Privacy Policy

Last updated October 16, 2026

This Privacy Notice for Dave Spilsbury Arboricultural Consulting, LLC (“we,” “us,” or “our”) describes how and why we collect, store, use, and/or share (“process”) your personal information when you use our services (“Services”), including when you:

• Visit our website at https://aztreeconsulting.com (“Website”), or any website of ours that links to this Privacy Notice

• Contact us or hire us for our services, including by phone, email, text message, or through the contact forms on our Website

Questions or concerns? Reading this Privacy Notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. We are responsible for making decisions about how your personal information is processed. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have any questions or concerns, please contact us at contact@aztreeconsulting.com.

Summary of key points

This summary provides key points from our Privacy Notice, but you can find out more details about any of these topics by clicking the link following each key point or by using our table of contents below to find the section you are looking for.

What personal information do we process? Mainly the contact details and message you give us when you get in touch, plus limited technical information collected automatically when you visit our Website. Learn more about personal information you disclose to us.

Do we process any sensitive personal information? Some information may be considered “special” or “sensitive” in certain jurisdictions, for example your racial or ethnic origins, sexual orientation, and religious beliefs. We do not process sensitive personal information.

Do we collect any information from third parties? We do not collect any information about you from third parties.

How do we process your information? To respond to you and provide our Services, to communicate with you, to protect our Website from spam and abuse, to understand how our Website is used so we can improve it, and to comply with law. Learn more about how we process your information.

Do we sell your information or use it for advertising? No. We do not sell your personal information, we do not show advertisements, and we do not use your information for targeted advertising.

In what situations and with which types of parties do we share personal information? Only with the service providers that help us run our business and Website, as described in this notice. Learn more about when and with whom we share your personal information.

How do we keep your information safe? We have adequate organizational and technical processes and procedures in place to protect your personal information. However, no electronic transmission over the internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Learn more about how we keep your information safe.

What are your rights? Depending on where you are located geographically, the applicable privacy law may mean you have certain rights regarding your personal information. Learn more about your privacy rights.

How do you exercise your rights? The easiest way is to email us a privacy request or send one through our contact form. We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

Want to learn more about what we do with any information we collect? Review the Privacy Notice in full.

Table of contents

1. What information do we collect?

2. How do we process your information?

3. When and with whom do we share your personal information?

4. Do we use cookies and other tracking technologies?

5. How long do we keep your information?

6. How do we keep your information safe?

7. Do we collect information from minors?

8. What are your privacy rights?

9. Controls for Do-Not-Track features

10. Do United States residents have specific privacy rights?

11. Text messaging (SMS)

12. Do we make updates to this notice?

13. How can you contact us about this notice?

14. How can you review, update, or delete the data we collect from you?

1. What information do we collect?

Personal information you disclose to us

In Short: We collect the personal information that you provide to us.

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you fill in a contact form on our Website, or when you otherwise contact us or hire us by phone, email, or text message.

Personal Information Provided by You. The personal information we collect depends on how you contact us and may include the following:

• your name
• your email address
• your phone number
• your preferred contact method, and whether you agree to receive text messages
• the subject and contents of your message, and any details you share about your property, trees, or project
• your business name and contact details, if you contact us on behalf of a business
• your service address and billing details, if you hire us

Sensitive Information. We do not process sensitive information.

All personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete, and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information.

Information automatically collected

In Short: Some information — such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address and browser and device characteristics — is collected automatically when you visit our Website.

We automatically collect certain information when you visit our Website. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information). It is used to keep our Website secure and working, and for our internal analytics and reporting. The information we collect includes:

• Contact form technical details. When you submit a contact form, we record the date and time, the page you submitted it from, your IP address, your browser and device type, and the country your connection comes from (estimated from your IP address). We use this to prevent spam and abuse, and it is kept with your message.

• Security checks. Our contact forms use Cloudflare Turnstile to confirm that a form is being filled in by a person and not an automated program. To do this, Cloudflare processes technical information about your browser and device.

• Website analytics. We use Google Analytics and Cloudflare Web Analytics to understand, in aggregate, how visitors use our Website, such as which pages are visited, how long visits last, the type of device and browser used, the website that referred you, and your approximate location (city or region, estimated from your IP address). Google Analytics uses cookies with a randomly generated identifier; Cloudflare Web Analytics does not use cookies. You can turn off Google Analytics in your browser on our Cookie Policy page.

