The short version
We collect what you type into a form on this site, a little about how it was sent, and nothing else. This site runs no analytics and loads nothing from Google, Facebook or any other third party. It sets two cookies, both of which exist to make a form work and both of which expire after two hours. We verified that on October 18, 2026 by loading every page, submitting a form, and recording every outbound request: there were none.
What we collect
Only what you submit. The forms on this site ask for some combination of:
- Your name and email address
- Your phone number, if you give it
- Your business name and website address
- What you need, your budget range and your timing
- Anything you write in a free-text box
Fields marked optional are optional. We do not require a phone number to answer you.
We do not collect special category data, we do not ask for payment card details through this website, and we do not knowingly collect anything from anyone under 13.
What we do not collect
- No tracking cookies. Two cookies keep a form working and expire after two hours. Nothing else is set, and neither one follows you off this site. See the cookie policy.
- No analytics. No Google Analytics, no Meta Pixel, no heatmaps, no session recording.
- No third-party fonts or scripts. Fonts are served from our own domain, so no font provider sees your IP address.
- No advertising networks and no sale or sharing of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.
What the server records
Three things happen without you typing anything, and all of them are worth stating:
- Broken addresses are logged. If you land on a page that does not exist we record the address you asked for, the page you came from, and the browser you used — so we can fix the link. No IP address is stored with it.
- Our host keeps its own access log, as every web server does. We do not analyze it and we do not build anything from it.
And when you send a form, we record alongside it the browser you used, how long the page was open before you sent it, and a one-way fingerprint of the connection you sent it from. That fingerprint is a scrambled version of your IP address which cannot be turned back into it; we keep it instead of the address itself so that a form can be protected from automated abuse without us holding where you were. It is what lets us stop somebody sending the same form two hundred times, and it is deleted with the rest of the inquiry.
None of this is used to work out who you are, and none of it is tied to you anywhere else.
Why we hold it
To answer you, to quote the work, and to deliver it if you hire us. That is the whole purpose. We do not add you to a mailing list because you filled in a form.
Who else sees it
Form submissions reach our email and our project records. Two companies hold that data for us: this website and the database behind it sit with a US-based hosting company, on servers in the United States, and Google Workspace carries our email, which means a message you send us is stored on Google’s servers under their terms as well as ours. Both are bound to handle it only for us. We do not sell your information, rent it, or pass it to anyone who is not working on your project.
If you become a client, we may need access to your website, hosting or domain accounts to do the work. We ask for the least access that does the job, we use your own credentials rather than creating hidden ones, and you can revoke that access at any time.
How long we keep it
Inquiries that do not become projects: 12 months, then deleted. Client records: 7 years after the last piece of work, which is the span US tax and accounting rules expect, or longer where a specific rule requires it. Ask us to delete your information sooner and we will, unless we are legally required to keep it.
Your rights in California
Under the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the CPRA, if you are a California resident you have the right to:
- Know what personal information we have collected about you, and where it came from
- Receive a copy of it
- Ask us to correct it
- Ask us to delete it
- Not be discriminated against for exercising any of these rights
We do not sell personal information and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, so there is no "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" link to click. If that ever changes, this page changes first.
To exercise any right, email contact@getshieldedusa.com with "Privacy request" in the subject line. We will confirm within 10 business days and respond within 45 days. We may ask you to confirm the email address you originally wrote from, so that we do not hand your information to somebody else.
What we do not do with it
We do not sell personal information, rent it, trade it, or hand it to anyone for their own marketing. Filling in a form does not subscribe you to anything. If we ever start a mailing list it will be one you ask to join, and leaving it will be one click.
Security
We clean up hacked websites for a living, so we will not pretend any system is unbreakable. What we do: keep the site patched, limit who can reach your data to the people doing the work, use unique credentials rather than shared ones, and tell you promptly if something goes wrong rather than hoping you do not notice.
Changes
If this policy changes materially, the date at the top changes and we will say what changed. We will not quietly broaden what we collect.
Contact
Questions about anything on this page go to contact@getshieldedusa.com or on WhatsApp at +1 (949) 712-5350 (messages only), answered 24/7. Written correspondence: Get Shielded USA, 600 Anton Blvd Ste 640, Costa Mesa, CA 92626. We operate from Santa Ana, California.