Privacy policy

What this site collects

There are no visitor accounts. You can read every published page without signing in or giving us anything.

We collect information only when you choose to send it:

• Newsletter: your email address, the moment you gave consent, and whether your subscription is active.
• Event submissions: the event details you send, your email address so we can follow up, and the time you submitted them.
• Contact messages: whatever you write in the message and the email address you use.

Why we hold it

Newsletter addresses are held only to send the weekend email. Submission and contact details are held only to verify what you sent and to reply. We do not sell, rent, or trade any of it.

Who can see it

Subscriber email addresses and submission contact details are visible only to the site administrator. They are not published on the site and are not readable by other visitors.

Analytics and your choice

Reading the site never requires a cookie and never requires accepting analytics. On your first visit a small bar asks whether we may measure how the site is used. Nothing is measured until you accept, and rejecting is just as easy as accepting. Your answer is stored in your browser, not in a cookie we set for that purpose, and it is remembered for next time. You can change it whenever you like with the Analytics preferences link in the footer of every page.

If you reject, the analytics tag is never loaded: no request is made to Google and no analytics cookie is set. If you accept and then reject later, we stop collecting and remove the analytics cookies your browser already has. Analytics also stays off automatically when your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal.

Newsletter signup consent is separate from this choice. Agreeing to analytics never signs you up for anything, and signing up for the newsletter does not turn analytics on.

What is measured

When you accept, we use Google Analytics 4 (measurement ID G-76QSERZTDD). The tag runs only on northpennweekends.com and www.northpennweekends.com, so preview addresses and any temporary hosting address are never measured. It records:

• Pages viewed, including moves between pages within the site.
• Whether a newsletter signup genuinely created a new subscriber, whether an event submission reached review, and whether a visitor opened an organizer’s own event page.
• Coarse technical detail Google reports automatically, such as approximate location from IP address, browser, and device type.

What is never sent to Google: the contents of any form. Your name, email address, message, and the text of an event submission are never sent to Google Analytics, and are not attached to any measurement event. The signup and submission counts do not identify who completed them.

Web addresses sent to Google are reduced to the page path: anything after a question mark is removed, so filter choices and any other parameter never leave the site. The page a visitor came from is sent the same way, and our editorial admin and draft-preview addresses are never measured and never appear as a referring page.

Advertising features are turned off: we do not use Google Analytics for ad targeting, Google signals are disabled, and no advertising or social tracking pixels run on this site. You can also block analytics with the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. Basic hosting and security logs may record technical request information such as your IP address.

Email

Newsletter email is sent only after you sign up and only while your subscription is active. Every newsletter includes a way to unsubscribe. Signing up is not the same as being sent anything yet: if no email service is connected, no email will arrive.

Removal

Write to us through the contact page and we will remove your email address and any submission or message you sent. Removal is permanent.

Children

This site is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect information from them.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top of the page changes with it. Material changes affecting newsletter subscribers will be described in the newsletter itself.