Terms & privacy
The short version: this is a free city paper about going out. We collect very little — an email address if you ask for the letter, and traffic numbers that name nobody — we never sell anything about you, and you can reach an actual person at desk@citygoodtimes.com.
What this site is
We publish what we think is worth leaving the house for. Nobody pays to be included, and a listing can never be bought. Prominent placements are marked “Featured”. Today every one of those is our own editorial choice and nothing on this site has been paid for. We do intend to sell some Featured placements — when we do, that placement will say on its face that it was paid for, every time it appears, so you never have to wonder which is which.
Getting things wrong
Times change, shows get cancelled, and venues update their plans after we publish. We verify what we can and correct what we find, but check with the venue before you drive — especially for a ticketed show. We are not the organizer and we cannot sell you a ticket, so anything you buy elsewhere is between you and them.
What we collect
If you subscribe: your email address, a random token used to confirm and to unsubscribe, which box you typed it into, the dates, and a one-way hash of your IP address that exists to catch a bot filling the form fifty times in an hour. No name, no tracking pixel, no profile. Subscribing is double opt-in, so you only ever join by clicking a link in an email we sent you. We also keep one line per issue saying it went to you — that record is what stops a send that crashes halfway from mailing you the same letter twice.
If you just read: we count you. Each page view writes one row: the page (never the query string — tokens and addresses live in those), the site that sent you reduced to its bare host, so “google.com” and never what you searched for, roughly which city you are in, phone or tablet or desktop, and any campaign tag in the link you followed. In place of an ID there is a hash of your IP address and browser with today’s date mixed into it, which counts you once today and cannot be matched to you tomorrow. The IP address itself is never written down, and there is no cookie and no fingerprint.
Two scripts from our host: Vercel Analytics and Speed Insights run on every page, served from this domain rather than someone else’s. They count visits and time how fast pages load. They set no cookies and build no profile, which is why this site has no cookie banner — but they are Vercel’s, and Vercel, the company delivering you this page, sees the request either way.
If you save places: your list lives in your own browser and never reaches us. Same for the edition you picked and whether you’ve waved off the signup card.
We do not sell or share your address, and we do not run third-party advertising trackers. One honest exception, on the video: an event page with a clip shows a still frame that comes from YouTube’s image servers as the page loads, so Google sees that one request before you have clicked anything. The player itself — its cookies, its scripts, its several megabytes — arrives only when you press play, and it is the no-cookie version of the embed.
How long we keep it
Plainly: we run no automatic deletion, so nothing expires on its own yet. What that can cost you is small by construction — the traffic rows never held a name or an address to begin with, and the one thing that counts a person is rebuilt from scratch every midnight. An old row is a tally and stays a tally.
Your email address is the part that is genuinely yours, and it stays until you ask us to remove it. Unsubscribing stops the mail on the spot and leaves the row marked unsubscribed, with the date — that record is how we know you left, and it is why coming back takes a fresh confirmation from your own inbox instead of someone typing your address into a box. Ask us to delete it and the row goes with it.
Leaving
Every email has an unsubscribe link that works immediately and needs no login. You can also email us and we will remove you, along with anything else we hold about you.
Businesses
Corrections, photo changes, and removals are handled the same day — see copyright & takedowns.
If you write to us about your business — a reply to a letter we sent, a correction, a photo or a special you send for us to run — we keep that correspondence on file, in your own words, because it is the record of what you did and didn’t give us permission to do. A newer answer replaces an older one but never erases it. That includes asking to be removed: the note that you asked is the one record we have to keep, since it is what stops us from ever writing to you again.
Who we are
City Good Times is published by ThisxLife in Black Mountain, North Carolina. Our sister business, Asheville Forest Baths, rents cabins nearby; where it appears in the guide it is labelled as ours. Nothing else in the guide is chosen because of it.
ThisxLife, 206 Yates Avenue, Black Mountain, NC 28711
desk@citygoodtimes.com