Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Effective Date: May 16, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how LBL, operating as LocalBusinessLocator.com, collects, uses, stores, shares, protects, and manages personal information and business information submitted through or collected by LocalBusinessLocator.com.

This Privacy Policy applies to LocalBusinessLocator.com, including business listings, classified ads, job postings, event listings, press releases, citation building services, SEO services, email blast services, advertising services, forms, dashboards, paid products, account features, user-submitted content, and related website services.

By accessing LocalBusinessLocator.com, creating an account, submitting information, purchasing a product or service, posting content, using a form, or otherwise using the website, you agree to the collection and use of information as described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Who We Are

LocalBusinessLocator.com is operated by LBL.

Website: www.LocalBusinessLocator.com
Legal Name: LBL
Email: info@localbusinesslocator.com
Phone: (951) 289-1710
Mailing Address: 4865 Jackson St, Riverside, CA 92503

2. Information We Collect

LBL may collect information directly from you, automatically through website technology, from transactions, from account activity, from communications, from third-party service providers, and from publicly available sources.

Information You Provide Directly

We may collect information you submit through forms, account registrations, product orders, listing submissions, contact requests, citation orders, SEO service requests, classified ads, job postings, event submissions, press releases, email blast orders, comments, reviews, customer messages, and support requests.

This information may include:

  • Name
  • Business name
  • Email address
  • Phone number
  • Mailing address
  • Business address
  • Website URL
  • Social media links
  • Business categories
  • Business descriptions
  • Service descriptions
  • Images, logos, graphics, flyers, videos, and media files
  • Job posting details
  • Event information
  • Press release content
  • Classified ad content
  • Payment and order information
  • Account login information
  • Messages, support requests, and other communications
  • Any other information you choose to submit

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit or use LocalBusinessLocator.com, we may automatically collect certain technical and usage information, including:

  • IP address
  • Browser type
  • Device type
  • Operating system
  • Referring website
  • Pages viewed
  • Time and date of visit
  • Approximate location derived from IP address
  • Search queries used on the website
  • Click activity
  • Form activity
  • Cookie identifiers
  • Analytics and performance data
  • Security logs

Payment Information

When you purchase a listing, citation package, advertising service, SEO service, email blast, classified ad, event listing, job posting, press release, or other paid product, payment information may be processed by third-party payment processors.

LBL does not intentionally store full credit card numbers on LocalBusinessLocator.com servers. Payment processors may collect and process payment card information, billing addresses, transaction IDs, fraud-prevention data, and related payment information according to their own privacy policies and security practices.

Public Listing and User-Submitted Business Information

LocalBusinessLocator.com is a business directory and marketing platform. Business listings, classified ads, job postings, event listings, press releases, reviews, public profiles, uploaded images, descriptions, categories, service areas, contact information, website links, social links, and other submitted content may be publicly displayed.

You should not submit information to LBL that you do not want displayed publicly, distributed through marketing channels, submitted to third-party directories, included in reports, indexed by search engines, or used to perform requested services.

3. How We Use Information

LBL may use collected information for legitimate business, operational, legal, security, marketing, and service-related purposes, including:

  • Creating and managing user accounts
  • Publishing business listings
  • Processing paid orders
  • Creating citation profiles
  • Submitting business information to directories
  • Providing SEO and digital marketing services
  • Posting classified ads
  • Publishing job postings
  • Publishing event listings
  • Publishing press releases
  • Creating and sending email blast campaigns
  • Responding to customer inquiries
  • Providing customer support
  • Sending administrative, billing, service, and account communications
  • Sending promotional communications when permitted
  • Improving website performance and usability
  • Analyzing website traffic and user behavior
  • Preventing fraud, spam, abuse, and security threats
  • Enforcing Terms and Conditions
  • Complying with legal obligations
  • Maintaining business records
  • Resolving disputes
  • Protecting LBL, users, customers, and third parties

4. Business Listings, Citations, and Public Distribution

If you purchase citation building services or submit business information for listing, advertising, SEO, or marketing purposes, you authorize LBL to use, format, edit, publish, distribute, and submit your business information as needed to perform the requested services.

