Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Localyn LLC (“Localyn,” “we,” “us”) handles information when you use the Localyn website and related services. Localyn is a United States local marketplace and community platform, available in the states Localyn currently supports rather than nationwide.

This policy aims to describe actual and reasonably anticipated practices — not marketing promises.

Public mailing address: Localyn LLC, 614 North Centre St, Unit #1012, Cumberland, MD 21502, United States. Privacy contact: privacy@golocalyn.com. General support: hello@golocalyn.com.

Depending on how you use Localyn, you may provide:

When you use Localyn, systems may automatically collect:

Localyn distinguishes approximate public labels (such as city/county or a member-written location label) from private exact coordinates used for distance calculations and geocoding.

Public listing, event, Looking to Buy, and profile surfaces are intended to show approximate area labels — not home street addresses or raw GPS coordinates in the UI. Members should not publish home street addresses in public fields.

If you use “Use My Current Location,” your device may provide precise coordinates to Localyn’s geocoding path for labeling and distance. Precise device location is not required to browse.

Private listing, event, Online Yard Sale, and Looking to Buy location details may be stored for organizers/owners and for operational distance features. Exact coordinates may still exist in underlying database rows for operational reasons even when not shown in the UI.

Meetup street addresses should be exchanged privately by members when needed.

We use information to operate Localyn: provide accounts; display listings, Online Yard Sales, and events; power location and radius search; enable messaging and guest inquiries; support reviews and trust features; process reports and moderation; operate member follow features and send follower notifications when a followed member first publishes certain content; run Contact Localyn support; operate waitlist and invitation flows where offered; send authentication and (when enabled) activity, support-notify, or invitation emails; improve safety and fraud prevention; secure the service; meet legal obligations; and improve the product.

Information may be shared in limited ways, including: public information you intentionally post; other members as needed for marketplace interactions (for example, a guest inquiry sent to a seller); service providers that help operate Localyn; legal authorities when required; professional advisers; parties to a corporate transaction; and others with your consent.

Localyn shares operational data with infrastructure providers as needed to run the service. Localyn does not claim that it “never shares” personal information with any third party.

Words such as “sell,” “share,” and “targeted advertising” can have special meanings under state privacy laws. Localyn does not currently operate a dedicated third-party advertising or behavioral-analytics product.

Localyn uses (or is configured to use) the following categories of providers:

Listings, Online Yard Sales (when live), public profiles, reviews, events, public usernames, profile photos, approximate locations, follower and following counts (and related public follow lists where shown), and other intentionally public information may be visible to guests and, where applicable, search engines.

Public content may be copied, indexed, shared, or cached by others. Localyn cannot promise complete removal from every third-party search engine or archive after deletion.

Signed-in messages are visible to conversation participants. Message images are stored in private messaging storage associated with conversations.

Messages may be accessed or preserved for reports, safety, fraud prevention, support, legal compliance, and system security. Localyn does not promise that messages are anonymous or end-to-end encrypted.

Guest inquiries may include a phone number when the visitor provides one. They are shared privately with the listing owner or event organizer, are not Localyn message threads, and are not emailed by Localyn as a relay.

Retention of messages and messaging images may continue after interface deletion or account deletion where conversations are retained for counterparties, as described below.

Reviews are member opinions associated with eligible marketplace interactions. Trust Summary and Trust Score signals are informational and may be incomplete or inaccurate.

Completed-transaction indicators reflect Localyn workflow records and are not proof of legal completion of a sale.

Localyn may record unique listing views for signed-in members and for anonymous viewers using a hashed or tokenized identifier stored on the device. Saves and related engagement records may also be stored for product features.

Contact Localyn submissions are stored in Localyn’s support inbox so staff can review them. Email notify to staff may be queued separately and is only sent when support email delivery is enabled.

Listing and member reports are stored for moderation. Staff with appropriate capabilities can review support and moderation records in admin tools.

Support requests and moderation/audit records may be retained after account deletion (for example, with the requester user id cleared) for safety, fraud prevention, and operational needs.

If you join a waitlist (when offered) or receive a personal invitation, Localyn stores your email and any optional details you submit, plus invitation and related email-job records used to operate those access flows.

Age and policy attestations provided during waitlist join or account creation are stored with version identifiers and timestamps.

Localyn uses several email paths that should not be confused:

Signed-in members can manage certain activity email categories in account settings. Required authentication and account-security communications cannot be turned off through those preferences.

Activity email delivery may be disabled even if preferences are on. Preferences do not force Localyn to send mail while delivery flags are off.

Localyn uses essential cookies and similar technologies for session state, authentication, preferences, and security.

Localyn also uses browser localStorage and sessionStorage for certain guest browse settings, anonymous view identifiers, and device-local preferences. Clearing site data may reset those items.

Localyn does not currently use a dedicated third-party advertising or behavioral-analytics product.

Localyn retains information for as long as reasonably needed for the purposes described in this policy — such as active accounts, listings, events, messages, reviews, reports, support requests, safety and fraud records, legal records, and backups.

Deleting content or an account in the interface does not always mean immediate or permanent erasure from all systems.

Account deletion is available in My Account for signed-in members.

When deletion completes, Localyn typically archives or removes your public listings from ordinary discovery, cancels or archives your events as implemented, ends Online Yard Sales you operate, anonymizes your public profile (for example, “Deleted Member”), removes your authentication account, removes public media objects where implemented, and frees your email address for later signup.

Localyn may retain or anonymize records that other members or operations still need, including conversations and message images; reviews and rating history that remain associated with counterparties; sale/transaction workflow records; support requests; reports and moderation or audit records; and other legally or operationally necessary information.

You lose access to your account and your public Trust Summary, but reviews you left or received are not necessarily erased from the system for everyone else.

Localyn uses reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards appropriate to the information and stage of operation, including provider-managed password hashing, transport encryption, access controls, and secret management practices.

No online service is perfectly secure. Localyn does not claim unhackable systems or certifications it has not obtained.

Depending on available features, you may update account information, location preferences, notification preferences, email preferences, delete certain content, and delete your account.

Privacy requests may be sent to privacy@golocalyn.com. Some records may be retained for legal, security, fraud-prevention, transactional, or safety reasons.

Residents of certain U.S. states may have additional rights under applicable law. Not all users have identical statutory rights. Localyn will review state privacy-law applicability as it expands.

Localyn accounts are limited to individuals who are at least 18 years old. Localyn is not directed to children under 13 and does not knowingly permit accounts from children.

An age attestation is not the same as identity or age verification.

A parent or guardian may contact privacy@golocalyn.com if they believe a child provided personal information. Localyn may delete or restrict such information and accounts.

Localyn is designed as a United States local marketplace. This policy does not imply intentional availability or compliance in every country.

Effective date: August 5, 2026. Last updated: August 16, 2026.

We may update this policy by changing the dates above and, when appropriate, providing in-product notice.

Privacy: privacy@golocalyn.com. Legal: legal@golocalyn.com. Security: security@golocalyn.com. Accessibility: accessibility@golocalyn.com. Support: hello@golocalyn.com. Mailing address: Localyn LLC, 614 North Centre St, Unit #1012, Cumberland, MD 21502, United States.