Privacy Policy
Last updated 10 September 2026. This policy describes what Miami Tourism Guide (www.miamitourism.org) actually does with information today. Where something is planned but not yet running, it says so rather than pretending otherwise.
The short version
You can read every guide on this site without giving us anything. We do not have accounts, logins, comments or a newsletter, so there is nothing to sign up for and no profile attached to you. The only time you deliberately hand us information is when you fill in the contact form. Everything else is the ordinary background of running a website: server logs and Google Analytics.
When you read a guide
The site is hosted by DreamHost, which records standard web-server logs for every request: IP address, the page requested, the time, your browser and operating system, and the page you arrived from. These are used to keep the site running and to investigate abuse or errors. They are not used to build a profile of you and are not sold or shared with anyone.
The site also runs WP Super Cache, which serves saved copies of pages for speed, and EWWW Image Optimizer, which compresses images. Neither collects anything about you.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics 4 to understand which guides people read and where they arrive from. It tells us that a hundred people read the Everglades day-trip guide from a phone last week; it does not tell us who they were. Analytics sets cookies in your browser and sends Google information including a randomly generated identifier, your approximate location derived from your IP address, the pages you view and how long you spend on them. Google processes this as our data processor, and IP addresses are truncated before storage.
Google’s own explanation of how it handles data from sites that use its services is at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. You can opt out across every site that uses Analytics with Google’s browser add-on, or block the cookies in your browser settings.
The site does show a cookie consent tool, and what it does depends on where you are. In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland nothing beyond strictly necessary cookies runs until you agree to it. In the United States, Canada and a number of other countries, analytics and the booking partner described below run by default and you can switch them off. Either way, the Cookie settings link in the footer reopens that choice at any time, and the site honours Global Privacy Control signals. You can also use the Analytics opt-out above or your browser’s cookie controls.
Advertising
No advertising is running on this site at the time of writing. We are preparing to fund the guide through display advertising served by Google AdSense, and this section describes how that will work. It takes effect the moment ads begin appearing, and this page will be dated again then.
- Google and its partner networks will use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites.
- Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visit to this site and other sites on the internet.
- You will be able to opt out of personalised advertising at any time through Google Ads Settings, and from many other networks at aboutads.info/choices or youronlinechoices.com.
- Visitors in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland will be asked for consent through a Google-certified consent management platform before any advertising or measurement cookies are set, and will be able to change that choice at any time.
Nothing on this site is sponsored content, and no venue has paid to appear here or to be described the way it is. The site does carry affiliate booking links, and the next section explains what those do with your data.
Affiliate links and booking partners
Our booking partner, Stay22, runs a script on this site that rewrites booking links and identifies your device so a booking can be credited to us. It does this using characteristics of your browser and device rather than a cookie, and it stores an identifier in your browser’s local storage. You can refuse this in the cookie settings, and refusing does not limit what you can read here.
Because it is not a cookie, blocking cookies alone does not stop it. The script sits in the marketing category of the consent tool and does not load at all until that category is allowed. When you book after following one of those links, we get a commission from the provider; the price you pay is the same either way. The affiliate disclosure sets that out in full.
When you use the contact form
The form on the contact page is run by WPForms. When you submit it we receive the name, email address, category and message you typed. The submission is emailed to the site’s inbox and passes through WP Mail SMTP on the way. We use it to answer you and, where you have flagged a factual error, to fix the guide.
We do not add you to any mailing list — there is no mailing list. We do not pass what you send to any venue, hotel or tour operator mentioned on the site. Correspondence is kept while it is useful and deleted when it is not; you can ask us to delete yours sooner.
Comments and accounts
Comments are switched off across the whole site and there is no reader registration, so we hold no comment data, no usernames and no passwords belonging to visitors.
Links to other sites
Our guides link out a great deal — to the National Park Service for the Everglades, to Florida State Parks, to Miami-Dade County transit pages, to museums such as PAMM and Vizcaya, and to venue websites. Once you follow one of those links you are on someone else’s site under someone else’s policy. We have no control over what they collect and no responsibility for it.
Your rights
If you are in the UK or the EEA, the GDPR gives you the right to ask what personal data we hold about you, to have it corrected or erased, to object to processing, and to receive a copy. Our legal basis for analytics is legitimate interest in understanding how the site is used; for the contact form it is your consent, given by choosing to write to us.
If you are a California resident, the CCPA gives you the right to know what personal information is collected and to request its deletion. We do not sell personal information, and we have never done so.
To exercise any of this, write to us through the contact form. Realistically, unless you have emailed us before, the only thing we are likely to hold is anonymised analytics that cannot be tied back to you.
Children
This site is written for adults planning travel, including plenty of guidance on visiting Miami with children. It is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 13. If you believe a child has sent us something through the contact form, tell us and we will delete it.
Changes to this policy
When what we do changes, this page changes with it and the date at the top is updated. The next scheduled change is the advertising and consent section described above.
Questions about any of this go through the contact page.