Privacy Policy

This policy covers datacentercensus.com and its embeds, feeds and data files, published under the name Data Center Census by AI Laws By State LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company (“we” or “us”).

In short

The site has no accounts or advertising. We use Google Analytics to count visits and learn which pages are useful, with its advertising features turned off; visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland are counted without analytics cookies. If you use the contact form or sign up for the weekly briefing, we receive what you send us, and we use it only for that purpose. We don’t sell or share personal information, and we don’t build profiles of visitors.

What is processed when you visit

Hosting. The site is served by Cloudflare. Like any web host, Cloudflare processes technical data, such as your IP address, browser type, the pages requested and the time, to deliver the site and protect it from abuse. Cloudflare may set a strictly necessary security cookie to filter automated traffic.
Fonts. Pages load typefaces from Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com), which receives your IP address and browser details in order to send the font files.
Maps. Interactive maps load their map images from OpenFreeMap and the MapLibre map library from jsDelivr. Those services receive your IP address, and the map images requested show the general area being viewed.
Analytics. We use Google Analytics 4, a service of Google LLC, to measure how the site is used: pages viewed, how visitors arrived (for example from a search engine or another website), approximate location at the country and city level, device and browser type, clicks on outbound links, data downloads, calendar subscriptions and our email address, and when the contact form or briefing sign-up is sent, including the role you picked but not your name, email address or message. Google Analytics sets first-party cookies (_ga and _ga_ followed by an ID) to tell new visits from repeat ones. For visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland those cookies are not set, and visits are counted without them. Google signals and advertising features are turned off, and we keep analytics data for 14 months. You can block Google Analytics with Google’s opt-out browser add-on or any tracker blocker, and the site works the same without it. Google describes its handling of this data in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.
Embeds. Our widgets on other websites load from this site and from Google Fonts in the same way. They do not load Google Analytics and set no cookies.

Community concerns and tips

The community concerns tracker reports concerns that public, attributable sources document, such as official minutes, dockets, filed lawsuits and news reporting. We do not name, quote or identify private individuals in it, and we do not use social-media posts as sources. If someone sends us a tip that points to a social-media post, the tip is kept privately, without personal names, only to find a public record to check; the post itself is never published, quoted or linked. If you appear in a source we cite and want it reviewed, or want a tip about you removed, contact us and we will respond.

ZIP code and location searches

When you search by ZIP code on the near-me tool, the ZIP code is sent to our database provider, Supabase, to look up the U.S. Census Bureau’s coordinates for it. We don’t keep a record of searches or link them to you, although Supabase may keep standard service logs, including IP addresses, for a limited time. If you choose “Use my location”, your browser asks your permission, and your coordinates are used only on your device to measure distances; they are never sent to us. The jobs near me tool uses the same ZIP code lookup as the near-me tool, and a location you share there also stays in your browser. The share image is drawn on your device and is not uploaded.

If you contact us

The contact form asks for your name, email address, the role that best describes you, what your message is about and, if you choose, your organization and state. The form is delivered to our inbox by Web3Forms, which may keep a copy for a limited time. If you write to corrections@datacentercensus.com, we receive your email address and message. We use them to reply, to review corrections and tips, and to keep a record of changes we make. We keep correspondence as long as it is useful for those purposes, and we don’t publish your name or message without your permission.

The weekly briefing

If you sign up for the weekly briefing, our email provider, Kit (kit.com), stores your email address, the role you picked, your state when you sign up from a state or project page, and the page you signed up from. Kit sends you an email to confirm the subscription before any briefing is sent, and every briefing has a one-click unsubscribe link. Kit may record whether a briefing is opened and which links are clicked, which helps us see what readers find useful. We use your details only to send the briefing and to understand who reads it. We never sell or rent them, and we don’t share them with advertisers or sponsors.

Your choices and rights

You can ask us what personal information we hold about you, which in practice is limited to any correspondence and, if you subscribed, your briefing sign-up, and ask us to correct or delete it, by emailing us. You can unsubscribe from the briefing at any time with the link in any briefing. We honor these requests from anyone, wherever they live. We do not sell personal information or share it for targeted advertising.

Children

The site is a general-audience reference and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Where information is processed

The site is operated from the United States, and the service providers above may process data in the United States and other countries.

Changes

If our practices change, we will update this page and the date at the top.

Contact

AI Laws By State LLC, publisher of Data Center Census: corrections@datacentercensus.com