Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy explains how Galt's Valley collects, uses, stores, and shares personal information through galtsvalley.com, website forms, email follow-up, and related advisory conversations.
For this policy, "Galt's Valley," "we," "us," and "our" refer to the operator of this website. "You" refers to website visitors, business owners, advisors, investors, buyers, and other people who submit information to us.
Information we collect
We collect information you choose to submit through our website forms or direct communications, including:
- Name, email address, phone number, and role or business type.
- Message content, business details, valuation goals, exit-planning interests, and advisor-matching requests.
- Email consent preferences, unsubscribe requests, suppression status, and related communication records.
- Technical information such as IP address, browser type, device data, pages viewed, referral source, and approximate location derived from technical data.
We may use analytics tools, including Google Analytics, to understand website traffic and improve the site. These tools may use cookies or similar technologies. You can adjust cookie controls in your browser settings.
How we use information
We use personal information for the following purposes:
- To respond to your inquiry and provide requested information about valuations, exit planning, advisory services, or broker matching.
- To evaluate whether our services, or a partner advisor's services, may fit your request.
- To send transactional or service-related messages about your form submission or conversation with us.
- To send marketing or educational emails only where we have a lawful basis, such as your opt-in consent or another basis allowed by applicable law.
- To maintain unsubscribe, complaint, and suppression records so we do not send unwanted marketing emails.
- To protect the website, prevent spam or abuse, comply with legal duties, and enforce our policies.
If you are located in a jurisdiction that requires a lawful basis for processing, our bases may include consent, steps taken at your request before entering a business relationship, legitimate interests, and compliance with legal obligations.
Email communications and consent
We may use trusted email service providers to send, route, and manage email communications. These providers may process email addresses, sender and recipient information, message content, delivery metadata, bounce data, complaint data, unsubscribe data, and similar email-delivery information as needed to provide email services.
Our email practices are designed to respect consent, sender transparency, and unsubscribe requirements:
- Marketing emails are sent only to recipients who provided clear permission or where applicable law otherwise allows the communication.
- Website opt-in checkboxes for marketing follow-up are not pre-checked.
- We keep records showing when and how a person submitted information or opted in.
- Every marketing email should identify Galt's Valley as the sender and include an easy unsubscribe method.
- We honor unsubscribe requests without undue delay and maintain suppression records to prevent future marketing sends to opted-out recipients.
Retention and security
We keep personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to handle your request, maintain business records, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent abuse, and honor opt-out preferences. Suppression or unsubscribe records may be retained so we can avoid contacting you again for marketing.
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards to protect personal information. No website, email system, or internet transmission is completely secure, so you should avoid sending highly sensitive information through ordinary website forms or email.
Your choices and rights
You can unsubscribe from marketing emails by using the unsubscribe link in the email or by contacting us. You may also ask us to access, correct, delete, restrict, or stop using your personal information, subject to applicable law and records we must keep.
If you gave consent for marketing emails, you can withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal does not affect our ability to send transactional or service-related messages about an active request or relationship.
Children and international visitors
Our website and services are intended for business users and are not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
If you access the website from outside the United States, your information may be processed in the United States or other countries where we or our service providers operate. Data protection laws in those countries may differ from the laws where you live.
Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The "Last updated" date above shows when this policy was most recently revised. Continued use of the website after an update means the revised policy applies going forward.
Contact us
For privacy questions, unsubscribe help, or data-rights requests, contact us at admin@galtsvalley.com.