What a directory search shares, and what Lazy K keeps.
The Horse Services Directory works without an account. Lazy K does not receive or store the location you type, the coordinates your browser reports, or the businesses Google Maps shows you.
Information sent to Google Maps
After you enter a city, state, county or ZIP code and press Search, the page combines that text with the horse-service category you selected. If the embedded map is configured, your browser sends that search to Google Maps and displays Google's search results in an iframe. If it is not configured, the page offers a link that opens the same search on the Google Maps website.
Google handles the search and related browser information under the Google Privacy Policy and Google Maps Platform Terms. The Maps Embed API key is visible in the iframe URL by design and is restricted to approved Lazy K website addresses and the Maps Embed API. It is not a private server credential.
Using your current location
The directory has a Use my location button. This is the only part of the page that involves your device location, and it is worth being precise about what happens.
- Nothing happens until you press it. The page does not ask for location when it loads, and it does not check whether you have granted permission before. The browser's permission prompt appears only after that press.
- Your browser, not Lazy K, obtains the coordinates. If you allow it, the browser hands the page a latitude and longitude.
- Those coordinates are sent to Google. The page rounds them to five decimal places and puts them in the address of the Google Maps embed, as a map center with a fixed zoom, together with the category you chose. Loading that embed is a request from your browser to Google, so Google receives the coordinates along with the usual information a browser sends any website, such as your IP address and browser details. Google's handling is governed by the Google Privacy Policy.
- The coordinates are not put in this page's web address. They appear only inside the embedded map's own address. Nothing in the address bar changes, so a link you copy or share from the directory does not carry your location.
- Lazy K never receives them. There is no Lazy K server in this path. The coordinates are not written to your account, to the Lazy K database, to browser storage, or to a Lazy K log. Lazy K has installed no advertising network or cross-site tracker, and the one count the site does keep, how many times each tool was run by day, records no location and nothing that identifies a visitor. Google still receives the embed request itself, as described above.
- You never have to use it. Typing a city and state, a county, or a ZIP code produces the same kind of search without your device location being involved at all.
Denying or dismissing the permission prompt is handled: the page says so and invites you to type a place instead. If you have already granted permission to this site and want to withdraw it, that is done in your browser's site settings, not here.
What Lazy K stores
The directory has no accounts, no business-listing database, no location history and no public reviews. What you type is not sent to or saved by a Lazy K server, and the page does not copy Google business results into Lazy K files or browser storage. The site-wide tool count described under “What reaches other companies” records a tool being run and nothing about who ran it; the directory search itself is not counted.
Today at the Barn
The weather page also has a Use my location control, and it behaves differently from the directory, so it is set out separately here.
What is stored in this browser
Unlike the directory, Today at the Barn does save one place in your browser's local storage, so the page opens on it next time. That record holds a latitude, a longitude and a place label, and nothing else. It is a single place, not a history: each new choice replaces the previous one. Nothing is stored by the directory, and nothing is stored by the trail search.
Precision before storage
Coordinates that come from your device are rounded to two decimal places before anything is stored or sent, which is roughly a kilometer. That is a forecast grid box rather than a barn. Your device's full-precision coordinates never leave your browser. Coordinates that come from picking a town, choosing a city or entering a ZIP code are the published center point of that place from the U.S. Census Bureau Gazetteer, so they are not your location at all.
Which services receive it, and why
- National Weather Service receives the rounded coordinates, to find the forecast grid square and return the hourly forecast and any active alerts.
- Open-Meteo Air Quality receives the rounded coordinates, to return modeled air quality for that area.
- Open-Meteo Geocoding receives the place name you type, and only when you type one, to turn it into coordinates. Your device location is never sent here.
- BigDataCloud receives the rounded coordinates, and only when you press Use my location, to turn that point into a place name to show you.
Each is a request from your browser straight to that service, so each also sees the usual information any browser sends any website, including your IP address. Their handling is governed by their own privacy policies. Sunrise and sunset are calculated inside your browser from the NOAA solar position formulas, with no request at all.
How to clear the saved place
Clear this site's data in your browser: in most browsers, the padlock or settings icon beside the web address, then site settings or cookies and site data, then delete. Clearing browsing data for this site does the same. The saved place exists only in the browser you chose it in, it does not follow you to another device, and there is nothing on the Lazy K side to delete.
Horse Trails
The trail search has its own Use my location control. Those coordinates are not stored anywhere and are not saved between visits. They are used to center the search, and a bounding box around that center is sent to the public agency and community map services the page queries (the National Park Service and other agency map services, and the OpenStreetMap Overpass endpoint) so they can return the trails inside that area. A bounding box for a 10 mile or larger search radius is a coarse area, not a point, but it is still derived from where you are, which is why it is written down here.
Account information and other services
The controls above do not save your device coordinates to your account. A preferred place, property plan or other information you deliberately save in an account may contain location details. The site and member privacy policy covers accounts, merchandise, Square and Printful, staff access, retention, deletion and minors.
Optional analytics choices
Google Analytics is off unless you choose to allow it on this browser. If allowed, Google receives page visits, browser and device information, a referrer and an approximate location derived from your IP address, and uses cookies to measure visits. We do not send account IDs, horse records, payment information or device coordinates to Analytics. Advertising personalization and Google Signals are disabled in our site code.
Optional analytics is for adults only. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control override an analytics opt-in. Essential sign-in storage and aggregate usage counters are separate. Refusing analytics does not affect your account, purchases or tools.
Optional analytics is off by default.
You can withdraw your choice here at any time. We remember it for six months on this browser. Withdrawal stops future collection and removes Analytics cookies we can access; it does not erase information already received by Google. Clearing this site's browser storage also resets your choice and may sign you out. These controls require JavaScript; without it, Analytics does not load.
The one thing Lazy K itself records is a count. Opening a page, running a calculator or planner, and a visit passing one, five and fifteen minutes each add one to a number for that thing for that day. The record holds which thing, how many, and the date, and no visitor identifier, no session identifier, no address, no location and nothing about your device. The database rules refuse a record carrying any of them, so this is a property of the system rather than a promise about it. It tells us which tools are worth improving. It cannot tell us who used one. Signed-in members should also read the member privacy page, which covers saved account information and your privacy rights.
Questions
Email kat@lazykhorsemanship.com with a privacy question. Read the directory terms of use.
Last updated September 9, 2026.