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Privacy Policy.

Last updated: 2026-06-10Status: Final · Operator-authoredScope: This site + studio.level-up-adventures.com

This Privacy Policy describes how Level Up Adventures, LLC("we," "us," or "our") handles information when you visit level-up-adventures.com, the operating-company website. This policy covers this informational site and the Level Up Studio media kit at studio.level-up-adventures.com (a sibling surface under this LLC). PIC Pro and any other product operated under this LLC have their own Privacy Policies, linked at the end of this document.

§ 01What this site is

level-up-adventures.com is an editorial publication for family travel. The main site has no user accounts, login, comments, or search. Two places ask for personal information: the optional Theme Park Pulse newsletter signup at the foot of each blog post (email address only), and the Level Up Studio media kit at studio.level-up-adventures.com, which has a “Start a project” contact form. What it collects is described in § 02 below. Outbound contact otherwise happens via a standard mailto: link to support@level-up-adventures.com.

§ 02Information we collect on this site

In short: very little, unless you buy something.

If we add lightweight, privacy-respecting analytics later (for example, Vercel Web Analytics, which is cookieless and collects no personal identifiers), this Privacy Policy will be updated before that change goes live.

§ 03How we handle your information

Because we collect almost nothing on this site, there is almost nothing to handle. Vercel access logs are used only for security monitoring, abuse prevention, and ordinary infrastructure operations. We do not enrich, profile, sell, share, or rent any visitor data from this site.

Email you send to support@level-up-adventures.com arrives in a standard mailbox we control. We retain correspondence as long as needed to respond and to maintain ordinary business records. We do not subscribe you to any mailing list as a result of contacting us.

§ 04Third parties on this site

The following service providers are involved in the operation of this informational site:

That is the third-party surface for the site itself. Blog posts may also contain affiliate links, which transmit data to affiliate networks only if you click them; see § 10 for the full list and how that data flow works.

§ 05Other services operated under this LLC

Level Up Adventures, LLC operates the following services, each of which has its own Privacy Policy. This policy does not apply to them:

If you are evaluating PIC Pro or any other product, the product's own Privacy Policy is the controlling document for that product's data practices, not this one.

§ 06Your rights

Because this site does not maintain user accounts or persistent personal records, most data-subject rights (access, deletion, portability) do not produce meaningful outputs at this layer. If you sent us email and want a copy of our records of that correspondence, or want it deleted, write to support@level-up-adventures.com and we will respond within a reasonable period (usually within 30 days, sooner where required by law).

For any product operated by Level Up Adventures, LLC (such as PIC Pro), please use the rights and contact methods described in that product'sPrivacy Policy; that's the document that actually controls the data in question.

§ 07International visitors

This site is operated from the United States. Vercel may serve cached responses from regional CDN nodes worldwide. By visiting this site, you understand that any access logs Vercel records may be processed in the United States or in the region where Vercel's edge node served your request.

§ 08Children

This is an informational site about a corporate entity. It is not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under 13.

§ 09Changes to this policy

If we change this Privacy Policy, particularly if we add analytics or any new third-party processor on this site, we will update the Last updateddate at the top, and material changes will remain visible on this page for a reasonable period. Substantive product-side privacy changes are communicated via the relevant product's own Privacy Policy and not via this notice.

§ 10Affiliate Programs

Level Up Adventures, LLC participates in affiliate programs through which we may earn a commission when you click an affiliate link on a blog post and make a qualifying purchase, at no additional cost to you. The networks we currently participate in:

What happens when you click an affiliate link. Your browser is redirected to the affiliate network (or directly to the destination merchant). The destination may set its own cookies and receive standard browser metadata (IP address, user agent, referring page) so that any subsequent purchase can be attributed back to us. We do not receive any payment information from these networks. We see only aggregate click and commission counts in the affiliate dashboard.

Tracking parameters.Affiliate links on this site carry the destination network's credential (?camref=..., ?pid=..., ?tag=..., ?awinmid=...) plus our internal utm_source=lua_blog&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=<week> tag so we can see which posts drive bookings. These parameters are visible in the URL when you click.

First-party experience is unchanged. Reading the blog or browsing this site sets no first-party cookies and runs no first-party analytics, regardless of whether you click affiliate links. The affiliate-network cookies are set on their own domains, not on level-up-adventures.com.

Opt-out. You can avoid leaving an affiliate trail by clicking these links from a private/incognito browser window, by clearing cookies after visiting the destination, or simply by visiting the destination site directly without using our link.

Editorial independence. We do not accept payment to feature specific destinations or products, and the presence of an affiliate link does not influence what we cover or how we describe it. Posts that include affiliate links carry an FTC-required disclosure footer.

