Cookies and browser storage

No advertising or third-party tracking

We do not use advertising cookies, cross-site trackers or third-party analytics scripts. The only outside services that load in your browser are listed below under Payments and Other outside services.

Sign-in

If you sign in, your browser keeps your sign-in session (a key beginning with "sb-" in local storage) so you stay signed in. Signing out removes it.

Conveniences we remember on your device

Your last-chosen tab and country in The Local Grid, and whether "Browse by state" is open.

The place you last searched in.

Whether the owner dashboard sidebar is collapsed (a small "sidebar_state" cookie on account pages).

A referral code, only if you arrived through a referral link.

Dismissed notices and similar display choices.

These stay on your device. Clearing your browser's site data removes them.

Payments

When you pay, the secure checkout is provided by our payment processor, Stripe (loaded from js.stripe.com). On payment pages Stripe sets its own cookies for fraud prevention. Those cookies are controlled by Stripe, not by us.

• Stripe privacy policy

Other outside services

Our typefaces load from Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com), so your browser contacts Google's servers to download them. We do not embed maps or video players from other companies on our pages.

Our hosting provider keeps standard server request logs and overall visit statistics for running the site. We do not add advertising or cross-site tracking through it.

Newsletter emails

Newsletter sign-up stores nothing in your browser. Our emails contain no open-tracking pixels and no click-tracking redirects; tracking stays off unless the owner approves it and this page is updated first.

Visit counting

We count page views, clicks and calls so businesses see honest numbers. The count is classified on our server, bots are filtered out, and visitors are grouped by a daily, salted hash — not a cookie and not a profile of you.