Last updated: August 5, 2026
Salsa Vida (“Salsa Vida”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) operates https://www.salsavida.com and related Salsa Vida pages, directories, editorial content, submission forms, and newsletter forms (the “Service”). This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and the choices available to visitors, subscribers, and people who submit listings or contact information.
This policy is intended to describe our current practices in plain language. It is not a substitute for legal advice for your own website or business.
Information We Collect
We collect information you provide directly, information collected automatically when you use the Service, and information from public sources when we review or improve Salsa Vida listings.
- Information you submit: names, biographies, event details, venue or organizer information, photos, email addresses, phone numbers, websites, social media links, ticket links, newsletter email addresses, contact form messages, and any other information you choose to send us.
- Public listing information: details about events, instructors, teams, DJs, bands, venues, organizers, festivals, and other salsa or Latin dance resources that may be displayed publicly on Salsa Vida.
- Technical information: IP address, browser and device information, pages viewed, referring pages, approximate location derived from technical data, interaction events, security logs, and similar diagnostic data.
- Cookies and local storage: small files or browser storage used for analytics, advertising, language or submission helpers, security, rate limiting, and site functionality.
How We Use Information
We use information to operate, secure, improve, and monetize Salsa Vida. This includes publishing and maintaining dance listings, reviewing submissions, responding to messages, sending newsletters, measuring traffic, preventing spam or abuse, improving user experience, tracking ticket-button performance, and showing advertising.
Public Submissions And Listings
If you submit an event, instructor, team, DJ, band, photo, organizer detail, website, ticket link, social profile, email address, or phone number, we may review, edit, translate, format, and publish that information as part of a public Salsa Vida listing. Public listing information may be visible to visitors, search engines, translation tools, social platforms, and other third parties that index or display web pages.
Please do not submit private information that you do not want published. If you need a correction or removal, contact us through our contact page.
Newsletter
If you subscribe to the Salsa Vida newsletter, we collect your email address and may send related information such as your language preference, source page, referral URL, and UTM campaign values to our email service provider, Beehiiv. We use this information to manage subscriptions, send email updates, measure newsletter performance, and respect unsubscribe choices. You can unsubscribe using the link included in newsletter emails.
AI-Assisted Event Tools
Salsa Vida may offer AI-assisted tools that help pre-fill, rewrite, translate, or normalize event submissions. If you use these tools, the event URL, flyer image, submitted text, extracted page excerpts, and related event fields may be processed by OpenAI or similar service providers. AI output is used as a drafting aid only, and submissions may still be reviewed by Salsa Vida before publication.
Cookies, Analytics, And Advertising
We use Google Site Kit, Google tags, Google Analytics-related measurement, server logs, and similar tools to understand how visitors use Salsa Vida. These tools may collect or receive cookies, device identifiers, page URLs, interaction events, and similar data.
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)
The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.
First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising.
Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache.
For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.
Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.
The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:
- IP Address
- Operating System type
- Operating System version
- Device Type
- Language of the website
- Web browser type
- Email (in hashed form)
Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements.
Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps.
This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.
If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page.
You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising.
You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.
For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.
Ticket Links, Affiliate Links, And Third-Party Sites
Salsa Vida links to event organizers, ticket vendors, venues, social networks, and other third-party websites. We may track clicks on ticket or registration links to understand performance, prevent abuse, and measure affiliate or promotional relationships. Some links may be affiliate, sponsored, or advertising links, meaning Salsa Vida may earn a commission or benefit if you click or purchase through those links.
Third-party websites have their own privacy practices and terms. We are not responsible for their content, policies, payments, refunds, cancellations, or data handling.
Service Providers
We may share information with service providers that help us operate Salsa Vida, including web hosting, Cloudflare, WordPress and plugin providers, Mediavine and its advertising partners, Google analytics services, Beehiiv, OpenAI, email and security tools, and other vendors that support site operations. These providers process information according to their own terms and privacy policies and/or our instructions where applicable.
Legal, Safety, And Security Uses
We may use or disclose information if we believe it is reasonably necessary to comply with law, respond to lawful requests, protect Salsa Vida, prevent fraud or abuse, enforce our terms, debug technical issues, or protect the rights, safety, and security of visitors, submitters, partners, or the public.
How Long We Keep Information
We keep information for as long as reasonably needed for the purposes described in this policy. Public listings may remain online while they are useful to the Salsa Vida directory or editorial archive. Submission records, security logs, backups, analytics records, and newsletter records may be kept for operational, legal, safety, accounting, or abuse-prevention purposes. Newsletter data is kept until you unsubscribe or request deletion, subject to any records we must retain.
Your Choices And Privacy Rights
You may contact us to request access, correction, deletion, or restriction of personal information that Salsa Vida controls. Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights to object to processing, request portability, opt out of targeted advertising or certain sharing, or withdraw consent. We may need to verify your request before acting on it.
You can control cookies through your browser settings and, where available, through Salsa Vida’s consent or privacy choices tool. Blocking cookies may affect some site features.
We do not sell personal information for money. Some advertising, analytics, or affiliate activities may be considered “sharing”, “targeted advertising”, or similar concepts under certain privacy laws. You can use the choices described above or contact us if you want help exercising an applicable privacy right.
International Visitors
Salsa Vida is operated from the United States and uses service providers that may process information in the United States and other countries. Privacy laws in those countries may differ from the laws where you live.
Children’s Privacy
Salsa Vida is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us so we can review and delete it where appropriate.
Security
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect information, but no website, network, or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
Changes To This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be posted on this page with a new “Last updated” date. Your continued use of the Service after changes are posted means the updated policy applies to your use of the Service.
Contact Us
If you have questions or requests about this Privacy Policy, please contact us through the Salsa Vida contact page.