Privacy Policy

Effective Date: October 1, 2026

Savannah Woman Magazine (“Savannah Woman,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you provide when you visit or interact with savannahwoman.com, our digital content, online forms, events, communications, social media pages, and related services.

This Privacy Policy explains what information we may collect, how we collect it, how we use and disclose it, how we protect it, how long we may retain it, and the choices available to you.

Savannah Woman Magazine is a Georgia-based business located in Savannah, Georgia. This Privacy Policy is intended to address applicable privacy and data-protection requirements under the laws of the State of Georgia and applicable federal law.

By using our website or voluntarily providing information to us, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect information that you provide directly to us, information collected automatically when you use our website or services, and information we may receive from other individuals or third-party sources.

The information we collect depends on how you interact with Savannah Woman.

Information You Provide Directly

You may voluntarily provide:

  • Full name
  • Email address
  • Telephone number
  • Mailing address
  • Business address
  • Business name
  • Job title or professional information
  • Website addresses
  • Social media handles or profile information
  • Photographs
  • Biographical information
  • Business descriptions
  • Professional information
  • Event registration information
  • Advertising information
  • Payment or billing information
  • Information submitted through contact forms
  • Information submitted through nomination forms
  • Information submitted by contributors
  • Information submitted by advertisers or business partners
  • Information submitted through surveys
  • Information submitted through contests or giveaways
  • Information submitted when joining an email or VIP list
  • Information submitted when requesting information or services
  • Communications you send to us
  • Other information you voluntarily provide

Information About Other People

Some Savannah Woman forms may allow you to provide information about another person, such as when submitting a woman for recognition, providing a referral, recommending a contributor, or nominating someone for a feature.

You should only provide another person’s personal information when you have a reasonable basis to do so and, where appropriate, have obtained that person’s permission.

By submitting another person’s information, you represent that you have the authority or permission necessary to provide that information for the stated purpose.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit or interact with our website, certain information may be collected automatically through cookies, pixels, analytics technologies, server logs, and similar technologies.

This may include:

  • IP address
  • Browser type
  • Device type
  • Operating system
  • Approximate geographic location
  • Referring website
  • Pages visited
  • Links clicked
  • Date and time of visits
  • Time spent on pages
  • Website interaction information
  • Device identifiers
  • Technical information
  • Information about how you navigate and interact with our website

This information may be combined with information you voluntarily provide to us.

2. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Savannah Woman may use cookies, pixels, tags, scripts, local storage, and similar technologies to:

  • Operate and secure the website
  • Remember preferences
  • Improve website functionality
  • Understand website traffic
  • Analyze website performance
  • Measure marketing effectiveness
  • Understand audience engagement
  • Personalize certain experiences
  • Support advertising and promotional activities
  • Detect fraud, abuse, or suspicious activity

Some technologies may be placed by third-party service providers acting on our behalf.

You may be able to control or disable certain cookies through your browser settings or other available privacy controls. Disabling certain technologies may affect the functionality of portions of the website.

3. Analytics and Website Usage Information

We may use analytics and similar technologies to understand how visitors interact with our website.

Analytics information may include pages visited, traffic sources, approximate location, device information, browser information, visit duration, and other usage information.

We use this information to improve our website, editorial content, marketing, services, and overall visitor experience.

4. Advertising and Marketing Technologies

Savannah Woman may use advertising, marketing, audience-measurement, or similar technologies provided by third parties.

These technologies may allow us or our service providers to understand whether users have interacted with advertisements, emails, website content, or promotional campaigns.

Third parties may collect information about your online activities across different websites or services according to their own privacy policies.

Savannah Woman does not control the privacy practices of third-party advertising or technology providers.

5. How We Use Your Information

We may use personal information for legitimate business, editorial, operational, marketing, and legal purposes, including to:

  • Operate and maintain our website
  • Respond to inquiries
  • Communicate with visitors
  • Provide requested information or services
  • Manage email and VIP lists
  • Send newsletters and editorial updates
  • Send event announcements
  • Send promotional communications
  • Process advertising inquiries
  • Manage advertising relationships
  • Process event registrations
  • Process payments and transactions
  • Manage customer and business relationships
  • Review nominations
  • Review editorial submissions
  • Communicate with contributors
  • Consider individuals and businesses for editorial features
  • Publish or promote approved submissions
  • Conduct surveys
  • Administer contests and giveaways
  • Improve website content and functionality
  • Understand audience interests and behavior
  • Conduct analytics and research
  • Measure marketing and advertising effectiveness
  • Prevent fraud and unauthorized activity
  • Protect website security
  • Enforce our policies and agreements
  • Comply with legal obligations
  • Respond to lawful governmental or legal requests
  • Protect the rights, property, and safety of Savannah Woman and others
  • Carry out purposes disclosed when information is collected
  • Carry out other purposes permitted by applicable law

6. Editorial Content, Nominations, and Submissions

Savannah Woman may invite visitors to submit stories, nominations, photographs, biographies, business information, testimonials, interviews, recommendations, or other materials.

