Privacy Policy

Who is responsible

CHICAGO STAR APPLIANCE REPAIR LLC operates this website under the Chicago Star Appliance brand. You can contact us at contact@chicagostarappliance.com or (312) 847-0411.

Information we handle

Service requests

When you ask for service, we receive the information you choose to provide:

• name, phone number, email address, and service address;
• residential or commercial customer type and appliance brand;
• your description of the appliance problem; and
• up to three optional appliance photos.

We use this information to review the request, contact you, discuss possible service, prevent abuse, and maintain ordinary business records. Sending the form does not create an appointment or service contract.

The contact system counts the public page where a visitor selected Request Service with the delivery outcome. The counter does not include contact details, request text, photo details, referring pages, search terms, or campaign identifiers.

Technical and security data

Cloudflare processes network and device information needed to deliver and protect the site. This can include IP address, browser information, request time, response status, and a Turnstile verification result. Turnstile runs invisibly in the service form, so visitors do not see or operate a verification control. See Cloudflare's Turnstile Privacy Addendum. The contact endpoint uses an IP-based rate limit, but our application does not place IP addresses, form values, filenames, or photo URLs in its analytics counters or routine logs.

Optional Google content

If you allow Google content, the site may load Google Maps address suggestions and current Google review information. Google can receive your IP address, browser information, the page request, and text you enter for an address suggestion. Google content is not loaded when this choice is off. Review text is displayed temporarily and is not stored by this site.

Cloudflare Web Analytics

Cloudflare Web Analytics measures page views, approximate country, referring site, browser, operating system, device type, and page performance. The measurement request contains the page path without its query string. Cloudflare Web Analytics does not use cookies, local storage, or a fingerprint to follow you across websites. Ordinary European Union visits receive a country notice that does not load the analytics beacon. We do not send service form contents, names, phone numbers, email addresses, service addresses, issue descriptions, filenames, or photo links to website analytics.

Country access controls

Cloudflare uses the country associated with an IP address to make the main website available to people in the United States and Morocco. People elsewhere receive a location notice. The country rule allows common search and monitoring crawler request headers so public pages can remain searchable and operational. A request header can be copied, so the country rule limits ordinary access but is not an identity or security check. The service request endpoint accepts requests from the United States only.

Your saved choice

We save your necessary and Google content choices in your browser's local storage with a preference version and update time. The choice stays on your device. If the saved value is missing or damaged, optional Google content resets to off.

Companies that help operate the site

When you submit a service request, you authorize us to process the information you provide to review and respond to that request. Cloudflare processes the form and delivers it to our business inbox on our behalf. Optional photos are stored with Cloudinary. This processing is described here so you can decide what to provide. It does not give another business permission to use your information for its own marketing.

• Cloudflare hosts and protects the site, provides Turnstile, applies country access controls, measures website use, runs the contact Worker, delivers contact email, and records aggregate operational counters.
• Cloudinary stores optional contact photos after the Worker verifies the request and file type.
• Google provides optional Maps, Places, and live review content. Google content loads only when you allow it.
• Our business inbox receives the service request so we can respond.

These providers may process data in the United States and other countries under their own privacy terms and contractual safeguards. See Cloudflare's Privacy Policy, Cloudinary's Privacy Policy, and Google's Privacy Policy.

We do not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.

How long we keep information

• Routine inquiry emails are kept no longer than 24 months after the last interaction, unless a legal or accounting obligation requires longer.
• Contact photos are deleted within 90 days after a job closes or is declined. If job status is unknown, an automated hard stop deletes them no later than 180 days after upload.
• Redacted security metadata is kept for 30 days.
• Cloudflare keeps website analytics for no longer than six months. Detailed records may be aggregated before that period ends.
• Your browser keeps your privacy preference until you clear site data or replace the choice.

Your choices and rights

Use Manage Preferences to allow or withdraw optional Google content. Withdrawing the choice stops new optional Google requests. You can also clear this site's storage in your browser.

Depending on where you live, you may ask to access, correct, delete, or receive a copy of personal information, or object to or restrict certain uses. Email contact@chicagostarappliance.com. We may need to verify that the request concerns you. We aim to complete a verified deletion request within 30 days unless law requires us to keep a record. You may also complain to the privacy regulator where you live.

Browser privacy signals

We do not sell personal information, share it for advertising across unrelated websites, or use website analytics to build a cross site profile. Because those activities do not occur, a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal does not change the site's behavior. We will update this policy and provide any legally required control before those practices change.

Security, children, and changes

We use HTTPS, server-side form verification, rate limiting, file limits, decoded media checks, and access-controlled service providers. No internet system is completely secure, so please do not put sensitive personal, financial, medical, or identity information in the issue description or photos.

The site is intended for adults seeking appliance repair. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

We review this policy at least once each year and update it before a material new collection or use begins. The effective date at the top identifies the current version. Material changes will be described on this page. Privacy questions and correction or deletion requests can be sent to the email address above.

Your text messaging choice

The text messaging checkbox on our service forms is optional and starts unchecked. You can request service without agreeing to texts. When you select the checkbox and submit the form, you agree to appointment reminders, status updates, and answers to frequently asked questions from CHICAGO STAR APPLIANCE REPAIR LLC. We can use phone calls or email when you do not agree to texts.

Your choice is delivered with the service request to our business inbox. If you agree, the email also records the phone number, company name, form page, disclosure wording and version, and the time the server received your consent. Cloudflare processes this record to deliver the request on our behalf. We keep it with the inquiry email under the retention schedule above. Consent details are not sent to website analytics or routine application logs, and are not provided to another business for its own use.

Sharing of Personal Information

CHICAGO STAR APPLIANCE REPAIR LLC will not share, sell, or disclose your personal information or mobile opt-in data to third parties without your explicit consent, except where required by law. Your information is kept confidential and used solely for the purposes you have agreed to. All the above categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with third parties. Text messaging opt-in data is not being shared with third parties.

Opting Out of Text Messages:

You have the right to opt out of receiving text messages from CHICAGO STAR APPLIANCE REPAIR LLC at any time. To opt-out, you can reply "STOP" to any text message you receive from us.

Consent and Opt-In:

By providing your phone number and opting in to receive text messages, you consent to the collection and use of your personal information as described in this policy. We ensure that your consent is obtained explicitly and that you are informed about the types of messages you will receive.