PrivacyPrivacy

What this covers

This policy is about ridgexventures.com, the website. It is not about work we do for clients. If we are working together, the agreement we signed says how we handle your data, and that agreement controls.

What we collect

What you send us. If you fill in the form on the contact page, we receive what you typed: your name, your email address, and whichever of the optional fields you filled in, which may include your organization, your website address, what you need doing, a date, a solicitation number and a department.

What gets recorded automatically. Our host keeps standard server logs, which include your IP address, the pages you requested, the time, and your browser and device type. Our analytics records which pages were viewed, roughly where in the world the visit came from, and how visits move through the site.

What we do not do

There are no accounts on this site and no payments. There is no newsletter and no mailing list. We do not sell your information, we do not buy it, and we do not run advertising here or anywhere else. Nothing you send us through the form is used to build a profile of you, and our analytics is not connected to any advertising product.

Which companies receive it

Three, and this is the part worth reading. Each one is a company we chose, and each one holds something.

• Vercel hosts the site and keeps the server logs described above. Its analytics also records which pages were viewed and roughly where in the world the visit came from, without setting cookies or storing an identifier that follows you.
• Google runs the other analytics. It records the same kind of thing in more detail, and unlike Vercel’s it sets cookies in your browser, receives your IP address, and loads from a Google server rather than from ours.
• Formspree takes the contact form submission and delivers it to our inbox. It holds a copy on its own systems.

Your message then sits in our email, with our email provider, like any other email you might have sent us.

If you would rather not use the form, write to hello@ridgexventures.com and Formspree never sees it. If you are sending anything sensitive or confidential, do that instead, and read the note about confidential material in our terms.

Cookies and settings

The site itself does not need cookies to work, and nothing we build here uses them. Google Analytics does. It sets a couple in your browser so it can tell a returning visit from a new one.

You can block or delete them in your browser settings, and Google publishes a browser add-on that opts you out of Analytics everywhere. Blocking either costs you nothing here: every page works exactly the same way without them, because nothing on this site is behind a login.

Display settings. If you change one of the settings under the gear at the top of the page (dusk mode, more contrast or reduce motion), your browser remembers that choice in its own storage on your device, so the next page opens the same way. It is not a cookie, it records only the setting, and it is never sent to us or to anyone else. Clearing this site’s data in your browser removes it. If you never touch the settings, nothing is stored.

How long we keep it

Inquiries stay in our email for as long as they are useful, which for a project we worked on means for the life of the business record, and for one that went nowhere means until we clear it out. Server logs and analytics are kept for the retention period each provider applies, which we do not control beyond the settings they offer. If you want your inquiry deleted sooner, ask us and we will do it.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to see what we hold about you, correct it, delete it, or object to how it is used. Wherever you live, you can ask us for any of those and we will do it. Write to hello@ridgexventures.com. We will not make you fill in a form or charge you for it.

Children

This site sells services to organizations. It is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect anything from them.

Changes

If this policy changes, the effective date at the top changes with it. We do not keep a public archive of older versions; if you need to know what it said on a particular date, ask.

Contact

RidgeX Ventures LLC, hello@ridgexventures.com.