Privacy Policy
Last updated: June 14, 2026
Transparency notice: This Privacy Policy is provided for general transparency about how Local Growth Bureau handles information. It is not legal advice and does not create a binding contract. If you have specific legal questions, we encourage you to consult a qualified attorney.
1. Introduction
Local Growth Bureau respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, how we protect it, and what choices you have when you visit our website, submit a form, request an audit, book a call, or work with us as a client.
2. Information We Collect
We may collect the following types of information:
Information visitors provide
- Name
- Business name
- Website URL
- Phone number
- Email address
- Industry
- City and state
- Message or request details
- Preferred contact method
- Audit request details
- Book-a-call request details
- Client onboarding information
- Project-related information submitted by clients
Information collected automatically
- Pages visited
- Referring website
- Landing page
- UTM campaign parameters
- Browser and device information
- Cookie preferences
- Analytics events
- Form start and form submission events
- IP address for client-status security logs when using the client status portal
- User agent and browser details for security and audit purposes
Important:
We do not intentionally collect sensitive personal information through our website forms. Visitors should not submit passwords, financial account numbers, medical information, Social Security numbers, or other sensitive information through public forms.
3. How We Use Information
We use the information we collect to:
- Respond to audit requests
- Respond to contact form submissions
- Schedule or follow up on calls
- Review websites and lead-flow issues
- Create proposals
- Manage client projects
- Send project updates
- Request missing assets
- Send review, approval, or delivery messages
- Track project progress
- Improve the website and services
- Measure marketing performance
- Understand which campaigns and pages generate leads
- Protect the website, admin dashboard, and client-status portal
- Maintain business records
4. Cookies and Tracking
Local Growth Bureau uses cookies and similar technologies for essential site functionality, analytics, attribution, and marketing/retargeting — only when permitted by the user’s cookie preferences.
Cookie categories
- Essential cookies: Required for site functionality, security, consent preferences, forms, and basic operation.
- Analytics cookies: Help us understand website visits, page performance, and form conversions.
- Marketing cookies: Help measure advertising performance and retarget visitors who showed interest.
We may use services such as Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Google Ads, and Meta Pixel.
Analytics and marketing tools should not receive names, emails, phone numbers, form messages, private client notes, or project details.
5. Google and Meta Tracking
If enabled and accepted through cookie preferences, Google and Meta tools may receive limited event data such as page views, CTA clicks, form submission success events, campaign source, and landing page information.
We do not send:
- Names
- Email addresses
- Phone numbers
- Message contents
- Private client project information
- Client portal tokens
- Internal admin data
6. Attribution Data
When visitors arrive from ads, email, social media, search, or referral links, we may store attribution data such as:
- UTM source
- UTM medium
- UTM campaign
- UTM content
- UTM term
- Referrer
- Landing page
- gclid
- fbclid
This helps Local Growth Bureau understand which outreach, pages, and campaigns are working.
7. Client Status Portal Privacy
Clients may receive a private tokenized client-status link. This page may show safe client-facing project information such as:
- Project status
- Next step
- Missing items
- Review link
- Delivery link
- Approval status
The client-status portal does not show:
- Internal notes
- Private admin logs
- Revenue or internal financial details
- Risk scores
- Team notes
- Other clients’ information
Security and audit detail:
For security and audit purposes, Local Growth Bureau may record the date and time, browser/user-agent, and IP address associated with client-status portal views, approvals, or change requests. This information is visible only to authorized admin users and is not displayed publicly.
8. How We Share Information
We do not sell personal information submitted through our forms.
We may share limited information only with service providers needed to operate the business, such as:
- Website hosting and platform providers
- Email delivery providers
- Analytics providers
- Advertising platforms
- Payment processors
- Scheduling and calendar tools if used
- Contractors or service providers helping deliver client work, only as needed
We may also disclose information if required by law, to protect our rights, or to prevent fraud or security issues.
9. Payments
If payment links or payment processors are used, payment information is processed by third-party payment providers. Local Growth Bureau does not store full payment card details on its website or admin dashboard.
10. Data Security
Local Growth Bureau uses reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards to protect information. However, no website, database, or internet transmission is 100% secure.
Measures we apply include:
- Admin access controls
- Protected admin dashboard
- Role-based access where applicable
- Tokenized client links
- Server-side handling for sensitive operations
- No public exposure of internal client records
11. Data Retention
We keep information for as long as reasonably necessary to:
- Respond to inquiries
- Manage client projects
- Maintain records
- Improve services
- Comply with legal, accounting, or business obligations
Users may contact us to request deletion or correction where applicable.
12. Your Choices
You can:
- Accept or reject non-essential cookies
- Change cookie preferences using the footer Cookie Preferences link
- Contact Local Growth Bureau to request correction or deletion of information
- Unsubscribe or ask us to stop contacting you
- Request information about what was submitted through forms
13. Children’s Privacy
Local Growth Bureau services are intended for businesses and adults. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 13.
14. Third-Party Links
Our website may link to third-party websites such as Google, Meta, payment processors, calendar tools, or client websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party websites.
15. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised “Last updated” date.
16. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle information, you can reach us at: