Privacy

Last updated: 2026-10-26.

We collect the minimum needed to make Hamptons Verified useful: a persona cookie to tailor your homepage and a cookie-consent flag — plus, only if you choose to create an account, the session cookie our sign-in provider sets (see Accounts below). We do not sell personal data.

Analytics

We measure how the site is used — pages visited, referrers, country-level location, device type — with privacy-respecting analytics (Vercel Web Analytics) and page-speed measurement (Vercel Speed Insights). This data is aggregated, is not used to identify you, and is never sold.

We record five things beyond page views, each so we can fix something: a search that returned no results, a filter combination that emptied a page, a click out to a venue's website or booking link, whether the weekend page was read past its first day, and which section was opened from the homepage.

Of these, only the first includes text you typed — a search that found nothing, so we know what to add. It is truncated, and anything containing an email address or a long run of digits is discarded rather than sent. Searches that do find something are never recorded.

Saved places

Hearting a venue saves it on your own device — your saved list lives in your browser, not on our servers. We also count the first save of each place, so we can learn what kinds of places visitors love.

The count carries the venue, the section, and a random identifier your browser makes up about itself — no account, no name, no email, no IP address, nothing that identifies you.
It stays in our own store, is never sold or shared, and clearing your browser data destroys the identifier.
If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal we take it at its word: the save is counted without any identifier at all.
If you choose to use saved places in Plan My Day, their names and listing identifiers are sent to our planner for that request only. They influence the generated day and are not logged or stored by the planner.

We also count, in our own store, clicks on a venue's own website link — the record is only a timestamp and the venue, nothing that identifies you. It exists so that when we have a referral arrangement with a venue, we can tell them honestly how much traffic we send them.

Accounts

Creating an account is optional and buys exactly one thing: your saved places following you from one device to another. Every page on this site, including saving places, works the same with or without one — nothing is gated behind signing in except the account page itself.

Sign-in (Google or email) is handled by Clerk, our authentication provider. Clerk stores your email address and, if you use Google, your Google account's basic profile info (name, email, avatar) — we never see or store your password.
If you sign in, we store your saved-places list in our own database, keyed to your account id — the same list already sitting in your browser, so a device you sign in on second gets everything the first one had, and vice versa.
This account data is never sold, shared, or used for anything but syncing your own list back to you. You can delete your synced list from our store at any time from the account page, independent of your Clerk sign-in itself.
The anonymous first-save count above is unaffected either way — it never carries an account id, signed in or not.

Public lists and following

Your saved list is private unless you choose otherwise. If you are signed in, you can switch on “Make my list public” on your Saved page. It is off until you do.

Switching it on publishes only what you chose: the first name or nickname you type, your upcoming saved events and your saved places, on a page at hamptonsverified.com/u/<your link>. Not your email, not your account, not when you saved anything, and not your past events. Anyone who has the link can see that page; it is hidden from search engines.
We store that name and the link name next to your synced list, so the page can show your current list. Switching it off takes the page down immediately (the link then shows “not found”). We keep the name and link name privately, so switching it back on later restores the same link; deleting your synced list or your account removes them.
Following someone's list needs no account. The lists you follow are kept on your own device, like your saved places, and we are not told who follows whom. To show a list you follow, your browser asks us for that list by its link; the request does not identify you.
There are no email or push notifications for followed lists.

Cookies

shoreline_persona — your selected persona.
shoreline_cookie_ok — confirms you've seen this banner.
If you create an account, our sign-in provider (Clerk) sets its own session cookie so you stay signed in. It carries no data of ours — see Accounts above for what an account itself stores.

You can clear these cookies in your browser at any time.

AI assistants (ChatGPT, Claude)

You can ask Hamptons Verified questions from inside an AI assistant, such as the Hamptons Verified app in ChatGPT or our Claude connector. No account or sign-in is needed, and we never see your conversation.

When the assistant calls one of our tools, we receive only what that tool needs: place names, dates, categories or search words the assistant passes along. We do not receive your name, email, IP address, location, chat history or any account identifier.
We record which tool was called, those arguments and how many places or events it returned, so we can see what people ask about and fill gaps. The record contains nothing that identifies you.
The tools only read our own published guide data. They never write, book, buy or send anything on your behalf, and they do not share your requests with third parties.
This data is never sold, never used for advertising and never used to train AI models. The assistant you use (for example OpenAI or Anthropic) handles your conversation under its own privacy policy.
The service is not directed at children under 13. To ask about or delete any data, use the contact form.

Contact form and feedback

When you write to us through the contact form or a feedback button, we store what you typed, the email address you give (if any) and, for feedback, your browser type and screen size so we can reproduce a problem. We use it only to answer you and fix the site.

Error reports

When a page crashes, an error report (the error, the page address and your browser type) goes to Sentry so we can fix it. Session replay and performance tracing are switched off.

Who processes data for us

We share data only with the service providers that run the site, and only for that purpose:

Vercel: hosting, aggregate analytics, page-speed measurement and file storage, including synced saved places and public lists.
Upstash: the database that holds email sign-ups.
Clerk: sign-in, only if you create an account.
Sentry: error reports.

We do not sell or rent data, and we do not share it for advertising. We disclose it to anyone else only if the law requires us to.

How long we keep it

Cookies: until you clear them.
Account and synced saved places: until you delete the list or ask us to delete your account.
Public list name and link: until you delete your synced list or ask us to delete your account. The public page itself is gone as soon as you switch it off.
Email sign-ups: until you unsubscribe or ask us to remove you.
Contact and feedback messages: until you ask us to delete them.
Error reports: deleted by Sentry after 90 days at most.
AI tool-call logs, anonymous save counts and venue-click counts: kept as usage history. They hold nothing that identifies you, so none of it can be traced back to a person.

Your choices

Use the whole site without an account, and decline cookies other than the consent flag.
Send a Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal and we record saves without any identifier.
Delete your synced list from the account page at any time.
Ask us, through the contact form or at hello@hamptonsverified.com, to see, correct or delete data tied to your email address. We answer within 30 days.

If you join the Monday email list we store your address and nothing else. No issue has been sent and there may never be one — whether it starts depends on whether this site gets enough use to be worth writing. If it ever does, every issue carries a one-click unsubscribe.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. Questions? Use the contact form or write to hello@hamptonsverified.com.