Privacy Policy

Last updated November 5, 2026

Introduction

Welcome to Poo Squad. Your privacy is important to us. We are committed to protecting your personal data and being transparent about how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website or use our services.

By using our services, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Information We Collect

We may collect and process the following types of personal information.

Personal Identification Information

  • Name
  • Email address
  • Phone number
  • Service address and ZIP code

Service Information

  • Details about the services you request, including anything you tell us about your dogs and your yard
  • Answers you give on a Poo Squad location's own pages and forms (for example an event sign-up or a form for businesses taking part in a local event), including any photos or files you upload (a form may take pictures, PDFs, SVGs or office documents, as the location chooses). What a form asks is chosen by that location; your answers go to that location, and the location may add you to its customer list with a note of which form you answered. Where a form takes a payment (see Payments below), we also keep the amount, Stripe's payment reference and when it was paid
  • Messages you exchange with us by text message, phone, email, Facebook Messenger, or Instagram direct message

When you message a Poo Squad Facebook Page or Instagram account, Facebook sends us the message, any photos you attach, your name as it appears on Facebook or Instagram, and an ID that Facebook assigns for that conversation. We keep them in the inbox of the Poo Squad location that owns the page so that the location can read and answer them. If you delete an Instagram message, we delete our copy too.

Payment Information

This website does not collect or store payment card numbers. Billing is handled by the scheduling and billing provider your local Poo Squad location uses, which processes billing details and payment transaction information on our behalf.

Technical Data

  • IP address
  • Browser type
  • Operating system
  • Access times

Usage Data

  • Information about how you use our website and services

Communications Data

  • Your preferences in receiving marketing from us
  • SMS opt-in status and communication preferences, including any opt-out you send us

How We Use Your Information

Poo Squad uses your information to:

  • Provide and manage the services you request
  • Run the pages and forms a Poo Squad location publishes, and give that location the answers you send it
  • Process payments and refunds
  • Communicate with you regarding appointments, updates, service reminders, and offers (with your consent)
  • Improve our services and customer experience
  • Analyze website usage and performance
  • Comply with legal, regulatory, and compliance requirements

SMS Communications and A2P 10DLC Compliance

Poo Squad may use SMS (text messaging) to communicate with customers regarding:

  • Appointment confirmations
  • Service reminders
  • Service updates
  • Service announcements from your local Poo Squad location, such as a weather delay, a holiday schedule, or a route change
  • Promotions
  • Customer support
  • A request to review your local Poo Squad location on Google, a while after you become a customer and, if you have not opened its link, a small number of reminders

By providing your mobile phone number and opting in through our website forms, booking pages, or service intake forms, you consent to receive SMS messages from Poo Squad.

News and offers are separate and optional. On our forms, getting news and offers by email and getting them by text are each their own box, left unticked unless you tick it, and neither is a condition of buying anything. We keep a record of when and where you opted in and the wording you agreed to. Replying STOP ends offers by text, and the link in any of our emails ends offers by email.

A review request may include a picture from your local Poo Squad location with your first name written on it. It is made for your message alone, and its link takes you to Google's own review form. We record that the link was opened so that we stop asking; we do not see what you write on Google until it is published there. Once a review of a Poo Squad location is published on Google, we read it there as the profile's owner, may match the name on it to our request so that we stop asking, and may use an AI writing tool to help draft the public reply the location posts under it.

  • Message frequency may vary.
  • Message and data rates may apply.

You may opt out at any time by replying STOP to any message. After opting out, you will no longer receive SMS communications from Poo Squad. For assistance, reply HELP.

Mobile Information Protection

We are committed to complying with A2P 10DLC requirements and protecting mobile data:

  • No mobile information will be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes.
  • Text messaging originator opt-in data and consent will not be shared with any third parties under any circumstances other than those required for message delivery.
  • Sharing mobile information with subcontractors who provide support services (such as customer service or messaging platforms) is permitted solely to provide our services.

