Privacy policy

Who runs this site

This website is operated by 45Squared LLC (“we”, “us”), a web studio in Chicago, Illinois. ScoutedLead is one of its products. Questions about this policy can be sent through the contact form with “Privacy” in the message.

If we change this policy, we’ll update the date on this page. This policy covers this website and the business information ScoutedLead collects. It doesn’t cover other websites we link to, which have their own policies.

What you send us

When you send the contact form, we collect what you type: your name, work email, company website, which description fits you and your message. We also record the page you sent it from, the time and the website that referred you, if any.

We use it to reply to you and to keep a record of the conversation in 45Squared’s own customer records. We don’t sell it, and we don’t share it except with the service providers that help us run the site and send email.

What we count when you browse

We count page views without cookies. We record the page, the referring website and a daily visitor count. To count unique visitors, we create a one-way code from your IP address and browser that changes every day and is deleted within 48 hours. We don’t store your IP address in our own records, and this site loads no advertising or analytics scripts from other companies.

Business information ScoutedLead collects

To find leads, ScoutedLead reads the public websites of local businesses and keeps business details those sites publish: the business name, address, phone number and listed email, the owner’s name when the site states it, and what the pages showed, with the date. We give these details to our customers as leads. We don’t guess email addresses, buy contact lists or collect details a business’s website doesn’t publish.

A business can ask us not to contact it or pass it to our customers by choosing “A business asking not to be contacted” on the form. We add its website to a do-not-contact list that applies to every customer. See for businesses for details.

How long we keep it and your choices

We keep contact-form messages for as long as we’re in touch and for a reasonable time after, as business records. Lead details are re-checked before they’re reused, and details for a business that asks to opt out are removed from leads we haven’t delivered.

You can ask what we hold about you, or ask us to correct or delete it, through the contact form. We’ll reply within 30 days.