Information submitted for editorial consideration may be reviewed by Savannah Woman and may be used for editorial, publication, promotional, social media, website, print, event, or other Savannah Woman business purposes, subject to any applicable submission terms or permissions.

Submitting information does not guarantee publication.

We may contact you to verify information, obtain additional information, request clarification, or obtain appropriate permissions.

Please do not submit confidential or highly sensitive information that you do not want considered for publication.

7. Photography, Video, and Events

Savannah Woman may host, sponsor, attend, or participate in events, networking opportunities, community activities, promotional activities, and other gatherings.

Photography, video, audio recordings, or other media may be captured at events or activities associated with Savannah Woman.

Where permitted by applicable law, such materials may be used for editorial, promotional, advertising, marketing, social media, website, print, public-relations, or archival purposes.

Where a specific event requires a separate consent, release, registration agreement, or notice, that additional agreement or notice may apply.

8. Payment and Transaction Information

If you purchase advertising, event registrations, products, services, memberships, or other offerings from Savannah Woman, certain transaction-related information may be collected.

This may include:

  • Name
  • Billing information
  • Contact information
  • Transaction amount
  • Purchase or registration details
  • Payment status
  • Other information necessary to process or document the transaction

Payment card information may be processed by third-party payment providers. Savannah Woman may not directly receive or store complete payment-card information when payment processing is handled by a third-party provider.

Third-party payment providers maintain their own privacy policies and terms.

9. Email and Marketing Communications

If you voluntarily provide your email address, you may receive communications from Savannah Woman, including:

  • Newsletters
  • Editorial updates
  • Event information
  • Announcements
  • Advertising opportunities
  • Business opportunities
  • Promotional communications
  • Community updates
  • Other information that may be relevant to your interests

You may unsubscribe from promotional email communications at any time by using the unsubscribe mechanism included in the communication or by contacting us.

Even after opting out of promotional communications, you may continue to receive certain non-promotional communications that are necessary to respond to an inquiry, administer a transaction, provide a requested service, or otherwise communicate about an existing relationship.

10. Social Media and Third-Party Platforms

Savannah Woman may maintain social media accounts, pages, profiles, groups, or other presences on third-party platforms.

If you interact with Savannah Woman through a third-party platform, the information you provide may be visible to Savannah Woman and may also be collected and processed by that platform.

Your use of third-party platforms is governed by the privacy policies and terms of those platforms.

Savannah Woman does not control how third-party platforms collect, use, store, or disclose information.

11. Surveys, Contests, Giveaways, and Promotions

From time to time, Savannah Woman may conduct surveys, contests, giveaways, promotions, or other activities.

Participation may require you to provide certain information.

Additional rules, terms, eligibility requirements, or privacy disclosures may apply to a particular promotion. When applicable, those terms will be provided separately.

12. How We Share Information

Savannah Woman does not sell your personal information for monetary consideration.

We may disclose personal information in limited circumstances, including the following.

Service Providers

We may share information with companies and service providers that help us operate our business, including providers involved in:

  • Website hosting
  • Website functionality
  • Email delivery
  • Marketing communications
  • Forms
  • Customer relationship management
  • Analytics
  • Advertising measurement
  • Payment processing
  • Event registration
  • Scheduling
  • Security
  • Data storage
  • Information technology
  • Customer support
  • Other legitimate business operations

These providers may access information only as reasonably necessary to perform services on our behalf, subject to applicable contractual, legal, or operational safeguards.

Business Partners

We may share information when reasonably necessary to administer a business relationship, partnership, sponsorship, event, promotion, advertising arrangement, or other activity that you voluntarily participate in.

Legal and Safety Purposes

We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to:

  • Comply with applicable law
  • Respond to lawful legal processes or governmental requests
  • Protect the rights or property of Savannah Woman
  • Protect the safety of our visitors, users, employees, contractors, or others
  • Investigate fraud, abuse, security incidents, or unlawful activity
  • Enforce our agreements or policies

Business Transactions

If Savannah Woman is involved in a merger, acquisition, reorganization, financing, sale of assets, change in ownership, or similar business transaction, personal information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable law.

13. Third-Party Websites and Services

Our website may contain links to third-party websites, social media platforms, advertisers, sponsors, partners, payment processors, or other services.