• Server and security logs. Our hosting provider, Cloudflare, processes your IP address and basic request information to deliver our Website and protect it from attacks.

We do not collect precise location (such as GPS) information.

2. How do we process your information?

In Short: We process your information to respond to you and provide our Services, communicate with you, keep our Website secure, improve our Website, and comply with law.

We process your personal information for the following reasons:

• To respond to your inquiries. We use the information you provide to reply to your message, answer your questions, and arrange consultations, evaluations, or quotes.

• To provide our Services. If you hire us, we use your information to deliver the services you requested, including scheduling, invoicing, and keeping business records.

• To communicate with you. We contact you by your preferred method, including by text message only if you have agreed to receive text messages (see Text Messaging).

• To keep our Website secure. We use technical information to protect our contact forms and Website from spam, fraud, and abuse.

• To understand and improve our Website. We use aggregated analytics information to see how our Website is used so we can improve it.

• To comply with our legal obligations. We may process your information to comply with our legal obligations, respond to legal requests, and exercise, establish, or defend our legal rights.

We do not use your personal information for advertising or marketing campaigns, and we do not sell it.

3. When and with whom do we share your personal information?

In Short: We share information only with the service providers that help us run our business and Website, and in the specific situations described in this section.

Vendors, Consultants, and Other Third-Party Service Providers. We share your data with third-party vendors and service providers (“third parties”) who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. They may only use your personal information to provide those services to us, and not for their own purposes such as marketing.

The categories of third parties we share personal information with are:

• Website hosting, security, and data storage — Cloudflare hosts our Website, protects our contact forms (Turnstile), stores contact form submissions, and provides cookieless website analytics.

• Email and communication tools — Resend delivers contact form submissions to our inbox, and Microsoft 365 provides our business email.

• Website analytics — Google Analytics.

• Customer records, invoicing, and payments — if you hire us, your contact details are kept in QuickBooks Online (Intuit), which we use to keep customer records, send invoices, and accept payment for our Services.

If you choose to play one of the YouTube videos embedded on our Website, the video is provided by YouTube (Google) and is subject to Google’s privacy policy.

We may also need to share your personal information in the following situations:

• Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.

• Legal Requirements. We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so, for example in response to a court order or other valid legal request.

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it with third parties for their own marketing or advertising.

4. Do we use cookies and other tracking technologies?

In Short: We use a small number of cookies and similar technologies for security and analytics. We do not use advertising cookies.

We use a small number of cookies and similar technologies (such as your browser’s local storage):

• Strictly necessary — to protect our contact forms from spam (Cloudflare Turnstile) and to remember if you have turned off analytics.

• Analytics — Google Analytics, to understand in aggregate how our Website is used. You can turn this off in your browser at any time using the switch on our Cookie Policy page.

We do not show advertisements, and we do not use advertising, retargeting, or social media tracking cookies, web beacons, or tracking pixels. We do not allow third parties to use tracking technologies on our Website for advertising.

The specific cookies we use, and how you can control them, are listed in our Cookie Policy.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our Website. It is configured not to use your information for advertising or ad personalization. You can turn it off on our Website using the switch on our Cookie Policy page, or opt out of Google Analytics on all websites by installing Google’s opt-out browser add-on. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms page.

5. How long do we keep your information?

In Short: We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Notice unless otherwise required by law.

We keep contact form submissions and our correspondence with you for as long as needed to respond to you, provide our Services, and maintain our business records, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). Google Analytics keeps detailed analytics data for no more than 14 months; summary reports that do not identify individual visitors may be kept longer.

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

6. How do we keep your information safe?

In Short: We aim to protect your personal information through a system of organizational and technical security measures.

We have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. For example, our Website is only available over an encrypted connection (HTTPS), and access to stored contact form submissions is restricted to authorized people who must sign in. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Services is at your own risk. You should only access the Services within a secure environment.

7. Do we collect information from minors?

In Short: We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under 18 years of age.

We do not knowingly collect, solicit data from, or market to children under 18 years of age, nor do we knowingly sell such personal information. By using the Services, you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of the Services. If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected, we will take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we may have collected from children under age 18, please contact us at contact@aztreeconsulting.com.

8. What are your privacy rights?

In Short: Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal information, and you can withdraw your consent at any time.