§ 11Social distribution (Pinterest)

We publish the same blog content that appears on level-up-adventures.com to our profile on Pinterestso the editorial work compounds across more than one surface. Each pin shows an image we composed from the post's hero photo and headline; clicking the pin sends you to the corresponding post URL on this site.

What this site loads from Pinterest: nothing. We do not embed Pinterest widgets, save-buttons, or tracking scripts on this site. Pinterest has no presence in your browser when you visit level-up-adventures.com.

If you click a pin on Pinterest and arrive here, your visit is recorded the same way any other referrer visit is recorded: Vercel access logs only (see § 02). Pinterest itself, and any activity on Pinterest's platform, are governed by Pinterest's privacy policy, not by this notice.

Pins containing affiliate links carry the same FTC-required disclosure as the blog post they link back to. The pin caption includes a short notice that some links are affiliate; the full disclosure framework is described in § 10.

§ 12AI-assisted content authorship

Disclosed once here. Editorial detail at Editorial Standards § 03.

Some content on this site is produced with AI assistance: the long-form field-guide posts that accompany a YouTube video from our channel are drafted with it, and the weekly Family Deal Drops uses AI-assisted summaries and editorial scoring to produce its “book now / consider / compare first / skip” deal guidance. A human operator reviews and approves that output before it publishes. We disclose this fact in one place (here, plus Editorial Standards § 03) rather than appending a per-post AI-credit line, which we found adds review-ack noise without changing what actually controls quality.

What that means concretely.When we publish a video to YouTube and write the accompanying written field guide, the first draft is produced by a large language model from the video’s transcript plus an editorial-rules prompt that we control. A human operator then reviews the draft, fact-checks each claim against the cited sources, fixes voice and accuracy issues, and merges the resulting pull request manually. The publishing software has no auto-merge surface; every AI-drafted post requires an explicit human merge before it goes live.

What this site sends to the AI provider.The transcript of our YouTube video, the post’s working metadata (title, slug, target tags), and our editorial-rules prompt. Nothing about you, the reader, is transmitted. You can visit this site, read every post, and never have any of your data flow to an AI provider. The AI is involved only during editorial production, on our side, before the page you’re reading exists.

Which AI provider, routed how. Drafts are produced through Vercel AI Gateway, which routes the request to Anthropic (Claude). The Gateway operates under a zero-data-retention posture for our account, and the upstream model provider does not retain our prompts or completions for model training. See Vercel's privacy policy and Anthropic's privacy policy.

Cadence and scope. The AI-drafted field-guide pipeline is capped at one post per week per channel by the publishing software itself, and only field-guide posts that accompany a YouTube video are eligible. Our weekly digest posts (Theme Park Pulse, Family Deal Drops) are produced by a separate scraper-and-polish pipeline that does not draft prose from scratch. It polishes scraped source material with the same human-review and sources-cited-inline discipline. Editorial Standards § 03 describes both pipelines in detail.

Some imagery on this site is AI-generated.Two surfaces use AI image generation today: (1) some posts use an AI-generated illustration as their lead hero image when we don’t have a first-person photograph that does the subject justice, and (2) the holiday landing pages under /resources/holidays/use an AI-generated 1:1 image for the companion Instagram post and the page’s open-graph card. The editorial rules that govern when and how we use AI imagery live at Editorial Standards § 03; from a data-flow standpoint, the privacy story is the same as the prose case. The prompts we send to the image-generation provider describe the scene we want illustrated and never include visitor or subscriber data.

Which image-generation provider. Images on this site are generated using OpenAI’s GPT Image models (currently gpt-image-2 for the holiday and Instagram-companion surfaces, with gpt-image-1 still in use for some older hero illustrations) called directly from our publishing tooling (not routed through the AI Gateway). The prompts are operator-curated templates plus per-post scene descriptors held in our content-config files; no visitor or subscriber data is included. See OpenAI's privacy policy. Per OpenAI’s API terms, prompts and outputs submitted through the API are not used to train OpenAI’s models.

Automated image-relevance check. Before an image (an AI-generated illustration or a royalty-free stock photo) is queued for an operator to review, our publishing tooling sends the candidate image to a vision model (Claude, via Vercel AI Gatewayunder the same zero-retention posture) which scores how well the picture matches the post’s subject so off-topic images are caught before publication. The only thing sent is the candidate image plus a short text description of the intended subject; no visitor, subscriber, or other personal data is included, and the imagery itself is illustrative travel/scene material, not anyone’s personal photos.

