Effective Date: July 1, 2026

Website Address: https://voxfl.com

Welcome to VoxFL. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring a transparent, secure experience across our South Florida news portal, interactive data tracking systems, and community polling platforms. This Privacy Policy details how we handle information collected from our visitors.

1. Who We Are and What We Collect

A. Interactive Community Polls & Forms

When you participate in our live community polls (such as our property insurance or sports surveys), we collect your specific voting inputs.

• To ensure data integrity and prevent fraudulent vote manipulation, we collect anonymized data points and use local browser storage or temporary cookies to track whether a device has already voted.
• Individual votes are automatically aggregated into public-facing percentage trends and charts.

B. Comments & Editorial Engagement

When visitors leave comments or feedback on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to assist in automated spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to verify usage. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Upon approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

C. Media Uploads

If you upload images or media to the website as a contributor, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can potentially download and extract location data from images hosted publicly online.

2. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We utilize cookies to optimize site performance, remember user states, and ensure our interactive features work seamlessly:

• Poll Security Cookies: These are deployed to remember your voting status so you are presented with real-time percentage results rather than the voting form upon return visits.
• Comment Cookies: 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 that you do not have to fill in your details again when posting future comments. These cookies last for one year.
• Session & Login Cookies: If you visit our login page, we set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When logging in, we establish several cookies to preserve your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year.

3. Embedded Content and RSS Aggregation

Articles and feeds on this site include embedded content (e.g., dynamic RSS news feeds, regional data charts, videos, images, or articles). Embedded content from third-party websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the external source directly.

These external platforms may independently collect data about you, use their own cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content—especially if you hold an active account and are logged into that specific third-party website at the time of browsing.

4. Data Sharing and Retention

• Data Sharing: VoxFL does not sell, trade, or rent user data to third parties. Visitor comments and form entries may be vetted through an automated third-party spam detection service. If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the automated reset email.
• Retention Eras: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. For users that register on our website, we securely store the personal information provided in their user profiles. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except username changes). Website administrators maintain view and edit capabilities for that data.

5. Your Rights Over Your Data

If you have an administrative account on this site or have actively left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have explicitly provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any operational data we are legally or structurally obliged to retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.