Savannah Woman does not control the privacy practices of those third parties.

When you leave our website or interact directly with a third-party service, the third party’s privacy policy and terms may apply.

We encourage you to review the privacy policies of third-party services before providing them with personal information.

14. Data Security

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

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

Accordingly, while we take reasonable measures to protect information, we cannot guarantee absolute security.

If we become aware of a security incident involving personal information, we will take reasonable steps to investigate, contain, and address the incident and provide notices when required by applicable law.

15. Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, maintain appropriate business and operational records, provide requested services, process transactions, resolve disputes, comply with legal obligations, enforce agreements, and protect our legitimate business interests.

Retention periods may vary depending on:

  • The type of information
  • Why the information was collected
  • Whether you maintain an ongoing relationship with us
  • Legal and regulatory requirements
  • Business and operational needs
  • Security and fraud-prevention requirements

When information is no longer reasonably necessary, we may delete, destroy, anonymize, or otherwise dispose of it in accordance with applicable law and our business practices.

16. Your Privacy Choices

Depending on applicable law, you may have certain rights or choices regarding your personal information.

These may include the ability to:

  • Request information about personal information we maintain about you
  • Request correction of inaccurate information
  • Request deletion of certain personal information
  • Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
  • Unsubscribe from marketing communications
  • Manage certain cookie preferences
  • Ask questions about how your information is collected or used

These rights may be subject to exceptions, limitations, verification requirements, or other conditions permitted by applicable law.

To submit a privacy-related request, contact Savannah Woman using the information provided in the Contact Us section.

We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests.

17. Georgia Privacy and Data Security

Savannah Woman is based in Savannah, Georgia, and seeks to comply with applicable Georgia privacy, consumer-protection, data-security, and data-breach requirements.

Georgia law includes requirements concerning the protection and disposal of certain personal information and may require notification following qualifying security breaches.

Savannah Woman will respond to applicable security incidents and provide notifications as required by applicable law.

Nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to provide fewer rights than those required by applicable Georgia law.

18. Federal Privacy Requirements

Savannah Woman seeks to comply with applicable federal privacy, consumer-protection, electronic communications, marketing, children’s privacy, and data-security requirements.

Depending on the nature of our activities and the information involved, federal laws may impose specific requirements concerning the collection, use, disclosure, or protection of personal information.

Nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to limit rights or protections provided to you under applicable federal law.

19. Children’s Privacy

Savannah Woman is intended for a general audience and is not directed toward children under 13.

We do not knowingly request or intentionally collect personal information from children under 13 through our website.

If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without legally required parental consent, we will take reasonable steps to delete the information.

Parents or legal guardians who believe a child has provided personal information to Savannah Woman may contact us using the information provided below.

20. International Visitors

Savannah Woman is based in the United States and our website is primarily intended for visitors in the United States.

If you access our website from outside the United States, you understand that information you provide may be transferred to, stored in, and processed in the United States or other locations where Savannah Woman or its service providers operate.

Privacy laws in those locations may differ from the laws in your country.

By using our website and providing information to us, you acknowledge that your information may be processed in the United States, subject to applicable law.

21. Do Not Track

Some browsers provide a “Do Not Track” setting.

Because there is not a universally accepted technical standard for responding to all Do Not Track signals, our website may not respond to every browser-based Do Not Track signal.

Where required by applicable law, we will honor legally recognized privacy preference signals in accordance with applicable requirements.

22. Privacy Preference Signals

Where applicable law requires recognition of a legally recognized privacy preference signal, Savannah Woman will process such signals in accordance with applicable legal requirements and the technical capabilities of our website and service providers.

23. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in:

  • Our business
  • Our website
  • Our services
  • Technology
  • Data practices
  • Legal requirements
  • Privacy practices

When we make changes, we will update the Last Updated date at the top of this page.

We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.

Your continued use of the website after an updated Privacy Policy becomes effective constitutes acknowledgment of the updated policy to the extent permitted by applicable law.

24. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, want to make a privacy-related request, or have concerns about how your personal information is handled, please contact Savannah Woman.

Savannah Woman Magazine
Savannah, Georgia, USA

Website: savannahwoman.com

For privacy-related inquiries, please include “Privacy Inquiry” in the subject line of your communication.

25. Governing Law

This Privacy Policy is governed by the laws of the State of Georgia, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, except to the extent applicable federal law provides otherwise.

Nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to waive, restrict, or eliminate any rights or protections that cannot lawfully be waived or restricted under applicable law.

Savannah Woman Magazine
Savannah, Georgia, USA

Last Updated: October 1, 2026