This may include submitting your business name, address, phone number, website, description, categories, images, hours, social links, and other business details to third-party directories, search engines, business profile platforms, citation websites, social media platforms, advertising platforms, and related marketing channels.

Third-party websites control their own publication, review, indexing, moderation, removal, and data-retention practices. LBL is not responsible for the privacy practices, publication timelines, approval decisions, account requirements, indexing decisions, or data-handling practices of third-party websites.

5. Email Marketing and Email Blast Services

LBL may use contact information to send service-related messages, order updates, account notices, billing communications, support responses, promotional messages, newsletters, and email marketing communications.

If you purchase or request an email blast service, you are responsible for ensuring that all submitted content, claims, images, links, offers, and contact information are lawful, accurate, non-misleading, authorized, and compliant with applicable laws.

LBL may refuse, edit, reject, delay, cancel, or remove any email blast content that appears unlawful, misleading, inappropriate, abusive, deceptive, spam-related, infringing, adult-oriented, discriminatory, defamatory, or otherwise unsuitable.

Commercial emails may include LBL contact information, business identification, and opt-out instructions where applicable. Users may unsubscribe from marketing emails by following the instructions in the email or by contacting info@localbusinesslocator.com.

6. Contact Forms and Submitted Messages

When you submit a contact form, service form, listing form, order form, email blast form, citation form, or support request, LBL collects the information provided in the form and may use it to respond, process orders, provide services, maintain records, resolve disputes, and improve business operations.

Form submissions may be stored in the website database, emailed to LBL, processed by website plugins, routed through email service providers, or retained in customer management systems.

7. Comments, Reviews, and Public Contributions

If comments, reviews, ratings, or public contributions are enabled, LBL may collect the information shown in the comment or review form, along with IP address, browser user agent string, date, time, and related moderation information to help detect spam and abuse.

Comments, reviews, ratings, and public contributions may be visible to the public after approval or publication. Do not submit private, confidential, sensitive, or personal information in public comment areas.

An anonymized string created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine whether you use that service. If your comment is approved and Gravatar is enabled, your profile image may be visible publicly in connection with your comment.

8. Media Uploads

If you upload images, logos, flyers, videos, documents, or other media to LocalBusinessLocator.com, those files may be publicly accessible depending on where they are used.

You should avoid uploading images with embedded location data, including EXIF GPS data. Visitors may be able to download images from the website and extract embedded metadata.

By uploading media, you represent that you own or have the right to use and publish that media and that the upload does not violate copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, contractual, or other rights.

9. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

LocalBusinessLocator.com may use cookies, pixels, scripts, tags, local storage, analytics tools, advertising tools, security tools, and related technologies to operate the website, remember preferences, process logins, support shopping cart functions, analyze traffic, measure performance, prevent abuse, improve marketing, and provide relevant content.

Cookies may be set by LBL or by third-party service providers, including analytics providers, advertising platforms, embedded content providers, payment processors, spam-prevention tools, security services, social media platforms, and website plugins.

You may disable cookies in your browser settings. Some website features may not function correctly if cookies are disabled.

10. Analytics

LBL may use analytics tools to understand website traffic, user behavior, page performance, conversion activity, referral sources, device information, and marketing effectiveness.

Analytics providers may collect IP addresses, device identifiers, cookie identifiers, browser information, page views, click behavior, approximate location, and other usage data according to their own privacy policies.

11. Advertising, Retargeting, and Marketing Tools

LBL may use advertising and marketing tools, including search engine advertising, social media advertising, retargeting, remarketing, conversion tracking, pixels, and similar technologies.

