Privacy

To understand which pages are useful, Citizen Kane uses Google Analytics 4. It sets first-party cookies (_ga and _ga_<id>) and reports page views and clicks to Google. Google signals and ad personalization are turned off, and there are no session recordings. We also advertise on Facebook and Instagram, so Citizen Kane uses the Meta pixel to see which ads bring people to the site. It sets a cookie (_fbp) and tells Meta which public pages you view and whether you signed up for the digest, an account, a listing or an event. It never sends your name, email or phone number, and it's off on your account pages, the admin area and any emailed link. You can limit this in Facebook's ad preferences. You can opt out of Google Analytics with Google's browser add-on, and ad blockers or your browser's tracking protection are fine with us. We collect only the information you choose to submit (event details, business listings, newsletter email). We never sell your data.

We also keep simple counts so the businesses, organizers and makers listed here can see how they're doing: how many times a listing or event was shown, opened, called, or had its website or directions clicked, and which words people searched on this site when it showed up (searches that look like an email address or phone number are dropped). We also count scans of our printed QR codes, and pass which code it was (not who scanned it) on to Google Analytics. These are totals per day. No cookie is set for them, and they aren't tied to you, your account, or your IP address.

Our emails count opens and link clicks the usual way (a tiny image, and links that pass through our email delivery service), so we can tell which parts of the Monday Digest are useful. For that we keep a scrambled version of your address, only to count each reader once, and for a click, which page on this site was opened, or just the name of the other site. We never keep the rest of the link.

When you tap Going or Interested on an event, we keep that with your account so it can show on your calendar. Nobody else sees who said it: event pages show only the total, once it reaches 3, and organizers see totals too. The morning after, we may email to ask whether you made it. Your answer is only ever counted, never shown, and you can turn those emails off. What you follow and hide is kept with your account too, and only you ever see it. If you ask for help with Google, reviews or your website, we keep that request so Saunders Clark can get back to you.

Your account keeps your email address and the home zip code you give us, which decides what you can post. Neither is ever shown to anyone. If you're a Founding Citizen, your name shows on the Founding Citizens wall only if you choose to put it there. When someone shares a link to this site, it can carry a short code for the person who shared it; we keep that code in a cookie (ck_ref) for 30 days, so the sharer can be credited if you join or sign up. It doesn't identify you, and the person who shared the link isn't told who you are.

What you submit lives in our database (hosted in the United States) and, for newsletter emails, with our email delivery service — nowhere else. Want something you submitted corrected or deleted, or your whole account closed, or a copy of what we keep about you? Ask through the contact page and we'll take care of it.

Effective October 28, 2026.