Privacy Policy

When you submit a listing or use Small Spotter Directory, we may collect:

• Listing information — business name, description, category, services, employee range, location or service area, website, social links, and other details you provide about your business.
• Contact information — your name, email address, and telephone number, including any public contact email or phone you choose to include on your listing.
• Account and authentication information — when accounts are used to submit or manage listings, we collect the identifiers needed to sign you in and secure your account.
• Basic technical information — our hosting and infrastructure providers may automatically log standard request information such as IP address and browser or device type as part of normal website operation and security.

We only collect information that you submit through our forms or that is automatically logged by the systems that run the website. We do not currently run our own analytics, advertising, or tracking scripts.

Information you submit for a business listing is intended to be shown publicly. If your listing is approved, that information may appear on Small Spotter Directory, in on-site search results, and be indexed by search engines. It may also be used in social media posts, promotional materials, advertisements, emails, and other Small Spotter Directory marketing.

Please do not include personal or confidential information in your listing that you do not want to appear publicly. The account or administrative email you use to submit or manage a listing will not be displayed publicly unless you also provide it as your listing's public contact email.

The business owner's name that you provide on the submission form is collected for administrative review, verification, and communication with the listing owner. It is visible to authorized Small Spotter Directory administrators, but is not displayed on public listing pages, search results, metadata, or structured data. Public listings show the label "Owner-Led" instead of the owner's name. If you separately choose to include the owner's name in public business content (for example, in the business description or as part of the business name), that content will appear publicly as submitted.

We use the information you provide to:

• Review, approve, publish, update, manage, and promote business listings.
• Communicate with listing owners about their submissions and listings.
• Verify and process listing claims and ownership requests.
• Maintain the security of the website, prevent fraud or misuse, improve the directory, and comply with legal obligations.

Submitted information is stored in Small Spotter Directory's cloud-hosted database and supporting systems. Small Spotter Directory currently uses Supabase, so listing, account, and administrative information may be stored and processed using Supabase's hosted database and authentication infrastructure.

We use reasonable administrative and technical safeguards to protect the information we hold. No online service can guarantee absolute security, and you submit information at your own risk.

To operate the website we rely on service providers such as hosting, database, authentication, and email vendors. These providers may process information on our behalf only as needed to deliver their services.

Small Spotter Directory does not sell personal information. We may disclose information when we believe in good faith that it is required by law, to enforce our Terms, to protect the rights, property, or safety of Small Spotter Directory or others, or in connection with a merger, acquisition, or transfer of assets.

We retain listing, account, and contact information while a listing or account remains active and for as long as reasonably necessary for business, security, recordkeeping, or legal purposes.

You may request access to your information, corrections to your listing, removal of your listing, deletion of your account, or deletion of eligible personal information by contacting us through the site. Some information may be retained after removal where required for legal, security, or recordkeeping purposes.

Small Spotter Directory does not currently use its own analytics or advertising cookies. Our hosting and authentication providers may set essential cookies or use similar technologies needed to keep you signed in and to operate the site securely.

Small Spotter Directory is intended for business owners and adult users. It is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us and we will take reasonable steps to remove it.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will update the effective date at the top of this page. Continued use of the website after changes take effect means you accept the updated policy.

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or want to make a privacy request, please contact Small Spotter Directory through the website. We will do our best to respond in a reasonable time.