Effective: August 6, 2026 Last reviewed: August 7, 2026 Applies to: Vanity or Vice at https://vanityvice.blog and its editorial tools and Intelligence or Lab features.
Northern Lantern House LLC is the parent company and legal publisher behind this publication. This policy describes how Vanity or Vice handles information. Company-level commerce and account processing may also be described at northernlanternhouse.com.
1. Who we are
This privacy policy applies to Vanity or Vice and the features offered through this site.
2. Information you choose to provide
We may receive information you submit through a contact form, newsletter form, comment feature if enabled, correction request, survey, tool, or other clearly labeled interaction. What is collected depends on the feature and may include a name, email address, message, preferences, or answers needed for the requested result.
Do not submit passwords, payment-card details, government identifiers, private medical records, exact private locations, or other sensitive information unless a clearly identified feature specifically requests it and explains why.
3. Information collected automatically
The website, hosting provider, security services, consent tools, and analytics services may process technical information such as IP address, browser and device type, operating system, referring page, requested pages, timestamps, error records, and security events.
Essential processing may be used to operate, secure, diagnose, and maintain the site. Optional analytics, advertising, personalization, or similar technologies are used only when the applicable notice and consent requirements are in place.
4. Cookies and local storage
WordPress and service providers may use essential cookies or local storage for authentication, security, consent choices, and requested functionality. Optional technologies may set additional identifiers when enabled and lawfully configured.
When optional technologies are active, current cookie or consent controls will be made available. Cookie descriptions are intended to reflect features actually enabled on this site.
5. Comments, accounts, and public submissions
Comments and public user accounts are not assumed to be active. If either is offered, the relevant notice will explain what is collected, what becomes public, moderation, profile or avatar services, retention, deletion options, and service providers.
Public media uploads are not offered unless a specific feature clearly provides them. Images should not be submitted with hidden location metadata when disclosure could create privacy, safety, property, or conservation risk.
6. Contact, newsletter, and email
When you contact this publication or subscribe to a list, information is used to respond, deliver the communication, maintain consent and suppression records, prevent abuse, and meet legal or security obligations. Subscription and email forms identify the sender, purpose, provider, unsubscribe method, and relevant retention information where applicable.
7. Editorial tools and decision support
Tools are designed to collect only the information needed for the requested result. Results are informational and are not a substitute for individualized medical, legal, financial, safety, regulatory, or other professional advice.
Unless a tool expressly says otherwise, do not enter personal health histories, exact addresses, credentials, payment details, private guest lists, or exact sensitive locations. Where practical, tools may process information locally on your device or for the current session. If a feature saves data, applicable retention and deletion information will be disclosed with that feature.
8. Affiliate links, sponsors, and external services
Some pages may contain affiliate links, sponsored relationships, embeds, maps, forms, or links to other sites. External services may collect information under their own policies. Relevant commercial relationships are disclosed where they appear; a commercial relationship does not change evidence or recommendation standards.
9. How information is used
Information may be used to:
- provide the feature or communication requested;
- operate, secure, troubleshoot, and improve the site;
- prevent spam, fraud, abuse, or unauthorized access;
- maintain consent, suppression, correction, and audit records;
- measure site performance where analytics are enabled;
- comply with legal obligations and enforce site terms;
- protect the rights, safety, privacy, and integrity of readers, contributors, owners, and the public.
Information is not materially repurposed in a way that conflicts with the disclosed purpose without an updated notice and any consent required by applicable law.
10. Sharing and service providers
Information may be handled by service providers that support hosting, security, consent, email, analytics, forms, backups, content delivery, or other necessary functions.
Information may also be disclosed when reasonably necessary to comply with law, protect rights or safety, investigate abuse, or complete a business transfer with appropriate safeguards. Personal information is not sold as a stand-alone data product.
11. Retention
Information is retained only as long as reasonably necessary for the disclosed purpose, security, backups, corrections, consent records, legal obligations, or dispute handling. When a feature stores user information beyond the current session, its retention or deletion information is provided where appropriate.
12. Choices and requests
Depending on location and applicable law, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, or a copy of personal information. You may also withdraw consent for optional processing and unsubscribe from email.
Privacy contact: https://vanityvice.blog/contact/#privacy
Identity may be verified before fulfilling a request.
13. Security
Reasonable administrative and technical safeguards are used, but no website or transmission method is completely secure. Do not send sensitive information through ordinary contact channels.
14. Children and contributor privacy
This publication is not designed to collect personal information from children through public tools. Personal information, images, audio, location, routines, school details, or direct contact information about a young contributor should not be submitted through ordinary public features.
15. Changes
Material changes are documented with updated effective or last-reviewed dates. Inaccurate statements are corrected when identified.
16. Publication-specific processing
Ordinary Vanity or Vice editorial tools do not ask for personal health histories, photographs for diagnosis, treatment records, prescription details, or individualized suitability information. If a future feature handles health-related information, separate privacy, security, retention, and other applicable notices will be provided with that feature.
17. Company relationship
Purchases, accounts, downloads, refunds, and centralized support may be handled by Northern Lantern House LLC as seller of record. See Commerce and company privacy materials on northernlanternhouse.com when those services are used.