Effective date: September 14, 2026
Southern Inspo (“Southern Inspo,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect when you visit southerninspo.com, subscribe to The Southern Edit, leave a comment, contact us, or otherwise interact with our website, and how we use and protect that information.
Information we collect
We may collect information you provide directly, including your name, email address, message, comment, and any other information you submit through a newsletter signup, contact form, comment form, giveaway, survey, or similar feature.
When you visit the site, certain technical information may be collected automatically, including your IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, referring pages, pages viewed, approximate location, and the dates and times of your visits. We may use cookies and similar technologies to collect this information.
Newsletter subscriptions
When you subscribe to The Southern Edit, we collect your email address and, when provided, your first name. We use this information to send recipes, articles, recommendations, promotions, and other Southern Inspo updates. New subscriptions are stored securely in our WordPress website. You may unsubscribe at any time by using the unsubscribe option included in our emails or by contacting us at hello@southerninspo.com.
Comments
When visitors leave comments, we collect the information shown in the comment form as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user-agent string to help detect spam. An anonymized string created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine whether you use it. After a comment is approved, any associated profile picture may be publicly visible with the comment. You can review Gravatar’s privacy practices at Automattic’s Privacy Policy.
Contact forms and correspondence
If you contact us, we use the information you provide to respond to your question, request, partnership inquiry, or other communication. We may retain correspondence as reasonably necessary for customer service, recordkeeping, legal, and security purposes.
Cookies and consent choices
Cookies are small files placed on your device. Southern Inspo may use necessary cookies to operate the site, remember preferences, maintain security, support comments and logins, understand site traffic, and provide advertising or embedded content. Our cookie-consent tool may allow you to accept, reject, or manage nonessential cookies. You can also restrict cookies through your browser settings, although some site features may not function properly afterward.
If you leave a comment, you may choose to save your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies generally last for one year. Login and administrative cookies may also be used for registered users and site administrators.
Analytics, advertising, and affiliate links
We may use analytics services to understand how visitors find and use Southern Inspo. We may also work with advertising, social-media, and affiliate partners that use cookies or similar technologies to measure performance, personalize content or advertisements, and attribute purchases or other actions.
Some Southern Inspo content may contain affiliate links. If you make a purchase through one of these links, we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. Affiliate and advertising partners may receive information necessary to track the referral or transaction according to their own privacy policies. We do not receive your complete payment-card information from retailers merely because you use an affiliate link.
Embedded content and external links
Articles may include videos, images, social-media posts, recipes, or other content embedded from third-party websites. Embedded content behaves as though you visited the third-party website directly. Those services may collect data, use cookies, and monitor your interaction with their content. Southern Inspo is not responsible for the privacy practices of websites we do not control.
How we use information
- To operate, maintain, secure, and improve the website.
- To provide requested content and respond to messages.
- To send newsletter and promotional communications when you subscribe.
- To moderate comments and prevent spam, fraud, and abuse.
- To understand readership, traffic, and content performance.
- To support advertising, affiliate, editorial, and business operations.
- To comply with legal obligations and enforce our rights.
How we share information
We do not sell your name or email address as a standalone mailing list. We may share information with service providers that help us operate the website, deliver email, host data, prevent spam, analyze traffic, manage cookies, or provide advertising and affiliate services. These providers may process information only as permitted by their agreements and applicable law.
We may also disclose information when required by law; to protect the rights, safety, or property of Southern Inspo, our readers, or others; in connection with a business transfer; or with your consent.
Data retention
We retain personal information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy. Newsletter subscription information is generally retained until you unsubscribe or request deletion. Comments and related metadata may be retained indefinitely so follow-up comments can be recognized and moderated. Certain records may be kept longer when required for legal, security, accounting, or dispute-resolution purposes.
Your privacy choices and rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information we hold about you, or to object to or restrict certain uses. You may also opt out of newsletter emails at any time and manage nonessential cookies through our consent tool or your browser.
To submit a privacy request, email hello@southerninspo.com. We may need to verify your identity before completing a request. We may retain information that we are required or permitted to keep for administrative, legal, fraud-prevention, or security purposes.
Children’s privacy
Southern Inspo is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us so we can review and delete it where appropriate.
Security
We use reasonable administrative and technical measures designed to protect personal information. However, no website, transmission, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy as our website, services, or legal obligations change. The revised policy will be posted on this page with a new effective date. Your continued use of the site after an update means the revised policy applies to your future use.
Contact us
For questions or requests concerning this Privacy Policy, contact Southern Inspo at hello@southerninspo.com.