Privacy policy

Williamson Thrive is a local business directory operated by Five Star Hero. Five Star Hero decides what this directory contains and is responsible for the personal data described below.

You can reach us at support@fivestarhero.co.

Most listings on this site weren't submitted by the businesses themselves. They're compiled from Google Places, which publishes business names, addresses, phone numbers, websites, business hours, ratings, and photos as public information.

This means a business may appear here without having asked to. If a listing is yours and you want it corrected or removed, see “Removing a listing” below. You don't need an account to ask.

If you contact a business through this site, we collect the name, email address, and phone number you enter, along with your message and the listing it relates to.

We use it to pass your inquiry to that business so they can reply. The business you contacted receives all of it, since that's how they get back to you.

Claiming a listing means telling us you own or represent that business. We collect your email address, which you confirm by entering a code we send to it; your name and your role at the business; a phone number, if you choose to give one; and any message you add.

We also store a record of the confirmation box you check when you submit: the exact wording shown to you, its version, and the time you agreed. We keep it so both sides can see what was agreed, which is why the wording is dated.

A claim is reviewed by a person before it's approved.

We count page views so the businesses listed here can see how often their listing is seen. We don't use cookies, local storage, or any tracking script to do it, and nothing we store can be used to recognize you on another site.

For each page view, we record which page was viewed, when, and a one-way code. The code is calculated from your IP address, your browser's user agent, and a secret key that changes every day, and the previous day's key is destroyed. Your IP address itself is never stored.

Because the key changes daily and the old one is destroyed, a code recorded yesterday can't be matched to one recorded today. That means we can tell how many distinct people visited on a given day, but not whether the same person came back later in the week.

Known search engine crawlers and other detected automated traffic aren't counted. Neither are visits by signed-in members of the account that runs this directory, or dashboard previews.

This site sets no advertising or tracking cookies, and shows no cookie banner because it doesn't need one.

If you sign in to manage a listing you own, a session cookie keeps you signed in. It's required for that to work and is removed when you sign out.

Inquiries and claim records are kept while the directory operates, because they're the record of what a business was told and what was agreed. Ask us and we'll delete yours.

Email support@fivestarhero.co. Tell us the business or the listing and what you want done: corrected, removed, or a copy of what we have on file.

You don't need an account, and you don't need to have claimed the listing. If you're asking on behalf of a business, we may ask you to confirm you're connected to it, because we can't let one business remove another's listing.

This policy was last updated on November 3, 2026. If it changes materially, we'll update this page.