Withdrawing your consent: If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, which may be express and/or implied consent depending on the applicable law, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us by using the contact details provided in the section “How can you contact us about this notice?” below. To stop receiving text messages, reply STOP to any text message from us.

However, please note that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before its withdrawal nor, when applicable law allows, will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.

Cookies and similar technologies: You can turn off Google Analytics using the switch on our Cookie Policy page. Most Web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove cookies and to reject cookies. If you choose to remove cookies or reject cookies, this could affect certain features of our Website, such as our contact forms.

If you have questions or comments about your privacy rights, you may email us at contact@aztreeconsulting.com.

9. Controls for Do-Not-Track features

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage, no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this Privacy Notice. You can still turn off our analytics at any time using the switch on our Cookie Policy page.

California law requires us to let you know how we respond to web browser DNT signals. Because there currently is not an industry or legal standard for recognizing or honoring DNT signals, we do not respond to them at this time.

10. Do United States residents have specific privacy rights?

In Short: If you are a resident of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, or Virginia, you may have the right to request access to and receive details about the personal information we maintain about you and how we have processed it, correct inaccuracies, get a copy of, or delete your personal information. You may also have the right to withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information. These rights may be limited in some circumstances by applicable law. More information is provided below.

Categories of personal information we collect

We have collected the following categories of personal information in the past twelve (12) months:

Category	Examples	Collected
A. Identifiers	Contact details, such as name, telephone number, email address, Internet Protocol address, and online identifiers (such as the random identifier used by Google Analytics)	YES
B. Personal information as defined in the California Customer Records statute	Name and contact information	YES
C. Protected classification characteristics under state or federal law	Gender, age, date of birth, race and ethnicity, national origin, marital status, and other demographic data	NO
D. Commercial information	Records of the services you hire us for, invoices, and payments (card and bank details are handled by our payment processor, not stored by us)	YES
E. Biometric information	Fingerprints and voiceprints	NO
F. Internet or other similar network activity	Pages visited on our Website, how and when you used it, and the website that referred you	YES
G. Geolocation data	Approximate location (country, region, or city) estimated from your IP address	YES
H. Audio, electronic, sensory, or similar information	Images and audio, video or call recordings created in connection with our business activities	NO
I. Professional or employment-related information	Business contact details, if you contact us on behalf of a business	YES
J. Education Information	Student records and directory information	NO
K. Inferences drawn from collected personal information	Inferences drawn from any of the collected personal information listed above to create a profile or summary about, for example, an individual’s preferences and characteristics	NO
L. Sensitive personal information		NO

We may also collect other personal information outside of these categories through instances where you interact with us in person, online, or by phone or mail in the context of:

• Receiving help through our customer support channels; and

• Facilitation in the delivery of our Services and to respond to your inquiries.

We will use and retain the collected personal information as needed to provide the Services or for:

• Category A – As long as needed to respond to you, provide our Services, and maintain our business records (online identifiers used for analytics: no more than 14 months)

• Category B – As long as needed to respond to you, provide our Services, and maintain our business records

• Category D – As long as needed for our business, tax, and accounting records

• Category F – Detailed analytics data: no more than 14 months

• Category G – Detailed analytics data: no more than 14 months; country recorded with a contact form submission is kept with that submission

• Category I – As long as needed to respond to you, provide our Services, and maintain our business records

Sources of personal information

Learn more about the sources of personal information we collect in “What information do we collect?”

How we use and share personal information

Learn more about how we use your personal information in the section, “How do we process your information?”

We collect personal information through our contact forms, through your communications with us, and through analytics cookies (see our Cookie Policy).

Will your information be shared with anyone else?

We may disclose your personal information to our service providers, who may only use it to provide services to us. Learn more about how we disclose personal information in the section, “When and with whom do we share your personal information?”

We have not sold or shared (as defined under California law) any personal information to third parties in the preceding twelve (12) months, and we do not use personal information for targeted advertising. We have disclosed the following categories of personal information to service providers for a business purpose in the preceding twelve (12) months:

• Category A. Identifiers

• Category B. Personal information as defined in the California Customer Records law

• Category D. Commercial information

• Category F. Internet or other electronic network activity information

• Category G. Geolocation data

• Category I. Professional or employment-related information

The categories of service providers to whom we disclosed personal information can be found under “When and with whom do we share your personal information?”

