Privacy Policy
Effective Date: September 27, 2026
Last Updated: September 27, 2026
Top Local Salon (“Top Local Salon,” “TLS,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect information when you visit TopLocalSalon.com, submit information through our website, request information from a salon, claim or manage a salon listing, purchase a subscription or badge, or otherwise interact with our services.
By using TopLocalSalon.com, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
1. Information We Collect
Information You Provide
You may provide information to us when you:
- Request information or a quote from a salon
- Contact a salon through Top Local Salon
- Submit or claim a salon listing
- Update a salon profile
- Apply to have a salon reviewed or featured
- Subscribe to a Top Local Salon badge or other service
- Contact us for support
- Subscribe to emails or other communications
This information may include:
- Name
- Email address
- Telephone number
- Salon or business name
- Business address
- Website and social media profiles
- Services offered
- Business descriptions
- Photos, logos, pricing, and other salon information
- Information included in messages or requests
- Billing and transaction information
- Any other information you voluntarily provide
Information About Salons
Top Local Salon is a salon discovery and information platform.
We may collect business information about salons from:
- Salon owners and representatives
- Publicly available websites
- Public business directories
- Search engines
- Social media profiles
- Public reviews and ratings
- Other publicly available sources
- Third-party data providers
This may include business names, addresses, telephone numbers, websites, services, ratings, reviews, opening hours, photos, and other publicly available business information.
Salon owners may contact us to request corrections or updates to their listing.
Automatically Collected Information
When you visit our website, certain information may be collected automatically, including:
- IP address
- Browser type
- Device type
- Operating system
- Pages visited
- Referring website
- Approximate geographic location
- Date and time of visits
- Website interactions
- Advertising and analytics identifiers
We may collect this information through cookies, pixels, analytics technologies, server logs, and similar technologies.
2. How We Use Information
We may use information to:
- Operate and improve TopLocalSalon.com
- Create, maintain, and improve salon listings
- Help consumers discover salons
- Connect consumers with salons
- Forward quote requests, inquiries, or contact requests to salons
- Verify salon information
- Conduct human reviews of salon profiles
- Manage Top Local Salon badges and subscriptions
- Process payments
- Communicate with salon owners and users
- Respond to support requests
- Detect fraud, abuse, or security incidents
- Analyze website performance and visitor behavior
- Improve our search, ranking, recommendation, and discovery features
- Measure marketing and advertising performance
- Promote Top Local Salon and its services
- Comply with legal obligations
- Protect our legal rights and those of our users
3. Consumer Requests and Salon Leads
When you submit a request to contact a salon, request a quote, ask for an appointment, or make another inquiry, we may provide the information you submit to the salon or business necessary to respond to your request.
Once your information has been provided to a salon, that salon may process your information according to its own privacy practices.
Top Local Salon does not control how independent salons subsequently use information they receive.
4. Public Salon Information
Salon profiles are intended to be publicly accessible.
Information displayed on a salon profile may include:
- Salon name
- Address
- Telephone number
- Website
- Social media accounts
- Services
- Business hours
- Photos
- Ratings and review information
- Business descriptions
- Awards or badges
- Other business-related information
We may supplement owner-submitted information with information obtained from public sources.
If you represent a salon and believe information displayed about your business is incorrect, you may contact us to request an update.
5. Reviews and Top Local Salon Evaluations
Top Local Salon may evaluate, categorize, review, recommend, or feature salons using publicly available information, owner-provided information, customer feedback, reviews, observations, and other relevant information.
Our evaluations may change as new information becomes available.
Salon participation in a paid Top Local Salon service does not give a salon ownership of consumer information submitted through the broader Top Local Salon platform except where that information is specifically sent to that salon as part of a consumer inquiry.
6. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We may use cookies and similar technologies to:
- Keep the website functioning
- Remember preferences
- Understand how visitors use the website
- Measure traffic
- Identify technical problems
- Analyze marketing performance
- Improve our services
- Measure advertising campaigns
- Deliver or measure advertising
Third-party services we use may also place cookies or similar technologies on your device.
Depending on the technologies enabled on our website, these providers may include services such as Google, Meta, Microsoft, analytics providers, advertising platforms, payment processors, hosting providers, and other technology companies.
You may be able to control certain cookies through your browser settings or through privacy controls made available on our website.
7. Analytics and Advertising
We may use third-party analytics and advertising services to understand website traffic, measure campaigns, and improve our marketing.
