Last updated: September 7, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how I Love Lake Tahoe, an independent publication operated by Cale Media, collects, uses, discloses, and retains information when you use ilovelaketahoe.org, subscribe to updates, contact us, post comments, use community features, or otherwise interact with the site.
By using the site, you acknowledge the practices described below. This policy does not apply to websites, apps, advertisers, booking providers, or other services that we do not control.
Information We Collect
Information you provide
We may collect information you choose to provide, including your name, email address, message content, newsletter preferences, account or profile information, comments, forum posts, correction requests, partnership inquiries, and other information submitted through forms or communications.
Information collected automatically
When you visit the site, our hosting provider, security tools, analytics providers, advertising partners, and other service providers may automatically receive information such as your IP address, browser and device type, operating system, referring page, pages viewed, approximate location derived from your IP address, timestamps, interactions, advertising identifiers, and cookie or similar technology data.
Information from other sources
We may receive information from advertising, analytics, security, hosting, email, social media, or business partners, and from publicly available sources, when permitted by law.
How We Use Information
- Operate, maintain, secure, and improve the site.
- Deliver articles, live-camera pages, newsletters, community features, and requested services.
- Respond to questions, corrections, privacy requests, and business inquiries.
- Measure readership, performance, traffic sources, and user interactions.
- Display, personalize where permitted, measure, and prevent fraud involving advertising.
- Detect spam, abuse, security threats, and technical problems.
- Comply with legal obligations and enforce our policies.
Advertising, Google Services, and Similar Technologies
The site displays or may display advertising supplied by Google and other advertising partners. Third parties, including Google, may place and read cookies on your browser or use web beacons, IP addresses, device identifiers, and similar technologies to collect information as a result of ad serving on this site.
Google may use information from this site and other sites or apps that use Google services to deliver, measure, personalize, and improve advertising and other services. Learn more at How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.
Advertising may be personalized or non-personalized depending on your location, consent choices, account settings, applicable law, and our advertising configuration. You can review Google advertising controls at Google Ads Settings. You may also review industry opt-out choices at YourAdChoices.
In regions where consent is legally required, advertising and analytics providers may rely on a consent message or consent management platform to collect and communicate choices. A privacy policy does not replace any consent that applicable law requires.
Cookies and Local Storage
Cookies are small files stored on a device. We and our service providers may use cookies, local storage, pixels, tags, and similar technologies for site functionality, preferences, security, audience measurement, analytics, and advertising. Some technologies are necessary for the site to work. Others may depend on your choices or applicable law.
For more detail, see our Cookie Policy.
Comments, Accounts, and Community Features
If comments, accounts, or forum features are available, we may collect the information submitted, along with technical information such as an IP address and browser user-agent string for spam prevention, moderation, and security. Public posts, usernames, profile images, and other information you choose to publish may be visible to anyone.
An anonymized value created from an email address may be sent to Gravatar to determine whether a profile image is associated with that address. Gravatar is operated by Automattic and is governed by its own privacy policy.
Newsletter and Email
If you subscribe, we use your email address and related subscription information to send requested updates. Messages may contain measurement technologies that report delivery, opens, or link interactions. You can unsubscribe using the link in a marketing message or by contacting us.
Embedded Content and External Links
Articles may include videos, maps, social posts, booking links, images, widgets, cameras, or other content from third parties. Those services may collect information and use cookies as though you visited them directly. Their practices are governed by their own policies.
How We Disclose Information
We may disclose information to hosting, security, analytics, advertising, email, content delivery, form, spam-prevention, technical, and other service providers that help operate the site. We may also disclose information:
- When you direct us to do so or consent.
- To investigate fraud, abuse, security incidents, or policy violations.
- To comply with law, legal process, or valid government requests.
- To protect rights, safety, property, users, or the public.
- In connection with a merger, financing, sale, reorganization, or transfer of all or part of the publication or its assets.
We do not publish private contact-form messages or subscriber email addresses as ordinary site content.
Data Retention
We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose collected, to maintain records, operate subscriptions or accounts, resolve disputes, prevent abuse, enforce agreements, and comply with law. Retention periods vary by data type and service provider. Public comments or forum content may remain visible until removed or moderated.
Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards. No online system is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee that information will never be accessed, lost, altered, or disclosed.
Children’s Privacy
The site is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly request personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has submitted personal information, contact us so we can review and remove it where appropriate.
Your Privacy Rights and Choices
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, portability, restriction, or objection, and to opt out of certain targeted advertising, sale, or sharing of personal information. Rights are not absolute and may require identity verification.
We do not knowingly sell personal information for money. Some privacy laws may define certain advertising disclosures or cross-context behavioral advertising as a sale or sharing even when no money is exchanged. To submit an applicable opt-out or privacy request, visit Your Privacy Choices or email [email protected].
California notice
California residents may have rights under California privacy law, depending on whether the law applies to our activities. Categories we may collect include identifiers, internet or network activity, approximate geolocation, account or user-submitted content, and inferences related to site or ad interactions. Sources and purposes are described throughout this policy. We may disclose these categories to service providers and advertising partners for the purposes described above.
EEA, United Kingdom, and Switzerland
Where applicable, processing may rely on consent, performance of a requested service, legitimate interests, or legal obligations. You may have the right to complain to a data-protection authority. Information may be processed in the United States or other countries with different data-protection rules.
Browser and Device Controls
You can delete or block cookies through browser settings, although doing so may affect site functions. Mobile devices and browsers may provide advertising, tracking, or privacy controls. Not every signal is recognized by every third-party service.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this policy when our practices, providers, technology, or legal obligations change. The date at the top identifies the latest revision. Material changes may also be announced on the site when appropriate.
Contact Us
I Love Lake Tahoe is operated by Cale Media. Send privacy questions and requests to [email protected] or use our contact page.