These tools may collect or process information about visits, clicks, conversions, page views, device identifiers, cookie identifiers, and interactions with ads or website content. This information may be used to measure advertising performance, improve campaigns, show relevant ads, and understand marketing effectiveness.

12. Embedded Content from Other Websites

Pages on LocalBusinessLocator.com may include embedded content such as videos, maps, images, social media posts, advertisements, forms, widgets, scripts, reviews, articles, payment tools, or other third-party content.

Embedded content from other websites behaves as if you visited the other website directly. These third-party websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed tracking, monitor your interaction with the embedded content, and associate your activity with your account on that third-party website if you are logged in there.

LBL does not control the privacy practices of third-party embedded content providers.

13. Who We Share Information With

LBL may share information when necessary to operate the website, provide services, process transactions, publish content, perform marketing work, comply with law, protect rights, prevent abuse, or complete requested services.

Information may be shared with:

  • Website hosting providers
  • Email service providers
  • Payment processors
  • Analytics providers
  • Advertising platforms
  • Security and spam-prevention services
  • Customer support tools
  • Website plugin providers
  • Business directory platforms
  • Citation websites
  • Search engines
  • Social media platforms
  • Contractors and service providers assisting LBL
  • Legal, tax, accounting, or compliance professionals
  • Government agencies, courts, regulators, or law enforcement when legally required or appropriate
  • Successors, buyers, or transferees in connection with a business transaction involving LBL or LocalBusinessLocator.com

LBL does not knowingly sell personal information for money. However, certain analytics, advertising, retargeting, cookie, or third-party marketing technologies may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” under some privacy laws if they involve cross-context behavioral advertising or data sharing. Users may contact LBL to request opt-out handling where applicable.

14. Legal Bases for Processing

Where a legal basis is required, LBL may process personal information based on one or more of the following:

  • Your consent
  • Performance of a contract or requested service
  • Legitimate business interests
  • Compliance with legal obligations
  • Protection of legal rights
  • Fraud prevention and website security
  • Completion of transactions and customer support

15. How Long We Retain Information

LBL retains personal information and business information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide services, operate the website, maintain listings, process orders, complete citation work, support accounts, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, prevent fraud, maintain records, and protect business interests.

Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and the reason it was collected.

  • Account information may be retained while the account remains active and for a reasonable period afterward.
  • Order, billing, and transaction records may be retained for accounting, tax, legal, fraud-prevention, and business-record purposes.
  • Listings, ads, job posts, events, press releases, and public content may remain published unless removed by LBL or deleted according to applicable procedures.
  • Citation reports and service records may be retained to document completed work.
  • Support messages may be retained to manage customer service and disputes.
  • Security logs may be retained to detect, investigate, and prevent abuse.
  • Marketing records may be retained unless you unsubscribe or request deletion where applicable.

LBL may retain information even after a deletion request when retention is permitted or required for legal compliance, accounting, dispute resolution, fraud prevention, security, completed transactions, internal records, contractual obligations, or legitimate business purposes.

16. Your Privacy Choices

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights to request access to personal information, correction, deletion, portability, restriction, objection, opt-out of certain processing, opt-out of marketing, or information about how your data is used.

To make a privacy request, contact LBL at:

Email: info@localbusinesslocator.com
Mailing Address: LBL, 4865 Jackson St, Riverside, CA 92503
Phone: (951) 289-1710

LBL may need to verify your identity before responding to a privacy request. Verification may require matching information you provide with information already maintained by LBL.

17. California Privacy Rights

California residents may have rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, if LBL is subject to those laws for a particular request or data practice.

California privacy rights may include:

  • The right to know what categories of personal information are collected, used, disclosed, sold, or shared.
  • The right to request access to specific pieces of personal information.
  • The right to request deletion of personal information, subject to legal exceptions.
  • The right to request correction of inaccurate personal information.
  • The right to opt out of sale or sharing of personal information where applicable.
  • The right to limit use and disclosure of sensitive personal information where applicable.
  • The right not to be discriminated against for exercising privacy rights.

