YourFirstLocal ("we", "us", "our") respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what we collect, how we use it, and the choices you have when using yourfirstlocal.com (the "Site").
1. Information We Collect
We collect information in three main ways:
- Information you provide directly: name, email, or business details when you contact us, claim a listing, or submit updates.
- Usage data: pages visited, searches performed, and features used — this helps us improve YourFirstLocal.
- Location data (if you enable it): approximate location used to show nearby businesses or events. You can decline or revoke access in your browser at any time.
2. Cookies and Tracking
We use cookies and similar technologies for core site functionality and security, analytics and performance (page views, popular areas), and advertising measurement when ads are active.
3. Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use the Site. Google Analytics may collect your IP address, device type, browser, and page interactions. Learn more: policies.google.com/privacy
4. Google AdSense & Advertising Cookies
When advertising is active, third-party vendors including Google may use cookies to serve ads based on prior visits. Opt out via adssettings.google.com or aboutads.info.
5. Bot Protection (Cloudflare Turnstile)
We use Cloudflare Turnstile to protect our forms — signing up, reporting a listing, asking a business a question — from automated abuse. To tell real people apart from bots, it processes a limited amount of technical data, including your IP address and browser signals. It runs invisibly, so there is usually nothing for you to click. Turnstile is not used for advertising and does not track you across other sites, and in our configuration (invisible mode, no pre-clearance) it does not set a Cloudflare clearance cookie on this Site. For details, see Cloudflare's Turnstile Privacy Addendum and Cloudflare's privacy policy.
6. How We Use Your Information
To power local search results, improve the directory, operate and secure the Site, respond to inquiries, and measure advertising performance.
7. Contact Us
Questions about this Privacy Policy? info@yourfirstlocal.com