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Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 27, 2026

ZipElm is a reference site. You can use all of it without creating an account or giving us any personal information.

What we collect

• We have no accounts, forms or comments, so we don't ask for your name, email or phone number.
• We use Google Analytics 4 to understand how the site is used: which pages are viewed, roughly where visitors are (country or city level), and what device and browser they use. See "Analytics" below.
• Our hosting provider, Cloudflare, processes standard server logs (such as IP address, browser type and requested page) to deliver the site and protect it against abuse.
• The city search runs in your browser. What you type is not sent to us.
• Our "What's my ZIP code?" tool asks your browser for your location (with a permission prompt you can decline). That location is compared against ZIP code coordinates on your own device and is never sent to us or stored anywhere.

Third parties your browser contacts

City pages show a map. To draw it, your browser loads resources directly from:

• Google (googletagmanager.com, google-analytics.com), for the analytics described below.
• unpkg.com, which serves the Leaflet map library.
• OpenStreetMap tile servers, which serve the map images. They receive your IP address and the area of the map you view, under the OpenStreetMap Foundation privacy policy.

We don't control these services. If you prefer not to contact them, don't scroll to the map, or block them in your browser; the rest of the page still works.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4, a service of Google LLC. It sets cookies named _ga and _ga_* in your browser to tell visits apart, and reports aggregated statistics to us. Google Analytics 4 does not log or store IP addresses. We don't send it your name, email or other identifying details, and we have turned off its advertising and personalization features.

• For visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, we keep analytics cookies switched off.
• You can opt out everywhere with Google's browser add-on, or by blocking cookies in your browser.
• Google handles this data under its own privacy policy.

Sharing and selling

We do not sell, rent or trade personal information, and we do not share it for advertising. The only parties involved are the providers described above, which handle data as needed to deliver the site and its maps.

Your choices

Because we don't keep accounts or profiles, we hold no personal information that we can look up, correct or delete by request. If you think we do hold something about you, or you have a privacy question, write to us and we will respond. You can also limit what your browser sends to third parties with your browser's privacy settings or a content blocker.

Links to other sites

We link to sources such as the Census Bureau and USPS. Their privacy practices are their own.

Children

The site is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect information from them.

Changes

If we add analytics or change how we handle data, we will update this page and its date before the change takes effect.

Contact

Questions about this policy: contact@zipelm.com.