Privacy policy.

When you submit a listing, claim a place, create an account, or sign up for the newsletter, we ask for your name and email. If you’re a proprietor, we also collect business details (address, hours, photos, the kind of thing that goes on a public listing).

We log basic analytics events — which pages get viewed, which outbound links get clicked — so we can tell what’s useful and what to fix. Analytics are aggregated and don’t carry a name; we don’t build advertising profiles.

Forms are protected by routine spam mitigations (rate limits, honeypots). We don’t use third-party advertising trackers.

Running a directory at this scale takes a small constellation of vendors. We pick ones with credible privacy postures and pass them only the data they need:

• Supabase — authentication and the primary database for listings, claims, and user accounts.
• Vercel — hosting and the platform analytics that count requests by region.
• Firecrawl— extracts public business information from proprietor websites we’re indexing.
• Google Gemini and Anthropic Claude APIs — assist with editorial cleanup of submitted copy. We don’t train models on your data.
• Mapbox, MapTiler, and OpenStreetMap — render the maps you see on listing and region pages.
• Google Analytics — anonymized pageview metrics with IPs truncated.

We use two categories of cookies:

• Essential— required to keep you signed in, remember small preferences (region filter, dismissed banners), and enforce security. These are always on; without them the site doesn’t function.
• Analytics (optional) — Google Analytics 4 with IP anonymization, used to count aggregate visits and understand which pages are useful. Off by default. The cookie banner on your first visit lets you opt in or stay opted out; you can change your choice any time via the Cookies link in the footer.

We don’t run cross-site advertising pixels, sell data to third parties, or use behavioral retargeting. Analytics is implemented with Google Consent Mode v2 — when you choose “Essential only,” user-level analytics storage is blocked at the source.

If something about how we handle data isn’t clear, email hello@adirondackregion.com and we’ll get back to you.

Account and listing data lives in our database for as long as the account is active. Newsletter subscribers can unsubscribe with one click from any email; the address is then dropped from the active list and retained only in suppression records.

You can ask us to export your data, correct it, or delete it entirely. For accounts, the cleanest path is the portal at /my. For anything more involved, write to hello@adirondackregion.com and we’ll handle it within ten business days.

Questions, deletion requests, or concerns: write to hello@adirondackregion.com. A real person reads it.