Privacy, in plain English

We build website previews for local businesses using public business records, and we email the owner to show them. We don't sell or share our list with anyone, ever. If you want your preview taken down, it happens the same day; if you want your information deleted, it happens the same week. One email to hello@readystorefront.com does either.

Business information, from sources that are already public:

• State license records — the California Contractors State License Board (CSLB) publishes contractor names, license numbers, classifications, and issue dates.
• City and county registries — business license and business tax certificate records.
• Overture Maps — an openly licensed map dataset with business names, addresses, and categories.
• Business contact information from licensed data vendors — the business email addresses we write to come from commercial data providers we pay, under their terms. We do not run our own email-harvesting software against anyone's website.

That's business data — company names, addresses, license numbers, business phone numbers and emails. We are not in the consumer-data business.

Two reasons, and only these two:

• To build a website preview for a business — the facts on a preview (trade, service area, license number) come straight from the records above.
• To contact the owner about it — one short email introduction about that one preview. A few emails at most, and the sequence stops permanently the moment you reply “stop,” unsubscribe, or ask us to.

• We never sell, rent, trade, or share our list — not with advertisers, not with “partners,” not with anyone.
• We never send cold text messages or robocalls.
• We never use Google or Yelp data, and we never put review text, star ratings, or anything we can't trace to a public record on a preview.
• We never publish a real business's preview publicly. Previews are private links, hidden from search engines, sent only to the owner. The examples on our site are fictional businesses.

Preview takedown — same day. Use Remove a preview, reply “stop” to any email from us, or write to hello@readystorefront.com. The preview comes down the same day, automatically — it doesn't wait for a human to get around to it.

Deletion — same week. Ask and we delete your information from our records. Deleted also means suppressed: we keep the minimum needed to make sure we never build a preview for you or contact you again. Deletion doesn't quietly expire.

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act you have the right to:

• Know what personal information we have about you and where it came from.
• Delete it (see above — we do this in days, not the 45 the law allows).
• Correct anything we have wrong.
• Opt out of sale or sharing — though there is nothing to opt out of, because we don't sell or share personal information and never have.
• Equal treatment — exercising any of these rights never costs you anything or changes how we treat you.

To use any of them, email hello@readystorefront.com. No account, no form, no notary — an authorized agent can write on your behalf. We'll confirm what we did.

• Our servers keep standard logs (IP address, pages requested, timestamps) for security and operations.
• We don't run advertising trackers on this site.
• If you buy from us, payment goes through our payment processor — your card number never touches our servers. Checkout states the exact charge, the renewal date, and the statement descriptor (READYSTOREFRONT.COM) before you pay.
• If you submit a form here (requesting or removing a preview), we use what you typed for exactly that purpose.

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it — we won't quietly weaken it. Questions, requests, complaints: hello@readystorefront.com · ReadyStorefront, San Diego, CA.