Last Updated on: May 24, 2018
This Privacy Policy describes how we at Visit Tri-Valley, a California corporation (“Company,” “we,” “our,” “us”), handle your information in connection with your use and operation of www.VisitTriValley.com, its related webpages, and/or any application (“app”) or software programs owned or operated by the Company (collectively, the “Site”), including the kind of information we gather and how it is used, and how you can review and request changes to any of your personal information. This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected through the Site and not to information collected offline.
Visit Tri-Valley is committed to protecting the privacy of visitors to our website, subscribers to our newsletters, and those providing contact information. In addition, Visit Tri-Valley is opposed to unauthorized commercial e-mail delivery, otherwise known as spam. Please read the following Privacy and Spam Policy to understand how your personal information is treated. From time to time, Visit Tri-Valley may offer new information or services that may affect this policy. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy and Spam Policy, please send an e-mail to info@visittrivalley.com. Spam abuses can be notified at info@visittrivalley.com.
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT & HOW IS IT USED?
Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Website: We may collect personal information from you such as your name or e-mail address. For example, you may voluntarily submit personal information to Visit Tri-Valley by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, entering a giveaway or submitting a contact form. In addition, upon making certain inquiries described herein, we may ask you to create a user profile, which would allow you to create a username and password. We will store the username, but your password will not be visible in our records.
When you complete one of our forms for an Inspiration Guide or a contest, you are automatically entered into our database to receive our newsletter, in which you can opt out at any time by clicking the unsubscribe button.
Information We Collect from Others:
We may receive information about you from other sources. For example, if you use a third-party software through the site, they may transfer information to us for fulfillment.
Automatically-Collected Information:
We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access VisitTriValley.com or a url directly associated with VisitTriValley.com. For example, when you use VisitTriValley.com, we will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times, pages you visited when you accessed the website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using Visit Tri-Valley, such as links clicked.
Cookies:
We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by Visit Tri-Valley. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the website.
The following list includes examples of specific ways we collect personal information from our website visitors and the type of information collected. Your information is never sold or rented to a third party and is the sole property of Visit Tri-Valley.
Electronic Newsletter:
To register online for our electronic newsletters, we request the following required information: (i) name, and (ii) e-mail address. The provision of an e-mail address is mandatory in order to receive our newsletter.
Contact and Entry Forms:
To contact Visit Tri-Valley for the purposes of evaluating or engaging our services, entering giveaways or to answer your questions, we utilize numerous forms throughout our site. Required information varies depending on the form and at most includes (i) name, (ii) phone and (iii) e-mail address. The provision of this information is mandatory in order to receive a response from Visit Tri-Valley. The provision of the remaining information requested on the registration form is optional. We also find it is easier and quicker to provide information if we have your phone number and email.
We use Unbounce as an information gathering source. You can see their Privacy Policy here.
Online Purchases:
When you purchase a product from Visit Tri-Valley, we utilize a third-party online shopping system, Shopify, which is described more fully below. To process your payment, certain standard required information includes address and credit card information. Transactions are secured via SSL encryption and credit card details will never be e-mailed. Credit information is purged from our systems after it is used and verified for your current purchase.
HOW YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION MAY BE USED
Visit Tri-Valley may use your personal information in the following ways:
- To operate and maintain the website;
- To create your account, identify you as a user of the website, and customize the website to your account;
- To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each e-mail newsletter will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings by unsubscribing;
- To send you administrative communications, such as administrative e-mails, confirmation e-mails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;
- To notify you of prizes you may have won;
- To respond to your comments or inquiries;
- To provide you with user support;
- To track and measure website performance;
- To process payment for purchases you make through Visit Tri-Valley;
- To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity;
- To review the effectiveness of our marketing programs and analyze other general demographic trends;
- To notify you of new information or services that may be of interest to you; or,
- To send promotional materials.
DOES VISIT TRI-VALLEY SHARE MY INFORMATION?
Visit Tri-Valley will not share, rent, or sell your personally identifiable information with third-parties. We may, however, share your information with third-parties when we are authorized to share such information.
Additionally, Visit Tri-Valley may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by its respective privacy policy. Visit Tri-Valley currently uses the following third-party service providers:
Tracking:
Visit Tri-Valley uses various marketing tools that help us create a better user experience for people visiting our site. These tools allow us to look at aggregated data such as scrolling patterns, clicks, and allow us to run tests to determine which pages result in the best actions. However, your personally identifiable information is not used by any of these tools. We use the following third-party service providers for tracking:
Webhook: Privacy Policy
Google Analytics: Privacy Policy
Remarketing:
Visit Tri-Valley uses remarketing tracking cookies and conversion pixels from vendors such as Google and Facebook to present special offers to you for our products or services over the Google Content Network and via social networks. This means you may see an ad for one of our products or services as a result of visiting our website or Facebook page. In addition, Visit Tri-Valley uses custom audiences based on e-mails of subscribers and customers. This allows us to present special offers for our products and services to you via Facebook. However, your personally identifiable information is not used by any remarketing service other than to present you special offers from us. We use the following third-party service providers for remarketing:
Facebook: Opt-out of Facebook remarketing here
Google: Opt-out of Google remarketing here
Newsletters:
Visit Tri-Valley uses Mail Chimp as its e-mail service provider. Mail Chimp collects contact information, distributes our newsletter, and tracks actions you take that assist us in measuring the performance of the website and newsletters. Upon subscription, Mail Chimp also tracks the pages you visit on the website.
