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Privacy Notice

Effective October 25, 2026

Velocity Design Studios LLC, which does business as Velocity Design ("we" or "us"), builds websites for local businesses. This notice explains what information we collect, why, and the choices you have. We never sell personal information.

1. Businesses we contact

• What we collect: public information about a business, such as its name, phone number, address or service area, hours, social media pages and public reviews, and the owner's first name when the business shares it publicly.
• Why: to build a free preview of a website for the business and to call the business about it.
• Your choices: ask us to stop contacting you, or to delete your preview and your information, and we will. We keep only a note of your number so that nobody calls you again.

2. Customers

• What we collect: your contact details, what you bought and your plan. Payments are handled by Stripe, so we never see or store your full card number.
• Why: to build and run your site, bill your plan, answer you, and keep the records the law requires.

3. People who visit the websites we build

• Messages sent through a site's contact form go to that business through our form provider, Web3Forms (on a free preview, they come to us, and we pass on anything meant for the business).
• Our host, Netlify, keeps basic technical logs, such as IP addresses, to run and protect the sites. Sites may load fonts from Google Fonts.
• We don't put advertising trackers on the sites we build.

4. Sales representatives

• What we collect when you sign up: your name, contact details, mailing address, and signed agreement, and later, once your commissions reach $600, an IRS Form W-9 with your taxpayer number. Your bank account goes to Stripe, our payment processor, when you set up payouts from your call board; we don't see or store it.
• How we protect it: your bank details and W-9 are encrypted in your browser before they're sent, and they can be opened only on our office computer, which is itself encrypted. The sign-up page never saves them in your browser.
• Why: to pay you, file the tax forms the law requires, and keep business records.
• Who sees it: our bank, to send your payouts, and the IRS and state tax agencies when the law requires it.
• How long: as long as tax and business record laws require (generally four years after your last payment), then we delete it.

5. Who we share information with

Only the service providers that help us run our business (Netlify, Stripe, Web3Forms, Google Fonts and our bank), each for its own job, and government agencies when the law requires it. We never sell or rent personal information, and we don't share it for advertising.

6. Security

We take reasonable steps to protect the information we hold, including encryption for the most sensitive details. No system is perfect; if a breach ever affects your information, we'll tell you as the law requires.

7. Your choices

You can ask to see, correct or delete the information we hold about you, except what the law requires us to keep. Text or email us, and we'll answer within 30 days.

If you're in the European Union or the UK: we use business contact information on the basis of our legitimate interest in offering our services to businesses. You can object at any time, and we'll stop.

8. Children

Our services are for businesses and adults. We don't knowingly collect information from children under 13, and sales representatives must be at least 18.

9. Changes

We may update this notice. The date at the top shows the current version.

10. Contact us

See also our Terms of Service.