Privacy

Last updated: 2026-08-18.

We collect the minimum needed to make Hamptons Verified useful: a persona cookie to tailor your homepage, an age-gate cookie, 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.

Cookies

shoreline_persona — your selected persona.
shoreline_age_ok — confirms you've passed the 18+ gate.
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.

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.

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