Sharing Your Information

We do not sell, share, or rent your personal information to third parties for marketing or promotional purposes.

We may share your information only in the following circumstances.

Your Local Poo Squad Location

Poo Squad provides service through local locations. When you request a quote or service, your request is routed to the Poo Squad location that serves your address so that it can contact you and provide the service.

Service Providers

We may share information with third party vendors, subcontractors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform services on our behalf, such as:

  • Payment processing (Stripe, for payments made on a location's own pages: Stripe receives your name, email and card details, which never reach us)
  • Customer service
  • Scheduling and dispatch systems
  • Messaging platforms (text message and email delivery, and Meta for Facebook and Instagram messages)
  • Website hosting and IT support

These providers are contractually obligated to protect your information.

Legal Requirements

We may disclose your information if required to do so by law, regulation, legal process, or valid request by public authorities.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Poo Squad uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance user experience, analyze website traffic, and improve our services.

Cookies are small data files stored on your device that help us understand how visitors interact with our website.

These technologies may be used to:

  • Improve website functionality and performance
  • Remember user preferences
  • Analyze traffic and usage patterns
  • Measure marketing and advertising effectiveness
  • Provide relevant content and promotions

The tools we use on poosquad.com are Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager (traffic and usage), the Meta pixel (measuring our Facebook and Instagram advertising), Microsoft Clarity (session recordings and heatmaps that show how pages are used; anything you type is masked before it is recorded), and, on a location's own pages, that location's own Google Analytics, Google Ads or Meta tags where the location has set them up. Each of these may place cookies on your device.

What these tools receive from us is about the page and your use of it, not about who you are: the page and its type, the Poo Squad location it belongs to, a random event identifier, and, on a quote or booking, the service frequency, the number of dogs and the price shown. The tags on our pages do not pass your name, email address, phone number or street address to them, with one exception: when you send a booking sign-up and we accept it, the Google Ads tag for that Poo Squad location receives the email address, phone number, name and street address you typed in hashed form (a one-way code, made in your browser before anything is sent), together with the city, state and ZIP code, so that Google Ads can match the request to the advertisement that brought you to us. That goes only to that location's own Google Ads account and nowhere else. When a browser blocks these tags, our own server may send the same page and event information, together with the identifiers Meta and Google set in their own cookies, to Meta and Google so that our advertising can still be measured; the random event identifier lets them count each event once.

Two things are reported by our own server, not by a tag on the page: that you sent a booking request, and later that you became an active customer. We tell Meta and Google Ads that each happened so that they can credit the advertisement that brought you to us and show our ads to more people like you. What they receive is the time, the Poo Squad location, the monthly price, the same random event identifier, the click identifier from the ad link if you followed one, and your email address, phone number, name, city, state and ZIP code in hashed form: a one-way code that those platforms can match against the records of their own signed-in users but cannot turn back into the original text. This is done only for people who came to us through the website. It never includes the address of your property, your dogs' names or anything you wrote to us.

A cookie named ps_internal marks our own staff's browsers so that their visits are left out of our statistics; it is set only by a link our team uses and holds no personal information.

A cookie named ps_touch remembers how you first found poosquad.com and how you most recently came back: the campaign parameters in the link you followed (for example that it was a Facebook post, a Google ad, a yard sign or an email), the click identifier an advertising platform added to that link, the website that sent you if it was not ours, the page you landed on and the location it belongs to, with the time. It holds no name, email address or other personal information and lasts 90 days. When you send us a quote request, a booking or another sign-up form, the form sends that cookie's contents and the identifiers from Meta's own cookies along with it, and we keep them with your request so that the location you contacted can see which advertising, posts, signs or searches bring them customers. We do not pass this to anyone else; the identifiers from Meta's cookies are used only as described above for measuring our advertising.

