Privacy Policy

 

Your Security. Our Mission.

Able Locksmiths, L.L.C. respects your privacy is committed to safeguarding your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains what happens to any personal data that you provide to us, including how it is collected and used when you join our customer list for digital receipts, streamlined account management, scheduling notifications, and marketing communications. This policy also addresses how your data is gathered, used, and protected when you visit our website. We update this Policy at least once per year, so be sure to review it.
By signing up for our Customer List, entering your data into any of our contact forms, visting our website, or making comments on one of our pages, you affirm that you understand and agree to the practices described below.

Who Are We?

Licensed, Insured, and Certified!

Welcome to Able Locksmiths, L.L.C., the premier locksmith and security provider from Frederick, MD! Our company is one of the few licensed security professionals in both Maryland and Virginia. Here is our licensing information:

Maryland Locksmith License #90
Maryland Security Systems Agency License: #24PLU-SS38487
DCJS Private Security Service Business,
Electronic Security Services & Locksmith Services: # 11-21630
Visit us online:
www.ablelocksmithsllc.com
Visit us in person:
304 West Patrick Street
Frederick, MD 21701
Contact Us:
301-662-7275
info@ablelocksmithsllc.com

Information We Collect

When you join our customer list or enter your data on a contact form, we may collect the following information:
• Contact Information: Including your name, email address, phone number, and mailing address.
• Transaction Information: Details of your purchases, order history, and payment method for billing and receipt purposes.
• Preferences and Interests: Information you voluntarily provide to help us tailor promotions and improve our services.
• Comments: If you leave a comment on our site, we may collect the data shown in the comments form, your IP Address, and Browser User Agent String (to help with spam detection). An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
• Media: If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Other visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

 

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How We Use Your Information

We use your information for the following purposes:
1. Digital Receipts: To send digital receipts for purchases made with us.
2. Marketing Communication: To inform you of special offers, updates, and other promotions we believe may be of interest.
3. Customer Support and Service Improvements: To enhance your experience and respond to inquiries or feedback.
4. Testimonials: If you leave a review or comment for us in public view, we may use your testimonial for marketing purposes.

How Do We Share Your Data?

We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information. We may share your information with:
• Service Providers: Third-party companies that help us operate our business (such as payment processors and email platforms) under confidentiality agreements.
• Legal Obligations: If required by law, regulation, or legal process, we may share your information to protect our rights or comply with a legal request.

How Long Do We Retain Your Data?

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

We retain your name and contact information in our Customer List until you request to unsubscribe. We maintain entries into contact forms and analytic records for 2 years and transaction records for 10 years.

Your Choices and Rights

• Unsubscribe: You can opt out of promotional communication any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” link in any promotional message, clicking the link at the bottom of any digital receipt, or by contacting us directly and requesting to be removed.
• Access and Update: You have the right to access and update your personal information by directly contacting us.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Analytics & Third Parties

• WordPress: We utilize WordPress for our website. By default, WordPress does not collect any analytics data.
• Google Analytics: We utilize Google Analytics, whose Privacy Policy can be found here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
• GoDaddy: We utilize GoDaddy Services. Their Privacy Policy can be found here: https://www.godaddy.com/legal/agreements/privacy-policy.
• YouTube: Our website uses plugins from YouTube, which is operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.
If you visit one of our pages featuring a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. Here the YouTube server is informed about which of our pages you have visited.
If you’re logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.
YouTube is used to help make our website appealing. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.
Further information about handling user data, can be found in the data protection declaration of YouTube under https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.
• Google Web Fonts: For uniform representation of fonts, this page uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly. For this purpose your browser has to establish a direct connection to Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that our web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our plugin. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer.
Further information about handling user data, can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical measures to protect your information against unauthorized access, loss, or misuse.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When changes are made, we will update the “Effective Date” and post the revised policy.

Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, contact us at operations@ablelocksmithsllc.com.

Effective Date: November 1, 2024