Yard Waste Dropoff Privacy Policy
Effective Date: 2026-11-10
Last Updated: 2026-11-10
ARTICLE 1. INTRODUCTION AND IDENTITY OF THE OPERATOR
1.1 Operator. The website located at yardwastedropoff.com, together with all of its pages, features, maps and content (collectively, the "Site"), is owned and operated by Cosmodrome Digital (the "Operator," also referred to herein as "we," "us," or "our").
1.2 The Site. The Site is a free directory (advertising-supported when advertising is enabled) of yard waste and brush drop-off locations and free or low-cost compost and mulch pickup programs in the United States, together with maps, search and guides.
1.3 Purpose of this Policy. This Privacy Policy (this "Policy") describes the information that is, or may be, collected from or about you when you access or use the Site; how such information is used and disclosed; and the choices and rights available to you.
1.4 Contact. Questions, comments, or requests concerning this Policy may be directed to the Operator by electronic mail at cosmodromedigital@gmail.com">cosmodromedigital@gmail.com.
ARTICLE 2. SCOPE AND ACCEPTANCE
2.1 Application. This Policy applies solely to information collected through the Site. It does not apply to any other website or service, including the official source pages linked from Listings, the map tile provider described in Article 5, or any third party that displays advertisements on the Site, each of which is governed by its own privacy policy.
2.2 Acceptance. By accessing or using the Site, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Policy. Where consent is required by applicable law, it will be requested as described in Article 9.
ARTICLE 3. SUMMARY OF CURRENT PRACTICES
As of the Last Updated date above: (a) the Site offers no user accounts, registrations, newsletters, comment features, or forms that collect personal information (the "Report a problem or suggest an edit" link opens your own email program); (b) the Operator does not set cookies on your browser; (c) no advertising is displayed on the Site and no advertising code is loaded; (d) Cloudflare Web Analytics is enabled as described in Section 8.2, and no first-party referral counts are collected; (e) the Site does not request your device's location; and (f) the Site does not use your browser's local storage or session storage to identify you. The Operator may introduce advertising served by Google AdSense and first-party referral counts (Section 8.3) in the future. Articles 7 and 9 describe the practices that will apply when, and only when, advertising or consent management is enabled. The Operator will update this Policy before enabling advertising, consent management, or first-party referral counts.
ARTICLE 4. INFORMATION COLLECTED AUTOMATICALLY
4.1 Log Data. The Site is hosted on the Cloudflare Workers platform and delivered through the content delivery network of Cloudflare, Inc. ("Cloudflare"). When you access the Site, Cloudflare automatically receives, and may record, technical information that your browser sends ("Log Data"), which may include your Internet Protocol ("IP") address; browser type and version; operating system; device type; language preference; the referring web page; the pages and files requested; and the date and time of each request. Log Data is processed to deliver the Site, to protect it against attacks, abuse and automated traffic, and to diagnose technical problems. Cloudflare processes Log Data as the Operator's service provider and in accordance with its own privacy policy.
4.2 Search. When you search by ZIP code, city or state, the search runs in your browser using data files downloaded from the Site. Your search terms appear in the page address (URL) and may therefore be recorded in Log Data as part of the requested page address. The Operator does not send your search terms to any third-party geocoding or search service.
4.3 Cookies, Web Beacons and Similar Technologies. The Operator does not currently set cookies on your browser. However, third parties acting on the Site, including advertising vendors and analytics providers when such services are enabled, use, or may use, cookies, web beacons, local storage, device identifiers, and similar technologies ("Cookies and Similar Technologies") to recognize your browser or device, store your consent choices, serve and measure advertisements, detect fraud and invalid traffic, and understand how the Site is used. Cloudflare may set strictly necessary security cookies if the Operator enables certain security features.
ARTICLE 5. THIRD-PARTY CONTENT LOADED BY YOUR BROWSER
5.1 Map Tiles. Maps on the Site are drawn in your browser using map tiles, styles and fonts requested directly from the servers of OpenFreeMap (tiles.openfreemap.org). When your browser requests them, OpenFreeMap receives the standard technical information that accompanies any web request, including your IP address, browser type, the time of the request and the map area being displayed, and processes it under its own policies.
5.2 Links to Official Sources. Each Listing links to an official source page. When you follow such a link, you leave the Site and the destination website's privacy policy applies.
5.3 Data Sources Accessed by the Operator. The Operator retrieves data from government websites, OpenStreetMap and other open sources on its own schedule and from its own systems. Those retrievals do not transmit any information about you.