These services may receive information such as:
- IP address
- Device identifiers
- Browser information
- Pages visited
- Actions taken on the website
- Referring URLs
- Approximate location
- Advertising identifiers
Some U.S. privacy laws may define certain advertising-related disclosures as “sharing,” “targeted advertising,” or similar terms even when personal information is not sold for money.
Where legally required, we will provide applicable choices regarding these activities.
8. How We Share Information
We may disclose information to:
Salons
When necessary to fulfill a consumer inquiry, quote request, appointment request, or other request involving a salon.
Service Providers
Companies that help us operate our business, including providers of:
- Website hosting
- Cloud infrastructure
- Analytics
- Email services
- CRM systems
- Payment processing
- Customer support
- Advertising
- Website security
- Data storage
These providers may process information on our behalf.
Business Transfers
Information may be transferred as part of a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, or similar business transaction.
Legal and Safety Purposes
We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to:
- Comply with law or legal process
- Respond to lawful government requests
- Enforce our agreements
- Investigate fraud or abuse
- Protect Top Local Salon, users, salons, or others
- Protect the security of our services
9. Selling and Sharing Personal Information
Top Local Salon does not sell personal information for monetary payment.
However, certain analytics or advertising technologies may involve disclosure of identifiers or online activity to third parties. Depending on the jurisdiction, this activity may legally be considered “sharing,” “targeted advertising,” or a “sale” even where no money is exchanged for the information.
Where applicable, users may request to opt out of these activities.
10. Payments
If you purchase a subscription, badge, advertising service, or other paid service, payment information may be processed by a third-party payment processor.
Top Local Salon may receive information about the transaction, such as:
- Name
- Billing details
- Subscription level
- Transaction amount
- Payment status
- Transaction identifiers
We generally do not need to directly store complete credit or debit card numbers when payments are handled by a third-party payment processor.
11. Data Retention
We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to:
- Provide our services
- Maintain business records
- Resolve disputes
- Prevent fraud
- Enforce agreements
- Meet accounting or legal requirements
Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and why it was collected.
Public business information about salons may remain on the platform as part of our directory even if a particular salon does not maintain a paid subscription.
12. Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, organizational, and technical measures designed to protect information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.
However, no website, database, or Internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
13. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live, applicable privacy laws may provide rights regarding your personal information.
These may include the right to:
- Request access to personal information we hold about you
- Request correction of inaccurate information
- Request deletion of certain information
- Obtain information about how personal information is used or disclosed
- Opt out of certain targeted advertising, sharing, or sales
- Withdraw consent where processing relies on consent
- Appeal certain privacy-request decisions
- Receive a portable copy of certain information
These rights are subject to applicable law and exceptions.
We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling a privacy request.
Authorized agents may submit requests where permitted by law, subject to appropriate verification.
14. California and Other U.S. State Privacy Rights
Residents of California and certain other U.S. states may have additional rights under their applicable state privacy laws.
Where such laws apply to Top Local Salon, eligible residents may request information regarding categories of personal information collected, sources of that information, purposes for collection, categories of recipients, and applicable sale or sharing practices.
Eligible users may also have rights to access, correct, delete, or opt out of certain processing.
We will not unlawfully discriminate against users for exercising applicable privacy rights.
15. International Visitors
Top Local Salon is primarily designed to provide information about salons and beauty businesses in the United States.
Visitors may nevertheless access our website from other countries.
Depending on your jurisdiction, additional privacy rights may apply. Where legally required, we will process requests in accordance with applicable privacy laws.
16. Email and Marketing Communications
If you receive marketing communications from us, you may unsubscribe using the unsubscribe link contained in the communication or by contacting us.
We may still send non-promotional communications when necessary, including account, billing, security, service, or transaction-related messages.
17. Third-Party Websites
Top Local Salon contains links to salon websites, social media accounts, vendors, and other third-party websites.
We do not control these third parties and are not responsible for their privacy practices.
We encourage users to review the privacy policies of websites they visit.
18. Children’s Privacy
Top Local Salon is intended for a general adult audience and for people seeking salon services and business information.
Our services are not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13.
If we learn that personal information from a child under 13 has been collected in circumstances requiring removal, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.
19. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time as our services, technologies, or legal obligations change.
When we make changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page.
Material changes may also be communicated through the website or through other appropriate means.
20. Contact Us
For questions about this Privacy Policy, privacy requests, corrections to salon information, or other privacy-related matters, contact:
Top Local Salon
Website: https://toplocalsalon.com
Email: [email protected]
Business Address: Miami Florida USA
For privacy requests, please include enough information for us to identify the relevant account, inquiry, or information and describe the nature of your request.