Instagram DM reply drafts. When someone sends a direct message to our Instagram account and we choose to draft a reply with AI assistance, an operator pastes that message into an internal admin tool that routes it (through the same Vercel AI Gateway to Anthropic (Claude), under the same zero-retention posture described above) and returns a suggested on-brand reply. The message text is processed transiently to produce that draft and is not stored by our tooling; an operator edits and sends the reply manually in Instagram. This is the one case where text a person sent us is processed by an AI provider, and it applies only to direct messages we receive, never to site visitors or newsletter subscribers.

What we do not do. We do not feed site-visitor data, subscriber email addresses, or newsletter content into AI tooling. The only exception is an Instagram direct message you choose to send us, if we draft a reply with AI assistance, as described directly above. We do not use AI to fabricate first-person experiences or testimonials; the video the field guide accompanies is the source of the on-camera narrative claims. We do not silently auto-publish AI output; every AI-drafted post is a draft pull request a human reads and merges. AI hero imagery is illustrative, not documentary. We do not use it to misrepresent what a destination looks like, who was there, or what conditions were on the ground.

§ 13Social distribution and design sub-processors

Distinct from § 11 (Pinterest) and § 12 (AI-assisted authorship). This section names the design + publishing processors involved when we ship a field guide to Instagram as a Story or carousel, and when we render the downloadable Field Guide PDF for blog and email distribution.

Canva(operated by Canva Pty Ltd, Australia) is the design tool we use to render Instagram carousels, Instagram Stories, and the downloadable Field Guide PDF that accompanies select blog posts. When we assemble a social post or a Field Guide issue, our editorial software sends Canva the post’s working metadata (title, lede or section headers, hero photos) and Canva returns a rendered image or PDF. No reader data flows to Canva. Visiting this site, reading a post, subscribing to the newsletter: none of that touches Canva. Canva is involved only on our side during editorial production.

Meta (operator of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads) is the social platform we use to publish carousels and Stories on @level_up_adventures. Our publishing software sends Meta the rendered post image plus the post caption + hashtags + FTC affiliate disclosure. Nothing about you as a reader of this site flows through that pipeline.Meta’s own privacy policy governs any interaction you have with our posts on Instagram or any other Meta surface.

Operator approval gate.Every Instagram draft is reviewed by a human operator in our admin queue before it’s posted. There is no autonomous-publish surface. If you have a concern about a specific post that linked you to this site, write to support@level-up-adventures.comand we’ll address it directly. The same admin queue lets the operator removea published Instagram or Pinterest post using the platforms’ official APIs. The post disappears from the platform; nothing about a reader of this site is involved in that removal.

Canva privacy policy: canva.com/policies/privacy-policy
Meta privacy policy: facebook.com/privacy/policy

§ 14Businesses we may contact for collaborations

This section is about other businesses, not about you as a reader of this site. It covers the private list of companies we may approach for content collaborations through Level Up Adventures, LLC’s media work (LUA Media).

We keep a private, internal list of businesses (hotels, resorts, vacation rentals, tourism boards, attractions, and restaurants or bars) that we may approach about photo, video, and drone content collaborations. For each we store publicly available business-contact details (company name, a business email or contact-form link, phone, website, and public social handle), the public source where we found each detail, and our own internal notes (priority, suggested ask, verification status). We do not store special-category personal data, and these are business contacts in a commercial capacity, not the personal data of private individuals.

Source and basis.This information comes from the businesses’ own public websites and public listings. We rely on our legitimate interest in offering relevant business-to-business content services. We do not buy, sell, rent, or share these lists with third parties.

How we use it. Solely to evaluate fit and to send occasional, relevant B2B outreach about content collaborations. Every message is reviewed and sent by a human operator. There is no automated sending and no automated social messaging.

Email compliance and opt-out. Outreach emails identify us truthfully, describe the message accurately in the subject line, include our valid postal address, and offer a working opt-out. We honor opt-outs promptly through a suppression list that is checked before any message is queued; a suppressed contact is never contacted again.

Your choices (for a business that hears from us). A business may ask us to correct its details, stop contacting it, or delete its record by replying to any message or writing to support@level-up-adventures.com or the postal address in the Contact section below. We will action the request and add the contact to our suppression list.

§ 15Contact

For privacy questions about this site or about Level Up Adventures, LLC as the operating entity, write to support@level-up-adventures.com, or by postal mail at:

Level Up Adventures, LLC
P.O. Box 630374
Highlands Ranch, CO 80163

For privacy questions about a specific product (such as PIC Pro), please use the contact method listed in that product's Privacy Policy.