Privacy Policy
Your privacy is critically important to us. At Little River Ranch we have a few fundamental principles:
• We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
• We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services or products you have requested.
Below is our privacy policy which incorporates these goals: It is Little River Ranch’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Little River Ranch collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Little River Ranch’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how visitors use its website. From time to time, Little River Ranch may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Little River Ranch’s websites choose to interact with Little River Ranch in ways that require us to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Little River Ranch gathers depend on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who request to be on our newsletter list to provide a name, contact information and an email address. Little River Ranch collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with us.
Little River Ranch does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. Visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
Little River Ranch may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Little River Ranch may monitor the most popular pages on the Little River Ranch’s site or use spam screening service to help identify spam. Little River Ranch may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Little River Ranch does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Little River Ranch discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations that
(i) need to know that information in order to process it on Little River Ranch’s behalf or to provide services available at Little River Ranch’s websites, and
(ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others.
Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Little River Ranch’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them.
Little River Ranch will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations, as described above, Little River Ranch discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental requests, or when Little River Ranch believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Little River Ranch, third parties or the public at large.
If you become a registered user of a Little River Ranch website and have supplied your email address, Little River Ranch may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new events or activities, solicit your feedback, or keep you up to date with what’s going on with Little River Ranch. The primary intent of any newsletters is to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Little River Ranch takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Little River Ranch uses cookies to help identify and track visitors, their usage of the website, and their website access preferences. Little River Ranch visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Little River Ranch’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of the website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information
A note here for those in the European Union about our legal grounds for processing information about you under EU data protection laws, which is that our use of your information is based on the grounds that:
(1) The use is necessary in order to fulfill our commitments to you under our Terms of Service or other agreements with you or is necessary to administer your account–for example, in order to enable access to our website on your device or charge you for a paid plan; or
(2) The use is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation; or
(3) The use is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or those of another person; or
(4) We have a legitimate interest in using your information–for example, to provide and update our Services, to improve our Services so that we can offer you an even better user experience, to safeguard our Services, to communicate with you, to measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of our advertising, and better understand user retention and attrition, to monitor and prevent any problems with our Services, and to personalize your experience.
Choices
You have several choices when it comes to information about you:
Limit the Information you Provide: If you register for a service with us, you can choose not to provide optional account information. Please keep in mind that if you do not provide this information certain features of our Services may not be accessible.
Opt-Out of Electronic Communications: You may opt out of receiving promotional messages from us. Follow the instructions in those messages. If you opt out of promotional messages, we may still send you other messages, like those about your account and legal notices.
Set your Browser to Reject Cookies: You can set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies before using Little River Ranch website, with the drawback that certain features of the website may not function properly.
Your Rights
If you are located in certain countries, including those that fall under the scope of the European General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), data protection laws give you rights with respect to your personal data, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the rights to:
Request access to your personal data;
Request correction or deletion of your personal data;
Object to our use and processing of your personal data;
Request that we limit our use and processing of your personal data; and
Request portability of your personal data.
You can contact us to make a request regarding these rights.
EU individuals also have the right to make a complaint to a government supervisory authority.
Business Transfers
If Little River Ranch, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Little River Ranch goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that any acquirer of Little River Ranch may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Little River Ranch and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Little River Ranch may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in its sole discretion. Little River Ranch encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Little River Ranch
491 CR 415
Bay City, TX 77414
becca@littleriverranchtx.com
updated August 4, 2018
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