Privacy Policy

Last Updated: September 13, 2026

Camp Spotter (“Camp Spotter,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the information of visitors who use mycampingspot.com (the “Website”).

This Privacy Policy explains what information we may collect when you visit or interact with Camp Spotter, how we use that information, how advertising and cookies are used, and the choices and rights available to you.

By using the Website, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. About Camp Spotter

Camp Spotter is an informational directory that helps users discover and research campgrounds, RV parks, cabins, glamping locations, and other outdoor accommodation options.

Camp Spotter does not directly operate the campgrounds listed on the Website and does not process campground reservations or bookings.

Information displayed in directory listings may be obtained from publicly available sources, third-party sources, business websites, or other informational resources. Because campground and business information can change, users should verify important information directly with the relevant campground or service provider.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect information in several ways depending on how you interact with the Website.

Information You Provide to Us

When you contact us, submit a correction, report an issue, request an update or removal of a listing, or otherwise communicate with us, you may provide information such as:

• Your name
• Your email address
• The campground, listing, or webpage related to your request
• Information included in your message
• Correction or removal request details
• Other information you voluntarily provide

You are not required to provide more personal information than is reasonably necessary for us to respond to your request.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit the Website, certain technical information may be collected automatically by our servers or third-party service providers, including:

• IP address
• Browser type and version
• Device type
• Operating system
• Referring website or page
• Pages visited
• Date and time of visits
• Approximate geographic location derived from IP address
• Advertising or cookie identifiers
• Information about how you interact with the Website

This information may be collected through server logs, cookies, pixels, scripts, and similar technologies.

3. How We Use Information

We may use the information we collect to:

• Operate and maintain the Website
• Provide campground and outdoor accommodation information
• Respond to questions and support requests
• Review listing correction or removal requests
• Improve the accuracy and usefulness of directory information
• Understand how visitors use the Website
• Improve Website performance and user experience
• Detect and prevent fraud, abuse, spam, or security incidents
• Measure Website traffic and performance
• Display and measure advertising
• Comply with applicable laws and legal obligations
• Protect the rights, safety, and security of Camp Spotter, our users, and others

We do not use information for purposes that are materially incompatible with the purposes described in this Privacy Policy unless permitted or required by law.

4. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Camp Spotter and third-party service providers may use cookies and similar technologies to operate the Website, remember preferences, understand Website usage, measure performance, prevent abuse, and deliver advertising.

Cookies are small files that may be stored on your browser or device when you visit a website.

Cookies used on the Website may include:

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies may be required for basic Website functionality, security, fraud prevention, or user preference management.

Preference Cookies

These cookies may remember choices you make when using the Website.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

These technologies may help us understand how visitors use the Website, including which pages are visited and how the Website performs.

Advertising Cookies

Advertising partners may use cookies and similar technologies to deliver, measure, limit, or personalize advertisements, subject to applicable law and your consent choices.

Where required by law, non-essential cookies and similar technologies will be used only after obtaining the appropriate consent.

5. Google AdSense and Advertising

Camp Spotter uses or may use Google AdSense and other advertising services to display advertisements on the Website.

Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve advertisements based on a user's previous visits to Camp Spotter or other websites.

Google's use of advertising cookies enables Google and its advertising partners to serve advertisements to users based on their visits to this Website and/or other websites on the Internet.

Depending on your location, preferences, and applicable law, advertisements may be personalized or non-personalized.

Personalized advertising may use information such as previous browsing activity, interests, approximate location, device information, cookie identifiers, and interactions with advertisements or websites.

Non-personalized advertising may be selected using contextual information, such as the content being viewed, general location, or limited device information, rather than a personalized advertising profile.

Users can manage or opt out of personalized advertising through Google Ads Settings.

You can also learn more about how Google uses information collected from websites and applications that use Google services by reviewing Google's “How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services” information page.

If additional third-party advertising networks are used on Camp Spotter, those providers may also use cookies or similar technologies in accordance with their own privacy policies and applicable consent requirements.

Google confirms that AdSense publishers must disclose third-party advertising cookies, Google's use of advertising cookies, and users' ability to opt out of personalized advertising.

6. Consent Management for European Users

For visitors located in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, Camp Spotter uses a Google-certified Consent Management Platform (“CMP”) to request and manage consent where required.

The CMP may ask you to make choices regarding:

• Storing or accessing information on your device
• Personalized advertising
• Non-personalized advertising
• Advertising measurement
• Audience measurement
• Analytics
• Use of precise or approximate device information
• Data processing by advertising technology providers

You may accept, reject, or manage available choices through the consent message displayed on the Website.

Where consent is the legal basis for processing, you may change or withdraw your consent at any time through the privacy or consent settings made available on the Website.

Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred before the withdrawal.

Google currently requires publishers using AdSense to use a Google-certified CMP integrated with the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework when serving personalized ads to users in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland.

7. Legal Bases for Processing

Where the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), UK GDPR, or similar legislation applies, we may process personal information based on one or more of the following legal bases:

Consent

We may process information when you have given consent, including for certain advertising, cookies, analytics, or similar technologies.

Legitimate Interests

We may process information when reasonably necessary for legitimate interests such as:

• Operating the Website
• Improving our services
• Maintaining Website security
• Preventing fraud and abuse
• Responding to user requests
• Maintaining accurate directory information

We consider the impact on your privacy when relying on legitimate interests.

Performance of a Request or Contract

We may process information when necessary to respond to a request you have made or to provide a service you requested.

Legal Obligations

We may process or retain information when necessary to comply with applicable laws, regulations, court orders, or other legal requirements.

8. Analytics and Website Performance

We may use analytics, measurement, hosting, security, and performance services provided by third parties.

