Last updated: October 17, 2026
Texas Lifestyle Guide respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and share personal information when you visit texaslifestyleguide.com, contact us, subscribe to our newsletter, or discuss a business collaboration.
Throughout this policy, “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Texas Lifestyle Guide.
1. Information We Collect
Information you provide
Depending on how you interact with our website, you may provide:
- Contact information: Your name, email address, and the contents of messages you send through our contact form or email.
- Newsletter information: Your email address when you subscribe to receive updates.
- Comments: Your name, email address, optional website address, and comment text when commenting is available.
- Business collaboration information: Your name, business name, contact details, website, correspondence, and materials you provide when discussing a sponsored article or other collaboration.
Please avoid sending sensitive personal information, such as identification documents, medical records, passwords, or payment card details, through comments or general contact forms.
Information collected automatically
Our website and hosting services may collect technical information when you visit, including:
- IP address.
- Browser type and device information.
- Pages requested and referring websites.
- Dates and times of visits.
- Technical errors and security-related activity.
This information helps operate the website, identify technical problems, and protect against spam and misuse.
2. How We Use Information
We use information for purposes relevant to your interaction with us, including:
- Operating and maintaining the website.
- Responding to questions, corrections, and enquiries.
- Sending newsletters when you subscribe.
- Publishing and moderating comments.
- Arranging and managing business collaborations.
- Improving website performance and understanding how our content is accessed.
- Preventing spam, fraud, and security problems.
- Maintaining necessary business records and meeting legal obligations.
Contacting us about a question or collaboration does not automatically subscribe you to our newsletter.
3. Cookies and Website Features
Cookies are small files stored on your device. Our website may use cookies to support website functions, maintain authorised login sessions, or remember details you choose to save when commenting.
You can block or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking some cookies may affect how parts of the website work.
If we introduce optional analytics or advertising technologies, we will update this policy to explain the relevant processing and provide consent or opt-out controls where required. Publishing this policy does not replace any consent required for those technologies.
Google Fonts
Our website uses Google Fonts. When fonts are loaded from Google’s servers, your browser communicates with Google and provides technical information, including your IP address.
Embedded content
Articles may include embedded videos, maps, images, or other content hosted by third parties. Loading or interacting with that content may allow its provider to collect information, use cookies, or associate activity with an account you hold with that provider.
The provider’s own privacy policy applies to its handling of that information.
4. Business Collaborations and Sponsored Content
Texas Lifestyle Guide collaborates with companies in Texas through sponsored articles, business features, and other content partnerships.
We use information supplied by business representatives to discuss opportunities, prepare content, obtain approvals, manage publication, and maintain collaboration records.
Business information intended and approved for publication, such as a company name, website, representative’s name, or quotation, may appear publicly in an article.
Sponsoring an article does not give a business access to our private contact messages or newsletter subscriber list. We do not provide those details to sponsors for their independent marketing without your permission.
If you follow a link to a featured company and contact it directly, that company handles the information you provide under its own privacy policy.
5. When We Share Information
We do not sell your personal information.
We may share relevant information in the following circumstances:
- Website and communications services: Hosting, email delivery, form processing, maintenance, and security providers may process contact information, messages, subscriber details, or technical data as needed to provide their services.
- Your instructions: We may share information when you ask us to do so or authorise a particular disclosure.
- Legal and security needs: We may disclose information where reasonably necessary to comply with legal obligations, respond to lawful requests, investigate misuse, or protect people and their rights.
- Business transfers: Information may be transferred as part of a sale, merger, or transfer of the website, subject to applicable privacy requirements.
Public comments and information approved for publication are visible to other website visitors.
6. Comments and External Websites
If you leave a public comment, your displayed name, comment, and any website link you provide may be visible to others. Your email address is not displayed as part of the comment. Technical information associated with comments may be used for spam detection and moderation.
Our articles also link to websites operated by other organisations. Their privacy practices may differ from ours. Review their policies before submitting personal information or using their services.
7. How Long We Keep Information
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably needed for the purpose for which it was collected, including relevant legal, accounting, security, and recordkeeping requirements.
For example:
- Enquiries and collaboration correspondence may be retained to manage requests and maintain business records.
- Newsletter details are retained while you remain subscribed. Limited records may be kept after unsubscribing to respect your preference not to receive further newsletters.
- Comments and associated moderation information may remain while the comments are published and for related administration.
- Technical logs are retained according to operational and security needs.
When information is no longer needed, we delete or anonymise it, subject to applicable retention requirements and backup schedules.
8. Security and Processing Locations
We take reasonable steps to protect personal information against unauthorised access, loss, misuse, or disclosure. However, no website, email system, or storage method can guarantee complete security.
Information may be processed outside your state or country, depending on where our website operations and service providers are located. Where applicable law requires safeguards for international transfers, those requirements apply.
9. Your Privacy Choices and Rights
You can unsubscribe from newsletters using the link provided in our emails. You can also contact us about accessing, correcting, or deleting personal information we hold about you.
Depending on your location and the laws that apply to our activities, you may have additional rights, including obtaining a portable copy of your information or opting out of certain uses involving targeted advertising, data sales, or specified profiling.
To submit a request, use our Contact page and identify your message as a privacy request. We may request information reasonably necessary to verify your identity.
We will respond within applicable legal time limits. Some requests may be subject to legal exceptions, which we will explain where required.
If we decline a request, you may contact us through the same page to ask us to review the decision. Where applicable, you may also complain to the relevant privacy regulator or attorney general. We will not unlawfully discriminate against you for exercising your privacy rights.
10. Children’s Privacy
Texas Lifestyle Guide is intended for a general adult audience and is not directed to children under 13.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information through our website, please contact us so we can investigate and take appropriate steps to remove it.
11. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when our website, services, or information practices change.
The latest version will appear on this page with an updated date. Where required, we will provide additional notice or obtain consent before introducing relevant changes.
12. Contact Us
For privacy questions, requests concerning your information, or concerns about how information is handled, please contact Texas Lifestyle Guide through our Contact page.