Privacy Policy

Effective date: August 26, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how ThisIsMN ("ThisIsMN," "we," "us," or "our") handles information when you use the ThisIsMN website at thisis.mn, including the business directory, events, reviews, community features, and hosted account pages. ThisIsMN is a Minnesota business-directory service operated from Minnesota, United States. You can contact us at support@thisis.mn.

If you use the ThisIsMN mobile application, the Mobile Privacy Policy also applies to the application and its API.

This policy does not govern the independent websites, applications, or services of businesses listed in the directory. Their own privacy terms apply when you leave ThisIsMN or contact them.

Information we collect

Account and profile information

When you create or use a ThisIsMN account, we collect information such as your name, email address, account identifier, email-verification status, and authentication information. Passwords are processed through our authentication service and are not stored as readable plaintext. If you sign in with Google or GitHub, we receive the name, email address, and profile identifier that the provider shares for sign-in; we do not receive your password for those services.

Content you provide

Depending on the features you use, we collect:

• reviews, including ratings, titles, text, and related moderation or voting activity;
• business information you submit when you claim or manage a listing;
• community event submissions, including event details and organizer contact information;
• photos you upload to a listing or the gallery;
• business favorites and saved searches; and
• messages you send through the site, including contact-form submissions.

Approved reviews, photos, and event listings may be visible to other users as part of the directory. Do not include sensitive personal information in public content.

Location information

With your permission, the website can use your browser's location to show nearby businesses, calculate distance, and position maps. Coordinates are sent to our API only when needed to return location-aware results. If you decline, we use non-location defaults where available, and nearby and map features may be limited.

Usage, device, and diagnostic information

We process search terms, selected filters, pages requested, IP address, user agent, session tokens, and security or error information needed to return results, keep you signed in, protect the service, and diagnose failures.

Cookies and analytics

We use essential cookies to run the site: session cookies that keep you signed in, a language cookie that remembers your locale, and a cookie that records your cookie-consent choice. If you allow optional analytics, we measure page usage with a privacy-focused analytics service that does not use advertising cookies and does not follow you across other sites. Details, including cookie names and lifetimes, are in our Cookie Policy.

We do not sell personal information and we do not use your data for cross-context behavioral advertising.

Payments

If you purchase a paid plan, payment is handled by our payment processors. We receive transaction records, plan status, and billing contact details; we do not store full card numbers on our systems. Payment processors handle your card details under their own privacy terms.

How we use information

We use the information described above to:

• create, authenticate, secure, and support your account;
• provide business search, maps, events, reviews, claims, and other directory features;
• moderate public content and keep reviews trustworthy;
• remember language and other preferences;
• process purchases and manage paid plans;
• detect abuse, protect accounts, investigate incidents, and maintain service reliability;
• respond to support, privacy, and account-deletion requests; and
• comply with applicable law and enforce our terms.

Some features, such as search assistance, may process your query with an AI service provider acting on our behalf to return results. These providers are bound by the service-provider limits described below.

How we disclose information

We may disclose information in these limited circumstances:

• Service providers. Hosting, database, storage, email, payments, security, analytics, AI processing, and other infrastructure providers process information for us to operate and protect ThisIsMN. We authorize them to use the information only for the services they provide to us and require protections consistent with this policy and applicable law.
• Mapping and platform services. Map features may use services supplied by Google or your browser platform. Those providers may receive technical requests under their own privacy terms when their service is used.
• Public content. Approved reviews, photos, event listings, and associated public profile presentation may be shown to other users as part of the directory.
• Legal and safety reasons. We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with law, protect rights or safety, investigate fraud or abuse, or respond to lawful process.
• Business changes. Information may be transferred as part of a merger, financing, reorganization, or sale, subject to this policy and applicable law.

Retention and deletion

We retain account information while your account is active and as needed to provide the service. Session credentials expire or are revoked when you sign out or delete the account. Reviews and other active content are kept until you remove them, moderation requires removal, or the account is deleted.

We may retain narrowly limited records when required for legal, security, fraud-prevention, transaction, booking, dispute, or compliance purposes. We separate or anonymize retained records where reasonably possible and keep them only for the applicable obligation or limitation period. Routine backups are protected and age out under operational backup schedules rather than being restored to active use after a verified deletion.

To delete your account, use your account settings or contact support@thisis.mn. We may verify your identity before acting on an external request.

Your choices and privacy rights

You can:

• decline or revoke the browser location permission;
• decline optional analytics in the cookie banner, or clear the consent cookie to choose again;
• sign out to revoke the current session;
• delete your account from account settings; and
• contact support@thisis.mn to request access, correction, deletion, or a copy of personal information, subject to applicable law.

Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights to know, access, correct, delete, or obtain a portable copy of personal information; to restrict or object to certain processing; to withdraw consent; or to appeal a denied privacy request. We will not discriminate against you for exercising an applicable privacy right.

Because ThisIsMN does not sell personal information or use it for cross-context behavioral advertising, there is no sale or targeted-advertising opt-out needed. We honor your analytics choice through the cookie banner; we do not respond differently to browser Do Not Track signals because we do not perform cross-site tracking.

Security

We use HTTPS, short-lived credentials, access controls, content-security policies, and logging intended to protect information. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security. Please contact us if you believe your account or information has been compromised.

International processing

ThisIsMN is operated from the United States. Our service providers may process information in the United States or other locations where they operate. When applicable law requires a transfer mechanism or additional safeguards, we will use appropriate contractual or legal protections.

Children's privacy

ThisIsMN accounts are not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from a child under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information, contact us so we can investigate and delete it as required.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy when the service, our data practices, or legal requirements change. We will post the updated policy with a new effective date and provide additional notice when required.

Contact

For privacy questions or requests, contact:

ThisIsMN
Minnesota, United States
support@thisis.mn
https://thisis.mn