Privacy
Last updated: 2026-05-22
The short version: we don't track you, we don't sell anything to anyone, and you can use the site without giving us anything. Here's the longer version.
The basics
Hidden Hour is a static city guide. No accounts, no logins, no sponsored listings. You can use every part of the site without giving us anything except a page view.
How we count visits
We use Umami to count how many people visit the site and which pages get used. Umami doesn't use cookies, doesn't store IP addresses, and doesn't share data across sites. We only see aggregate numbers — never anything tied to one person.
Email signups
If you sign up for emails — from the footer prompt, the homepage form, or the "Unlock Vibe Filters" prompt — your email address is sent to Kit (formerly ConvertKit), which we use to send the occasional update. Their privacy policy is here. You can unsubscribe with one click from any email we send.
What lives in your browser
When you favorite a venue or open a detail panel, the site saves that to your browser's local storage so it can remember next time. That data never leaves your device. Clear it any time by clearing site data in your browser settings.
What we don't do
- No display ads. No banner ads. No sponsored cards.
- No tracking pixels. No Facebook Pixel, no Google Tag Manager, no third-party trackers.
- No accounts required. Browse without giving us anything.
- No data sold to anyone. Ever.
Reporting outdated info
If you spot stale prices, schedules, or a closure, the "Info outdated?" button on any venue's detail panel — and the inline "Spotted a change?" link on venues that haven't been verified recently — opens a short form (what changed, optional details, your email). Submissions go to a private form processor (Netlify Forms). The only people who see them are us, and we use the report to update the listing or follow up on edge cases. We never publish reports.
The form also offers an optional "Also subscribe me to occasional Hidden Hour updates" checkbox. It is off by default. Leaving it unchecked means your email is used only for the report itself; checking it adds you to our newsletter via Kit (ConvertKit) and you can unsubscribe with one click from any email. Either way, the report goes through.
Report data is retained until we've acted on it plus roughly 30 days for follow-up, then deleted from the Netlify Forms inbox. Newsletter subscribers (consent path only) are retained until unsubscribe per Kit's standard retention.
Your rights
Delete browser-stored data any time via your browser's site-data settings. Unsubscribe from emails using the unsubscribe link in any email we send. To request deletion of email-list data, write to hello@hiddenhour.guide.
If this page changes
We update the "Last updated" date at the top whenever we change anything substantive. We don't email about minor edits.