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Privacy Policy

Effective date: August 18, 2026

1. Overview and Acceptance

This Privacy Policy describes how Golden Gate Grove ("Golden Gate Grove," "we," "us," or "our") handles information in connection with the website goldengategrove.com (the "Site"). By accessing the Site, or by submitting any information through it, you accept this Privacy Policy in full. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Site or submit information through it.

2. Information You Provide to Us

You can browse the Site without submitting any personal information. The only personal information we collect directly is what you choose to submit through our inquiry form, which may include:

• Your name, email address, and phone number
• Your location and project details
• The nature of your inquiry or commission interest, and any message you write

All information you submit is provided voluntarily. Please do not submit information you do not wish us to hold.

3. Information Collected Automatically

The Site is a static website. We do not operate our own analytics or advertising trackers. As with nearly all websites, the servers, content delivery networks, and security services that host, deliver, and protect the Site may automatically receive and log standard technical information when you visit, such as your IP address, browser type, device information, referring page, and the date and time of your visit.

4. Third-Party Services

The Site relies on a small number of third-party services:

• Google reCAPTCHA. The Site is protected by reCAPTCHA to prevent spam and abuse. reCAPTCHA collects device and interaction data and may set cookies. The Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
• Google Fonts. Typography is loaded from Google's font servers, which receive your IP address when fonts are requested.
• Form delivery. Inquiry form submissions are transmitted to us through FormSubmit, a third-party form delivery service, which processes the contents of your submission in order to deliver it to us.
• Hosting and content delivery. Some images and files on the Site may be served from third-party hosting or content delivery networks.

These services are operated by third parties under their own terms and privacy policies, which we encourage you to review. We do not control them and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for their practices.

5. How We Use Information

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we may use the information we collect for any lawful business purpose, including to:

• Respond to and manage your inquiry
• Plan, carry out, deliver, and document commissions
• Maintain business, tax, and legal records
• Contact you about your inquiry and about our works, availability, and services, with the ability to opt out at any time
• Operate, secure, protect, and improve the Site and our business
• Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims
• Comply with applicable law and legal process
• Pursue any other purpose disclosed to you at the time of collection, or with your consent

6. How We Share Information

We do not sell personal information. We may share information, at our discretion, with:

• Service providers that support our business, such as form delivery, email, hosting, security, shipping, and delivery providers
• Professional advisors, such as attorneys, accountants, and insurers
• A successor or acquirer in connection with any merger, sale, financing, reorganization, or transfer of all or part of our business or assets
• Courts, regulators, and law enforcement where we believe disclosure is required or appropriate under applicable law
• Any party, where we believe disclosure is necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of Golden Gate Grove, our clients, or others

7. Cookies

We do not set our own advertising or analytics cookies. Third-party services used on the Site, including Google reCAPTCHA, may set cookies or use similar technologies for security and fraud prevention under their own policies. Most browsers allow you to control or delete cookies through browser settings; disabling cookies may affect the inquiry form.

8. Data Retention

We retain information for as long as we consider it reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including maintaining business records, documenting the provenance and history of commissioned works, and meeting legal obligations. We may retain information in anonymized or aggregated form, which no longer identifies you, without restriction.

9. Security

We use reasonable measures appropriate to the size and nature of our business to protect the information we hold. However, no method of transmission or storage is completely secure. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not warrant or guarantee the security of any information, and you transmit information to us at your own discretion and risk.

10. Your Choices and Requests

You may opt out of communications from us at any time by saying so in reply to any message from us or through the inquiry form on the Site. You may also request access to, correction of, or deletion of the personal information we hold about you. We will honor such requests to the extent required by applicable law. We may need to verify your identity before acting on a request, and we may retain information that applicable law permits or requires us to retain.

11. California Residents

If and to the extent that the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended, applies to Golden Gate Grove, California residents may have rights to know, correct, and delete the personal information we hold about them, and to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information. We do not sell personal information, and we do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any right available to you under applicable law. Requests may be made through the inquiry form on the Site.

12. Children

The Site is not directed to anyone under the age of 18, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If you believe a person under 18 has submitted personal information through the Site, please contact us and we will delete it.

13. United States Operations

The Site is operated from the United States, and information is processed and stored in the United States. If you access the Site from outside the United States, you do so on your own initiative and consent to the transfer of your information to, and its processing in, the United States.

14. Changes to This Policy

We may revise this Privacy Policy at any time in our sole discretion. Changes are effective when posted on this page, and the effective date above will be updated. Your continued use of the Site after a revised Privacy Policy is posted constitutes your acceptance of the revision. We encourage you to review this page periodically.

15. Contact

For any privacy-related questions or requests, please use the inquiry form on the home page. We respond to every inquiry personally.