ARTICLE 6. INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE VOLUNTARILY
6.1 Electronic Mail and Suggested Edits. If you contact us by electronic mail, including through a "Report a problem or suggest an edit" link, we will receive your email address, your name (if provided), the contents of your message, and any other information you choose to include. We use such information solely to read, respond to, and keep a record of your message (including any correction, suggested edit or copyright notice), to update Listings, and to address any legal or security matter it raises. Electronic mail sent to cosmodromedigital@gmail.com">cosmodromedigital@gmail.com is received and stored by the Operator's email service provider, which is currently Google LLC.
6.2 No Sensitive Information. Please do not send us sensitive personal information, such as financial account numbers, government identification numbers, health information, or images of identification documents.
ARTICLE 7. ADVERTISING (WHEN ENABLED)
7.1 Third-Party Advertising. The Site does not currently display advertisements. When advertising is enabled, the Site will display advertisements served by Google LLC ("Google") through its Google AdSense program, and may display advertisements served by other third-party vendors that participate in Google's programs. The provisions of this Article 7 apply from the time advertising is enabled.
7.2 Advertising Cookies. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this Site or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to this Site and/or other sites on the Internet.
7.3 How Google Uses Data. For information about how Google collects and uses data when you use websites that use Google services, please see Google's page "How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps" at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
7.4 Opting Out of Personalized Advertising. You may opt out of personalized advertising from Google by visiting Google Ads Settings at https://adssettings.google.com. You may also opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting https://www.aboutads.info/choices or, in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, https://www.youronlinechoices.eu.
7.5 Non-Personalized Advertising. If you opt out of personalized advertising, or do not consent to it where consent is required, you may still see advertisements that are not personalized based on your prior browsing activity but may be selected based on contextual factors, such as the page you are viewing and your general (for example, city-level) location.
ARTICLE 8. ANALYTICS
8.1 Current Status. Cloudflare Web Analytics is enabled on the Site, as described in Section 8.2. The first-party referral counter described in Section 8.3 is not enabled, and no code for it is sent to your browser.
8.2 Cloudflare Web Analytics. The Site uses Cloudflare Web Analytics, a service of Cloudflare, Inc., to understand in aggregate how visitors use the Site (for example, which pages are viewed, referring sites, approximate country, browser and device type, and page-load performance). Cloudflare enables this on the Site's own domain (not on preview or workers.dev URLs). It may load a small JavaScript beacon from static.cloudflareinsights.com. It is designed not to set cookies or use local storage on your browser and not to track individual visitors across sites. Cloudflare processes the request data (including your IP address, which Cloudflare states it does not use to identify or track individual visitors for analytics) as the Operator's service provider under its own privacy policy. The Operator does not use analytics data to identify you or for advertising.
8.3 First-Party Referral Counts (when enabled). When enabled, a small script served by the Site from its own domain records, once when you arrive from another website, a coarse category for where you came from (for example "chatgpt", "perplexity", "gemini", "copilot", "claude", "grok", "other AI assistant", "search engine", "other website" or "direct"), the referring website's host name (for example "chatgpt.com") or the "utm_source" value in the link you followed, and the path of the page you landed on (for example "/sites/example/"). It never sends the rest of the page address, so ZIP codes or places you search for are not included. The script reads only the referring page address that your browser already provides and the "utm_source" and "utm_medium" values in the link; it does not set cookies, does not use local storage or session storage, and does not create any identifier. The Site's Cloudflare Worker stores only those three values as an anonymous count in Cloudflare Workers Analytics Engine; the Operator's code does not store your IP address, browser or device details with them (Cloudflare still receives Log Data as described in Section 4.1). The Operator uses these counts only to understand, in aggregate, which websites and AI assistants send visitors to the Site.
8.4 Search Console. The Operator may also use Google Search Console, which provides aggregated information about how the Site appears in Google Search results and does not place cookies on visitors' browsers.
ARTICLE 9. CONSENT MANAGEMENT (WHEN ENABLED)
9.1 Consent Management Platform. When advertising is enabled, the Site will use a consent management platform certified by Google that implements the IAB Europe Transparency & Consent Framework (such as Google Privacy & messaging) (the "CMP") to request, record, and communicate your privacy choices.
9.2 Changing Your Choices. You may review, change, or withdraw your consent at any time through any privacy or cookie settings control presented on the Site when a consent tool is enabled. You may also delete or block cookies through your browser settings.
9.3 United States. If you access the Site from a U.S. state that has enacted a comprehensive consumer privacy law, the CMP may present a message or a "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" link through which you may opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information, or its processing for targeted advertising, as described in Article 11.
ARTICLE 10. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR VISITORS IN THE EEA, UNITED KINGDOM AND SWITZERLAND
10.1 Controller. For purposes of the GDPR, the UK GDPR and the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection, the Operator is the controller of the personal data collected through the Site as described in this Policy, and may be contacted at cosmodromedigital@gmail.com">cosmodromedigital@gmail.com. Google and other advertising vendors, and the map tile provider described in Article 5, may act as independent controllers of personal data that they collect.
