Vertex Ranch, Inc. (Vertex, we, us, or our) has created this Website Privacy Policy to assure visitors that we are concerned about and respect your privacy while visiting our website. Vertex will not provide your Personally Identifiable Information, including your email address, to anyone except our supporting organizations, our wholly-owned affiliated organizations, or our foreign Associate Offices. Except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy, we will keep your Personally Identifiable Information private and will not share it with third parties unless such disclosure is necessary to comply with a court order or other legal process; protect our rights or property; protect the safety and security of our other visitors, or enforce our Terms and Conditions. We will endeavor to ensure that information you provide to us will remain secure. We want you to feel safe in your online experience while visiting our site. We, therefore, request that you take a moment to review the following information.
On our website, there are a variety of ways to interact with us that may require or request your Personally Identifiable Information.
Unsubscribing to E-mail Vertex wants to make it easy to unsubscribe to e-mails we send to you. Just look for the "Unsubscribe" link at the bottom of any email we send and follow the instructions there. You can unsubscribe at any time for any reason. In addition, may contact us at the address or phone number provided in the Contact section below.
Your friend’s e-mail address
From time to time, we may offer you the chance to send an article or a note to someone else telling them about the site. Your friend's Personally Identifiable Information is also covered by this Privacy Policy.
We will use your friend's email address to send the specific message you asked us to send. We will not contact your friend again unless he/she voluntarily subscribes to our services.
We recognize that some people may abuse our "send to a friend" system to send email to persons who are not true friends and do not want email from us. Though minimizing such risks is important to us, we still consider this service important enough to offer it.
Collection of Information
We sometimes ask that you provide us with Personal Information while online. The type of Personally Identifiable Information we collect typically corresponds directly to a request you make. For instance, you may make donations, offer thoughts, enter contests, or request resources from our Online Store. We also use this information internally to improve our site. If you provide Personally Identifiable Information to us, we understand that to mean that you consent to our retaining and using such information as stated in this Privacy Policy.
Children’s Privacy
At Vertex Ranch, Inc., we do direct some online services to children (defined as persons under age 13). Because we wish to make our best efforts to protect the privacy of all users of our site, including children, we endeavor to comply with the 1998 Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. While these measures are included elsewhere in this policy, we summarize them here for the sake of communicating them clearly and understandably to you. Our site:
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Traffic Data
We automatically track and collect "Traffic Data," including your computer's IP address, domain server, type of computer, and type of web browser when you visit our site.
We also maintain logs of the specific details of your activity on our site (e.g., how long you were signed on, the pages you visited, and when a particular link is clicked).
Traffic Data is anonymous information that does not personally identify you.
Personal Information
In order for you to access certain services and to purchase products that we offer on the website, we sometimes require you to provide us with Personally Identifiable Information that may include:
Surveys
From time to time, our site may request information from users via surveys. Participation is completely voluntary. Information requested may include demographic information (such as age and zip code).
We may post poll questions on the site that allow children under 13 to respond by email. Information gathered from polls or surveys is only for our internal use. We may post sample answers to polls or surveys on the website, but we do not include personally identifiable information in those sample answers.
E-Cards
Our site may provide a feature whereby individuals, including children, may send an online greeting card via email. We require the sending individual to provide his or her email address in order to send the card as if it came directly from them. That email address is not retained after the card has been sent.
If you request information related to our ministry, our products or services, or seek to obtain promotional material, or request that we contact you, we will use your Contact Data to do such things.
We use your Financial Data to verify your qualifications for certain complementary products or services or to bill you for products and services.
We may use your Demographic Data to customize and tailor your experience on the website, such as displaying content that we think would interest you or monitoring and improving the use of our website, and improving user satisfaction.
We use Traffic Data for monitoring and improving the use of our site and the satisfaction of visitors to our site.
We welcome your participation in our online communities! If you would like personal help regarding a specific need, our staff would be honored to come alongside you. Simply email us at info@vertexranch.org. If you have any additional comments or questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at info@vertexranch.org, 469-854-9610, or write us at:
Notifications of claimed copyright infringement and counter-notices must be sent to our designated agent:
Legal DepartmentWe are only able to accept notices in the English language.
We will respond to claims of copyright infringement committed using the Vertex Services that are reported to our Designated Copyright Agent, identified above, in accordance with the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 ("DMCA") or, as applicable, other laws. With respect to Vertex Services hosted in the United States, these notices must include the required information set forth in the DMCA and described in detailhere.
We do not share your Contact Data or Financial Data with third parties except those who are providing services to us, such as a mailing service. Even then, we carefully screen those whom we use to provide such services. At Vertex, we treat such information, and more importantly, your trust in providing it, very seriously. In certain instances, we may share your Contact Data with our wholly-owned affiliated organizations or our foreign Associate Offices, if it makes sense for one of those entities to contact you on behalf of Vertex. But even in those cases, our affiliated organizations and our foreign Associate Offices are also bound to maintain the confidentiality of the shared information.
We may share Demographic Data and Traffic Data, with advertisers and other third parties. The data that we share is not personally identifiable and is mixed with similar data from others.
You may choose not to provide us with any Personally Identifiable Information. If so, you can still access and use much of our site; however, you will not be able to access and use those portions of the site that require your Personally Identifiable Information. If you do not wish to receive the information we provide, you may opt-out any time we ask you for Personally Identifiable Information.
In addition, if you are a parent of a child under the age of 13, you may opt-out of our disclosure of your child's information to any third party but still allow us to collect and use the information for our purposes.
Your Personally Identifiable Information is stored on secure servers. We provide you with the capability through encryption technology to transmit your Personally Identifiable Information from your computer to our e-commerce system if your web browser has that capability.
