Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect the personal information of our website guests. By using our website, you accept and agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

INFORMATION COLLECTION

We collect personal information to understand specific needs of our guests so that we may serve them better. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable, such as your name, email address and phone number. The following outlines personal information we may collect.

Contact and Communications Information

If you contact us via our online Contact Us form, we will collect your first and last name, your email address, your phone number, and any information you choose to provide in your message to us. We use the information you provide to us respond to your request and to keep records of our communications with you.

Cookies and Other Similar Technologies

Our website uses cookies and other technologies to enhance your online experience and to learn about how you use our website. A “cookie” is a small file containing a string of characters that uniquely identifies your browser. While most browsers accept cookies by default, you can manually set your browser to refuse all or some cookies. Our servers may also automatically record information when you visit our website, including the URL that directed you to our website, your device type, browser type and the date and time of your visit.

In addition to cookies, there are other data collection technologies, such as internet tags, web beacons, pixels (e.g., clear gifs, pixel tags, single-pixel gifts) and navigational data collection files (e.g., log files, server logs, etc.) that can be used to collect data as you navigate through and interact with a website. For example, web beacons are tiny graphics with unique identifiers that are used to understand browsing activity. Log file information is automatically reported by your browser each time you access a web page. When you use our website, our servers automatically record certain information your web browser sends whenever you visit our website. These server logs may include information such as your browser type, number of clicks, pages viewed, and other information.

INFORMATION USE

We use information we collect about you as mentioned above and for the purposes listed below:

to communicate with you about our listings and other services;
to help keep our website working, safe and secure;
to respond to your requests, inquiries, or comments;
to analyze how our website is used;
to identify usage trends and aggregate metrics such as traffic to our website and demographic patterns, and for data analysis;
to help protect the security of our website including detecting and preventing fraudulent use or submissions; and,
to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our Terms of Use and other terms and policies.

INFORMATION SHARING

We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties. However, we may share personal information with our service providers who help us operate our website and provide our services as described above and below.

Business Transfers. Circumstances may arise, whether for strategic or other business reasons, in which we decide to sell, buy, merge, or otherwise reorganize our business. Such a transaction may involve the disclosure of personal information to prospective or actual purchasers. It is our practice to seek appropriate protection for all personal information in advance of any such transaction.
Employees and Independent Contractors. We may disclose information about you to our employees and independent contractors that have a need to know the information to help us with our services. We require our employees and independent contractors to follow this Privacy Policy for personal information that we share with them.
Third-Party Vendors. We may share information about you with third-party vendors who have a need to know your information in order to provide their services to us. This includes vendors that help us provide our services to you (such as email support services that enable us to communicate with you), those that assist us with our marketing efforts (e.g. by providing tools for identifying a specific marketing target group or improving our marketing campaigns), and those that help us understand and enhance our Website (like analytics providers).
Legal Requirements. We may disclose information about you in response to subpoenas, court orders or other legal process, or to comply with applicable laws. We may also share personal information to establish or exercise our legal rights, to defend against a claim, and to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding possible illegal activities, suspected fraud, safety of person or property, or a violation of our Terms of Use, this Privacy Policy, or any other policies or terms posted on this Website, or as required or permitted by law.
Aggregated or De-identified Data. We may share aggregated information and information that has been de-identified and does not identify any specific individual, such as groupings of demographic data and usage data, for business and marketing purposes, to assist us and others in understanding our website users’ interests, habits, and usage patterns, for certain content, services, marketing, or functionality, and for compliance with reporting or other legal obligations.

INFORMATION MAINTAINED

We may store information you provide, or information that is generated or collected automatically, for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, to comply with our business requirements and legal obligations, to resolve disputes, to provide our services, and to enforce our agreements. We take reasonable steps to delete personal information we collect when we have a legal obligation to do so or when we no longer have a purpose for retaining the information. To the extent permitted by law, we may retain and use anonymous, de-identified, and aggregated information for performance reporting, benchmarking, and analytic purposes and for service improvement. When we delete data, it will be removed from our active servers and databases; but it may remain in our archives when it is not practical or possible to delete it.

DATA SECURITY

While no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we take reasonable measures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

PUBLIC INFORMATION

Information that you allow us to make public, or that you make public, is disclosed publicly. For example, information you provide in your testimonial about our services, and any “Likes” or other comments you submit online will be available for viewing by everyone else. Public information may also be indexed by search engines or used by third parties. Please keep all this in mind when deciding what you would like to publicly share.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

Our website can only be used by persons 18 years of age and older. We do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 13 or target our services to children under 13.

YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES

You have some choices available when it comes to information about you.

Change Your Browser Settings for Cookies

Most web browsers are set by default to accept cookies. If you do not wish to receive cookies, you may set your browser to refuse all or some types of cookies or to alert you when cookies are being stored. These settings may affect your experience of our website’s functionality. Adjusting cookie settings may not fully delete all cookies that have already been created. To delete them, you should review your web browser settings after you have changed your cookie settings. The links below provide additional information about how to disable cookies or manage the cookie settings:

Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en

Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences

Microsoft Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/delete-cookies-in-microsoft-edge-63947406-40ac-c3b8-57b9-2a946a29ae09

Safari: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-sfri11471/mac and https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201265

Brave: https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360050634931-How-Do-I-Manage-Cookies-In-Brave-

Request to Delete – California and Virginia Residents Only

If you are a resident of California or Virginia, you have the right to request that we delete personal information we collected from you. Upon receipt of a verifiable request, we will delete your personal information from our records and direct our service providers to do the same. Please note that this right to delete is not absolute and only applies in certain circumstances. For example, this right applies to data held at the time the request is received and not to data that may be created in the future. Also, we may be required to retain certain information for a reasonable period of time for internal business purposes or by law. To exercise your right to delete, please contact us by email at blake@fwz.vfh.mybluehost.me.

For California residents, we are required by law to maintain records of consumer requests submitted under the California Consumer Privacy Act and how we responded to such requests for at least 24 months. We only use this information for recordkeeping purposes.

Request to Know – California Residents Only

If you are resident of California, you have the right to request that we disclose to you what personal information we have collected, used, or shared about you, and why we collected, used, or shared your information for the 12-month period preceding your request. To exercise your request to know right, please contact us by email at blake@fwz.vfh.mybluehost.me. Once we receive your request, we will respond to you within 45 calendar days. Please note that part of our request to know procedure includes a verification process where you may be asked for additional information to confirm your identity before we can complete processing your request.

SITES NOT COVERED BY THIS PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy does not apply to any third-party websites. This website may contain links to, and media or other content from, third parties. These links are to external resources that are solely provided for your convenience and easy access to additional information. Should you select such a link you will leave our website. We do not control third-party websites or their privacy practices, which may differ from our own privacy practices and policies. Any personal data you choose to provide to or that is collected by such third parties is not covered by our Privacy Policy. We encourage you to read the third-party website’s privacy policy before providing any personal information. A link to a third-party website from our website does mean that we endorse or make any representations or warranties about any third-party website, its products, services, or any information that is posted on any third-party website. Any information you provide or that is automatically collected from you by a third-party website will be governed by that third-party’s privacy policy and terms of use.

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

We may change this Privacy Policy at any time. When changes are made, our updated Privacy Policy will be posted here. We encourage you to check this page each time you visit our website for any changes so you are aware of them as they will apply to you.