Privacy

A practical privacy note for this personal travel journal.

The Beautiful USA is a personal, non-commercial photography and travel journal maintained as a private hobby. The site is not an advertising project, affiliate site, paid travel service, newsletter business, analytics product, or user-account platform.

What This Site Collects

When comments are enabled, the comment form collects the comment text and the post ID. Comment records may be stored in Cloudflare D1 with an anonymous display name, an empty email field for compatibility with the existing table shape, timestamps, and a spam status flag.

The public comment display is limited to Anonymous, the comment text, and the comment date. Do not include personal information in your comment.

Infrastructure and Spam Protection

The site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages, uses Cloudflare CDN/security infrastructure, stores comment data in Cloudflare D1, and hosts images through Cloudflare R2. Cloudflare may process normal request metadata such as IP address, user-agent, timestamps, requested URLs, and security signals as part of hosting, delivery, logging, and abuse prevention.

If Akismet spam filtering is enabled, comment content and request metadata such as IP address and user-agent may be sent to Akismet to decide whether an anonymous comment looks like spam. If Akismet is not configured, the site skips that external spam check.

What This Site Does Not Use

The site currently does not use ads, ad networks, analytics scripts, affiliate tracking, sponsorship tracking, newsletters, payment data, donation flows, user accounts, behavioral profiling, or cross-site advertising pixels. Any future feature in those categories should go through separate legal and privacy review before it is added.

Comments and Removal Requests

If you want a comment corrected or removed, or if you have a privacy concern about something on the site, email [email protected] with the page URL and enough detail to identify the comment or content at issue.

Photos and Sensitive Details

The photos are personal travel images. The site tries to avoid publishing sensitive personal details such as private addresses, documents, tickets, QR codes, license plates, or prominently identifiable private individuals where consent or redaction would be appropriate.

This page is a practical transparency notice, not legal advice. It does not promise a fixed retention period unless the project later adds and enforces one operationally.