Privacy Policy
Protecting your private information is our priority. This statement of Privacy governs data collection and usage and applies to https://new.rkvals.com and RK Valuation Advisory LLC. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to RK Valuation Advisory LLC include: “Us”, “https://new.rkvals.com”, “RKVals”, “RK Valuation Advisory”, and the “Site”. By using the RKVals website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the Site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Contact forms
Any information you provide via our contact form will be kept confidential. We will only use this information to further communicate with you to provide support and or answer any questions you have. Information you provide in the contact form serves the primary purposes of communicating with us and enabling us to respond to inquiries. It may be used for providing announcements, offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or general information.
If you would like to opt-out and/or stop receiving communications via email from RKVals, you may stop such communications by replying to our email and/or SMS messages with the word “UNSUBSCRIBE”.
Cookies
Cookies and similar tracking technologies, such as beacons, scripts, and tags, are small bits of code, usually stored on a user’s computer hard drive or device, which enable a website to “personalize” itself for each user by remembering information about the user’s visit to the website.
The site uses cookies to store your preferences, display content based upon what you view to personalize your visit, analyze trends, administer the site, track users’ movements around the site, serve targeted advertising and gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. On mobile websites and mobile apps, we may use Anonymous Device IDs and/or Advertiser Identifiers in a manner similar to our use of cookies on our websites. Although these activities involve developing an understanding of you as a user, we use this information for the purposes described. Given the nature of our site and the limited amount of Personal Data we obtain about you, this activity does not produce legal effects for you nor otherwise, does it significantly affect you. Additional details follow:
First Party Cookies from RKVals: We use our cookies to improve your web-browsing experience as implemented by general WordPress website designs and themes.
Third Party Cookies: We work with third parties that place cookies on our site to provide their services, including:
- Data Providers: We may allow data providers to collect web log data from you (including IP address and information about your browser or operating system), when you visit our site, or place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser to enable you to receive customized ads or content. These cookies contain no personally identifiable information. The cookies may reflect demographic or other data, with identifying elements removed, linked to data you voluntarily have submitted to us, e.g., your email address, that we may share with data providers solely in hashed, non-human readable form.
- Analytics/Measurement: We also use third-party analytics cookies to gain insight into how our visitors use the site and optimize and improve our site. The data we gather includes which web pages you have viewed, which referring/exit pages you have entered and arrived from, which platform type you have used, date and time stamp information, and details such as the number of clicks you make on a given page, your mouse movements and scrolling activity, the search words you use and the text you type while using our site. We also make use of analytics cookies as part of our online advertising campaigns to learn how users interact with our site after they have been shown an online advertisement, which may include advertisements on third-party websites.
- Remarketing Pixel Tags and Other Technologies: We may share web site usage information with third-party advertising companies for the purpose of managing and targeting advertisements and for market research. For these purposes, we and our third-party advertising companies may place or recognize a cookie on your computer or device or directly in our emails or communications or may place pixel tags (also called clear gifs) on certain web pages. We will then use the information that is collected to serve you relevant advertisements when you are visiting other sites on the Internet.
- Flash Cookies: Our partners, who provide certain features on our site or display advertising based on your browsing activity, also use Local Shared Objects such as Flash cookies, and Local Storage such as HTML5, to collect and store content information and preferences. Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing HTML5 local storage.
Controlling Cookies: You have a choice over the use of cookies as described in this Privacy & Cookies Policy. Our site is not currently configured to respond to Do Not Track signals. If you would rather we do not use cookies when you visit us, please configure your specific browser settings to reject cookies.
To opt-out of third-party cookies, please utilize the appropriate option(s) below:
- To opt-out of ad targeting cookies set by Google and Doubleclick on our Site, click here: https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads?hl=en.
- To generally (i.e. not just for this Site) opt-out of receiving personalized ads from third party advertisers and ad networks who are members of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) or who follow the Digital Advertising Alliance’s (DAA) Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising visit the opt-out pages on the NAI website and DAA website or click here. If you are located in the European Union, please click here to opt out.
- In order to control the collection of data for analytical purposes by Google Analytics, you may want to visit the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
- You can also delete all cookies that are already on your computer’s hard drive by searching for and deleting files with “cookie” in it.
- Without cookies you may not have access to certain features online, including access to profiles / accounts and certain personalized content. Removing all cookies from your computer could also affect your subsequent visits to certain web sites by requiring that you enter your login name when you return to that website, among other things.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. Any third-party website and/or embedded content on the RKVals website is not moderated or maintained by RKVals. You should consult the Privacy Policy of any third party and/or content on our website.
How long we retain your data
If you contact us, this content and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can respond to any future requests as well as recognize and approve any follow-up contact automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Children Under Thirteen
RKVals does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen, If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or legal guardian for permission to use this website.
Security of your Personal Information
RKVals secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. RKVals uses the following methods for this purpose:
- SSL Protocol
Tracking User Behavior
RKVals may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within RKVals, in order to determine what RKVals services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within RKVals to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Changes to this Statement
RKVals reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time without notice by placing this notice on our website at https://new.rkvals.com/privacy, and/or update the privacy information on our website. Your continued use of the Site and/or services available through our site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by this policy.
Contact Information
RKVals welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that RKVals has not adhered to this statement, please contact us at:
https://www.rkvals.com/contact
Effective as of September 10, 2020