Some of our links are short links (www.poosquad.com/go/ followed by a code) printed on signs, cards and mailers or used on our social pages, in our posts and in our emails and texts. When you follow one, we record that the link was used, the time, the kind of device (phone, tablet or computer), the general area the network reports (region and city, never your IP address) and the site that sent you, and the page you land on is given the same campaign parameters described above. Links in our own posts, announcement emails and texts carry those parameters too.

You can decline or delete cookies in your browser's settings, and you can opt out of Google Analytics with Google's browser add-on and of Meta's advertising measurement in your Facebook ad settings. The site works without these cookies.

Maps and Location Search

Our locations page shows a map provided by OpenStreetMap, and each location's page shows an embedded Google map of its area. Loading either map sends your IP address and browser details to that provider (OpenStreetMap or Google), as loading an image from any other website does, and Google may set its own cookies under its privacy policy. If you search by city name, the text you type is sent to OpenStreetMap's search service to find that place.

If you choose "Use my location," your browser asks your permission first. With it, your approximate position (rounded to about a tenth of a mile) is used only to find the nearest Poo Squad team. We do not save it.

Your Yard Plan

To plan how your yard is cleaned, your local team may keep a yard plan: a map of your property showing the area covered, the gate, spots that need extra attention, hazards, and notes. Your service address is sent to the U.S. Census Bureau's address lookup to find it on the map, and the map's satellite imagery is loaded from Esri. If you give us a gate code, it is stored encrypted and shown to a team member only when they open it to service your yard, and each time it is shown is recorded.

Spam Protection

Our contact, quote, sign-up, and news and offers forms, and the forms on each location's own pages, use Cloudflare Turnstile to block spam bots. It checks your browser, not your identity, and does not track you across other sites. To run the check, Cloudflare receives your IP address and browser details.

Payments on a Location's Pages

Some forms on a location's own pages take a payment before a response counts: a session fee, or a donation with a minimum. You pay on Stripe's own page, into that location's Stripe account; we never see or store card numbers. We keep the amount, Stripe's payment reference and the time of payment with your answers, so the location can match a response to its payment. If the form books a time slot, that time is held for 30 minutes while you pay and released if no payment arrives. Refunds are made by the location through Stripe; ask the location directly.

Your Cookie Choices

You may disable cookies through your browser settings. Please note that disabling cookies may affect certain website features and functionality.

By continuing to use our website, you consent to the use of cookies and tracking technologies in accordance with this policy.

Security of Your Information

We implement administrative, technical, and physical security measures to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or alteration.

However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights:

  • Access: Request copies of your personal data
  • Rectification: Request correction of inaccurate information
  • Erasure: Request deletion of your personal data
  • Restrict Processing: Request restriction of processing
  • Object to Processing: Object to certain processing activities
  • Data Portability: Request transfer of your personal data

To exercise these rights, please contact us using the information below.

Your Choices

Communication Preferences

You may opt out of marketing communications at any time by following unsubscribe instructions in our messages, replying STOP to a text message, or contacting us directly. Service announcement emails from your local Poo Squad location carry a link that stops those emails, and replying STOP to a text stops text messages from that location.

Access and Updates

You may request access to or updates of your personal information by contacting us.

Connected Social Accounts (Poo Squad Location Owners)

This section applies only to Poo Squad location owners and staff who connect a business account to the Poo Squad admin, not to our customers or website visitors.

When you connect a Facebook Page, an Instagram business account, or a Google Business Profile, Facebook, Instagram or Google sends us an access token and basic account details: the page, account, or business profile names and IDs, and the name and ID of the person who connected them. We store access tokens encrypted and use them only to publish your location's posts and updates that you can review or skip beforehand, to read back the links to those posts, and to receive and answer the Facebook and Instagram messages customers send your page or Instagram account in your location's inbox. We do not read your followers or your personal profile or messages, and we never sell or share this information.

Removing a connection in the admin deletes its tokens and account details from our systems. You can also revoke access at any time in your Facebook, Instagram or Google account settings. To ask us to delete this data, see our data deletion instructions or email the address below.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated effective date. Changes take effect immediately upon posting.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you may contact us: