Effective 28 September 2026

Privacy policy

This covers themarketingblock.com and the free AI visibility check at /scan/. It says what actually happens, not what a template says usually happens.

The short version

We use Google Analytics to see which pages people read and where they came from. It sets its own _ga cookies, we run it with Google's advertising features off so it does not feed ads, and it is switched off if your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control.
We keep our own count of page views and a handful of button presses. It records the page and the action, never who you are, and it is switched off for you if your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control. That counter still records nothing about you: no cookie, no identifier, nothing that names your device.
There is one advertising pixel, Meta's. It tells Facebook and Instagram you were here, so Mike can show you his ads there for up to 180 days. It sets two cookies of its own: _fbp always, and _fbc if you arrived from a Meta ad.
Those two, plus Google Analytics' own _ga cookies, are the only cookies on this site. Our own code sets none and stores nothing in your browser.
Our server also passes the same page views and button presses to Meta, along with your IP address and browser type, matched to the same pixel event by an id so a visit is not double counted. It is switched off by Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control exactly like the counter.
The AI visibility check logs the address you enter, the score and the time, so Mike can see which businesses have run one. We may look that business up from what it publishes and get in touch at its own published email or phone about what the check found. Nothing about you, the person who ran the check, goes with it.
If you give us your email or phone, through the check, a booking or a reply, we upload a hashed copy of it to Meta so our ads can reach you on Facebook and Instagram. Email us and we will take you off that list. Separately, when we choose to contact a business about our services, we upload a hashed copy of its published business email and office phone the same way, so that firm's staff may see our ads too; the Retargeting section says how a firm comes off that list.
We do not sell or rent your personal information. What we do share is for our own advertising: the Meta pixel and the server forward described below, and a hashed copy of your email or phone uploaded to Meta. We do not use your information to train AI models.
Three outside companies see anything about your visit: Meta, for the pixel and the hashed upload above, Google, for Google Analytics, and GoHighLevel, for the booking calendar and the gate hand-off. All three are named below, along with our host and our email provider. The fonts are served from our own site.

Who we are

The Marketing Block is a one-person marketing business run by Michael Onuigbo from Tampa Bay, Florida. When this policy says "we", that is who it means. There is no team, no data department and no third party running things behind the scenes.

Questions about anything here go to mike@themarketingblock.com or (727) 800-1719, and Mike answers them himself.

This policy covers this website only. Other sites owned by the same person, including fulltimefrontdesk.com and tradebrandpro.com, have their own policies.

The terms of service set out the rules for using this site and the free check. The accessibility statement covers how the site works with assistive technology.

What we collect, and when

Nothing on this site asks for personal information unless you choose to give it. Here is every case where anything is collected at all.

When you just read a page

The page sends one anonymous tick to our own server when it loads, another if you press a call, email or booking link, and another if you press play on one of the videos of Mike. A video that starts on its own with the sound off is not counted, because you did not choose to watch it: only a real press counts, and only the first one on that page. Each tick carries the name of the action, the page you were on, a random id used only to match it to the pixel event described next, and, on the pages written for one trade, a one-word label for that trade taken from the page address itself. Nothing else goes with it: no cookie of ours, no visitor id, and the address it arrived from is never written to our log. It exists so we can see which pages people read and where they stop, and it is switched off entirely if your browser sends a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal.

The same page also loads Meta's advertising pixel, so Facebook and Instagram learn that you visited and can show you our ads there afterward. The pixel sets its own _fbp cookie, and _fbc if you arrived from a Meta ad. Our own server also passes the same page views and button presses to Meta, with your IP address, browser type and that trade label, matched to the same pixel call by an id so a visit is not double counted; that way the same ad targeting still works if your browser or an ad blocker stops the pixel itself. The pixel and the server forward are both switched off under the same Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal that turns off our own counter. See Retargeting below.

The page also loads Google Analytics, so we can see which pages people read and where they came from. It receives the page you are on, the same action names described above, your IP address, which Google uses to work out a rough location and does not store, and your browser type. It does not receive anything for advertising: we run it with Google's advertising features off, and it builds no cross-site profile from us. It sets first-party _ga and _ga_* cookies, and it is switched off under the same Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal that turns off our own counter and the Meta pixel.

Separately, our host, Cloudflare, processes your IP address, browser type and the page you asked for in order to deliver the site and block attacks, and may set a strictly necessary security cookie such as __cf_bm to tell humans from bots. We cannot read a visitor list from that and we do not build one.