To submit a California privacy request, email info@localbusinesslocator.com with the subject line California Privacy Request.

To submit a request to opt out of sale or sharing, email info@localbusinesslocator.com with the subject line Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information.

LBL does not knowingly sell personal information for money. LBL may use analytics, cookies, advertising tools, or marketing platforms that could be considered sale or sharing under certain privacy laws. LBL will review and respond to opt-out requests as required by applicable law.

If legally required, LBL will also honor valid browser-based Global Privacy Control signals in a commercially reasonable manner for the browser or device sending the signal.

18. Categories of Personal Information Collected

Depending on how you use LocalBusinessLocator.com, LBL may collect the following categories of personal information:

  • Identifiers: name, business name, email address, phone number, mailing address, IP address, account username, and online identifiers.
  • Commercial information: products purchased, services ordered, payment status, transaction history, listing plans, and service preferences.
  • Internet or network activity: browsing activity, page views, clicks, device data, browser data, and interaction with website features.
  • Geolocation information: approximate location derived from IP address or business-location information submitted by users.
  • Professional or business information: business details, job postings, service descriptions, categories, credentials, profile information, and advertising content.
  • Audio, visual, or electronic information: uploaded photos, logos, videos, graphics, and submitted media.
  • Inferences: preferences, interests, service needs, marketing engagement, or business categories derived from website activity or submitted information.
  • Sensitive personal information: LBL does not intentionally request sensitive personal information. If you voluntarily submit sensitive information, it may be processed only as necessary to respond to your submission or provide requested services.

19. Sources of Personal Information

LBL may collect information from:

  • You directly
  • Your business or authorized representative
  • Website forms
  • Account registrations
  • Orders and checkout activity
  • Uploaded content
  • Comments and reviews
  • Publicly available business sources
  • Third-party directories
  • Payment processors
  • Analytics tools
  • Advertising platforms
  • Security tools
  • Email and communication systems
  • Website plugins and service providers

20. Purposes for Collecting Personal Information

LBL collects and uses personal information for:

  • Providing business directory services
  • Publishing listings and public content
  • Completing purchases and transactions
  • Providing citation building services
  • Providing SEO and digital marketing services
  • Providing email blast services
  • Managing accounts and dashboards
  • Customer service and support
  • Fraud prevention and security
  • Marketing and advertising
  • Analytics and website improvement
  • Legal compliance
  • Dispute resolution
  • Business operations and recordkeeping

21. Authorized Agents

California residents may authorize another person or entity to submit a privacy request on their behalf where permitted by law.

LBL may require proof that the authorized agent has permission to act on behalf of the user. LBL may also require the user to verify their identity directly before completing a request.

22. International Visitors

LocalBusinessLocator.com is operated from the United States. If you access the website from outside the United States, you understand that your information may be transferred to, processed in, and stored in the United States, where privacy laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction.

By using the website or submitting information, you consent to the transfer, processing, and storage of information in the United States.

23. Children’s Privacy

LocalBusinessLocator.com is intended for business users and adults. The website is not directed to children under 13 years of age, and LBL does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

If LBL learns that it has collected personal information from a child under 13 without appropriate parental consent, LBL will take reasonable steps to delete that information.

24. How We Protect Information

LBL uses reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, and disclosure.

Security measures may include access controls, password protection, website security tools, spam protection, malware monitoring, hosting safeguards, payment processor security, internal access limitations, and other reasonable protections.

No website, database, transmission, hosting environment, payment system, email system, or online service can be guaranteed completely secure. Users submit information at their own risk.

25. Data Breach Procedures

If LBL becomes aware of a data security incident involving personal information, LBL may investigate, take appropriate containment measures, work with service providers, restore security where appropriate, notify affected users when required, and comply with applicable legal obligations.

LBL may delay notification where legally permitted or required to investigate the incident, prevent further harm, restore system integrity, or comply with law enforcement or legal requirements.

