Privacy Policy
Last updated October 18, 2026. This policy explains what personal information Local After School ("we", "us") collects through localafterschool.com, why, and the choices you have. The short version: you can use the site without an account, we don't use advertising or tracking cookies, and we don't sell or share personal information.
What we collect
- Emails you send us. If you contact us to add or correct a listing, send a parent review or ask a question, we receive your email address, name if you include it, and whatever you write. Reviews may include your child's age and when they attended a program.
- Technical data needed to deliver the site. Like any website, our hosting provider receives your IP address, browser type and the pages requested when you visit. This is used to serve pages and protect the site from abuse.
- Map requests. When a page shows a map, your browser loads map images from OpenFreeMap, which receives your IP address and the area of the map being viewed.
We don't collect payment details, precise location, account passwords or information from social networks. The site's city search runs in your browser and isn't sent to us.
Cookies and tracking
The site sets no cookies and uses no advertising, tracking or social media pixels. Fonts are served from our own domain. If we add privacy-friendly visitor statistics in the future, we will update this policy first and won't use them to identify you or follow you across other sites. Because we don't track you, there is nothing for a "Do Not Track" or Global Privacy Control signal to switch off, but we will honor those signals if that changes.
How we use information
- To reply to you and handle listing requests, corrections and reviews.
- To verify that a person claiming a listing represents the program, and that a reviewer actually used a program.
- To publish reviews and listing details you have asked us to publish. Reviews appear with a first name or initials only, never a child's name.
- To keep the site running, secure and free of abuse.
We do not sell personal information, share it for targeted advertising or use it for automated decisions about you.
Who we share it with
We only share information with service providers that help us run the site, and only for that purpose:
- Cloudflare, which hosts the site and routes email sent to our address.
- Our email provider, which stores the messages we receive.
- OpenFreeMap, which supplies map images, as described above.
We may also disclose information if required by law, or to protect the rights and safety of our users or others.
Information about programs
Listings describe businesses and organizations, using public records such as state licensing data and OpenStreetMap. Where a listing includes a contact name, phone number or email, it is business contact information that is already public or was supplied by the program. Programs can ask us to correct or update their listing through add or correct a program.
Children
The site is written for parents, guardians and program operators, not for children. We don't knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. Please don't include a child's name, photo or school in anything you send us. If you believe a child has sent us personal information, email us and we will delete it.
How long we keep it
- Emails are kept for as long as needed to deal with them and for up to two years afterwards, then deleted, unless they relate to a listing or review that is still published.
- Published reviews are kept while they're relevant. You can ask us to remove yours at any time.
- Hosting logs are kept by Cloudflare for a short period under its own policies.
Your choices and rights
You can ask us to tell you what personal information we hold about you, correct it, delete it, or stop using it. Depending on where you live, you may have these rights under laws such as the California Consumer Privacy Act and other US state privacy laws, or the EU and UK General Data Protection Regulation. Where the GDPR applies, we rely on our legitimate interest in running the site and responding to you, or on your consent where you ask us to publish something.
To make a request, email us from the address you used to contact us. We'll respond within 30 days, may need to confirm your identity first, and won't treat you differently for making a request. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.
Security
The site is served only over HTTPS, and we keep the information we hold to a minimum. No system is completely secure, so please don't email us anything sensitive.
Links to other sites
Listings link to program websites, map services and government sites. Their own privacy policies apply once you leave our site.
Changes
We'll update this page if our practices change, and change the date at the top. Significant changes will be noted on this page.
Contact
Questions or requests: hello@localafterschool.com. See also our terms of use.