These providers may receive technical information such as:

• IP address
• Browser information
• Device information
• Pages visited
• Referral information
• Interaction information
• Cookie or device identifiers

Where required, analytics or measurement technologies will be subject to your consent choices.

Information may be used to understand Website traffic, diagnose technical problems, improve performance, and understand how users interact with Camp Spotter.

9. Directory and Publicly Available Information

Camp Spotter operates a directory of campgrounds and related businesses.

Directory information may include publicly available business information such as:

• Business or campground name
• Address
• Telephone number
• Website
• Category
• Public ratings or review counts
• Amenities
• Photos
• Geographic information
• Other publicly available business details

Some information may originate from public records, publicly accessible websites, third-party data sources, or businesses themselves.

If you believe a listing contains inaccurate, outdated, inappropriate, or personal information that should be corrected or removed, you may submit a request through our Update or Remove a Listing or Contact pages.

We may request sufficient information to identify the relevant listing and evaluate the request.

10. Sharing of Information

We may share information with third parties when reasonably necessary to operate the Website.

These parties may include:

• Hosting providers
• Security providers
• Analytics providers
• Advertising providers
• Technology and infrastructure providers
• Email or communication providers
• Professional advisers
• Government authorities when legally required

Third-party providers may process information on our behalf or for their own purposes subject to their applicable terms and privacy policies.

We may also disclose information when we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to:

• Comply with law or legal process
• Respond to lawful government requests
• Investigate fraud or abuse
• Protect our legal rights
• Protect users or the public
• Enforce our Website policies

11. Sale and Sharing of Personal Information

Camp Spotter does not sell personal information for money.

However, certain privacy laws in the United States use broad definitions of “sale,” “sharing,” or “targeted advertising.”

The use of advertising cookies and similar technologies by advertising partners may be considered a “sale,” “sharing,” or processing for targeted advertising under certain U.S. state privacy laws.

Where applicable, users may have the right to opt out of these activities.

Where required, we provide privacy or consent controls that allow users to manage applicable advertising choices.

12. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information.

These rights may include the right to:

• Request access to personal information we hold about you
• Request correction of inaccurate information
• Request deletion of personal information
• Object to or restrict certain processing
• Withdraw consent
• Request data portability where applicable
• Opt out of certain targeted advertising
• Opt out of certain sales or sharing of personal information
• Appeal certain privacy decisions where applicable
• File a complaint with a relevant data protection authority

These rights are subject to applicable law, exceptions, and verification requirements.

To exercise an applicable privacy right, please contact us using the methods described in the Contact Us section below.

We will not discriminate against you for exercising privacy rights provided by applicable law.

13. California and Other U.S. State Privacy Rights

Residents of certain U.S. states, including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and other jurisdictions with applicable privacy legislation, may have additional rights.

Depending on applicable law, these rights may include:

• Knowing what categories of personal information are collected
• Knowing the purposes for which information is used
• Accessing personal information
• Correcting inaccurate personal information
• Deleting personal information
• Obtaining a portable copy of certain information
• Opting out of targeted advertising
• Opting out of certain sales or sharing of personal information
• Limiting certain uses of sensitive personal information
• Appealing the denial of a privacy request

Camp Spotter does not knowingly use sensitive personal information to infer characteristics about users.

If applicable to you, you may submit a request through our Contact page.

14. Global Privacy Control

Where required by applicable law and supported by our systems or service providers, we may recognize browser-based privacy preference signals such as Global Privacy Control (“GPC”) as a request to opt out of certain sales, sharing, or targeted advertising activities.

The effect of such a signal may depend on your location, browser, device, and applicable law.

15. Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to:

• Respond to communications
• Process correction or removal requests
• Maintain records of Website operations
• Prevent fraud and abuse
• Resolve disputes
• Enforce agreements
• Comply with legal obligations

Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information, why it was collected, and applicable legal requirements.

When information is no longer reasonably necessary, we may delete, anonymize, or aggregate it.

16. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, loss, or misuse.

However, no Internet transmission, website, server, or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

You should therefore use appropriate caution when transmitting information online.

17. International Data Transfers

Camp Spotter and our service providers may process information in countries other than the country where you live.

As a result, information may be transferred to or processed in jurisdictions whose data protection laws differ from those in your jurisdiction.

Where required by applicable law, appropriate safeguards may be used for international transfers of personal information.

18. Third-Party Websites

Camp Spotter contains links to campground websites, reservation websites, social networks, mapping services, advertisers, and other third-party websites.

When you follow a link to a third-party website, that website is governed by its own privacy policy and practices.

Camp Spotter does not control and is not responsible for the privacy practices, security, content, or services of third-party websites.

We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any third-party website you visit.

19. Children's Privacy

Camp Spotter is intended for a general audience and is not directed specifically to children under the age of 13.

We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13.

If we become aware that personal information has been collected from a child under 13 in circumstances requiring parental consent, we will take reasonable steps to delete the information.

Parents or guardians who believe a child has provided personal information to Camp Spotter may contact us.

20. Do Not Track

Some browsers provide a “Do Not Track” setting.

Because there is not a single universally accepted technical standard for responding to traditional Do Not Track signals, the Website may not respond to all such signals.

Where required by applicable law, we may recognize legally required opt-out preference signals, including Global Privacy Control, as described above.

21. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in:

• Website functionality
• Advertising or analytics services
• Privacy practices
• Legal requirements
• Regulatory requirements

When we update this Privacy Policy, we will change the Last Updated date at the top of the page.

If changes are material, we may provide additional notice where appropriate or required by law.

We encourage users to review this Privacy Policy periodically.

22. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, our privacy practices, your personal information, or a listing-related privacy concern, please contact us through the Contact Camp Spotter page available on our Website.

When submitting a privacy request, please provide enough information for us to understand and respond to your request.

We may need to verify certain requests before taking action.