Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 06/04/26


Feel Good Swimming respects your privacy.


This Privacy Policy explains what information we may collect when you visit FeelGoodSwimming.FYI, contact us, submit a story, upload a photo, or otherwise interact with the site.


Feel Good Swimming is about swimming, body comfort, respectful settings, and reducing shame around one of life’s simplest pleasures. We want the site to be warm, useful, and trustworthy. That includes being clear about how personal information is handled.


Information We Collect


We may collect information you voluntarily provide, including:

  • your name, initials, or chosen display name
  • your email address
  • messages you send through the contact form
  • stories you submit
  • photos or files you choose to upload
  • information you include about your swimming experience, such as the general type of setting where it happened


Please do not submit private information about other people unless you have their permission.


Please do not submit photos of anyone who has not clearly agreed to be included.



How We Use Information


We may use information you submit to:

  • respond to your questions or messages
  • review stories, photos, or resources you submit
  • follow up with you about a submission
  • edit submissions for clarity, length, privacy, tone, and site fit
  • publish selected stories or photos if they are appropriate for the site and you have given permission
  • improve Feel Good Swimming content, resources, and community standards
  • protect the site from spam, abuse, inappropriate submissions, or privacy concerns


Submitting a story, message, or photo does not guarantee publication.


Story and Photo Submissions


If you submit a story or photo, you are giving Feel Good Swimming permission to review it and consider it for publication.


Selected submissions may be edited for clarity, length, spelling, grammar, privacy, tone, and site fit.


Feel Good Swimming may decline to publish, remove, or edit any submission at its discretion.


We will not publish your email address.


If your story is published, we may identify you by the name, initials, or chosen display name you provided, if you gave permission for that use.


Photos and Consent


You may submit a photo if it helps tell the story.


By submitting a photo, you confirm that:

  • you have the right to share the photo
  • everyone clearly visible in the photo has agreed to be included
  • the photo was not taken secretly or without consent
  • the photo is respectful, nonsexual, and appropriate for Feel Good Swimming
  • the photo does not violate someone else’s privacy, rights, or reasonable expectations


Feel Good Swimming may decline to use any photo for any reason, including privacy, safety, consent, or site-fit concerns.


What We Do Not Want You to Submit


Please do not submit:

  • sexual or explicit material
  • hidden-camera images
  • photos of people who did not consent
  • private addresses or identifying location details
  • personal information about someone else
  • stories encouraging illegal activity
  • material meant to harass, mock, shame, exploit, or embarrass anyone
  • copyrighted material you do not have permission to share


Feel Good Swimming is about respectful, appropriate, legal, opt-in settings.


Email and Communication


If you contact us or submit a story, we may use your email address to reply or follow up.


We will not publish your email address.


We do not sell your email address.


If Feel Good Swimming later offers a newsletter or email list, it will be handled separately, and you will be able to unsubscribe.


Site Analytics and Technical Information


Like many websites, FeelGoodSwimming.FYI may collect basic technical information automatically, such as:

  • browser type
  • device type
  • pages visited
  • approximate location based on general internet data
  • referring links
  • date and time of visits


This information may be used to understand site traffic, improve content, troubleshoot problems, and protect the site from misuse.


Depending on the website platform, hosting provider, plugins, analytics tools, or embedded services used, some information may be collected by third-party services.


Cookies and Similar Technologies


FeelGoodSwimming.FYI may use cookies or similar technologies to support normal site functions, understand traffic, improve user experience, prevent spam, or support embedded tools.


Your browser may allow you to block or delete cookies.


Some parts of the site may not function as intended if cookies are disabled.


Links to Other Websites


Feel Good Swimming may link to other websites, including articles, resources, clothing-optional venues, organizations, shops, or product pages.


We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, policies, or actions of other websites.


Please review the privacy policies of any outside sites you visit.



Product and Shop Links


Feel Good Swimming may link to products, shops, or third-party marketplaces.


If you click a product link or purchase something from another website, that website may collect information according to its own privacy policy.


Feel Good Swimming does not control the privacy practices of outside marketplaces or payment processors.


Sharing of Information


We do not sell personal information.


We may share information only when reasonably necessary, such as:

  • with service providers that help operate the website
  • with hosting, form, email, security, analytics, or spam-prevention tools
  • when required by law
  • to protect the safety, rights, privacy, or security of Feel Good Swimming, site visitors, submitters, or others
  • with your permission, such as when publishing a selected story or photo


Data Retention


We may keep messages, submissions, emails, photos, or related records for as long as needed to respond, review, publish, document permissions, maintain the site, or protect against misuse.


You may contact us to ask about a submission you provided.


In some cases, we may not be able to fully delete information that has already been published, backed up, legally retained, or used in printed or previously distributed materials, but we will make reasonable efforts to address privacy concerns.


Your Choices


You may contact us to:

  • ask a privacy question
  • request correction of your submitted information
  • ask us not to publish a submitted story or photo
  • request removal of a published story or photo connected to you
  • update the name, initials, or display name used with your story


We will make reasonable efforts to respond.


Children’s Privacy


FeelGoodSwimming.FYI is not intended to collect personal information from children.


Please do not submit personal information, stories, or photos from minors unless you are the parent or legal guardian and have the legal right to provide them.


Any submission involving minors may be declined or removed at Feel Good Swimming’s discretion.


Security


We take reasonable steps to protect information submitted through the site.


However, no website, email system, form tool, or internet transmission is completely secure.


Please do not submit information you would not want handled through an online form.


Changes to This Policy


Feel Good Swimming may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.


When changes are made, the effective date at the top of the page may be updated.


Continued use of the site after changes means you accept the updated policy.