When you run the AI visibility check

The website address you type is sent to our own endpoint, which fetches that page along with its robots.txt, sitemap.xml and llms.txt, then returns the findings to your browser. The report is held in a 15 minute cache keyed by that address so a repeat check does not refetch the site. It is not linked to you and not reviewed by a person unless you send it to us. We also keep a plain log of the addresses checked, with the score and the time and nothing else, so Mike can see which businesses have run one. It holds no IP address and nothing about you. When a business shows up in that log, we may look it up using what it publishes, its own website, its Google listing and public company records, and get in touch at its published email or phone about what the check found. That is a short run of business emails over a couple of weeks, each with a way to say no, and it stops the moment anyone asks. That is the business's own public contact information, not anything about you, the person who ran the check. The check sends the same kind of anonymous tick as any other button: one when it starts, one when it finishes, and one if you open the rest of the report.

When you send the findings to Mike

At the end of the check you can pass your name, email, optional phone and whether Mike may call or text you. That submission goes straight into GoHighLevel, the system we use to keep track of enquiries. Mike follows up by email, and by call or text only if you ticked the box. STOP opts you out of any text any time.

When you book a call

The calendar on our contact, booking, chiropractic (/chiropractor/), divorce attorney (/divorce-attorney/) and immigration attorney (/immigration-attorney/) pages is an embedded widget from GoHighLevel, served from link.themarketingblock.com. Booking a time gives them and us your name, email, phone number, time zone and anything you type into the booking form. That widget is a third party inside a frame and sets its own cookies. Its behaviour is governed by GoHighLevel's privacy policy as well as this one.

When you call, text or email

We keep what you send us, for the ordinary reason that we need it to reply and to keep a record of work discussed. Calls and texts to (727) 800-1719 go to a normal phone. Email goes to Google Workspace.

The form on the contact page

The message form on our contact page has its submit button deliberately switched off, because there is no handler behind it yet. It sends nothing anywhere. We would rather show that plainly than take a message that quietly goes nowhere.

Retargeting

Retargeting is showing an ad to someone specifically because they already visited a site. Today that means Facebook and Instagram only, through the Meta pixel described above. If you visit themarketingblock.com, you may see an ad from Mike on Facebook or Instagram afterward. We set that window to 180 days from your last visit, which is the longest Meta allows.

If you give us your email or phone, through the check, a booking, or a reply, we also upload a hashed copy of it to Meta as a customer list, so our ads can reach you there too. Hashing means Meta receives a one-way scrambled version of your email or phone, not the plain text. You can email us to be taken off that list.

There is a second, separate list, of businesses rather than visitors. When we pick a set of firms to contact about our services, for example family law or immigration firms in Florida, we take the firm's published business email and office phone from public listings such as its Google Business Profile and its own website, and upload a hashed copy of those to Meta as a customer list, so the firm's staff may see our ads while our emails to that firm are going out. That list holds business contact details only, never a personal address we found for an individual. A firm comes off it when it asks, when it tells us to stop contacting it, or 12 months after our last email to it, whichever comes first.

Ways to stop it:

Turn on Global Privacy Control in your browser. It switches off our counter, the pixel and the server forward for you, on every page. It does not remove you from either customer list, because those lists come from details you gave us directly, or from a business's published contact details, rather than from a browser signal.
Adjust your ad preferences directly with Meta at facebook.com/adpreferences/ad_settings.
Email mike@themarketingblock.com and ask, whether that means the pixel or the customer list.

The AI visibility check, in detail

/scan/

The check is the only part of this site that does anything active, so it is worth being specific about it.

What it fetches. The address you enter, plus that site's robots.txt, sitemap.xml and llms.txt. Nothing else, and it does not crawl beyond those.
What the scanned site sees. A request from a Cloudflare address identifying itself as MarketingBlockAudit/1.0 with a link back to this page. We announce ourselves on purpose so any site owner can see who fetched them and why.
What we keep. The report is cached for 15 minutes against the address you entered, so checking the same site twice does not fetch it twice. After that it is gone, and there is no record tying a check to you. We also log the address checked, its score and the time, so Mike can see which businesses have run one. That log holds no IP address and nothing about you, and it is cleared after 12 months.
What it refuses. Addresses that point at private or internal networks are rejected, so the tool cannot be pointed at something it should not reach.
Please only check sites you own or have permission to check. The tool makes a real request to a real server on your instruction.
No AI model is involved. The check reads the page with ordinary parsing code. Your website's content is not sent to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other model, and no part of it is used for training.

