Draft for review. This is not a finished privacy policy, and a lawyer has not reviewed it. It describes how this version of the site works, as of November 8, 2026.

Privacy draft

MotherSearch, LLC is a California company. The public email is hello@mothersearch.org. The site is mothersearch.org.

What this version collects

• A listing form: business name, your name, email, optional phone, optional website, category, city, state, optional ZIP, service area, descriptions, an optional private note, and the consent boxes you check.
• A contact form: name, email, optional subject, and message.
• An optional note if you ask to hear when Match opens: name, email, optional note, and consent.
• An account: your name, email, and a password hash (argon2id). We do not keep the password itself. A session cookie remembers the sign-in. Staff accounts also store an authenticator secret and one-time recovery codes as hashes.
• Listing edits, hours, links, and photos you upload. Photos are re-saved so camera location data is dropped.
• A street address, if you type one. It stays private unless you opt in to show a storefront. Public pages show city and state.
• A sign-in cookie, and a matching token that protects forms from another site submitting them.

How we handle what you share

• We keep listing and contact details so a person can read them and, when a listing is approved, show what you agreed to publish.
• We do not take card numbers. Paid checkout is not open.
• We do not run an advertising tracker or a third-party analytics tool.
• This draft’s intention is that we do not sell listing information. A lawyer has not yet signed off on that sentence.

Your account

You can see and edit the listings linked to your account. A change to a published listing waits for a person to read it before the public page changes. From the account page you can change your password or delete the account. Deleting the account removes the sign-in. A listing that is already public stays up, without the account attached. A listing still in review is deleted. You can also email hello@mothersearch.org and ask us to delete the account.

Email

What you send is saved in the database the company controls, where a person can read it. Confirmation and password-reset links are sent when a mail server is configured. Until then, those messages stay on the server so a person can pass the link to you.

How long we keep information

Public listings stay while they are published. If you ask us to remove one, we take it down and delete that row within 30 days. Pending listings, rejected listings, contact messages, and Match notes are kept for 24 months, then deleted. The email log is kept for 90 days. A lawyer’s review may change these periods. Until then, this is the rule this draft follows.

You can email hello@mothersearch.org and ask us to correct or remove a listing or a message you sent.

The web server

The server that hosts the site may keep short connection logs, as servers usually do. This application does not copy your IP address into the listing or contact tables.

Children

The directory is for businesses. It is not directed at children.

Questions

Write to hello@mothersearch.org. Please treat this page as a draft until it is replaced.