Our newsletters contain tracking pixels. This pixel is embedded in e-mails and allows us an analysis of the success of our newsletters. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an e-mail and which links within the e-mail you click. This behavior is not passed to third-parties. All data submitted at the time of subscription to our newsletter is stored on Mail Chimp’s servers. You may access Mail Chimp’s privacy policy here. At any time, you may be removed from our newsletter list by clicking on the unsubscribe button provided in each e-mail.
Purchases:
Visit Tri-Valley uses Shopify to service payments for some services. Shopify processes and tracks orders and affiliate activity. Shopify collects personal information such as your name, e-mail address, address, and payment information. All data entered into Shopify is stored on Shopify’s site. Click here for their Privacy
All payments processed through Shopify use PayPal
Payflow. This service stores your name, amount of your purchase, and payment details on their site. PayPal Payflow is governed by PayPal’s Privacy Policy.
Upon making a purchase through Shopify, you will receive e-mail confirmations to the e-mail address you provide during your purchase. These e-mails are sent through various services as outlined below:
Contact Information and Website Support:
We offer multiple ways to contact Visit Tri-Valley, including contact forms, e-mails, and phone. If at any time, you attempt to contact us through a contact form, the information you provide will be stored on our servers.
Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your e-mail address(es) or other personal information without your consent; however, we may disclose or transfer personal information collected through Visit Tri-Valley to third-parties who acquire all or a portion of our business, which may be the result of a merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.
ANONYMOUS DATA
From time to time, we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.
COOKIES
Visit Tri-Valley uses cookies to: store visitors’ preferences; record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit; ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads; or customize our content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, as described herein.
At any time, you may prevent the setting of cookies by the website, by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. However, if users deactivate the setting of cookies in your Internet browser, not all functions of Visit Tri-Valley may be entirely usable.
International Users
If you access the Site from a location outside the United States, you may be subject to laws governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure that differ from United States law. For example, The European Union Directive on Data Protection (the “E.U. Directive”) generally prohibits the transfer of personal data to countries outside the European Union that fail to ensure an “adequate level of [privacy] protection.” “Personal data” under the E.U. Directive means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. An “identifiable person” is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identification number or to one or more factors specific to his physical, physiological, mental, economic, cultural or social identity. Therefore “personal data” includes information that you may transmit to the Site. We do not currently guarantee compliance with the E.U. Directive or the U.S.-E.U. Safe Harbor Frameworks as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal data from European Union member countries. We have not certified that we adhere to the Safe Harbor Privacy Principles of notice, choice, onward transfer, security, data integrity, access, and enforcement. By using the Site, you consent to the transfer of your personal information to the United States, and to utilize services and applications whose use are governed by the laws and jurisdiction of the United States, notwithstanding the requirements of any other jurisdiction, including, without limitation, the E.U. Directive.
California “Eraser Law” Notice
Registered users of the Site who are California residents and are under 18 years of age may request and obtain removal of postings on the Site that they themselves post by emailing us at leigh@visittrivalley.com. All requests must be labeled “California Removal Request” on the email subject line. All requests must provide a description of the content or information in your Posting that you want removed and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material and, so that we can process your request and contact you if we have questions, include your name and the name and URL (if applicable) of the website, application or other interactive service. We shall not accept requests via postal mail, telephone, or facsimile. We are not responsible for notices that are not labeled or sent properly, or may not be able to respond if you do not provide complete information.
Please also note that any requests for removal do not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of the content or information from the Site. For example, content that you have posted may be republished or reposted by another user or third party.
WHAT IF THERE ARE CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY AND SPAM POLICY? If we change our Privacy and Spam Policy, we will post those changes on our privacy page at https://vtv.flip2staging.com/privacy/.
RIGHTS RELATED TO YOUR PERSONAL DATA
Opt-out: You may opt-out of future e-mail communications by following the unsubscribe links in our e-mails. You may also notify us at info@visittrivalley.com to be removed from our mailing list.
Access: You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to info@visittrivalley.com
Amend: You may contact us at info@visittrivalley.com to amend or update your personal information.
Forget: In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to info@visittrivalley.com
Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.
SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION
At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to Visit Tri-Valley. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy and Spam Policy.
CHILDREN’S INFORMATION
Visit Tri-Valley does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 18. If a parent or guardian believes that Visit Tri-Valley has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 18 in its database, please contact us immediately at info@visittrivalley.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
SPAM POLICY
Visit Tri-Valley is strongly opposed to spam. We will only send e-mail to users that have explicitly requested to receive an e-mail from Visit Tri-Valley. Examples may include:
- Opt-in subscribers to the Visit Tri-Valley Newsletter
- Users who complete a contact form
- All communication will be related and relevant to what you have requested.
- Opt out or unsubscribe options will be offered with all communication.
WEB LINKS
Visit Tri-Valley contains links to other sites. Please be aware that Visit Tri-Valley is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy and spam policies of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy and Spam Policy applies solely to information collected by Visit Tri-Valley.
HOW DO I CONTACT VISIT TRI-VALLEY?
If you have any further questions or comments regarding the Visit Tri-Valley website or this Privacy and Spam Policy, you may contact info@visittrivalley.com
LEGAL DISCLAIMER
We may disclose personal information when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the edicts of the law or comply with a legal process served on our site.