Privacy Policy for Golden Valley Company
Effective Date: July 15, 2025Golden Valley Company ("we," "us," or "our") is committed to protecting the privacy of our website visitors and customers. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your personal information when you visit our website and use our services.By accessing or using our website, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. Please read it carefully.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect various types of personal information from you, depending on how you interact with our website and services. This may include:
- Personal Identifiers: Name, email address, postal address, phone number, and other similar contact data.
- Account Information: If you create an account with us, we may collect your username, password, and other information necessary for account management.
- Commercial Information: Records of products or services you have purchased, obtained, or considered from us.
- Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity Information: Your IP address, browser type, operating system, Browse history, search history, information regarding your interaction with our website, applications, or advertisements.
- Geolocation Data: General location information derived from your IP address or, with your consent, precise geolocation data from your mobile device.
- Payment Information: If you make a purchase, we collect payment details, such as credit card numbers and billing addresses. However, we do not store full credit card numbers on our servers.
- Communication Information: Any information you provide when you communicate with us, such as through email, contact forms, or customer service inquiries.
- Demographic Information: Such as age, gender, and preferences, which you may choose to provide.
- Inferences: Information drawn from other personal information to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.
2. How We Collect Your Information
We collect information through various methods, including:
- Directly from You: When you fill out forms on our website (e.g., contact forms, registration forms), make a purchase, sign up for newsletters, or communicate with us.
- Automatically: As you navigate and interact with our website, we may use technologies like cookies, web beacons, and similar tracking technologies to collect information about your equipment, Browse actions, and patterns.
- From Third Parties: We may receive information about you from third-party services that integrate with our website, such as analytics providers or advertising partners, to the extent permitted by law.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use the personal information we collect for various business and commercial purposes, including:
- To Provide and Maintain Our Services: To operate, maintain, and improve our website, products, and services.
- To Process Transactions: To fulfill orders, process payments, and manage your purchases.
- To Communicate with You: To respond to your inquiries, provide customer support, send you updates, newsletters, marketing and promotional materials, and other information related to our services.
- For Personalization: To personalize your experience on our website and to deliver content and product offerings relevant to your interests.
- For Analytics and Improvement: To understand and analyze how you use our website, track website traffic, identify trends, and improve our website's functionality and user experience.
- For Marketing and Advertising: To send you marketing communications, display targeted advertisements, and inform you about promotions, products, and services we believe may be of interest to you.
- For Security and Fraud Prevention: To detect and prevent fraud, security incidents, and other malicious or illegal activities.
- For Legal Compliance: To comply with applicable laws, regulations, and legal processes, and to respond to lawful requests from public authorities.
- For Internal Research and Development: To develop new products, services, features, and functionality.
4. How We Share Your Information
We may share your personal information with third parties in the following circumstances:
- Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party vendors, consultants, and other service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as payment processing, website hosting, data analysis, marketing, and customer service. These service providers are obligated to protect your information and only use it for the purposes for which it was disclosed.
- Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, or bankruptcy, your personal information may be transferred as part of that transaction.
- Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court order or government agency request).
- Protection of Rights: We may disclose your information when we believe it is necessary to protect our rights, property, or safety, or the rights, property, or safety of others, including to enforce our terms and conditions.
- With Your Consent: We may share your information with third parties when we have your explicit consent to do so.
5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to track activity on our website and hold certain information. Cookies are small data files stored on your device. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our website.We use cookies for various purposes, including:
- Essential Cookies: Necessary for the website to function properly.
- Analytical/Performance Cookies: To analyze how visitors use our website and monitor website performance.
- Functionality Cookies: To remember your preferences and provide enhanced features.
- Advertising/Targeting Cookies: To deliver relevant advertisements to you based on your interests.
6. Data Retention
We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (e.g., for legal, accounting, or reporting requirements).
7. Data Security
We implement reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
8. Your Rights
Depending on your location and applicable data protection laws, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information:
- Right to Access: You may have the right to request access to the personal information we hold about you.
- Right to Rectification: You may have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal information we hold about you.
- Right to Erasure ("Right to be Forgotten"): You may have the right to request the deletion of your personal information under certain circumstances.
- Right to Restrict Processing: You may have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information under certain circumstances.
- Right to Object to Processing: You may have the right to object to the processing of your personal information for certain purposes, such as direct marketing.
- Right to Data Portability: You may have the right to receive your personal information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit that data to another controller.
- Right to Withdraw Consent: If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. This will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
- Right to Lodge a Complaint: You may have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you believe your privacy rights have been violated.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the "Contact Information" section below. We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable law.
9. Children's Privacy
Our website and services are not directed to children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us immediately. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without verifiable parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.
10. Third-Party Links
Our website may contain links to third-party websites or services that are not operated by us. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of these third parties. We strongly advise you to review the privacy policies of any third-party sites you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
11. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Effective Date" at the top. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any updates.