Privacy Policy
This policy explains how GoHappening collects, uses, shares, protects, and retains information when people use event discovery, planning, poll, blog, hotel, parking, and notification services.
Information We Collect
We collect information you provide directly, including account details, poll votes, comments, newsletter signups, contact requests, data requests, and event submissions. When you sign in with Google to vote, we receive only the identity details needed to verify the vote, such as your Google subject identifier, display name, and profile image.
- Event planning activity such as searches, viewed pages, hotel or parking clicks, poll interactions, and newsletter preferences.
- Technical data such as device type, browser, approximate location from IP address, referrer, timestamps, and diagnostic logs.
- Partner interaction data when you click sponsored hotel, ticket, travel, parking, or affiliate links.
How We Use Information
We use information to operate the site, personalize event recommendations, prevent spam and abuse, count authenticated poll votes, show shareable poll results, improve search quality, audit images, generate trend-aware editorial planning, and maintain security.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
We may use cookies, local storage, analytics tags, and similar technologies to keep the site working, remember preferences, measure performance, attribute affiliate referrals, protect voting flows, and understand which events and guides are useful.
Sharing
We do not sell personal information for money. We may share limited information with service providers, analytics vendors, authentication providers, hosting providers, affiliate partners, legal advisors, or public authorities when required to operate the service, comply with law, protect users, or enforce policies.
Public Features
Poll totals, aggregate voting percentages, public comments, and shared poll images may be visible to other users. If your Google profile image or name is shown in a voter preview, it is used only as part of the authenticated voting experience.
Retention and Deletion
We keep information for as long as needed to provide the service, meet legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent fraud, and improve site quality. We may retain aggregate, deidentified, or security logs after account-level data is deleted.
Your Choices
You can unsubscribe from marketing emails, decline nonessential cookies where controls are available, request access or deletion through the Data Requests page, and avoid posting information publicly that you do not want shown to others.
Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards, including access controls, log review, token verification, data backups, and staged deployment checks. No internet service can guarantee perfect security.