At times, we use password protection to protect your privacy and security and to limit the visitors to various portions of our site to those who we intend to grant such access.
SECURITY AND DISCLAIMERS. Vertex always uses industry-standard encryption technologies when transferring and receiving consumer data exchanged with our site. Vertex has implemented appropriate security measures in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site. Unfortunately, however, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your Personally Identifiable Information, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to or from our website, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we will do our best to protect its security on our systems. IN THE UNLIKELY EVENT OF AN INTERCEPTION OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS DESPITE OUR EFFORTS, VERTEX SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR SUCH INTERCEPTION OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS, OR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING LOST PROFITS) SUFFERED BY A CUSTOMER OR VISITOR, EVEN IF VERTEX HAS PREVIOUSLY BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. VERTEX DOES NOT WARRANT, EITHER EXPRESSLY OR IMPLIEDLY, THAT THE INFORMATION PROVIDED BY ANY CUSTOMER OR VISITOR SHALL BE FREE FROM INTERCEPTION OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS, AND DOES NOT PROVIDE ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. EACH CUSTOMER OR VISITOR IS RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING THE CONFIDENTIALITY OF HIS OR HER OWN LOGIN INFORMATION.
EACH CUSTOMER OR VISITOR SHOULD BE AWARE THAT VERTEX IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DELAY, NON-DELIVERY OR NON-RECEIPT OF ANY INFORMATION EXCHANGED BETWEEN VERTEX AND THE CUSTOMER OR VISITOR OR VICE-VERSA DUE TO INTERNET CONNECTIVITY PROBLEMS, MAN-MADE OR NATURAL DISASTERS, FORCE MAJEURE, COMPUTER MALFUNCTIONS OR INCORRECT CONTACT INFORMATION SUPPLIED BY THE CUSTOMER OR VISITOR.
VERTEX COOPERATES WITH INQUIRIES FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AND WILL ASSIST IN ATTEMPTING TO IDENTIFY A CUSTOMER OR VISITOR WHEN VERTEX IS REQUIRED BY LAW TO DO SO OR WHEN VERTEX, IN THE EXERCISE OF ITS JUDGMENT, DETERMINES IT IS NECESSARY TO PROTECT ITSELF, ITS WEBSITE, SERVICES, CUSTOMERS AND OTHERS.
If you need to update, change or delete your Personally Identifiable Information or your child's Personally Identifiable Information, please contact us at Vertex Ranch, Inc., Attention Relationship Services, 7875 FM 896, Trenton, Texas, 75490, USA, phone us at 469-854-9610, or email us at info@vertexranch.org.
You must promptly notify us if your credit card, user name, or password is lost, stolen, or used without permission. In such an event, we will cancel that credit card number, user name, or password and update our records accordingly.
This Website may provide links to external Websites maintained by individuals or organizations external to Vertex. Once you access information that links you to another site, you become subject to the privacy policy of that site rather than ours. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.
We may also provide you the opportunity to post information to our site. Please understand that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes generally available to the public. We have no control over its use, and you should exercise caution when deciding to post Personally Identifiable Information.
Updates and Changes to Privacy Policy. We reserve the right, at any time and without notice, to add to, change, update or modify this Privacy Policy simply by posting such change, update, or modification on our website. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it. Any such change, update, or modification will be effective immediately upon posting on the website.
Last updated on November 11, 2021.
California Privacy Rights
The California Civil Code Section 1798.83 allows our California guests and customers to request certain information regarding our disclosures (if any) in the prior calendar year of personally identifiable information to third parties for the direct marketing purposes of those third parties. To make such a request, please contact us at either info@vertexranch.org or Vertex Ranch, Inc., 7875 FM 896, Trenton, Texas, 75490, USA, Attn: Legal Department, and include your name and the address to which you would like us to respond. We will attempt to provide you with the requested information within thirty days of receipt.
Questions or Suggestions
Please direct all questions or comments regarding this privacy policy to Vertex at 469-854-9610 or write us at Vertex Ranch, Inc., 7875 FM 896, Trenton, Texas 75490, USA. You may also contact via e-mail at: info@vertexranch.org
Some Vertex Services permit or require you to create an account to participate or to secure additional benefits. You agree to provide and maintain accurate, current, and complete information, including your contact information for notices and other communications from us and your payment information. You agree not to impersonate or misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity, including using another person's username, password, or other account information, or another person's name or likeness, or provide false details for a parent or guardian. You agree that we may take steps to verify the accuracy of the information you provide, including contact information for a parent or guardian.
We have adopted and implemented a policy that provides for the termination, in appropriate circumstances, of the accounts of users who are repeat infringers of copyright. In addition, we may suspend or terminate your account and your ability to use the Vertex Services if you engage in, encourage or advocate for illegal conduct or if you fail to comply with these terms or any supplemental terms.
You are responsible for taking reasonable steps to maintain the confidentiality of your username and password, and you are responsible for all activities under your account that you can reasonably control. You agree to promptly notify us of any unauthorized use of your username, password, or other account information, or of any other breach of security that you become aware of involving the Vertex Services.
The security, integrity and confidentiality of your information are extremely important to us. We have implemented technical, administrative, and physical security measures that are designed to protect your information from unauthorized access, disclosure, use, and modification.
When you provide payment information, you represent and warrant that the information is accurate, that you are authorized to use the payment method provided, and that you will notify us of changes to the payment information. We reserve the right to utilize third-party credit card updating services to obtain current expiration dates on credit cards. If you use a payment method other than a credit card, you may incur an additional payment processing fee and may not be able to automatically renew subscriptions.