26. What Third Parties We Receive Data From

LBL may receive information from third-party service providers, payment processors, website plugins, analytics tools, advertising platforms, email systems, security providers, spam-prevention tools, publicly available sources, directories, search engines, and business profile platforms.

Information received from third parties may be used to process transactions, provide services, verify business information, improve listings, detect abuse, measure performance, and support marketing or operational needs.

27. Automated Decision-Making and Profiling

LBL does not intentionally use automated decision-making to make legally significant decisions about users.

LBL may use automated tools for spam detection, fraud prevention, website security, analytics, advertising measurement, search functionality, recommendations, account protection, and marketing performance.

28. Sensitive Personal Information

LBL does not intentionally request sensitive personal information such as Social Security numbers, government identification numbers, precise geolocation, financial account credentials, health information, biometric data, race, religion, union membership, political affiliation, sexual orientation, or similar sensitive information.

Users should not submit sensitive personal information through public listings, classified ads, comments, reviews, forms, or email blast content unless specifically necessary and authorized.

29. Account Access, Correction, and Deletion

Registered users may be able to access, update, or delete certain account profile information through their account dashboard.

Some information cannot be changed directly by users, including usernames, transaction records, billing records, completed service records, security logs, and information retained for legal, accounting, dispute-resolution, or business-record purposes.

To request correction or deletion of information not available through your dashboard, contact info@localbusinesslocator.com.

30. Public Search Engine Indexing

Business listings, classified ads, job postings, event listings, press releases, reviews, public profiles, images, and other published content may be indexed by search engines or copied by third-party websites.

LBL cannot guarantee removal of content from search engine caches, third-party archives, directory databases, screenshots, scraped content, social media shares, or third-party platforms after content is deleted or changed on LocalBusinessLocator.com.

31. Do Not Track Signals

Some browsers provide “Do Not Track” signals. Because there is no uniform industry standard for responding to all Do Not Track signals, LocalBusinessLocator.com may not respond to such signals.

Where legally required, LBL will evaluate and respond to recognized opt-out preference signals, including Global Privacy Control, in accordance with applicable law.

32. Third-Party Privacy Policies

LocalBusinessLocator.com may link to third-party websites, directories, advertisers, payment processors, service providers, embedded content, social media platforms, search engines, and business profile platforms.

LBL is not responsible for the privacy policies, security practices, data handling, content, or conduct of third-party websites or services. Users should review third-party privacy policies before submitting information to those services.

33. Business Transfers

If LBL, LocalBusinessLocator.com, or related assets are involved in a merger, acquisition, sale, transfer, restructuring, bankruptcy, financing, or change of control, information may be transferred as part of that transaction.

The successor or acquiring party may continue to use information consistent with this Privacy Policy unless otherwise stated.

34. Legal Compliance and Protection of Rights

LBL may disclose information when it believes disclosure is necessary or appropriate to:

  • Comply with law, subpoena, court order, legal process, or government request
  • Enforce Terms and Conditions
  • Protect LBL’s rights, property, business, users, customers, or public safety
  • Investigate fraud, spam, abuse, security threats, or unlawful activity
  • Defend against claims or disputes
  • Collect unpaid amounts
  • Protect the integrity of the website and services

35. Changes to This Privacy Policy

LBL may update this Privacy Policy at any time. Updated versions will be posted on this page with a revised effective date.

Your continued use of LocalBusinessLocator.com after an updated Privacy Policy is posted means you accept the revised policy.

36. Contact LBL About Privacy

For privacy questions, data requests, account issues, opt-out requests, deletion requests, correction requests, California privacy requests, or general privacy concerns, contact:

LBL / LocalBusinessLocator.com
4865 Jackson St
Riverside, CA 92503
Email: info@localbusinesslocator.com
Phone: (951) 289-1710
Website: www.LocalBusinessLocator.com