How The Mangrove collects, uses, and protects your information.
Effective date: April 21, 2026
The Mangrove is a property of Littoral Lucie Media, LLC. This privacy policy explains how we handle information collected through the website treasurecoastecosystems.com.
We use Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to collect anonymized usage data about how visitors interact with this site. This includes:
No personally identifiable information is intentionally collected through analytics.
Google Analytics uses first-party cookies to distinguish unique users and sessions. These cookies do not contain personal information. The specific cookies used are:
Analytics data helps us understand how visitors use the site so we can improve content quality, identify popular topics, and optimize the reading experience. We do not sell this data, share it with third parties for marketing purposes, or use it for advertising targeting.
Google processes analytics data according to its own privacy policy, which you can review at policies.google.com/privacy. If you prefer not to be tracked by Google Analytics, you can install Google's opt-out browser add-on.
This site does not serve advertisements and does not use tracking for ad targeting purposes.
This site does not require or offer user account creation. No passwords, email addresses, or personal information is collected through the site outside of the contact form described below.
If you use our contact form, any information you voluntarily submit (such as your name, email address, and message) is used solely to respond to your inquiry. This information is not stored in any database or shared with third parties.
This site may embed content from YouTube (using privacy-enhanced mode via youtube-nocookie.com), weather data widgets from NOAA/NWS, and other public data sources. These embeds may set their own cookies according to their respective privacy policies.
Analytics data is retained for 14 months within Google Analytics. No raw analytics data is stored on this server beyond aggregated, anonymized summaries.
This policy may be updated periodically. The effective date at the top of the page reflects the most recent revision.
If you have questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at steve@treasurecoastecosystems.com.