Privacy policy

Last updated: November 9, 2026

The short version

We collect what we need to run the pageant. We keep it private. We don’t sell it. We don’t run ads or tracking on this site. If you want your information gone, email us at info@missazusa.com and we’ll do it.

Who we are

Miss Arizona USA is the state preliminary to Miss USA® and Miss Teen USA®. Those names are trademarks of the national organization. Our team is Jo (Joecelynn Soto), Ronnie and Nicole. You can reach us at info@missazusa.com or at 4235 N Marshall Way, Ste 200, Scottsdale, AZ 85251.

What do we collect?

When you apply: your name, birthdate, phone, email, division, and your answers to the application questions.

If the applicant is under 18: her parent or guardian’s name, phone and email too.

Files you upload: at launch the only upload is artwork for a program ad, and only once the shop opens. When we do accept photos, we strip the location data (GPS) and other hidden details from JPEG and PNG files. Uploads are stored privately and are not public.

When you ask for an appearance or write to us: whatever you put in the form, plus your contact details.

When a contestant pays: payments go through Stripe. We see that a payment happened and how much. We never see or store your card number.

When you buy from the shop: the shop is not open yet. When it opens, we’ll collect your name, email and shipping address for orders, and we’ll update this page first.

When you say yes to something: when you tick a consent box, we save what the box said, which version of the text it was, the time, and your IP address. That way we always know exactly what you agreed to.

When you sign in: the team signs in with Google or an emailed link. Contestants and parents sign in to their private page with an emailed one-time link. We keep your email and a sign-in cookie.

While you fill in the application: the form saves your answers in your own browser (on your device, not on our servers) for up to 7 days so you can come back to it. It never saves the boxes you tick. Clear your browser data to remove it.

What we don’t collect: no body measurements, no Social Security numbers, no ID numbers, no card numbers.

Who else touches your information?

We use a few companies to run the site. They handle your information only to do their job for us. Here is every one of them.

• Cloudflare hosts this site and keeps our database and our private photo storage. It also runs a bot check called Turnstile on our forms. Turnstile looks at your browser and connection to tell people from bots. It doesn’t ask you to click on traffic lights.
• Sanity holds the public content on this site, like text and the pictures you see on pages. Images load from Sanity’s servers, so Sanity can see that your browser asked for them.
• Resend sends our emails, like confirmations and sign-in links.
• Stripe takes payments. If you pay, Stripe collects your card details on its own page and its own privacy policy applies there.
• Google handles staff sign-in.
• Google Workspace is our email. When you write to info@missazusa.com, Google stores that email for us.

These companies may store data in the United States or elsewhere.

What we don’t use: no advertising trackers, no analytics pixels, no tracking cookies. The only cookie is the one that keeps you signed in, and you only get it when you sign in. If we ever add something that tracks you, we’ll ask first and update this page.

Who can see it?

Only the Miss Arizona USA team, and each person sees only what their job needs. Our pageant site builder, Kiss & Tell, has access while it builds and supports this site. At director handoff its access drops to a support role. It is held to the same rules.

We share information with the national pageant organization only where its rules require it, for example to register a titleholder. We may also share information if the law requires it or to protect someone’s safety.

We never sell your information. We never share it for ads.

What shows up on the public site?

• Delegates appear by first name and city only.
• A reigning titleholder appears by first name and her title. Her last name and photos appear only after she has signed a photo release. For a teen, her parent or guardian signs it.
• Beyond her first name and city, nothing about a minor goes public until her parent or guardian has signed the release.
• Past titleholders are listed by name and year on the Legacy (Hall of Fame) page, as they have been on our old site. If you are listed and want your name or photo changed or removed, email us and we will do it.

Kids and teens

Nobody under 14 can apply. Our application checks the birthdate and turns away anyone under 14 without saving anything, so we don’t collect information from children under 13. If you think a child under 13 has sent us information, email us and we’ll delete it.

If the applicant is under 18, a parent or guardian is required. The parent or guardian agrees to the application, is our contact for any payment or contract, and can at any time:

• see what we have about their daughter,
• fix it,
• ask us to delete it.

Just email info@missazusa.com from the parent or guardian email on file. We may ask a simple question to check it’s really you before we change or delete anything.

How long do we keep it?

Applicants who never register or pay: we delete their personal details 365 days after that season ends (or 365 days after the last activity on their application, if that is later).

Contestants and titleholders: we keep their records while they compete and afterward as part of the pageant’s history, so we can answer questions about past seasons. If you’d like us to delete what we don’t need to keep, email us.

When we delete someone, we erase their name, email, phone, birthdate, city, their parent or guardian’s details, and the emails we sent about them. We keep a bare record that a payment happened (amount and date), that they agreed to our text (which version, and when), and a log of changes with no personal details in it. Our backups keep older copies for up to 30 days, and then they age out.

Your choices and rights

You can ask us to:

• tell you what we have about you,
• correct it,
• delete it,
• stop using your photos for new things.

Email info@missazusa.com. We’ll answer within 30 days. There’s no charge and we won’t treat you differently for asking.

Wherever you live, you get these same choices. We don’t sell your information or share it for ads, so there is nothing to opt out of. Use the same email to ask.

How do we protect it?

Everything travels over secure connections. Photos are private. Staff accounts are limited by role. Our database is encrypted where it’s stored by Cloudflare. No system is perfectly safe, but we take this seriously, especially for minors. If something goes wrong with your information, we’ll tell you promptly and say what happened.

Changes

If we change this page in a way that matters, we’ll update the date at the top. For anything that changes how we use a minor’s information, we’ll ask the parent or guardian again.

Questions?

info@missazusa.com. Arizona law applies to this policy.