Privacy
Policy.

We build this site for businesses and the people who run them, so it is meant for adults. We do not go looking for information about children, and we do not knowingly take any from a child under thirteen — that is the line the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) draws, and we stay on the right side of it. If a child's information reaches us by accident, tell us at support@amerisearch.com and it goes.

There are two ways information reaches us. You hand it over, or our systems note it automatically.

When you fill in a form on the site to ask about working with us, you give us your name, your email, and whatever you decide to type into the message. That is entirely your call — we only get what you choose to send.

Separately, and like nearly every website, ours quietly records some technical details each time someone visits: the IP address you came from and the rough region it points to, the browser and device you used, which pages you looked at, when, and the site that sent you our way. None of that is you handing over personal details — it is the ordinary exhaust of visiting a web page, and it helps us keep the site working and see what people find useful.

We also use cookies. There is a short section on those further down, under “Cookies, without the mystery.”

A few things we deliberately do not collect: we take no card numbers, no bank details, no ID numbers, and none of the sensitive categories of data the law treats with extra care. If something like that turns up in a message you send, we use it only to answer you and then let it go.

We keep information for a small number of honest reasons, and nothing beyond them.

The first is to answer you. If you have asked about a project, your details let us read what you sent, think about whether we are a fit, and write back. If that turns into real work, the same details carry the conversation forward into whatever agreement we sign.

The second is to run the site. The technical bits — traffic, errors, patterns — tell us what is holding up and what needs fixing. We look at the shape of the crowd, not at any one person's trail through the pages.

The third is to stay on the right side of the law and to protect the site from abuse. Now and then that means holding or handing over information because a rule, a court, or plain safety requires it.

If you are visiting from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, the legal footing for all of this is our legitimate interest in answering you and running a secure, useful site; the steps you ask us to take before any engagement; and, where it applies, a legal obligation. You can push back on anything we do on the strength of legitimate interest — the “What you can ask us to do” section explains how.

We do not sell your information. We do not rent it out or trade it. It leaves our hands only in a few narrow situations, and here they are.

Cookies are small files a website leaves on your device. Ours fall into two camps.

Some are simply necessary — they hold your session together and keep the site secure. Turn those off and the site stops working properly, so they stay.

The rest are for analytics: they show us, in aggregate, which pages draw attention and how people move around. They do not put a name to you. Where the law wants us to ask first before setting anything non-essential, we ask.

Your browser is the control panel. You can see the cookies, block them, or clear them whenever you like. Switch off the analytics ones and you can still read every page and use the contact form — nothing breaks.

As for “Do Not Track” — browsers send that signal, but the industry never agreed on what it should mean, so for now the site does not change its behaviour in response to it.

Messages and contact details stick around for as long as it takes to answer you, and — if we end up working together — for the life of that relationship plus a sensible stretch afterwards for our records. The technical and analytics data has a shorter life, usually no more than thirteen months, before it is deleted or stripped of anything identifying. If a legal matter is in play, anything relevant to it stays until that matter is done.

We take reasonable, sensible steps to guard your information — the connection to our site is encrypted, access is limited to people who need it, and we look over our setup from time to time. That said, no website on the open internet is airtight, and no one honest will tell you otherwise. If a breach ever happens and the law requires us to say so, we will tell the people affected and the right authorities inside the timeframe the law sets.

Depending on where you live, you have real, enforceable rights over your information. Here is the short version by region.

We run Amerisearch LLC from the United States, so when you reach our site from somewhere else, your information travels here and is handled here, under U.S. standards that may not match the ones back home. Where an international rulebook demands specific safeguards for that trip, we put them in place to the extent that rulebook actually governs us.

Our site may link out to other websites. Once you follow one of those links, you are on someone else's property — we cannot answer for their content or their privacy habits.

We work under U.S. and Delaware law. Where this policy nods to laws from other countries, those nods count only where those laws genuinely reach us.

We want the site and this policy to be usable by people with disabilities, in keeping with the Americans with Disabilities Act. If something is getting in your way, tell us at support@amerisearch.com and we will sort it out.

Finally, we update this policy when our practices or the law change. The current version always lives at amerisearchgroup.com with a fresh date at the top. Keep using the site after an update and you are accepting the new version.