Our Policy O’ Privacy
(Last Updated: 11/14/2025)
The Straight Shot: We’re not in the business of harvesting your data, building shadow profiles, or selling your browsing habits to the highest bidder. We built Liberty Shore to help people engage with civic consciousness, not to become another surveillance apparatus masquerading as a helpful website.
That said, the internet is messy, and perfect privacy doesn’t exist. Here’s what actually happens when you visit our site.
What We Collect (And Why) Basic Server Logs: When you visit Liberty Shore, our web host automatically logs standard technical information: IP address, browser type, pages visited, timestamps. This is how websites work—we can’t turn it off without turning off the website. We use this to:
Fix technical problems when the site breaks Understand which content resonates (so we know if we’re wasting everyone’s time) Block malicious traffic and prevent attacks
We don’t cross-reference this with other databases to “learn more about you.” We’re not interested.
Cookies (The Digital Kind): We use minimal cookies to remember basic preferences and keep the site functional. No tracking cookies, no advertising cookies, no “we’re sharing this with 847 partners” cookies. If you’re using a modern browser with privacy protections, you’re likely blocking most of what little we’d set anyway. Good.
Analytics: If using analytics: We use MonsterInsights to see if or not there’s traffic, no more. This data is anonymized and aggregated. We can see “500 people read the article on emotional intelligence,” not “Susan from Topeka spent 14 minutes reading it while drinking coffee with a “I dare you to scame me” smirk on her face. Bold…she knew it, now you do. The more you know about nothing.”
Comments/Contact Forms: If we end up with a comment system or contact form, we only collect whatever information you voluntarily provide. Usually that’s a name (real or fake, we don’t verify) and email address. We use this to respond to you. We don’t scrape it for marketing lists or feed it into databases.
What We DON’T Do
We don’t sell your data. Not to advertisers, not to data brokers, not to anyone. This isn’t a revenue stream for us.
We don’t build profiles. We’re not trying to figure out your political leanings, relationship status, or purchasing habits to manipulate you.
We don’t use targeted advertising. If we run ads at all (we’d prefer not to), they’ll be contextual to content, not tailored to your psychological profile.
We don’t share with government agencies unless legally compelled via valid court order (at which point we’d comply with the law but fight overreach where possible).
Third-Party Services (The Mostest Honest Part)
We rely on third-party services to keep the site running: Web Hosting: [Provider name] hosts our site. They have their own privacy policy and data practices. We chose them because they’re [reason – e.g., “not actively hostile to privacy”], but we can’t control what they do with server logs on their end.
Email Service: [If applicable – provider name] manages our email subscriptions. We chose them for [reason (TBA)], but again—their infrastructure, their policies.
Embedded Content: Sometimes we don’t consider this, nor ever consider allowing this. No ads. No 3rd party influence. Allowing financial exceptions against principles is another Gateway to letting terrorism win. I once heard (something alike)… “The moment a person will kill 1 person to save one million people is the very instant they are willing to kill 2 people to save 500,000 people. Give it a week and they’ll be negotiating the choices of a “Wouuld you rather?” ultimatum to justify the means to someone else’s end.
External Links: We link to other sites constantly. Once you click through, you’re in their territory, subject to their policies. We try not to link to privacy nightmares, but we can’t guarantee everyone we reference is clean.
Your Rights (Actually Useful Information) Access Your Data: Email us, and we’ll tell you what we have (spoiler: probably just an email address and some server logs). Delete Your Data: Request deletion, and we’ll remove what we control. Server logs eventually age out automatically. Correct Your Data: Got the wrong email in our system? Let us know. Opt Out: Unsubscribe links work. Browser privacy tools work. Tor works. We’re not trying to thwart your privacy practices.
Security (The Realistic Version) We use HTTPS encryption, keep software updated, and follow standard security practices. But let’s be clear: no website is perfectly secure. Breaches happen to organizations with infinitely more resources than us. We’ll do our best, but we can’t guarantee invulnerability. If we experience a data breach affecting user information, we’ll notify affected individuals promptly and explain what happened. No PR spin, no minimizing—just straight information so you can make informed decisions.
Changes to This Policy If we change how we handle data, we’ll update this page and note the date. Major changes will be announced clearly on the site. We won’t pull a bait-and-switch where you signed up under one policy and wake up under surveillance capitalism.
The Bottom Line We built Liberty Shore because civic consciousness matters, not because we wanted to monetize your attention. That means our incentives align with yours: we want you to engage with ideas, not become a data product.
The internet’s architecture makes true privacy difficult. We can’t eliminate every risk. But we can—and do—refuse to participate in the extraction economy that treats human attention and behavior as raw materials.
If you have questions, concerns, or notice something sketchy, contact us at [email protected]. We’ll respond like humans, not with auto-generated corporate platitudes.
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