Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 5, 2026. Questions? Email privacy@greatgaragesales.com

Information we collect

Account information: When you create an account, we collect your name and email address.

Listing information: When you post a sale, we collect the title, category, date, time, address, photos, price range, and item descriptions you provide.

Location: We detect your approximate city from your IP address to show nearby sales. We do not access your device's GPS without explicit permission.

Usage data: We collect standard server logs (page views, browser type, referring URL) to improve the service. This data is not sold to third parties.

How we use your information

To operate the service: show your listings on the map, let neighbors find sales near them, and let you manage your listings from the dashboard.

To operate free posting: no card is required while free posting is enabled. If paid posting returns later, payment details will be handled by encrypted, PCI-compliant infrastructure.

To communicate with you: we may send transactional emails about your listings (confirmation, sale-day address reveal) and, with your consent, occasional product updates.

To improve Get Garage Sales: aggregate, anonymized usage patterns help us prioritize features.

Listing addresses and privacy

When you post a sale, your exact address is hidden from buyers until the morning of the sale.

Before sale day, only an approximate pin (accurate to the neighborhood) is shown on the map.

On sale day, the exact address becomes visible to anyone who saved the listing or finds it on the map.

You may take down your listing at any time from the dashboard. This removes the address from public view immediately.

Data sharing

We do not sell your personal information.

We share data with service providers who help us operate the platform (hosting, payment processing, email delivery) under strict data-processing agreements.

We use Google Analytics for audience measurement and Google AdSense to serve advertising. Both may set cookies in your browser; see the Cookies and Advertising sections below.

We may disclose information if required by law or to protect the safety of our users.

Your rights

You may access, correct, or delete the personal data associated with your account at any time by contacting us at privacy@greatgaragesales.com.

You may request a copy of all data we hold about you.

You may close your account at any time. Active listings are taken down immediately; your data is deleted within 30 days.

Cookies and similar technologies

Strictly necessary cookies keep you signed in, and a preference cookie remembers your search radius. These cannot be switched off without breaking the site.

Analytics cookies: we use Google Analytics 4 to understand which pages people find useful. It records page views, approximate location and device type. We do not use it to identify you personally.

Advertising cookies: our advertising partners set cookies to measure and serve ads, as described in the next section.

Your browser lets you block or delete cookies. Blocking the strictly necessary ones will sign you out and reset your preferences.

Advertising

We show ads on Get Garage Sales to keep posting and browsing free. Google is our advertising partner.

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.

Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the internet.

You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings at adssettings.google.com. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info/choices, or, in the UK and Europe, at youronlinechoices.eu.

We never share your name, email address or a listing's exact address with advertisers.