Last Updated: November 11, 2026
We (LocalSpecials, owned and operated by Vechron LLC) collect minimal information necessary to deliver the best happy hour and specials discovery service. When you subscribe to our weekly newsletter, we collect your email address. When you submit a special or venue using our crowdsourced submissions modal, we collect the venue details (name, address, city, hours, age restriction) and any photo assets you upload.
To locate specials closest to you, we request access to your device's real time geographic location. This is optional. If you grant permission, your browser geolocation data is processed entirely on the client-side to calculate distance metrics and plot venues on the crawl map. We do not store or track your history of location movements on our servers. If permission is denied, you may manually enter your ZIP code, which resolves the filter to a specific city and is not stored.
Your email address is strictly used to send you our curated weekly newsletter with local weekend events and specials. We do not sell, rent, or trade email lists to third party advertisers. All venue and specials details you submit become public once reviewed and approved by our moderation team.
We use Vercel Analytics to track anonymous page views, performance metrics, and load times. This statistics reporting does not capture personally identifiable information (PII).
We also use Google Analytics to understand which pages and cities people use, and the Meta (Facebook) Pixel to measure our ads on Facebook and Instagram. Both load on our public pages and set cookies or use similar technology in your browser. Google and Meta receive information such as the pages you visit, your browser and device type, an approximate location from your IP address, and an identifier stored in your browser. They process it under their own privacy policies (Google, Meta). We don't send them your name, email or payment details.
You can opt out of Google Analytics with Google's browser add on, control ad personalization in your Meta ad preferences, or block or clear cookies in your browser settings.
Some links on LocalSpecials are affiliate links to partners, such as ticketing, tours and experiences, cash back and delivery services. When you click one of these links, the partner or its affiliate network (for example, Impact, CJ Affiliate, Awin, FlexOffers or Tradedoubler) may set a cookie or use similar technology to record that you came from LocalSpecials. That lets them credit us with a commission if you make a purchase or sign up.
We don't sell your personal information to affiliate partners. Any information you give a partner when you buy or sign up is handled under that partner's own privacy policy. You can block or clear cookies in your browser settings, as described in Section 4. See our Affiliate Disclosure for more.
When you buy a ticket or make a booking, we collect your name, email address and, if you give it, your phone number, along with what you booked or bought. We share these details only with the venue, promoter or business you bought from or booked with, so they can admit you, serve you and contact you about it. Payments are processed by Stripe on that seller's own Stripe account; we never see or store your full card number. Venue owners, promoters and businesses who sign up for an account give us their name, email address, business details and, optionally, a phone number, which we use to run their account and pay them out through Stripe.
Businesses that take bookings can choose to connect a staff member's Google Calendar. If they do, we access that calendar only to:
We read free/busy times only, not the titles or details of other events. We store the connected Google account's email address and an access token, and nothing else from the calendar. We use this data only to provide booking features, and we do not sell it, share it with anyone, use it for advertising, or use it to train AI models. LocalSpecials' use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
You can disconnect a calendar at any time from the Staff & hours section of your booking dashboard, which deletes the stored access, or remove LocalSpecials from your Google Account's third party connections at myaccount.google.com/connections.
Owners adding a new venue can choose to verify it with their Google Business Profile. If they do, we read the names, addresses, phone numbers and Google verification status of the business locations their Google account manages, once, only to confirm the venue matches one of them. We don't store that data or the Google access, and we don't use it for anything else.
We use your phone number only to send the texts you ask for: verification codes you request (for example, when adding a venue or confirming your phone), and, for venue owners who register their phone to text us listing updates, replies to the messages they send us. We don't send marketing texts.
We never sell or share mobile numbers or SMS opt in consent with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. Our text messaging provider receives your number only to deliver our messages.
Message frequency varies (a verification code is a single text). Message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to stop texts at any time, or HELP for help. You can also email business@localspecials.net.
If you have any questions or would like to request removal of your submissions or email list subscription, please contact us at business@localspecials.net.