Two Doodles Media, LLC (“Two Doodles Media,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) operates The Village and The Valley, including the website thevillageandvalley.com, our email newsletter, and related online content.
This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and the choices you have regarding your information.
By using our website or subscribing to The Village and The Valley, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
1. Information We Collect
Information You Provide
We may collect information that you voluntarily provide to us, including:
- Your email address when you subscribe to our newsletter
- Information you provide through contact or submission features
- Photos, comments, recommendations, event information, or other content you voluntarily submit to us
- Information provided when you communicate with us regarding advertising, partnerships, directory listings, or other business matters
- Information provided when you purchase products, services, guides, memberships, or other offerings from us, if applicable
Our newsletter signup currently requires only your email address.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit our website, certain information may be collected automatically, including:
- IP address
- Browser and device type
- Operating system
- Pages visited
- Links clicked
- Date and time of visits
- Referring website
- General geographic information
- Website usage and performance information
We may collect this information through cookies, analytics tools, and similar technologies.
2. How We Use Information
We may use information we collect to:
- Deliver The Village and The Valley newsletter
- Respond to questions and inquiries
- Publish and manage user-submitted content
- Operate our website and online services
- Maintain our business directory
- Process purchases and transactions
- Provide products, services, guides, or other offerings
- Understand how visitors use our website
- Analyze website and newsletter performance
- Improve our content, products, and services
- Communicate with subscribers, customers, advertisers, and business partners
- Administer promotions, surveys, polls, or other website features
- Protect the security and integrity of our website and services
- Comply with applicable laws and legal obligations
3. Newsletter and Email Communications
The Village and The Valley uses Beehiiv to manage newsletter subscribers and deliver email communications.
When you subscribe, your email address is provided to Beehiiv for purposes including newsletter delivery, subscriber management, analytics, and related services.
You may unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link included in our emails.
We may retain limited information about unsubscribed individuals when reasonably necessary to maintain an accurate suppression record, comply with legal obligations, or prevent an individual from being inadvertently re-added to our mailing list.
4. Analytics and Cookies
We use Google Analytics and may use other analytics technologies to understand how visitors use our website and to improve our content and services.
Our website is hosted on Squarespace, which may use cookies and similar technologies necessary for website functionality, security, analytics, and performance.
Cookies are small data files stored on your device. You may be able to control or disable cookies through your browser settings or available website cookie controls.
Disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of portions of our website.
5. Third-Party Services
We use third-party service providers to operate portions of our business and website. These may include:
- Beehiiv for newsletter delivery and subscriber management
- Squarespace for website hosting and functionality
- Google Analytics for website analytics
- Payment processors and other services necessary to process purchases, where applicable
- Advertising, marketing, directory, or technology providers as our business develops
These providers may process information on our behalf or collect information according to their own privacy policies.
We encourage you to review the privacy policies of third-party services you interact with.
6. Advertising, Sponsored Content, and Affiliate Links
The Village and The Valley may generate revenue through advertising, sponsored content, partnerships, affiliate relationships, directory listings, and other commercial arrangements.
We may receive compensation when you click certain affiliate links or make a purchase through those links.
Affiliate relationships will not necessarily be identified within every individual link, but we will provide appropriate disclosures where required.
Advertisers, sponsors, affiliate partners, and other third parties may collect information when you interact with their websites, advertisements, or services. We do not control their privacy practices.
7. Business Directory
The Village and The Valley may publish information about local businesses in a business directory.
Directory information may include business names, addresses, websites, contact information, descriptions, photographs, hours, categories, and other publicly available or voluntarily submitted information.
Businesses may contact us to request corrections or updates to their listings.
We do not guarantee that directory information is complete, accurate, or current.
8. User-Submitted Content
If you voluntarily submit photographs, comments, recommendations, event information, stories, or other material to us, we may collect and use that information as described in our Terms & Conditions.
Please do not submit personal information about another person unless you have permission to do so.
9. How We Share Information
We do not sell your email address as a standalone mailing list.
We may share information with service providers that help us operate our business, website, newsletter, transactions, analytics, advertising, and other services.
We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to:
- Comply with applicable law
- Respond to lawful requests from government authorities
- Protect our rights, property, or safety
- Investigate fraud, abuse, or security issues
- Enforce our agreements
- Complete a merger, acquisition, sale, restructuring, or other business transaction
10. Third-Party Links
Our website and newsletter may contain links to third-party websites, including local businesses, restaurants, event organizers, parks, government agencies, news organizations, retailers, ticketing platforms, and other services.
We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy practices, content, security, or policies.
When you leave our website, we encourage you to review the privacy policy of the website you visit.
11. Children’s Privacy
Our website and newsletter are not directed toward children under 13.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us so we can take appropriate steps to delete it.
12. Data Retention
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide our services, operate our business, maintain appropriate business records, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and the reason it was collected.
13. Your Privacy Choices
Depending on applicable law, you may have rights regarding your personal information, including the ability to:
- Request access to personal information we hold about you
- Request correction of inaccurate information
- Request deletion of personal information
- Unsubscribe from marketing communications
- Request information about how your information is collected and used
To make a privacy-related request, contact us at:
We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests.
14. Security
We take reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures to protect personal information.
However, no internet transmission or electronic storage system is completely secure. We cannot guarantee the absolute security of information transmitted to or stored by us.
15. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time as our business, website, services, or applicable laws change.
When we make changes, we will update the Effective Date at the top of this page.
Your continued use of the website after an updated Privacy Policy is posted constitutes acceptance of the updated policy to the extent permitted by law.
16. Contact Us
Questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices may be directed to:
Two Doodles Media, LLC
The Village and The Valley
hello@thevillageandvalley.com
thevillageandvalley.com
Advertising & Affiliate Disclosure
The Village and The Valley is operated by Two Doodles Media, LLC.
We believe in being transparent about how our publication makes money.
Advertising & Sponsored Content
The Village and The Valley may receive compensation from local businesses and organizations for advertising, sponsored content, directory listings, partnerships, and other promotional opportunities.
Paid and sponsored content will be identified when appropriate.
Advertising relationships do not automatically determine our editorial coverage, and payment does not guarantee a favorable editorial opinion or recommendation.
Advertisers and sponsors are responsible for the accuracy of their own claims, products, services, offers, and representations.
Affiliate Links
Some links on The Village and The Valley may be affiliate links. This means that if you click a link and make a qualifying purchase or take another qualifying action, we may receive a commission or other compensation.
Affiliate compensation does not increase the price you pay.
We may receive compensation from affiliate relationships even when a link is included alongside editorial content.
Our goal is to recommend and share information that we believe is useful to our readers. However, you should conduct your own research before purchasing a product or service.
Questions
If you have questions about advertising, sponsored content, affiliate relationships, or our editorial practices, contact:
Two Doodles Media, LLC
The Village and The Valley