Privacy Policy

Overview

County Freedom Index does not currently offer user accounts, payments, private dashboards, or user-submitted parcel applications. Most visitors can browse the site without directly giving us personal information.

Like most websites, the site may still process limited technical information through hosting logs, security systems, analytics tools, and search-engine tools.

This policy is written for a lightweight public website. It is intended to explain the site's current privacy posture in plain English and should be reviewed again before adding forms, accounts, advertising, saved searches, payments, newsletters, or user-submitted parcel notes.

Information We May Collect

• Basic technical logs such as IP address, browser, device type, requested pages, timestamps, and error logs.
• Aggregated site analytics such as page views, clicked links, traffic sources, and general location estimates.
• Information you voluntarily send if you contact us, such as your name, email address, and message.
• Search performance information from tools like Google Search Console.

Please do not send sensitive personal information, financial records, government ID numbers, full parcel transaction files, or confidential legal documents through a general website contact channel. The site is built for county-level discovery, not private parcel intake.

How We Use Information

• Operate, secure, and debug the website.
• Understand which pages and datasets are useful to visitors.
• Improve county profiles, guides, rankings, and data-status pages.
• Respond to messages or privacy requests.
• Protect the site from abuse, spam, scraping pressure, or technical attacks.

Analytics And Cookies

The site is prepared to use Google Analytics 4 through the production web stream. GA4 helps us understand aggregate product and SEO performance, such as which pages visitors view, which county-research tools are useful, and whether users can find important trust and methodology pages.

The site asks for analytics consent before loading the GA4 script. The cookie banner lets visitors accept or reject optional analytics before GA4 can run. If you decline, client-side GA4 analytics and optional analytics cookies are not loaded for that browser unless you later clear or change your browser storage preferences.

Analytics events are intended to avoid personal data, parcel addresses, free-form search text, financial information, government ID numbers, or legal documents. Page views are sent without query strings so County Finder filters and shared URLs are not treated as analytics content.

Google may process limited technical information, use cookies or similar technologies, and estimate general location according to its own policies. The site configures GA4 with IP anonymization and uses analytics only to improve public pages, rankings, county profiles, and research workflows. Browser settings, privacy extensions, and Google's available opt-out tools can often limit analytics collection.

Cookie Categories

• Essential storage: used to remember your cookie and analytics preference in this browser. This keeps the banner from repeatedly interrupting you.
• Optional analytics cookies: used only if GA4 is configured and you accept optional cookies. These help measure aggregate page views and approved product events.
• Advertising or profiling cookies: not used for the current MVP.

You can reject optional cookies from the banner or change your choice from this Privacy Policy page. If you switch from accepted to rejected after analytics has already loaded, the site sends a denied analytics consent update and attempts to clear common GA cookies where browser rules allow. The site also sets Google's GA disable flag for the configured Measurement ID when optional analytics is rejected or reset.

The preference panel records a lightweight browser-side consent receipt with your saved choice, update time, consent version, and category status for essential storage, optional analytics, and advertising cookies.

No Sale, Sharing, Or Targeted Advertising

County Freedom Index does not sell personal information and does not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising as those terms are commonly used in U.S. state privacy laws. The current MVP does not use advertising cookies, remarketing pixels, affiliate tracking pixels, session replay, heatmaps, or data broker integrations.

If future features introduce advertising, lead forms, affiliate programs, saved searches, accounts, paid tools, third-party pixels, or remarketing, this policy and the cookie preference controls should be updated before those features launch.

Third-Party Services

The site may rely on third-party infrastructure and tools, including hosting providers, analytics providers, search-console tools, public data providers, map/data services, and security tooling. Those providers may process limited technical information as needed to deliver their services.

Public Data Sources

County profiles use public or commercially available data sources, including government datasets, county websites, land-market snapshots, climate data, broadband data, solar data, and public-land data. The site is a discovery tool and does not publish private parcel records submitted by users.

GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, And State Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, opt out of certain uses, or object to certain personal information. These rights may come from laws such as the GDPR, UK GDPR, California's CCPA/CPRA, or other state privacy laws. Because the site currently has no user accounts and collects minimal direct information, many requests may involve only contact messages or technical logs.

To make a privacy request, contact the site owner with enough detail to identify the information involved. We may need to verify the request before taking action.

For visitors in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, or Switzerland, optional analytics is based on consent. You can withdraw that consent at any time by rejecting optional cookies in the preference panel above. Essential technical processing, such as hosting, security logging, and remembering your privacy choice, may be handled as necessary for operating and protecting the site.

Where applicable, you may also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. County Freedom Index aims to keep data collection limited and practical, but privacy laws vary by location and may change over time.

Data Retention

Technical logs, analytics records, and contact messages are kept only as long as useful for site operations, security, analytics, legal compliance, or responding to requests. Aggregated analytics may be retained longer because it does not directly identify a visitor.

If future features add saved searches, accounts, paid tools, forms, or user-submitted parcel notes, this policy should be updated before those features launch.

Children

The site is intended for general land-research audiences and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Important Limits

County Freedom Index is not legal advice, not real estate advice, and not a parcel-level zoning checker. Privacy requests do not change the need to verify land, zoning, water, septic, access, covenants, and local rules before buying or building.

Contact

Privacy requests can be sent to the site owner through the current business contact channel for County Freedom Index. This policy may be updated as the site adds features, forms, accounts, advertising, or additional analytics tools.

Last updated: July 15, 2026

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