Privacy Policy

Effective date: June 1, 2026. Last updated: June 1, 2026.

1. Who We Are

LockChange.net is an independent editorial website providing emergency lock change guidance. We are not affiliated with any locksmith company. We do not sell products or services. Contact: via the contact form.

2. Information We Collect

We collect information only when you voluntarily submit it through our contact form: your name, email address, and message. We do not collect payment information. We do not use cookies for tracking or analytics on this site.

3. How We Use Your Information

Contact form submissions are used solely to respond to your inquiry. We may also use feedback to improve our editorial content (e.g., updating a pricing range based on a correction you submit). We do not use your information for marketing without your explicit consent.

4. What We Do Not Do

We do not sell your personal information to any third party. We do not share your information with advertising networks. We do not pass your information to locksmith companies or any service provider not involved in operating this website.

5. Service Providers

We use a web hosting provider to serve this site. Form submissions may pass through a secure form processing service. These providers act as data processors on our behalf and are contractually prohibited from using your data for their own purposes.

6. Data Retention

Contact form submissions are retained for up to 12 months and then deleted, unless we have an ongoing editorial or legal reason to retain them.

7. Your Rights

You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information you have submitted to us. To make a request, use the contact form with the subject "Privacy Request." We will respond within 30 days. If you are a California resident, you also have rights under CCPA to know, delete, and opt out of the sale of personal information (we do not sell personal information).

8. Cookies

This site does not use tracking cookies or third-party analytics cookies. A session cookie may be set by the web server for technical purposes (e.g., PHP session handling during form submission). This cookie does not track you across sites and expires when you close your browser.

9. Security

Form submissions are transmitted over HTTPS (TLS). We take reasonable technical measures to protect information submitted to us, but no internet transmission is 100% secure.

10. Children

This site is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

11. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy periodically. The effective date at the top of this page will reflect the most recent version. Continued use of the site after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.

12. Contact

For privacy-related questions, use the contact form and select "Other" as the topic, or include "Privacy" in your message subject.