Privacy Policy

Effective date: April 25, 2026

ShortCuts Lawn Mowing ("we," "our," "us") is a small, family-operated lawn-care business in Plainfield, Illinois. This policy explains what information we collect when you visit our website or book a service, and how we use it. We aim to keep things simple and only collect what we need to mow your lawn.

1. What we collect

When you submit a booking through this site, we collect:

Name — so we know who we're working for.
Phone number — so we can call you the day before, if you'd like.
Service address — so we know which yard to mow.
Preferred date — so we can schedule the visit.
Service selection and any notes you choose to share.
Payment details — only if you pay by card. Card numbers are entered directly into Stripe's secure payment field. We never see or store your full card number. Stripe handles the transaction and gives us a confirmation that the payment succeeded.

2. How we use it

Your information is used solely to schedule, perform, and communicate about your lawn-mowing service. Specifically:

To contact you about your booking (confirmation, day-before reminder, weather rescheduling).
To find and service your yard on the agreed date.
To process card payments via Stripe.
To keep simple bookkeeping records of jobs completed.

We do not sell your information. We do not use it for advertising. We do not share it with anyone outside the third-party services listed below.

3. Third-party services we use

Stripe — payment processing for card transactions. See Stripe's privacy policy.
Web3Forms — delivers your booking form submission to our email inbox. See Web3Forms' privacy policy.
Netlify — hosts the website and stores booking records in encrypted cloud storage. See Netlify's privacy policy.

4. How long we keep it

Booking records are retained for as long as needed to operate the business, typically up to two years from your last service. You may request deletion of your records at any time by contacting us through the booking form (see Section 8).

5. Cookies and tracking

We do not use advertising cookies or tracking pixels. The Stripe payment field uses a cookie scoped to Stripe's own service to operate the secure payment widget. The site also uses ordinary browser storage to remember a few preferences. We do not have analytics that track you across other websites.

6. Children's privacy

We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under the age of 13. The booking form is intended to be used by adults arranging service for their own property.

7. Security

The site uses HTTPS for all connections. Card payments go directly to Stripe's PCI-compliant infrastructure. Booking records are stored in Netlify's encrypted Blobs storage. While no online system is perfectly secure, we take reasonable steps to protect the small amount of information we hold.

8. Contact us

For privacy questions or to request deletion of your records, please reach out via the booking form on the home page and select "Other / question" in the notes field. We'll respond by email.

9. Changes to this policy

If we update this policy, we'll change the effective date at the top. Material changes will be reflected on this page.