Privacy Policy for Rank My Local Maps
Effective Date: May 24, 2026.
Let’s keep this simple. You are here to learn how to turn Google Maps into your best salesperson. You aren’t here to have your personal data harvested, sold, or traded. We operate this site to help local businesses rank. We respect your privacy. No legal jargon. No hidden clauses. Just the facts about what we collect and why.
Most privacy policies read like a corporate shield. We wrote this one to explain exactly how we handle your information. We run a tight ship. We treat your business details with the same paranoia we apply to our own.
What Data We Actually Collect
We only grab what we need to run the site and answer your questions. If you fill out a contact form, we ask for your name and email address. That’s it. We need that to reply to you. We don’t scrape your IP address to build a weird profile on you. We don’t buy third-party lists to cross-reference your business.
You give us your email. We reply to your local SEO questions. We delete the thread when we are done.
Sometimes you send us a link to your Google Business Profile for a quick audit. We look at it. We tell you why your competitor is outranking you. We do not save your profile link in a master database. Your business details stay between you and us.
Cookies and the Trail You Leave Behind
Websites use cookies. Ours is no different. We use functional cookies to keep the site running fast and secure. We also use analytical cookies.
We use Google Analytics and Google Search Console.
Why? Because we need to know if our content actually helps you. If 500 roofers visit our guide on citation building and bounce after three seconds, we know the guide is garbage. Analytics show us the friction. They highlight the blind spots. We look at aggregated data to see which pages get read and which ones get ignored. This helps us write better local SEO guides.
We track the signal. We ignore the noise.
Google Search Console tells us what you typed into Google to find us. If you search for ways to fix a