Your rights

You have rights under certain US state data protection laws. However, these rights are not absolute, and in certain cases, we may decline your request as permitted by law. These rights include:

• Right to know whether or not we are processing your personal data

• Right to access your personal data

• Right to correct inaccuracies in your personal data

• Right to request the deletion of your personal data

• Right to obtain a copy of the personal data you previously shared with us

• Right to non-discrimination for exercising your rights

• Right to opt out of the processing of your personal data if it is used for targeted advertising (or sharing as defined under California’s privacy law), the sale of personal data, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects (“profiling”). We do not sell personal data, use it for targeted advertising, or use it for such profiling.

Depending upon the state where you live, you may also have the following rights:

• Right to access the categories of personal data being processed (as permitted by applicable law, including Minnesota’s privacy law)

• Right to obtain a list of the categories of third parties to which we have disclosed personal data (as permitted by applicable law, including California’s and Delaware’s privacy law)

• Right to obtain a list of specific third parties to which we have disclosed personal data (as permitted by applicable law, including Minnesota’s and Oregon’s privacy law)

• Right to review, understand, question, and correct how personal data has been profiled (as permitted by applicable law, including Minnesota’s privacy law)

• Right to limit use and disclosure of sensitive personal data (as permitted by applicable law, including California’s privacy law)

• Right to opt out of the collection of sensitive data and personal data collected through the operation of a voice or facial recognition feature (as permitted by applicable law, including Florida’s privacy law)

How to exercise your rights

To exercise these rights, you can email us a privacy request at contact@aztreeconsulting.com, send one through our contact form, call us at 602-845-0936, or use the other contact details at the bottom of this document. The email and form links above start a message for you; you can change anything in it before sending.

Under certain US state data protection laws, you can designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. We may deny a request from an authorized agent that does not submit proof that they have been validly authorized to act on your behalf in accordance with applicable laws.

Request verification

Upon receiving your request, we will need to verify your identity to determine you are the same person about whom we have the information in our system. We will only use personal information provided in your request to verify your identity or authority to make the request. However, if we cannot verify your identity from the information already maintained by us, we may request that you provide additional information for the purposes of verifying your identity and for security or fraud-prevention purposes.

If you submit the request through an authorized agent, we may need to collect additional information to verify your identity before processing your request and the agent will need to provide a written and signed permission from you to submit such request on your behalf.

Appeals

Under certain US state data protection laws, if we decline to take action regarding your request, you may appeal our decision by emailing us at contact@aztreeconsulting.com. We will inform you in writing of any action taken or not taken in response to the appeal, including a written explanation of the reasons for the decisions. If your appeal is denied, you may submit a complaint to your state attorney general.

California “Shine the Light” law

California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine the Light” law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. We do not share personal information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us by using the contact details provided in the section “How can you contact us about this notice?”

11. Text messaging (SMS)

We will only communicate with you via text message (SMS) on an opt-in basis. By contacting us via text message (SMS), or by providing your mobile phone number and agreeing to receive text messages (SMS) on our contact form, you are providing consent to such communication. We keep a record of your choice, including the wording you agreed to and when. You may withdraw that consent, opt-out, and stop all future communication via text message (SMS) by replying STOP to any text message (SMS) you receive. Reply HELP to ask for help. Message frequency varies, and message and data rates may apply. Communication via text message (SMS) is solely for the purpose of providing customer support and responding to service inquiries. We will not market to you via text message (SMS) or have any third parties do it on our behalf.

No mobile information will be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. Text messaging opt-in data and consent will not be shared with any third parties.

12. Do we make updates to this notice?

In Short: Yes, we will update this notice as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.

We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Notice. If we make material changes to this Privacy Notice, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this Privacy Notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

13. How can you contact us about this notice?

If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may email us at contact@aztreeconsulting.com, call us at 602-845-0936, or contact us by post at:

Dave Spilsbury Arboricultural Consulting, LLC
18 E University Dr Ste 208
Mesa, AZ 85201-5934
United States

14. How can you review, update, or delete the data we collect from you?

Based on the applicable laws of your country or state of residence in the US, you may have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, details about how we have processed it, correct inaccuracies, or delete your personal information. You may also have the right to withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information. These rights may be limited in some circumstances by applicable law. To request to review, update, or delete your personal information, please email us a privacy request or send one through our contact form.