertising consent/privacy controls when shown, Google’s ad settings, or an applicable opt-out request. A browser privacy signal does not automatically operate every third party’s settings; contact us if you need help exercising a right.
How long information is kept
We keep information for the purposes described here, taking account of the service you use, whether we still need the record, legal obligations, security, disputes and backup cycles. Different providers and data types have different retention periods. Contact us if you need details about a particular record.
Information saved only in your browser stays there until you remove it, clear browser data or use a feature that deletes it. Deleting a local copy does not delete a copy you previously shared or downloaded.
Your privacy rights
Depending on where you live and which rules apply, you may be able to request access to, correction or deletion of personal information, a portable copy, restrictions on use, or an objection to certain processing. You may also withdraw consent or opt out of eligible targeted advertising, sale or sharing. We will not treat you unfairly for exercising an applicable privacy right.
Send requests to the privacy contact below and name the website and information concerned. We may ask for information reasonably needed to verify your request. You may use an authorized agent where applicable. We cannot retrieve browser-only records that were never sent to us, but we can explain how to remove them.
Where European or UK data-protection rules apply, we rely on consent for consent-based cookies and advertising, on providing a requested service where necessary to do so, on legitimate interests such as keeping the site secure and responding to inquiries, or on legal obligations. You may complain to your local data-protection authority.
International processing
Our providers may process information in the United States and other countries. Their privacy notices describe their international processing and transfer arrangements. Contact us if you need information about a particular provider or request.
Children
The site is not intended for children under 13 to submit personal information. If you believe a child has supplied personal information to us, contact the privacy address so we can review and address it.
Security
We use safeguards appropriate to the information and service, but no website, device or transmission can be guaranteed secure. Use care when sharing links, uploading files or entering personal information.
Changes to this policy
We update this page when our practices change and revise the date above. For material changes, we will provide additional notice on the website or by another appropriate method where required. New optional data uses may require a new choice before they begin.
Contact
Privacy questions and requests: privacy@southernlaketahoe.com. Please identify the website concerned. Site owner: Brendan Norman.