Cookie Policy
1. About Cookies and Similar Technologies
LocalZ uses browser storage to operate requested services and remember choices. Cookies are small records a website can ask your browser to store and return. Local storage and IndexedDB can keep information in the browser without sending it automatically with every request. A service may also receive technical information when your browser requests an image, script, map or other embedded content. The privacy effect depends on what the technology does, not simply what it is called.
This Policy explains the controls on LocalZ. Our Privacy Policy at /privacy explains personal information more broadly. Accepting our Terms or acknowledging our Privacy Policy does not automatically accept optional cookies. Visiting a policy page does not count as agreement to optional storage.
2. Necessary Storage
Necessary storage supports functions such as sign-in sessions, protection against unauthorized requests, security, the service you request and remembering your cookie decision. These functions are enabled as needed and are not offered as an optional advertising choice. We do not treat a technology as necessary simply because it is useful for marketing or measurement.
LocalZ uses session and security cookies where the relevant account or form requires them. Session duration can depend on your sign-in choices and application configuration. Browser preferences and information saved as part of a feature you request may also use local storage or IndexedDB. Clearing storage can sign you out, reset preferences or remove locally saved work.
Kelly conversation history may be saved in your browser separately from server conversation records. It is not an advertising cookie. Local history may remain until cleared or removed by the browser, and someone using the same browser profile may be able to access it. Clear local history or use a separate browser profile on a shared device. See the Privacy Policy for the distinction between browser copies, server retention and a privacy request.
3. Optional Analytics
The Analytics choice covers optional technologies used to understand service use and measure how people interact with LocalZ. Such a connection may process page activity, device or browser information and related identifiers depending on the actual tool. Optional analytics must remain off unless the applicable choice permits them.
The presence of this setting does not mean a particular analytics provider is installed or every visit is transmitted to an outside analytics company. Necessary operational records and server-side Profile Views are separate from installing optional browser tracking. Profile Views count recorded page views, including Traffic Lab visits; they do not establish unique people, customer interest or sales. The existence of a reporting feature is not permission to bypass consent for a separate optional tracker.
4. Marketing and External Maps
The Marketing choice controls optional marketing technologies on LocalZ. It does not require you to receive promotional email. Google Maps is displayed separately as part of business profiles. A map is an external service: once an embed loads, your browser connects to Google and may disclose an IP address, browser or device details, the requested map location and associated technical information. Google may read or set cookies and handle information under its own policies, including for functionality, security, analytics or advertising depending on the service and your Google settings.
Google Maps loads automatically in a business profile’s map area using the business location. LocalZ’s optional Analytics and Marketing choices do not turn that map on or off. The business address and Get Directions link remain available. Clicking Get Directions opens an external Google service, where that service's own privacy practices and settings apply.
Changing LocalZ’s Marketing choice does not unload Google Maps, undo information already sent or delete cookies stored by Google on Google's own domains. You can manage those through your browser and Google's controls. Google's privacy and cookie information is available at https://policies.google.com/privacy and https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies.
5. Making and Changing Your Choice
Cookie Choices provides Reject Optional, Accept Optional and Customize. Reject Optional leaves Analytics and Marketing off. Accept Optional enables both. Customize lets you choose Analytics and Marketing separately and then Save Choices. Necessary storage remains enabled for its stated functions. Optional choices start off until you make a decision.
Open Cookie Settings in the footer or on this page whenever you want to review or change your choice. You can reject optional purposes after previously accepting them. Declining optional purposes does not prevent access to the directory or its business maps.
Your choice is stored in this browser under localz-consent-v1 with the notice version, time and selected purposes. The stored decision is valid for up to 180 days. When it expires, is missing, cannot be read or belongs to an outdated notice version, optional purposes are not treated as accepted. A materially changed optional purpose requires the appropriate new choice rather than silently reusing the old one.
6. Browser, Device and External Controls
A choice in one browser does not automatically apply to another browser, browser profile or device. Private browsing, clearing site data or blocking storage may prevent LocalZ from remembering it, so the choice may be requested again. If browser storage is unavailable, we do not interpret that failure as consent to optional tracking.
Your browser can block or delete cookies and site data. Deleting LocalZ data may remove preferences, sign-in sessions and locally saved conversations or work. It does not automatically erase server records or information already held independently by a provider. Browser controls for third-party cookies also do not guarantee that an embedded service makes no network connection; LocalZ's consent gate controls whether its Google Maps embed is loaded.
Browser and device permissions for microphone access and precise location are separate. Enabling Marketing or Analytics does not grant microphone permission, and allowing microphone access does not accept advertising cookies. You can change those permissions in the browser or operating system. Declining precise location still allows use of a manually selected area where the feature supports it.
Where an applicable law requires us to recognize a browser opt-out signal, that requirement is separate from the full range of settings a browser may expose. You can also email info@localz.net for an applicable sale, sharing or targeted advertising opt-out or another privacy request. Cookie Settings controls the optional purposes described here; it does not claim to delete another company's information or complete every type of statutory request.
7. External Services and Future Changes
An external website reached through a listing, payment flow, map link or other link can have its own cookies and privacy terms. Our choice does not automatically set your preferences on that external site. Review its controls if you decide to use it. We should not activate a new optional integration merely because it could fit a category; the information, choice and configuration must support the actual use.
We may update this Policy when technologies, providers or requirements change. The effective date identifies this version. Additional notice or consent will be provided when required. Details about a particular storage item can change with the feature and configuration, so contact us if you need information about a specific cookie or connection you encounter.
8. Contact
For questions about cookies or your choices, email info@localz.net or write to Digital Brand Power LLC, 539 W. Commerce St., Unit #4734, Dallas, Texas 75208. For access, correction, deletion or other personal information requests, see the Privacy Policy at /privacy.