Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 16, 2026

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Silverpine Bay and Daniela Metcalf respect your privacy. This policy explains what information may be collected when you visit silverpinebay.com, sign up for the Silverpine Bay Gazette, or interact with links and features on this website, and how that information is used.

Information We Collect

You may provide personal information directly when you:

• sign up for the Silverpine Bay Gazette

• contact us

• submit information through a form on this website

The primary personal information we collect directly is your email address.

Certain technical information may also be collected automatically when you visit the website, including information such as your IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited, and general website activity.

 

The Silverpine Bay Gazette

If you choose to become a Silverpine Bay resident by subscribing to the Gazette, your email address is used to send you Silverpine Bay news, book updates, recipes, exclusive stories, and related reader content.

Email subscriptions are managed through Kit, our email service provider. Kit may process information associated with your subscription, such as your email address, IP address, signup source, and interaction with emails.

 

You may unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link included at the bottom of our emails.

We will not add you to the Gazette without your permission.

How We Use Your Information

Information collected through this website may be used to:

• deliver the Silverpine Bay Gazette

• communicate with you when you contact us

• understand how visitors use the website

• maintain and improve the website

• protect the security and functionality of the website

• comply with applicable legal requirements

We do not sell your personal information.

 

Wix

Silverpinebay.com is hosted on the Wix platform.

Wix provides the technology used to operate and host this website and may process technical information necessary to provide its services, maintain website security, and understand website performance.

 

Cookies and Analytics

This website may use cookies and similar technologies for essential website functions, security, performance, and analytics.

 

Some cookies are necessary for the Wix platform to operate. Other cookies or tracking technologies may be used if analytics or third-party services are enabled. Wix notes that additional integrations can place their own cookies on a Wix website.

 

Where required, visitors will be given the opportunity to accept or decline non-essential cookies.

You can also control or delete cookies through your browser settings.

 

Links to Other Websites

Silverpinebay.com contains links to third-party websites, including retailers such as Amazon.

When you follow one of these links, you leave Silverpinebay.com. The privacy practices of those websites are governed by their own privacy policies.

 

We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of third-party websites.

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How Long We Keep Information

Newsletter subscriber information is retained while you remain subscribed and as reasonably necessary to operate the Gazette, maintain appropriate records, or comply with legal obligations.

If you unsubscribe, you will no longer receive marketing emails from us. Certain limited records may be retained when necessary for legal, compliance, or suppression purposes.

 

Your Privacy Choices

Depending on where you live, you may have rights regarding your personal information, including the ability to request access to, correction of, or deletion of certain personal information.

You may also withdraw your consent to receive the Silverpine Bay Gazette at any time by using the unsubscribe link in any Gazette email.

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Children's Privacy

Silverpinebay.com is intended for a general adult audience and is not directed to children under the age of 13.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

 

Changes to This Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time to reflect changes to the website, the services we use, or applicable privacy requirements.

When changes are made, the updated date at the top of this page will be revised.