Privacy Policy
Last updated: November 8, 2026
This policy is maintained by us and describes how we run this site today. It is not legal advice. Questions any time: privacy@destinationoscoda.com.
Who we are
Destination Oscoda is a publishing division of Hybrid Intelligence, LLC (“we,” “us”). 4435 N. US Highway 23, Oscoda, MI 48750 · privacy@destinationoscoda.com
We are an independent community platform. We are not Oscoda Township or any government body. Where we show township information, we attribute it to township sources.
What we collect and why
| When | What | Why |
|---|---|---|
| You send us a message (Contact form) | Name, email, optional phone, optional subject, your message. Stored as an internal ticket; no email is sent from the site today. | To reply to you |
| You submit or claim a business listing, suggest an edit, or submit an event | The details you enter, including the contact email and phone you choose to give | To publish or verify the listing or event |
| You submit a photo or a Local Voices contribution | The file, plus the name or credit you choose to give and your email address (used to get back to you about the photo or, if you asked, a listing proposal) | To review and publish it with your permission, and to reply about the submission |
| You use the trip planner | Your plan is stored only on your device (browser storage). Nothing about your plan reaches us unless you choose to email it. | To let you save and share a plan |
| You choose “email me this plan” in the trip planner | Your email address and a copy of your plan (title + contents), stored until you ask us to delete it | So we can send you the plan. Delivery is by email when email service is connected; until then the request is stored. |
| You visit the site | We use Google Analytics 4 (a Google service): page views and events like which listing or guide you opened, and trip-planner actions such as add, remove, share and print. We also keep first-party counters of listing views and outbound clicks, with no personal information attached. Standard security logs (IP, browser type, pages requested, date and time). | Statistics and fixing problems; security |
| A business pays for a listing upgrade or service | Billing handled through Stripe. Your payment card data goes to Stripe, not to us. We store the invoice/billing contact details we need. (Payments are not live yet; this paragraph applies when they are.) | To process payments |
We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 16, and we ask that you do not send us information if you are under 16.
What we do not do
- We do not send marketing email or text messages today. If we start, we will ask you to opt in first, for each purpose separately, and you will be able to stop at any time.
- We do not use voter registration records in any profile, mailing list or app.
- We do not run advertising pixels or retargeting scripts. Google Analytics is not used to advertise to you or to track you across other sites.
- We do not sell personal information. Outside companies handle your information only in the limited ways described in the sections above and below.
Cookies and similar technologies
Google Analytics and the embedded content below use cookies and similar identifiers (such as device or browser identifiers) for the purposes described here. Google Analytics uses cookies to tell us that the same browser returned, without naming who you are.
Google Analytics: how your information is used
We use Google Analytics to understand overall site activity. Its cookies and identifiers let Google measure visits on our behalf. Google may also use information about your visit as described in “How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services”. We do not send your email address, your name, or your trip plan’s contents to Google Analytics. Like web measurement generally, Google receives cookie and device identifiers for the visits being measured and can derive information from your IP address, processed under Google’s standard practices. Trip-planner events carry only action labels (such as “add” or “print”); the plan itself and any email stay on our systems. When a link to another site is clicked, Google may record the click and the link’s address. You can turn Google Analytics off with Google’s opt-out browser add-on or your browser’s tracking preferences.
Embedded content on this site
Some pages embed content from other companies. Those companies load their own scripts from their own servers and may set their own cookies:
- Facebook page posts (site footer and the Community page) load Facebook’s own software and may set Facebook cookies. Facebook handles that data under Facebook’s rules. Our Facebook Page participates in Meta’s Business Tools data sharing, so Meta may use activity related to our Page to personalize ads for people on Facebook under Meta’s Business Tools Terms. You can change this in your Facebook ad preferences. We do not put any Meta pixel or tracking script on this site beyond the embedded page software described above.
- YouTube videos (the film player on Explore pages, when a listing has a video) load from YouTube. Your visit to those pages is also subject to YouTube’s rules.
- Google Maps (the maps on Explore “Things to Do” pages and real-estate pages) load from Google in your browser: single-point maps as a map frame, multi-point maps with the Google Maps software itself. Google handles that data under its rules.
No payment scripts from other companies run in your browser: Stripe is used server-side only (and only once payments go live). The economic-development portfolio map is built with open-source Leaflet software serving map images from OpenStreetMap, which does not use tracking cookies; its servers do see the IP address that requests each map image.
Email choices (how opt-in works)
When email marketing begins:
- You opt in yourself, purpose by purpose (event digests, public-record news, partner offers, partner sharing). We never pre-tick anything.
- Every signup is confirmed by a double opt-in email before anything is sent.
- Every email carries a working unsubscribe. One click stops everything immediately, and your address goes on a permanent internal do-not-send list that every send must check first, and fails closed if the check cannot run.
- We keep a record of what you agreed to — the exact wording, versioned — with each consent event, so we can always show what was agreed and when. (This record-keeping is live in our systems as of 2026-11-08.)
- Until email delivery is connected, consent is recorded but nothing is sent.
- If you give us your email address, we use it as described in this Privacy Policy.
Who sees your information
Our team and service providers that run the site for us: Google (Analytics 4), our hosting provider InterServer, and Stripe (payments, once live). Stripe and our hosting provider use that data only to provide their services to us. Google processes visits under its own rules (see the Google Analytics section), and Meta processes Page interactions under its Business Tools Terms (see Embedded content).
Businesses or organizations only if you send your details to them directly through a form that says so.
Authorities where the law requires.
Listings, events, stories and photos you submit for publication are public once published.
Your choices
Ask us to correct or delete what you sent us: privacy@destinationoscoda.com. We will reply within 30 days.
When you ask us to delete something, we confirm it is really you by the email address you gave us: we act on a request sent from that address, or reply to it for confirmation.
Ask us to remove or change a listing, event, photo or story.
Clear your device storage to remove your trip plan. To have a stored “email me this plan” request deleted, ask us.
You can block Google Analytics with Google’s opt-out browser add-on, or with a browser setting or extension that blocks it. Google Analytics does not respond to Do Not Track requests by default.
How long we keep it
We keep each kind of information only as long as we need it for the purpose described above, and we delete it sooner when you ask. Automatic deletion schedules per category are being put in place; we will publish the exact periods here once those schedules are running.
Security
We use reasonable safeguards: all traffic is encrypted in transit (HTTPS); passwords are stored as salted hashes and never in a readable form; database connections require encryption; database access is restricted to the team; payments are handled by Stripe once live. We are evaluating additional protections for data at rest at the infrastructure level. If a breach affects your information, we will notify you as the law requires.
Third-party links
Our pages link to our own Facebook Page and Facebook Group, and to other sites — all on platforms with their own rules. We do not collect or export Facebook member lists. Following a link in a business listing takes you to that company or another site: their servers see that visit and what you follow, we do not send them your name or email.
Changes
We will post changes here with a new date. If we start marketing or accounts, we will tell you and ask for your choice before using your information that way.
Contact
privacy@destinationoscoda.com · Hybrid Intelligence, LLC, 4435 N. US Highway 23, Oscoda, MI 48750