Policy

Privacy policy

Short version: we keep only what you give us when you sign in, post, vote or sign up, and we never sell it. Ads are from Google, which asks for your consent where the law requires it. You can ask us to delete anything we hold by email.

Last updated Sep 26, 2026

Who we are

Verde Valley Directory (https://verdevalleydirectory.com) is an independent website run by one person in the Verde Valley, Arizona. It is not a government site. Questions about this policy go to support@verdevalleydirectory.com.

What runs today

• Ads from Google. Pages may show Google AdSense ads. Google sets its own cookies under its policy. Where the law requires consent (for example in the EU, the UK and Switzerland, and in US states with opt-out rules), Google shows its own consent message before personalized ads, and offers a link to change your answer later. We do not see or store that answer.
• Sign-in. To submit, vote, review or comment you sign in with Google or Microsoft. We store your name as that provider shows it, your email, and the provider's account id. We never see or store a password.
• Forms: corrections, claims, removals, events, new listings. We store what you type, the date, and a one-way hash of your IP address, and use it only to act on your request and reply. Forms use Cloudflare Turnstile to block bots; Turnstile may set a short-lived cookie under Cloudflare's privacy policy.
• Votes. A vote stores the vote, the item, the date, and a one-way hash of your IP address and browser type, which lets us count one vote per person per day. We cannot turn it back into your address.
• Reviews and comments. Your name as shown by the sign-in provider and the text you post are public; your email is not. Reviews are moderated under our moderation policy.
• Newsletter. Signing up stores your email and the date with our newsletter provider, beehiiv, under its own privacy policy. Every issue has an unsubscribe link.
• Page-view counting. Cloudflare Web Analytics counts page views, and since November 3, 2026 our own counter keeps a daily total per page with the site you came from and whether you are on a phone or a computer. Neither uses cookies or an id, neither follows you to other sites, and both give us totals, not a record of you.
• Counting clicks to businesses (since September 26, 2026). When you tap a listing's Call, Website or Directions link, it goes through a /go/ address on this site first, which logs the listing, which kind of link, the page you were on, the time, and a one-way hash of your IP address, then sends you on. We use it to tell a business how many people we sent it. We cannot turn the hash back into your address. Some of these links may be affiliate links; see the disclosures page.
• Buying a featured listing. Payment goes through Stripe under its privacy policy. We keep the business, the billing email, the tier bought, and when it is paid through. We never see a full card number.
• Local storage. Your light or dark theme choice is kept in your own browser.
• Hosting and storage. The site runs on Cloudflare, which may keep short-lived server logs (including IP addresses) under its own privacy policy. Sign-ins, submissions, votes and reviews live in a Cloudflare D1 database in the United States. We share data only with the services that run the site (Cloudflare, Google for ads, beehiiv, Stripe for payments, our email provider, and the sign-in provider you choose). We do not sell or rent personal data.

Listing data is in a file we build the site from. It holds business contact details, not personal data about readers.

Your rights (CCPA, GDPR, and everyone else)

Wherever you live, you can email support@verdevalleydirectory.com to:

• ask what we hold about you,
• ask us to correct it,
• ask us to delete it,
• unsubscribe from the newsletter (or use the link in any issue).

We answer within 30 days. We will ask you to confirm from the email address on file. We do not discriminate against anyone for making a request. We do not sell personal information, so there is nothing to opt out of on that front. Reviews you posted may be kept in an anonymized form if removing them would break a thread, unless you ask otherwise.

Children

The site is not aimed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect their data. If you think a child gave us data, email us and we will delete it.

Changes

When this policy changes we update the date at the top. Big changes are listed here.

• September 26, 2026: we started counting taps on a listing's Call, Website and Directions links, so we can tell a business how many people we sent.