AI, and what we do not do with your data

We sell AI visibility for a living, so it would be strange not to say plainly how AI touches this site.

We do not train AI on you

Nothing you enter into this site, send us by email, or tell us on a call is used to train, fine-tune or improve any AI model. We do not sell or hand your information to anyone who does that either. The free check runs on parsing code and calls no AI service at all.

We deliberately let AI crawlers read our own pages

Our robots.txt gives GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended and others explicit permission to read this site, and we publish an llms.txt summarising it for them. That is our own marketing content, published on purpose so AI tools can quote it. It is not your information, and it is a separate thing from anything you send us.

How we use AI in our own work

We use AI tools as part of building websites, drafting content and doing research, in the same way we use any other software. A person reviews what goes out. Where we handle information belonging to a client or a prospect, we do not paste it into public AI tools.

What AI engines do with your data is not ours to promise

If you go on to ask ChatGPT or Perplexity about your own business, that conversation is between you and them under their terms, not ours. We have no visibility into it and cannot control it.

Outside companies involved

This is the complete list. There is one advertising pixel, Meta's, described below and under Retargeting above, and one analytics service, Google Analytics, also described below. Beyond them, there is no advertising network, data broker or other third-party analytics provider on this site, and the fonts are served from our own domain rather than a font host.

Hosting

Cloudflare

Serves this website, runs the code behind the AI visibility check, and holds the two small logs described above: the addresses checked, and our anonymous count of page views, button presses and video plays. Processes IP addresses and request data to deliver pages and block attacks, and may set strictly necessary security cookies.

Advertising

Meta Platforms

Receives your page views, the button presses described above, your IP address, browser type and its own cookie ids, sent by the pixel in your browser and, again, by our own server. If you give us your email or phone directly, also receives a hashed copy of it as a customer list, and receives a hashed copy of the published business email and office phone of firms we have chosen to contact, as a second list. Used to show our ads to people who visited this site, or who are on that list, on Facebook and Instagram, and to measure whether those ads led to a visit or a booking. Meta processes it under its own privacy policy.

Analytics

Google Analytics

Receives the pages you read, the same button presses and video plays described above, and your IP address, which Google uses to work out a rough location and does not store. Used to see which pages get read and where visitors come from. We run it with Google's advertising features off, so it does not feed Google's ads. Google processes it under its own privacy policy.

Booking and CRM

GoHighLevel

Provides the calendar widget on the contact, booking, chiropractic, divorce attorney and immigration attorney pages, served from link.themarketingblock.com. Receives your name, email, phone and time zone when you book, and sets its own cookies inside that widget. It is also where the details you submit at the end of the AI visibility check land.

Google Workspace

Runs mike@themarketingblock.com. Anything you email us is stored there.

Each of these companies handles data under its own privacy policy. We use them because they do a job this site needs, not to gather anything about you.

Phone calls, texts and email

We ask for a phone number in two places: the booking calendar, and the optional handover at the end of the AI visibility check, where a separate checkbox asks whether Mike may call or text you. Both the number and the checkbox are optional and you can talk to us without giving either.

If you do give us your number, we use it to reply to you about the thing you contacted us about. If you ticked the box, an automated follow-up text goes out a couple of days later, and Mike may call or text you himself after that. We do not add you to a texting list without that box ticked, and we never sell or pass your number to another company for their marketing. Your number reaches Meta only as the hashed copy described under Retargeting, and only so our own ads find you.

If we text you

Ticking the box is never a condition of buying anything from us. You can be a client and receive no marketing messages at all.
Reply STOP to any message to opt out. Under Florida law we have 15 days to action that, and in practice it is immediate.
Reply HELP for help, or just call (727) 800-1719.
Message and data rates may apply, depending on your carrier and plan.
Message frequency varies. There is no bulk campaign: with the box ticked it is one automated follow-up text, plus whatever a real conversation needs.

Email

We send email to reply to you and, if you ask for it, to send things you requested. Marketing email carries an unsubscribe link and a real postal contact, as US law requires. Telling Mike to stop works just as well as clicking the link.

Recording

We do not record phone calls. Florida requires all parties to consent to a recording, so if that ever changed you would be asked first, on the call, before anything was recorded.

