Our website address is: https://mindenstays.com.
Minden Stays operates this website to provide information about our accommodations, services, availability, and related offerings in Minden, Louisiana.
We may collect information that you voluntarily provide to us when you use our website, contact us, submit a form, leave a comment, make an inquiry, or otherwise communicate with us.
This may include your name, email address, phone number, booking or inquiry details, and any other information you choose to provide.
We may also automatically collect certain information when you visit our website, such as your IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited, referring website, and interactions with our website.
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address, also called a hash, may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine whether you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available through Automattic. After approval of your comment, your profile picture may be visible to the public in the context of your comment.
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data, including EXIF GPS data. Visitors to the website may be able to download and extract location data from images on the website.
We use cookies and similar technologies to operate our website, improve user experience, understand website traffic, remember preferences, help with security, and support marketing and advertising.
Cookies are small files placed on your browser or device that help websites function and recognize certain activity. Some cookies are necessary for the website to work properly, while others help us understand how visitors use our site or allow us to show relevant advertising.
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies may last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we may set a temporary cookie to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When a user logs in, we may set cookies to save login information and screen display choices. Login cookies generally last for two days, and screen option cookies may last for one year. If “Remember Me” is selected, the login may persist for two weeks. If the user logs out, login cookies are removed.
If an article is edited or published, an additional cookie may be saved in the browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article that was edited. It expires after one day.
We may use advertising tools, including Meta Pixel and similar technologies from Meta Platforms, Inc., which operates Facebook and Instagram.
These tools may collect or receive information from our website and elsewhere on the internet to help us measure advertising performance, understand how visitors interact with our website, and show relevant ads to people who have visited our website or interacted with our services.
This may include information such as pages visited, actions taken on the website, device and browser information, IP address, cookie identifiers, and other online identifiers.
We may use this information to advertise Minden Stays to visitors on platforms such as Facebook and Instagram. For example, if you visit our website, you may later see an advertisement for Minden Stays on Facebook or Instagram.
We do not control how Meta or other third-party advertising platforms use information they collect. Their use of information is governed by their own privacy policies and settings.
We may use analytics tools to understand how visitors find and use our website. These tools may collect information such as pages viewed, time spent on pages, links clicked, browser type, device type, general location, and referring websites.
We use this information to improve our website, services, marketing, and user experience.
Articles or pages on this site may include embedded content, such as videos, images, maps, booking tools, social media posts, or articles. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor had visited the other website directly.
These third-party websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content. This may include tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that third-party website.
We may share limited information with trusted service providers who help us operate our website, manage communications, process inquiries, analyze website traffic, detect spam, improve security, or provide advertising and marketing services.
These service providers may include website hosting providers, email or form providers, spam detection services, analytics providers, and advertising partners such as Meta.
If you request a password reset, your IP address may be included in the reset email.
We do not sell your personal information in the ordinary sense of exchanging it for money. However, some privacy laws may define certain advertising or retargeting activities as “sharing” or “selling” personal information. Depending on where you live, you may have the right to opt out of certain targeted advertising or data sharing.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata may be retained indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users who register on our website, if any, we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. Registered users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time, except they cannot change their username. Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
We retain personal information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted for administrative, legal, security, tax, accounting, or business purposes.
You can set your browser to refuse some or all cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being used. If you disable or refuse cookies, some parts of the website may not function properly.
You can also manage advertising preferences through the settings provided by platforms such as Facebook and Instagram.
Depending on your location, you may have rights to request access to, correction of, deletion of, or a copy of personal information we maintain about you. You may also have the right to opt out of certain targeted advertising or data sharing.
To make a privacy request, please contact us using the contact information listed below.
If you have an account on this site, have left comments, submitted information through a form, or otherwise provided personal information to us, you may request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including data you have provided to us.
You may also request that we erase personal data we hold about you. This does not include data we are required or permitted to keep for administrative, legal, security, tax, accounting, or business purposes.
Our website and services are not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will take reasonable steps to delete that information.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Information collected through cookies, analytics tools, advertising tools, and embedded third-party content may be processed by third-party service providers, including providers located outside of Louisiana or outside of the United States.
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to help protect personal information. However, no website, internet transmission, or electronic storage system is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make changes, we will revise the “Last updated” date at the top of this page. Your continued use of the website after any changes means you accept the updated policy.
For questions about this Privacy Policy or to make a privacy request, please contact us at:
Minden Stays
Minden, Louisiana
sara@mindenstays.com