Privacy policy

Grand Rapids Barber Guide (“we,” “us,” or “the guide”) is a directory for discovering barber and haircut shops in Grand Rapids and West Michigan. We do not provide barber services, take appointment bookings, or process payments for shop visits.

If you use the “List your shop” or “Claim a listing” form, we collect the information you enter. This can include your name and email, shop name, town, address, phone number, website or booking link, hours, services, description, price details, and any message you send. We use this information to review, manage, and respond to listing requests.

Some shop details may be displayed publicly in the directory after review. Your contact name, email, and private message are used to manage the request and are not part of the public listing.

When analytics is enabled for the published site, Replit’s hosted analytics may process page views, referring pages, approximate visitor location, and browser or device information to provide aggregate traffic reports. These reports help us understand how people use the guide.

We also measure interactions such as opening shop details, clicking shop website or call links, saving shops, opening the saved-shops view, selecting town or service filters and sorting options, and successfully submitting listing requests. Journal events measure opening the Journal, choosing articles, reaching the end of an article while the page is visible, and returning to the shop guide. These events use public listing or article identifiers, selected categories, and saved-shop counts, not your contact details, search text, or form contents. A call-link click does not tell us whether a call was completed, and reaching an article’s end does not mean every word was read.

The site also uses Google AdSense. Google and its advertising partners may use cookies or similar technologies and device or browser information to serve, personalize, and measure advertisements, subject to your settings and applicable law.

• Review and respond to shop listing and claim requests.
• Maintain accurate, useful directory listings and keep the site working securely.
• Understand aggregate site usage when analytics is enabled.
• Display and measure advertising through Google AdSense.

Google AdSense may use cookies to show ads based on your visit to this and other websites, and to measure ad performance. You can manage Google ad personalization through Google Ads Settings. For more information about Google’s data practices, see Google’s Privacy Policy.

The directory links to independently operated barber-shop websites and may link to their booking services. When you leave our site, those providers’ privacy policies and practices apply. We do not receive appointment details you enter on an external shop website.

We rely on service providers to host the site, provide enabled analytics, and deliver advertising. They may process information as needed to provide those services and under their own terms and privacy notices.

The Map page loads map tiles from OpenStreetMap, which receives normal browser request information such as your IP address. Displaying the shop map does not require location permission. If you choose “Use my location,” your browser asks for permission; this page uses that location temporarily to show nearby shops. A starting address or device location is not stored in your account, sent to our analytics, or sent to our account API. Opening a directions link sends your chosen starting point and the shop destination to Google Maps under Google’s privacy notice. Map tile requests may also reveal the approximate area you are viewing.

Creating an account is optional. Clerk provides sign-up, sign-in, email verification and authentication cookies; passwords are handled by Clerk, not stored in our directory database. We associate your authentication identifier with saved shops, shops you mark as visited, and recent shop-view activity so they can be available across devices. A visited mark is your own note, not verified attendance or an appointment record. We retain up to 100 recent activity entries per account and display the latest 50. You can clear activity or all directory account data from My account; clearing directory data does not delete your login. Contact us using the email below to request deletion of the login itself.

Without an account, saved shops are kept in this browser’s local storage and do not sync across devices. Signing in does not automatically import this device’s guest saves; an optional import control is available in My account.

Information submitted through the directory is stored with the services that operate the site. We keep submission information for as long as it is needed to review requests, maintain the guide, respond to questions, and meet applicable obligations. We take reasonable steps to protect information, but no online service can guarantee absolute security.

You can ask us to provide, correct, or remove information you submitted through a shop listing or claim request. Email vanoverloopdalton@gmail.com and describe your request. We may ask for enough information to locate the relevant submission and verify the request.

You can also manage Google ad personalization through Google Ads Settings and use your browser controls to manage cookies.

The guide is intended for people looking for local barber and haircut services, not for children to submit personal information. If you believe a child has sent us personal information, contact us and we’ll review the request.

We may update this policy as the guide or its services change. The “Last updated” date at the top of this page shows when the current version was posted.

Questions or privacy requests can be sent to vanoverloopdalton@gmail.com.