Privacy Policy

ThriftAtlas is a free, read-only directory. There are no accounts, no sign-up forms and nothing to log into. This page names every service on our pages that sets cookies or collects data about visits, and says what each one does. Last updated October 10, 2026.

What we collect from visitors

We never ask for your name or e-mail address, we do not run fingerprinting scripts, and we do not sell visitor data. Technical data about visits is collected by the tools listed below: Google Analytics, Cloudflare Web Analytics, our own tap counter and, for advertising, Mediavine and its partners.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4, a service of Google LLC, to learn how many people visit, which pages they read and how they found us. Google Analytics sets first-party cookies (_ga and _ga_BBR88CQZF7) that tell one visit from another. It records the pages you view, how long you stay, the website that referred you, your device and browser type, and your approximate location (country, region, city), which Google derives from your IP address; Google Analytics 4 does not log or store IP addresses. Google signals — the feature that links visits to signed-in Google accounts across devices — is turned off. Visit-level data is kept for two months, the shortest period Google Analytics offers; summary reports such as monthly page views are kept longer.

Google processes this data as described in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services. To opt out, install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on or block cookies for this site in your browser settings.

Cloudflare Web Analytics

We also count page views with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which sets no cookies and uses no persistent identifiers: it reports page-view totals and referring websites, not who you are.

Our tap counter

When you tap a phone number, open a map, ask for directions or follow a link to a business's website, your browser requests a 1×1 image from our server. The request says which of our sites you are on, what kind of tap it was and what kind of page it happened on (for example, a state or a city page). If you arrived through a tagged link — such as a link in an e-mail we sent to a listed business, or a badge a business placed on its own website — one more request is sent when the page opens, carrying that listing's ID, the tag and the name of the website you came from. There is no cookie and no visitor identifier, and our server does not store IP addresses with these counts. We use the totals to see which pages are actually useful.

Hosting and your device

This site is hosted by Cloudflare, which keeps standard server logs (IP address, browser user agent) for security and abuse prevention, governed by the Cloudflare privacy policy. If you switch between light and dark mode, the choice is saved in your browser's local storage on your device and is never sent to us.

Advertising

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The "help" feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.

Business listings

The businesses listed on ThriftAtlas are compiled from open geodata (Overture Maps Foundation, Foursquare OS Places, OpenStreetMap) and contain only public business information: name, address, phone and website. If you own a listed business and want your listing corrected or removed, email contact@thriftshopatlas.com — we process requests within a few days.

Email

If you write to us, we use your address only to reply. We do not add you to any mailing list and we do not share your address.

Business listings on this site

The listings themselves — business name, street address, phone number, website and opening hours — come from open geodata, chiefly the Overture Maps Foundation places dataset, which incorporates Foursquare OS Places and OpenStreetMap contributions. We normalise the records, remove duplicates and check details against the business's own website. Where an owner writes to us with a correction, we apply it and keep a record of what was changed and when.

We do not publish e-mail addresses of listed businesses on this site. We do license business-level data from this directory — name, address, phone, website, opening hours, services and, where a business publishes one, a business e-mail address — to companies for their own marketing, site selection and research, under a licence that does not allow resale. Every field comes from open map data or from the business's own website. Nothing anyone has sent us in correspondence is ever included, and the addresses of people who asked us not to write to them are left out.

To leave your business or your e-mail address out of future data files, e-mail contact@thriftshopatlas.com — no proof of ownership is needed, and it applies to every file we prepare after your message. What a data file contains is described on our data page.

Some listings name a person — a sole-trader notary or an owner-operator whose business carries their own name. That name appears only as it does in public business records and only in a business context.

Removing or correcting a listing

If you own or manage a listed business and want the entry corrected, updated or removed entirely, e-mail contact@thriftshopatlas.com from any address, or reply to a message you have received from us. Say what should change; no proof of ownership is required for a removal request. Corrections and removals are handled within a few working days, and a removal is permanent — the entry is excluded from future rebuilds, not merely hidden.

If you would rather not hear from us again, reply STOP to any of our e-mails and we will not write to you again.

Children

This site is a general-audience business directory and does not knowingly collect any information from children under 13.

Changes & contact

If this policy changes, the new version appears on this page with an updated date. Questions: contact@thriftshopatlas.com.