Privacy

PWC Lights is a community directory and calculator site for Prince William County holiday lights and Halloween trick-or-treat spots.

What we collect

• Display submissions: title, address or neighborhood, city, viewing hours, description, photo, and contact email.
• Trick-or-treat submissions: title, neighborhood or street, city, hours, notes, optional candy/allergen notes, photo, and contact email.
• Contact email is used only to follow up about a submission. It is not shown on public listings.
• Form submissions (including photos) are delivered to us through our web host’s form service so they can be reviewed. Submissions that are not approved are never shown publicly.

Location & photos

• We may publish a less precise location (neighborhood instead of full street) for privacy and safety.
• Submitted photos may appear on the public displays or trick-or-treat pages after approval.
• Submissions without a clear photo are not published.

Calculators

Decorating calculators run in your browser. The measurements you type are not sent to our servers and are not stored after you close the page.

Contacting us

If you email us at millsites.contact@gmail.com, we receive your email address and message so we can answer. Your email is used only to reply and is never published.

Cookies and advertising

PWC Lights uses Google AdSense to show ads. Google and other third-party vendors use cookies (small files stored by your browser) and similar identifiers to serve ads based on your prior visits to pwclights.com and other websites, to limit how often you see an ad, and to measure ad performance.

Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the internet. You can read more in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services and in Google’s advertising technologies notice.

Opting out: you can turn off personalized advertising from Google in Google Ads Settings (My Ad Center). You can also opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalized advertising at www.aboutads.info/choices, or, in Europe, at www.youronlinechoices.eu. If you opt out, you may still see ads, but they will not be personalized based on your browsing.

Where the law requires consent for advertising cookies (for example in the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland), you may be asked to make a choice before personalized ads are shown. You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings at any time; the calculators work without cookies.

Server logs and hosting

Like most websites, the hosting provider may automatically record standard technical information when a page is requested — such as IP address, browser type, the page requested, and the time of the request. This is used to deliver the site, keep it secure, and diagnose errors. PWC Lights does not use these logs to identify individual visitors.

Links to other sites

Some pages link to manufacturers, standards bodies, or other external resources. Those sites have their own privacy practices, which this policy does not cover.

Children’s privacy

pwclights.com is a general-audience site and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has sent us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.

Data retention and your choices

Contact messages are kept only as long as needed to answer them. A published listing can be removed at any time on request. You can ask us to delete a message you sent, or ask what information we hold about you, through the Contact page. We do not sell personal information.

Changes to this policy

If our practices change — for example, a new form or a different advertising partner — this page will be updated and the date below will change.

Questions

Questions about this policy can be sent to millsites.contact@gmail.com or through the Contact page.

Last updated: October 3, 2026