10.2 Legal Bases. We process personal data on the basis of (a) consent, for non-essential Cookies and Similar Technologies when enabled; (b) legitimate interests, for operating, hosting, securing and maintaining the Site, preventing abuse, and responding to your messages and suggested edits; and (c) legal obligation, where required.
10.3 Your Rights. Subject to applicable law, you have the right to request access to, rectification or erasure of, or restriction of processing of your personal data; to object to processing; to data portability; to withdraw consent at any time; and to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. To exercise these rights, contact us at cosmodromedigital@gmail.com">cosmodromedigital@gmail.com.
ARTICLE 11. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR U.S. STATE RESIDENTS
11.1 Applicability. Residents of certain U.S. states, including California, may have the rights described in this Article to the extent such laws apply to the Operator.
11.2 Categories of Personal Information. The Site collects, or may collect: (a) identifiers, such as IP addresses, cookie or device identifiers (when advertising or analytics are enabled) and, if you contact us, email addresses; (b) internet or other electronic network activity information relating to the Site; (c) general (non-precise) geolocation derived from IP addresses; and (d) the contents of communications you send to us. The Operator does not collect precise geolocation.
11.3 Sale and Sharing. The Operator does not sell personal information for money. When advertising is enabled, the use of third-party advertising cookies to deliver personalized advertising may be considered a "sale," "sharing" or "targeted advertising" under certain state laws. The Operator does not knowingly sell or share the personal information of consumers under sixteen (16) years of age.
11.4 Your Rights and How to Exercise Them. Subject to applicable law, you may have the right to know, delete or correct personal information, to opt out of sale, sharing or targeted advertising, and to appeal a decision. Contact us at cosmodromedigital@gmail.com">cosmodromedigital@gmail.com with the subject line "Privacy Request" and your state of residence.
11.5 Global Privacy Control. When advertising is enabled, the Site will be configured to recognize the Global Privacy Control signal as a valid opt-out request to the extent required by applicable law.
11.6 Non-Discrimination. The Operator will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your privacy rights.
ARTICLE 12. SERVICE PROVIDERS AND OTHER DISCLOSURES
12.1 Service Providers and Third Parties. The following receive, or may receive, information in connection with the Site: (a) hosting and content delivery: Cloudflare, Inc.; (b) map tiles: OpenFreeMap, which receives standard request data directly from your browser; (c) email: the Operator's email service provider, currently Google LLC; (d) advertising (when enabled): Google LLC and participating vendors; (e) consent management (when enabled): Google LLC (Google Privacy & messaging); and (f) analytics: Cloudflare, Inc. (Cloudflare Web Analytics, which is enabled; and, when enabled, Workers Analytics Engine for first-party referral counts).
12.2 Other Disclosures. We may disclose information if required by law or legal process; when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Operator, the Site, its users, or others; and to a successor in connection with a transfer of the Site.
ARTICLE 13. DO NOT TRACK
Because there is no uniform standard for interpreting "Do Not Track" signals, the Site does not currently respond to them. This Article does not limit Section 11.5.
ARTICLE 14. CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
The Site is a general-audience website and is not directed to children under the age of thirteen (13). Children under the age of thirteen (13) may not use the Site. The Operator does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of thirteen (13) in violation of COPPA or other applicable law. If you believe that your child has provided personal information to us, please contact us at cosmodromedigital@gmail.com">cosmodromedigital@gmail.com, and we will take steps to delete it.
ARTICLE 15. INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS
The Operator is located in the United States, and information collected through the Site is processed in the United States and in other countries where our service providers operate. Where required by law, transfers from the EEA, the United Kingdom or Switzerland rely on appropriate safeguards relied upon by the relevant service provider.
ARTICLE 16. DATA RETENTION
We retain personal information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy. Email correspondence, including suggested edits, is retained for 24 months after our last communication with you, unless needed to resolve a legal claim or copyright matter. Log Data is retained by Cloudflare in accordance with its practices and our configuration.
ARTICLE 17. SECURITY
We take reasonable measures designed to protect the limited information we handle, including serving the Site exclusively over encrypted HTTPS connections. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure.
ARTICLE 18. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
The Operator may amend this Policy from time to time, and will do so before enabling advertising, analytics or any feature that collects additional information. Amendments will be posted on this page with a revised "Last Updated" date.
ARTICLE 19. CONTACT US
Email: cosmodromedigital@gmail.com">cosmodromedigital@gmail.com
Effective Date: 2026-11-10
Last Updated: 2026-11-10