These Terms of Use apply to the Local Mantle website, its guides, and its free browser-based tools. The website is operated by Local Mantle, Inc., based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In these terms, “Local Mantle,” “we,” and “our” refer to Local Mantle, Inc. “You” means the person visiting the website or the business they are authorized to represent.
Using This Website
You may browse the website, read our guides, compare plans, and use the free checklist for lawful personal or business purposes. By using these materials, you agree to follow these terms. If you do not agree, please stop using the website.
If you use the website on behalf of a business, you are responsible for having the authority to do so. You are also responsible for ensuring that changes you make to a business profile, website, or listing are authorized by that business.
Website Tools and Product Information
The free SEO checklist provides suggestions based on the boxes you select. It does not scan your website, access your business accounts, verify your answers, or measure your search performance. You should review each suggestion against your business circumstances before acting on it.
Interactive product previews explain how reports and workflows are organized. They are not reports about your business. Figures or examples in a preview should not be treated as a prediction of your results.
Selecting a plan or saving plan details on this website does not create an account, start a paid subscription, authorize a payment, or connect a business profile. Any purchase or use of a paid service requires a separate signup process and the applicable service and payment terms presented at that time.
Plans and Pricing
Plan descriptions explain the features, limits, and billing options shown on the website. We may update this information. A saved copy of plan details records what was displayed when you downloaded it; it is not an invoice, a reservation of service, or a price guarantee.
Where an annual option is shown as a monthly equivalent, the accompanying yearly total describes that option. Before any future purchase, review the full charge, billing period, applicable taxes, renewal terms, and cancellation conditions provided at checkout. These website terms do not create a billing or renewal obligation.
Your Responsibilities
You must use the website lawfully and avoid interfering with other visitors or the systems that provide it. In particular, you must not:
- Attempt to gain unauthorized access to servers, accounts, or data.
- Introduce malicious code, disrupt availability, or bypass security controls.
- Use automated requests in a way that creates an unreasonable load or ignores access restrictions.
- Misrepresent your identity, your authority over a business, or your relationship with Local Mantle.
- Use our materials to support unlawful conduct, deceptive business listings, fabricated reviews, or infringement of another person’s rights.
- Remove ownership notices or present our website content as your own commercial product.
You remain responsible for the information you publish, the permissions you obtain, and compliance with the rules of any search engine, directory, or AI platform you use.
Guides and Search Results
Our guides and checklists provide general information about local search and AI visibility. Search results depend on many factors outside our control, including location, search context, competitors, source information, and changes made by platform providers.
We do not guarantee a particular ranking, inclusion in an AI answer, number of leads, revenue increase, or other business outcome. Information can become outdated as platforms change. Consult the relevant platform’s current documentation and assess recommendations before changing your website or listings.
Ownership and Permission to Use Materials
Local Mantle’s original text, designs, graphics, and software are protected by applicable intellectual property laws. Third-party names, logos, fonts, and other materials remain the property of their respective owners.
You may save or print guides and checklist results for your own use or your internal business work. This permission does not transfer ownership or permit you to resell our content, publish substantial copies of it, or imply that Local Mantle endorses your business. Any rights not expressly granted remain with the relevant owner.
Third-Party Platforms and Links
The website may reference or link to Google, Bing, OpenAI, Anthropic, and other providers. Those references identify the services being discussed. They do not imply sponsorship, endorsement, or a partnership unless we expressly state otherwise.
Third-party services operate under their own terms and privacy policies. We do not control their content, availability, data practices, or decisions. Review their policies before submitting information or connecting an account.
Availability and Changes
We may update, replace, suspend, or remove website content and free tools. We aim to provide useful, accurate information, but do not promise that every page will always be available, complete, current, or error-free.
Keep your own copies of downloaded materials that you want to retain. We do not store a personal history of your checklist results or provide a recovery service for files downloaded to your device.
Disclaimers and Liability
To the extent permitted by applicable law, the website and its free materials are provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of uninterrupted operation, fitness for a particular purpose, or achievement of a particular result.
To the extent permitted by applicable law, Local Mantle is not responsible for indirect or consequential losses arising from use of this website or reliance on its general information, including lost profits, missed business opportunities, or loss of locally saved files.
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits rights, remedies, or liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. If mandatory consumer protections apply to you, those protections take precedence over any conflicting part of these terms.
Privacy
Our Privacy Policy explains how the website handles technical request information, checklist interactions, downloads, and external links. Your use of a third-party service is also subject to that provider’s privacy practices.
Governing Law and Disputes
These terms are governed by the laws of British Columbia and the federal laws of Canada applicable there, subject to any mandatory protections that apply where you live. Unless applicable law requires otherwise, disputes concerning these website terms may be brought before the courts located in Vancouver, British Columbia.
If you have a concern, please contact us first so we can try to resolve it. This request does not prevent you from exercising a legal right, contacting a regulator, or bringing a claim within an applicable time limit. These terms do not require binding arbitration or waive rights that cannot lawfully be waived.
Updates to These Terms
When we revise these terms, we will update the date at the top of this page. Changes apply to use of the website after the revised terms are published. A separate agreement for a paid service, if one is entered into, governs that service and is not replaced by a change to these website terms.
If a provision cannot be enforced, the remaining provisions continue to apply to the extent permitted by law. These terms do not restrict any legal rights you have that cannot be waived by agreement.
Contact Us
For questions about these terms, website content, or permitted use of our materials, email hello@localmantle.com.
Local Mantle, Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada