PRIVACY POLICY

Effective Date: October 9, 2026

At Patriot Cleaner Directory (“Patriot Cleaner Directory,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting the information you provide when using our website.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect information when you visit or use the Patriot Cleaner Directory website and related services.

Patriot Cleaner Directory is a professional directory designed to connect short-term rental owners, property managers, and hospitality professionals with cleaning companies and cleaning professionals serving the short-term rental industry.

By using our website, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We may collect information in several ways.

Information You Provide

When you voluntarily submit information through our website, including through our cleaner registration or listing forms, contact forms, or other forms, we may collect:

- Cleaning company or business name

- Business owner's or contact person's name

- Email address

- Phone number

- Business website

- Business address or service area

- Cleaning services offered

- Business category

- Business description

- Information about services provided to short-term rental properties

- Other information you voluntarily submit to us

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit our website, certain information may be collected automatically by our website, hosting providers, analytics services, or other technologies we use. This may include:

- IP address

- Browser type and version

- Device type

- Operating system

- Pages visited

- Referring website

- Date and time of visits

- Approximate geographic location

- Website interactions and usage information

2. INFORMATION FROM PUBLIC SOURCES

Patriot Cleaner Directory may collect or compile publicly available information about cleaning businesses from sources such as business websites, public business listings, directories, search engines, social media pages, and other publicly available sources.

This information may include:

- Business name

- Business address or service area

- Business phone number

- Business website

- Business category

- Cleaning services offered

- Publicly displayed business information

- Publicly available reviews and ratings

We may use this information to create, maintain, verify, and improve cleaner listings within our directory.

If you are a business owner and believe information about your business is inaccurate or should be removed, you may contact us.

3. HOW WE USE INFORMATION

We may use information we collect to:

- Create and maintain cleaner directory listings

- Process cleaner listing submissions

- Verify cleaning business information

- Help connect property owners and managers with cleaning professionals

- Respond to inquiries and requests

- Communicate with cleaners, property owners, and website visitors

- Improve our directory and website

- Provide information about our services and directory opportunities

- Maintain website functionality and security

- Detect and prevent fraud, abuse, or unauthorized activity

- Understand website traffic and usage

- Perform analytics and measure website performance

- Comply with legal obligations

- Enforce our policies and protect our rights

4. BUSINESS LISTINGS AND PUBLIC INFORMATION

Patriot Cleaner Directory is a professional cleaning directory. Information submitted for the purpose of creating a cleaner listing may be displayed publicly on our website.

This may include:

- Cleaning company name

- Business category

- Business phone number

- Business website

- Business address or service area

- Business description

- Cleaning services

- Public business information

- Reviews or ratings

- Other business information submitted for publication

Please do not submit confidential, sensitive, or unnecessary personal information through a business listing form.

If you submit information for publication in our directory, you understand that information intended to appear in a public business listing may be visible to website visitors.

5. COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

We may use cookies, pixels, tags, local storage, and similar technologies to operate our website and understand how visitors use it.

These technologies may be used to:

- Keep the website functioning properly

- Remember certain preferences

- Understand website traffic

- Measure website performance

- Improve the user experience

- Detect security issues

- Support advertising or marketing activities, if applicable

You may be able to control cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect website functionality.

6. ANALYTICS

We may use third-party analytics services to understand how visitors interact with our website.

These services may collect information such as IP address, device information, browser information, pages visited, and interactions with the website.

Analytics information helps us understand which pages and features are useful and improve the website and directory experience.

7. HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION

We may share information with third parties when reasonably necessary to operate our website and business.

These may include:

- Website hosting and technology providers

- Customer relationship management and marketing platforms

- Email and communication providers

- Analytics providers

- Website security providers

- Professional service providers

- Contractors or service providers who assist us in operating the directory

- Government authorities or law enforcement when required by law

We may also disclose information when we believe disclosure is reasonably necessary to:

- Comply with a legal obligation

- Respond to a lawful request

- Protect our rights or property

- Protect the safety of users or others

- Investigate fraud, abuse, or security issues

- Enforce our agreements or policies

Sale of Personal Information

We do not sell personal information for money.

If our practices change in a way that would constitute a sale or sharing of personal information under applicable privacy law, we will update this Privacy Policy and provide any legally required notices or opt-out mechanisms.

8. THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES

Our website may contain links to third-party websites, including websites belonging to cleaning businesses listed in our directory.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, security, or policies of third-party websites.

When you click a link to another website, you should review that website's privacy policy before providing personal information.

9. DATA SECURITY

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect information from unauthorized access, use, alteration, or disclosure.

However, no website, electronic transmission, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

For this reason, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of information transmitted to or stored by us.

10. DATA RETENTION

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide our services, maintain directory records, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, and protect our legitimate business interests.

The length of time information is retained may vary depending on the type of information and the purpose for which it was collected.

Business listing information may remain available for as long as the listing is active or as otherwise appropriate for maintaining our directory.

11. YOUR PRIVACY CHOICES

Depending on where you live and applicable law, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information.

These rights may include the right to:

- Request access to personal information we maintain about you

- Request correction of inaccurate information

- Request deletion of personal information

- Request information about how your personal information is collected and used

- Opt out of certain communications

- Opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information, where applicable

- Exercise other privacy rights provided by applicable law

To make a privacy request, please contact us using the contact information provided on our website.

We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests. This is intended to protect your information and prevent unauthorized requests.

12. CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

If you are a California resident and applicable California privacy law applies to our business, you may have additional rights regarding your personal information.

These may include the rights to:

- Know what categories of personal information we collect

- Request access to personal information

- Request deletion of personal information, subject to applicable exceptions

- Request correction of inaccurate personal information

- Opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information, where applicable

- Limit certain uses of sensitive personal information, where applicable

- Receive equal treatment when exercising applicable privacy rights

California residents may submit a privacy request by contacting us using the contact information provided on our website.

We will process verified requests in accordance with applicable law.

13. COLORADO PRIVACY RIGHTS

If applicable Colorado privacy law applies to our business or to your information, Colorado residents may have privacy rights provided under applicable Colorado privacy law.

These rights may include rights concerning access, correction, deletion, portability, and certain choices regarding the use of personal data.

Requests may be submitted using the contact information provided on our website.

14. CHILDREN'S PRIVACY

Our website is intended for a general audience and is not directed toward children under the age of 13.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

If you believe that a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us so that we can take appropriate steps to address the situation.

15. DO NOT TRACK

Some web browsers offer a “Do Not Track” setting.

Because there is currently no universally accepted standard for responding to Do Not Track signals, our website may not respond to such signals unless required by applicable law.

16. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our website, business practices, technology, or applicable laws.

When we make changes, we will update the Effective Date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about how we handle information.

CONTACT US

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, our privacy practices, or your personal information, please contact us through the contact information provided on the Patriot Cleaner Directory website.