Privacy Policy
Drew's Detailing Services ("we", "us", "our") is a one-person mobile auto detailing business based in Salado, Texas. This policy explains what we collect through this website, why, who it goes to, and what you can ask us to do about it. It covers this website only — not anything you send us on Instagram or Facebook, which those platforms also collect under their own policies.
1. What we collect
What you give us
| Information | Where from | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Name, mobile number, and email if you choose to give one | Booking form | To confirm the appointment and quote the work |
| Service address, town and ZIP | Booking form | It's a mobile service — we have to know where to go |
| Vehicle, size, condition, and your notes | Booking form | To price the job accurately before we arrive |
| Preferred date and time window | Booking form | To schedule |
| Your consent choices, the exact wording shown, the date and time, your IP address and browser | Booking form | So we can show what you agreed to and when |
| Photos of your vehicle | Text message or DM, if you send them | To quote. Sent through your phone carrier or the relevant platform, not through this website |
What is collected automatically
Our own measurement records page views, which buttons are used, and how far down the page people scroll — along with the page address and the referring site. Each visit gets a random identifier stored in your browser's session storage, which is cleared when you close the tab. It is not a cookie, it does not follow you to other websites, and it is not tied to your name.
We do not use Google Analytics, advertising pixels, or third-party trackers, and we set no advertising cookies. If we ever add one, this policy will change before it goes live.
We do not use Google Analytics. We do use the Meta pixel for advertising — see the Advertising section.
Security and abuse prevention
To stop automated abuse we keep a short record of the IP address that submits a booking and the IP address of anyone attempting to sign in to our admin area, along with the time and whether the attempt succeeded. Booking-rate records are deleted automatically after two hours. Sign-in records are kept so we can notice someone trying to guess the password. This is used only to protect the service and is never used for marketing or profiling.
2. How we use it
- To reply to your enquiry, quote the work, and schedule it.
- To send you messages about your booking — confirmations, arrival times, changes.
- To take a deposit, if one is being charged for your booking.
- To ask for a review after work is completed, if you agreed to be contacted.
- To send occasional offers only if you ticked the optional marketing box.
- To understand which parts of this website are useful and fix the parts that aren't.
- To meet legal and tax obligations.
3. Consent, and how to withdraw it
The booking form asks you to agree to two things before it will submit, and offers a third that is optional:
- Contact permission (required). That Drew may call and text you about your booking. Message and data rates may apply.
- Terms and this policy (required).
- Marketing (optional). Occasional offers and reminders. Leaving it unticked has no effect on your booking.
We record the exact wording you agreed to, along with the date, time, your IP address and browser. To withdraw any of it, reply STOP to a text, or call or text 505-796-2278. Withdrawing marketing consent does not stop messages about a booking you have already made; withdrawing contact permission means we can no longer service the booking and will cancel it.
4. Advertising
Drew advertises this business on Facebook and Instagram. To measure whether those adverts actually bring anyone in, this website loads the Meta pixel, a small piece of code provided by Meta Platforms, Inc.
When it is active, the pixel tells Meta that a browser visited a page here and whether it
went on to start or finish a booking request. It reads and sets cookies,
including Meta's _fbp cookie, and Meta receives your IP address, your browser
and device type, and the page address — the same details any website receives, but sent to
Meta as well as to us. Meta may match that against an account you are signed in to.
What we do not send: we do not pass your name, phone number, email address, home address, or anything you typed into the booking form to Meta. We do not upload customer lists to build audiences. The contents of your enquiry stay with Drew.
Meta is its own controller for this data and handles it under its own terms, not ours. What it does with it is described in Meta's Privacy Policy.
How to stop it. Any of these work, and none of them affect your ability to book:
- Use your browser's tracking protection, or block third-party cookies. Safari, Firefox and Brave block this kind of tracking by default.
- Adjust what Meta may use in Meta's ad settings, and review off-Facebook activity in your account settings.
- Call or text 505-796-2278 and ask us to opt you out of targeted advertising. We will honour it.
We do not sell personal information for money. Under some state laws — including Texas — sharing data with an advertising platform in this way counts as targeted advertising and, on a broad reading, as a sale. You can opt out of it by any route above.
5. Payments
If a deposit is taken online it is processed by Stripe on Stripe's own hosted payment page. Your card number never reaches this website and we never see or store it. We receive only the fact that a payment succeeded, the amount, and a reference. Stripe handles that data as its own controller under its privacy policy.
Payment in person is Cash App, Venmo, cash or check, handled directly between you and Drew through those services.
6. Who else sees your information
We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising. It reaches only:
We do not sell your personal information for money, and we never pass what you type into the booking form to an advertiser. Browsing activity is shared with Meta for advertising as described in the Advertising section. Your information reaches only:
| Who | What they get | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Vercel | Website hosting and server logs | To serve the site |
| Neon | The database holding bookings and enquiries | To store them |
| Stripe | Payment details, if a deposit is taken | To process it |
| Anthropic | Text Drew pastes into the private admin drafting tool | To help him write replies and newsletters. It is not used for advertising and is never triggered by visitors |
| Meta (Facebook, Instagram) | That a browser visited this site and whether it started a booking, plus IP and device type. No name, phone, email or enquiry text | To measure and target adverts — see the Advertising section |
| Law enforcement or courts | Only what is legally required | Legal obligation |
| A buyer of the business | Customer records | Only if the business is sold or transferred |
7. Your rights
Texas residents have rights under the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act, and residents of other states have similar rights under their own laws. Whichever state you live in, we will honour these:
- Ask what we hold about you and get a copy.
- Ask us to correct it.
- Ask us to delete it.
- Opt out of marketing at any time.
- Opt out of any sale or targeted advertising — though we do neither.
- Opt out of targeted advertising, and of any sharing that counts as a sale. See the Advertising section for how, or just call and ask.
Text or call 505-796-2278. We aim to respond within 45 days. We may need to confirm who you are before releasing anything. If we refuse a request we will say why, and you may appeal by replying to that message; if an appeal is denied you may complain to the Texas Attorney General.
8. How long we keep it
| Record | Kept for |
|---|---|
| Booking and customer contact details | Up to 3 years after the last job, for warranty questions and repeat work |
| Consent records | The same period as the booking they belong to |
| Payment records | As long as tax law requires |
| Website measurement events | Up to 24 months |
| Abuse-prevention rate records | Deleted automatically after 2 hours |
| Admin sign-in attempt records | Up to 12 months |
Ask us to delete sooner and we will, unless we are legally required to keep it.
9. Security
The site is served over HTTPS, the database sits behind access controls, and the admin area is password-protected. No system is perfectly secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security — but we do not store card numbers, which removes the most sensitive category entirely.
10. Children
This service is for adults arranging work on their own vehicles. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 13. If you believe a child has given us information, contact us and we will delete it.
11. Changes
If this policy changes we will update the date and version at the top of this page. Material changes affecting how we use information already collected will be notified to you directly where we have a way to reach you.
12. Contact
Drew's Detailing Services
Salado, Texas
Phone and text: 505-796-2278
We do not operate a customer email address; calls and texts are the way to reach us. For questions about how this website itself was built or is hosted, the site is maintained by Polaris Point — peter@polarispoint.io.