Privacy policy

1. Who we are

Anchor Marianas is the trade name of Anchor Marianas LLC, a Delaware limited liability company based in Austin, Texas. We run an AI-first business brokerage for Texas accounting firms. We match owners who want to sell with buyers who fit. We do not buy firms ourselves. We are not a registered broker-dealer or a licensed real estate broker. Contact: adam@anchormarianas.com.

2. What we collect

From the seller intake forms at /sellers and /sellers/start, we may receive what you choose to send: your name, email or phone, firm name, city and state, rough firm facts (such as revenue range, years in business, staff count, and timing), a short note, and your consent to be contacted. Today those forms open a draft in your own email app. Nothing reaches us until you press send there, and this website does not store the note on our servers.

We may later offer an optional anonymous listing; if we do, we will ask for your consent first. Please leave out client names and client tax details.

If you email, call, or message us, we keep what you tell us so we can reply. If you pay a fee set in a signed engagement letter, Stripe handles the payment details. We receive limited confirmation such as the amount and whether the payment succeeded. We do not store your full card number.

We use PostHog for site analytics. Autocapture and session recording are turned off. PostHog may collect limited technical and usage data such as pages viewed, device type, and browser. The site is hosted on Vercel.

3. How we use information

We use your information to reply to you, to understand your firm, to decide whether there is a fit with a buyer, to prepare a rough price range when you hire us for that work under a signed engagement letter, to show anonymized buyer wants you ask us to publish, to process fees you agree to pay, and to keep the site working and secure. We may use aggregated or anonymized data to understand how the site is used. We do not add you to a marketing list unless you ask.

4. Who we share with

We do not sell your personal information. We share your name, your firm’s name, or identifying details with a potential buyer only after you say yes for that buyer and that buyer signs a non-disclosure agreement.

We share information with service providers who help us run the business, only as needed: Vercel for hosting, PostHog for analytics, and Stripe when you pay a fee. We may also share information when the law requires it, to protect our rights, with our own lawyers and accountants who owe us a duty of confidentiality, or as part of a business transfer.

5. How long we keep it

We keep intake information for 1 year after the last contact. If a deal goes forward, signed papers may require us to keep some records longer. When we no longer need personal information, we delete or anonymize it, except where the law requires us to keep a short record.

6. Your choices

You can ask us to access, correct, or delete the personal information we hold about you. If we later offer an anonymous listing and you consent, you can ask us to take it down. Email adam@anchormarianas.com with a clear request. We will respond within a reasonable time. We may keep a short note that you asked, so we do not contact you again, and anything the law requires us to keep. We cannot delete copies a buyer already received under a signed NDA, but that NDA requires the buyer to return or destroy them on request.

7. Security

We take reasonable steps to protect personal information. No method of storage or transmission is perfect. Please do not send client names, client tax returns, Social Security numbers, or bank details through the intake forms.

8. Children

The site and services are for businesses and adults. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has given us information, contact us and we will delete it.

9. Where we process information

We are based in Austin, Texas, and process information there and with providers in other places. If you use the site from outside the United States, you understand that your information may be transferred to and processed in the United States and other locations.

10. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. When we do, we will change the effective date above. Your continued use of the site after an update means you accept the revised policy.

11. Contact

Questions about this policy or your information can go to adam@anchormarianas.com.