How long anything is kept

AI visibility check results: 15 minutes in cache, then gone.
Emails you send us: kept as business records for as long as we may need them, and deleted on request.
Booking details: held in GoHighLevel while the account is active, and deleted on request.
Server and security logs: held by Cloudflare under their retention schedule, not by us.
Addresses entered into the check: 12 months, then deleted.
Our anonymous count of page views, button presses and video plays: 12 months, then deleted.
Google Analytics event data: 14 months, then deleted. That is our own setting, not a Google default.
Details you give at the end of the check (the gate): held in GoHighLevel while the account is active, and deleted on request.
Meta's website audience of visitors: 180 days from your last visit, then you drop off it. Whatever Meta itself holds about the events we send is kept under Meta's own retention, not ours.
Meta's hashed customer list: we take you off when you ask, and in any case 24 months after our last contact with you. That 24 months is our own setting, not a Meta rule.
Meta's hashed list of businesses we contact: a firm comes off it when it asks, when it tells us to stop contacting it, or 12 months after our last email to it, whichever comes first.

Your rights

Different places give people different legal rights over their data. Rather than work out which set applies to you, we offer all of it to everybody. Whoever you are and wherever you live, you can ask us to:

tell you what personal information we hold about you
correct anything that is wrong
delete what we hold
send you a copy of it
stop emailing, texting or calling you
take you, or your firm, off the hashed lists we send to Meta

Email mike@themarketingblock.com and Mike will deal with it within 30 days. We will not charge you, and we will not treat you differently for asking.

We do not sell your personal information for money or for anything else of value, and we never have. We do share it for our own advertising, in the two ways described under Retargeting above: the Meta pixel with its server forward, and the two hashed customer lists. Global Privacy Control stops the first. An email to Mike stops the second.

Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control

California law asks websites to say how they respond to Do Not Track signals, so here it is. This site runs one advertising pixel, Meta's, described under Retargeting above, and one analytics service, Google Analytics, described above. Our own anonymous tally of page views, button presses and video plays, the pixel and its server-side forward, and Google Analytics are all switched off when your browser sends either signal, so nothing you do on this site is counted, and your visit here alone puts you in no advertising audience. The hashed customer list is different: it is built from details you gave us directly, the check, a booking, a reply, not from a browser signal, so Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control do not remove you from it. Email is the way off. Third parties named above respond to those signals under their own policies, which we do not control.

Security, children and where data goes

The site is served over HTTPS. We never ask for card details, bank details or government identification on this website. The one advertising pixel and the one analytics service, Google Analytics, are described in full above; beyond them, nothing on this site profiles you. That said, no method of transmitting or storing data is perfectly secure, and we are not going to claim otherwise.

This site is aimed at business owners. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 16. If you believe a child has sent us something, email us and we will delete it.

We are based in the United States and the companies above process data in the United States. If you are visiting from elsewhere, your information is handled there.

Changes to this policy

If what we do changes, this page changes with it, and the effective date at the top moves.

Since the previous version of this page, dated 1 September 2026: the log of addresses checked went live, the fonts moved onto our own domain so no font host sees a page load any more, and we started the anonymous count described under "When you just read a page".

Since the version dated 2 September 2026: the anonymous count gained one more action, pressing play on a video of Mike. It records the same two things as every other tick, the name of the action and the page you were on, and nothing else.

Since the version dated 9 September 2026: we added the Meta pixel described above, so visitors may now see our ads on Facebook and Instagram.

Also since the version dated 9 September 2026: the gate at the end of the check now submits your details straight into GoHighLevel instead of opening an email draft, and carries an optional checkbox for a text follow-up; the server-side forward to Meta switched on; we started contacting the business behind an address run through the check at its own published details; and we started uploading a hashed copy of your email or phone to Meta as a customer list when you give it to us directly; and we added Google Analytics, with Google's advertising features off.

Since the version dated 10 September 2026: we started uploading a hashed copy of the published business email and office phone of firms we have chosen to contact about our services to Meta as a second customer list, described under Retargeting.

Since the version dated 21 September 2026: the checkbox at the end of the check now asks whether Mike may call or text you about your report, where before it covered texts only.

Questions about any of this?

Ask Mike directly. Requests to see, correct or delete what we hold go to the same place, and get answered by the same person.

mike@themarketingblock.com or call direct: (727) 800-1719