Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy explains how Galt's Valley collects, uses, stores, and shares personal information through galtsvalley.com, website forms, email and text-message 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 and text-message consent preferences, opt-out or STOP requests, 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 follow-up marketing or educational emails and text messages only where we have your opt-in consent or another lawful basis allowed by applicable law.
- To notify you by email or text when follow-up may be relevant to your inquiry, including when a potential buyer, seller, advisor match, or similar opportunity may be available.
- To maintain unsubscribe, STOP, complaint, and suppression records so we do not send unwanted marketing emails or text messages.
- 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 and text messages
If you opt in on our form, we may contact you by email or text using the details you provide. This can include follow-up about your inquiry, valuation or exit-planning information, advisor introductions, and updates when something relevant comes up — such as a potential buyer, seller, or match connected to your request.
Messages may come from Galt's Valley or from an affiliated advisor, partner, or brand name tied to the conversation you started with us.
We only send marketing-style follow-up where we have permission or another lawful basis under applicable law. We keep basic records of form submissions and consent choices, and we maintain opt-out preferences so we do not keep contacting people who asked us to stop.
How to opt out: use the unsubscribe link in an email, reply STOP to a text, or contact us at admin@galtsvalley.com. Message frequency varies. Message and data rates may apply to texts, depending on your carrier and plan.
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, STOP, 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, text-message, or internet transmission is completely secure, so you should avoid sending highly sensitive information through ordinary website forms, email, or text.
Your choices and rights
You can opt out of marketing emails or texts at any time by using the unsubscribe link in an email, replying STOP to a text, or 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 or text messages, 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, text-message opt-out help, or data-rights requests, contact us at admin@galtsvalley.com.