Privacy Policy

Information we collect

When you create an account, the site stores the account details you provide, including your username, email address, name fields when supplied, and a securely hashed password.

When you join the newsletter, the site stores your email address, name, signup source, subscription status, and related timestamps. Signed-in visitors can also add items to favorites and turn News, museum, YouTube, or Instagram alerts on or off.

• Account and authentication information you submit.
• Newsletter, favorite, and alert preferences.
• Messages and delivery records created when the site sends email.
• Contact messages, submitted contact details, staff replies, and limited anti-abuse records.
• Essential session, security, and newsletter-preference cookies.
• Aggregate public website pageviews and privacy-preserving unique-visitor estimates; raw IP addresses and user-agent strings are not stored.

How we use information

We use information to provide and secure the site, authenticate accounts, remember saved content, manage subscriptions, send requested updates, troubleshoot delivery, understand site use, prevent abuse, and improve TheNakedNYC.

Cookies and analytics

The site uses essential cookies for sessions, request security, and remembering whether an anonymous visitor subscribed to the newsletter.

TheNakedNYC keeps first-party aggregate pageview totals for public pages. Unique visitors are estimated with a one-way server hash so repeated views can be counted without storing raw IP addresses or user-agent strings.

Browser settings can remove or block cookies, but blocking essential cookies can prevent sign-in, forms, and saved preferences from working.

You can review or change available nonessential choices from Cookie Choices in the footer.

Service providers and external content

Information may be processed by providers that support hosting, email delivery, analytics, security, and other site operations. Some pages load images, videos, or links from museums, YouTube, Instagram, and other third-party sites. Those services receive information according to their own privacy practices when your browser connects to them.

Information may also be disclosed when reasonably necessary to comply with law, protect rights or safety, investigate abuse, or complete a business transfer.

Your choices

You can update available account details and newsletter, favorite, and alert preferences through My Account. You may also ask about access, correction, deletion, or another privacy right that applies where you live.

For a privacy question or request, contact TheNakedNYC through an official social profile linked from this site. We may need to verify your identity before acting on a request.

Retention and security

Information is kept for as long as reasonably needed to provide the requested features, maintain operational and security records, resolve disputes, and meet legal obligations. Retention can vary by record type.

We use reasonable administrative and technical safeguards, but no online service can guarantee absolute security.

Children and policy changes

TheNakedNYC is a general-audience culture site and is not designed to collect personal information from children under 13.

This policy may be updated when site practices change. The date shown above identifies the current version.