Privacy policy
How we handle your information
Main Street Marketing builds websites for small businesses. This policy explains what information we collect through this website and our services, why we collect it, who helps us handle it, and the choices you have. We’ve tried to write it in plain English. If anything is unclear, email us.
In this policy, “Main Street Marketing,” “we,” “us,” and “our” mean Automatic Growth LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company doing business as Main Street Marketing. “You” means anyone who visits our website or uses our services.
1. Information we collect
Information you give us
- When you start your website: your name, business name, email address, and phone number.
- When you pay: payment is handled by Stripe. Stripe collects your card details and billing information directly. Stripe keeps your card on file for your monthly hosting plan. We receive confirmation of your payment, the amount, and your name and email, but we never see or store your full card number.
- In our onboarding questionnaire: information about your business that we need to build your website. This can include your business address, hours, services, pricing, customers, reviews, testimonials, credentials, brand colors and fonts, details about you and your team, the tools your website connects to, and your domain. It also includes any files you upload, such as your logo, photos, and brand guidelines.
- When you contact us: anything you include in an email, call, or message.
Please only share information about other people, such as team members or customers quoted in testimonials, if you have their permission to do so. Please don’t send passwords through our website or questionnaire. When we need access to an account, we’ll arrange it separately and securely.
Information collected automatically
Like most websites, our hosting provider automatically records basic technical information when you visit, such as your IP address, browser type, the pages you request, and the date and time. We use it to keep the site running, secure, and free of abuse. We also use two analytics tools to understand how people find and use our site. Vercel Web Analytics counts visits and page views without cookies. Google Analytics uses cookies to measure things like which pages people visit, how they arrived, and whether they started signing up. We also advertise on Google. When you arrive from one of our Google ads, Google Analytics notes that you came from an ad and whether you started signing up, and shares that with our Google Ads account so we can tell which ads work. We don’t use it to show you ads elsewhere (Google’s ad personalization features are turned off), and we don’t send Google your name, email, or phone number. Neither tool runs on your private questionnaire page, and we remove private parts of web addresses, such as your questionnaire link, before anything is counted. You can opt out of Google Analytics with Google’s opt-out browser add-on.
Voice answers
Our questionnaire offers an optional “Speak your answer” button. It uses the speech-to-text service built into your web browser. Your browser’s provider (for example, Google for Chrome or Apple for Safari) processes the audio to turn it into text under its own privacy policy. We receive only the resulting text, never the recording.
2. How we use your information
- To plan, write, design, build, launch, host, and maintain your website.
- To process your payment and keep records of it.
- To communicate with you about your project, including your private questionnaire link and reminders to finish it.
- To follow up if you start checkout but don’t finish, and to send occasional marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from at any time (see Emails from us).
- To answer your questions and provide support.
- To protect our website and business from fraud, spam, and abuse.
- To meet our legal, tax, and accounting obligations.
We use artificial intelligence tools, currently Claude (by Anthropic) and ChatGPT (by OpenAI), to help us organize your onboarding answers and draft website content. A person on our team reviews the work, and we don’t use your information to train public AI models.
If you answer questionnaire questions by voice using the microphone button, your browser’s built-in speech recognition turns your speech into text. Depending on your browser, that may be handled by Google or Apple under their own privacy policies. We receive only the text.
3. Who we share it with
We don’t sell your personal information, and we don’t share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. We share it only with service providers who help us run our business, and only as needed for them to do that work:
| Provider | What they do for us |
|---|---|
| Stripe | Processes payments |
| Supabase | Stores your sign-up details, questionnaire answers, and uploaded files |
| Resend | Sends our project emails, like your questionnaire link |
| Google Workspace | Our email inbox, where your replies to us arrive |
| Kit | Sends follow-up, reminder, and marketing emails |
| Vercel | Hosts this website and the websites we build, and provides anonymous visitor statistics |
| Google Analytics and Google Ads | Measures how visitors use this website and which of our ads lead to sign-ups (ad personalization turned off) |
| Anthropic (Claude) and OpenAI (ChatGPT) | AI tools that help us organize your answers and draft website content |
We may also share information if the law requires it, to protect our rights or the safety of others, or as part of a sale, merger, or transfer of our business, in which case this policy would continue to apply.
Referral partners. If one of our referral partners sent you to us, we record which partner it was so we can pay them a referral fee, and we may let them know you became a client. We don’t share your questionnaire answers or payment details with them.
Information you provide for your website, such as your business address, hours, team bios, photos, and testimonials, will appear publicly on your website once you approve it and it launches.
4. Emails from us
We send two kinds of email. Project emails are about work you’ve bought, like your questionnaire link, reminders to finish it, and updates on your website. Marketing emails include follow-ups if you start checkout but don’t finish, and occasional news. Every marketing email has an unsubscribe link. You can unsubscribe at any time and still receive project emails while we’re working together.
5. Cookies and your browser
We don’t use cookies to show you ads. Google Analytics sets its own cookies, described in section 1, including one that remembers when a visit came from one of our Google ads so we can measure the ad. Our site also uses your browser’s local storage for a few conveniences: remembering the details you entered when you started checkout, so you don’t have to type them twice, and keeping a backup copy of your questionnaire answers on your device, so nothing is lost if your connection drops. If you arrive through a referral partner’s link, it also remembers that partner’s code for 90 days, so they get credit if you sign up. This information stays in your browser. You can clear it at any time through your browser settings. Stripe may use its own cookies on the checkout form to process payments and prevent fraud.
6. How long we keep it
We keep your information for as long as we’re working together and for as long as your website is hosted with us, plus three years afterward, unless you ask us to delete it sooner or the law requires us to keep it longer (for example, payment and tax records). If you start checkout but don’t buy, we keep your contact details for up to 24 months or until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete them.
7. Your choices and rights
You can ask us to:
- Tell you what personal information we have about you, and give you a copy.
- Correct information that’s wrong.
- Delete your information, unless we need to keep it to finish your project, meet a legal obligation, or resolve a dispute.
- Stop sending you marketing emails.
To make a request, email darrell@mainstreetmarketing.com. We may need to confirm your identity first. We’ll respond within 30 days. Depending on where you live, including California and other U.S. states with privacy laws, you may have additional rights, and you won’t be treated differently for using them.
8. Security
We use reputable providers, secure (HTTPS) connections, private links for each client’s questionnaire, and limited access to your information. No system is perfectly secure, so we can’t guarantee absolute security. If we learn of a breach that affects your information, we’ll notify you as the law requires.
9. Children
Our website and services are for businesses and adults. We don’t knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has given us information, contact us and we’ll delete it.
10. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy from time to time. When we do, we’ll change the “Last updated” date above. If a change is significant, we’ll let current clients know by email.
11. Contact us
Automatic Growth LLC, dba Main Street MarketingAttn: Darrell Vesterfelt
1619 Hennepin Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55403
darrell@mainstreetmarketing.com
612-314-0835