Privacy

Privacy

Short version: no accounts, no cookies, no tracking scripts, no advertising, nothing that identifies you. We do see how many people read each page, because the server that delivers it counts requests — the same way every web server has since the 1990s. If any of this changes, this page changes first and says so.

What we do not do

• No analytics scripts. No Google Analytics, no measurement tool, no code of any kind running in your browser to watch what you do. Nothing is loaded from another company's servers.
• No cookies. The site sets none.
• No advertising or trackers. No ad networks, no pixels, no social widgets, no third-party fonts or scripts loaded from anywhere else.
• No accounts. There is nothing to sign up for, so there is nothing to sign up with.
• No selling or sharing of anything, because there is nothing to sell or share.

What the server counts

This site is delivered by Cloudflare, and like any web server it keeps a count of the requests it serves. We look at those totals — how many people read a page, which pages get read, roughly what country they came from, and which site linked them here — to answer one question: is this useful to anyone? A guide nobody reads is a guide we should rewrite or retire.

What that is not: it is not a profile, and it cannot be turned into one. There is no identifier that follows you between visits, nothing that follows you to any other website, and no way for us to know that the person who read the food truck guide is the same person who read the inspection checklist. We see counts, not people. We could not tell you who visited today if you asked, and neither could anyone who asked us.

We deliberately have not added a measurement product on top of this, even a privacy-preserving one, because the aggregate the server already produces answers the only question we have.

The two things stored on your device

The opening path lets you tick steps off as you complete them. Those ticks are saved in your browser's local storage so the list still reflects your progress when you come back, since opening a food business takes months rather than one sitting.

If you use the light and dark theme button in the header, your choice is saved in local storage too, so the site does not revert every time you open a page. Leave the button alone and nothing is stored — the site simply follows whatever your device already asks for.

Neither ever leaves your browser. They are not sent to us, we cannot see them, and they are not linked to you in any way. Both are local storage rather than cookies, so they are never transmitted with a request. Clearing your browser data removes them, and the "Clear progress" button on the opening path removes that one immediately.

If you email us

The contact links on this site open your own email program. If you write to us we will have whatever you chose to send — your message, your email address, and anything else you include.

We use it to answer you and to act on it: correcting a page, checking a listing, following up a tip. We do not add you to a mailing list, and we do not pass it to anyone else. Correspondence is kept only as long as it is useful for the thing it was about.

Email is not a private medium. Please do not send anything genuinely sensitive.

Links to other sites

This site links heavily to agencies, vendors, and news outlets. Once you follow a link you are on their site under their rules, and we have no control over and no visibility into what they collect. That includes the links to Dean Supply, who publish this site.

Hosting and server logs

The site is served as static files by a hosting provider. Like any web host, theirs will keep basic server logs — IP address, time, page requested, browser — for security and operational reasons. We do not use those logs to build any profile of visitors, and we do not combine them with anything else.

If this changes

Two things are likely to change eventually: we may add privacy-respecting analytics so we can tell which guides actually help people, and we may add an email newsletter.

If we do, this page will be updated before either goes live, not after, and it will say exactly what is collected and how to opt out. A newsletter will be opt-in only — nobody gets added for having emailed us about something else.

Your data, and asking us about it

Since we hold nothing beyond correspondence you chose to send, there is very little to request or delete. If you have emailed us and want that correspondence deleted, ask and we will do it.

Questions about any of this: hello@clevelandfoodservice.com.

Cleveland Foodservice Guide is published by a business, not a law firm, and this page is a plain-English description of practice rather than a legal instrument. It describes what the site actually does today. If you find it inaccurate, tell us — that applies here as much as to anything else we publish.