Privacy
What we collect from you
When you ask for the list: your name, company, email address, the counties you chose and your trade. When you pay: Stripe, the payment processor Gold Strategics uses to run Restaurant Signals, collects your card details and billing address. We never see or store your full card number. Our web server keeps standard access logs (IP address, time, page, browser type) for up to 90 days to keep the site running and secure. We also count visits with a first-party analytics script (pages viewed, the site that referred the visit, device type) that sets no cookies and stores nothing that identifies you. The site sets no advertising or tracking cookies.
What we do with it
We use it to send you the list, bill you, answer you, and tell you about changes to the service. We don't sell or rent your information, and we don't share it except with the companies that run the service for us (web hosting, email delivery and payment processing), and only as much as they need to do that.
The records in the list
The list repeats public records published by state regulators under state public records laws, such as the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation under Chapter 119, Florida Statutes. These records concern licensed businesses. If you believe a record we repeated is wrong, write to us and we'll check it against the state's current record and correct our copy. Corrections to the record itself are made by the state.
When we contact businesses first
We may email a business we found in public directories or on its own website to offer the list. Every such email says who we are, gives our postal address and lets you stop further email with one reply. We honor that permanently.
The county pages on this site
Each county page on this site repeats the same public records: the restaurant's name, its city, what the state did and the date. It never shows a phone number, a street address or a person's name. If a record about your business looks wrong, the state's own file is the source and we cannot change it, but email us and we will check it against the state's file and take the row off our pages if it is our error. Search engines may cache these pages, which is outside our control.
Analytics and cookies
This site uses first-party analytics run by Gold Strategics on its own server. It sets no cookies and no cross-site identifiers, and it records the page, the referring site, the rough region from the network address and the type of device. Add ?gs_notrack=1 to any page address and that browser is never counted again. The home page also loads the Google tag, so Google Ads can tell us when someone who clicked one of our ads asks for the free leads. Google may set its own cookies to do that; its use is covered by Google's policy. We sell no data about visitors and use no other third-party analytics.
How long we keep things
Subscriber records: while you subscribe and for up to three years after, for billing and tax records. A request to stop email: permanently, so we don't write again. Server logs: up to 90 days.
Your choices
You can ask what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it (except what we must keep for tax records) by emailing hello@restaurantsignals.com. We answer within 30 days.
Contact
Restaurant Signals, a service of Gold Strategics, PO Box 44, Sorrento, FL 32776. hello@restaurantsignals.com