Date
This privacy policy is effective July 15, 2022.
Who we are
Our website address is ritterdirt.com. Ritter focuses on private, commercial and civil construction. Our team of equipment operators and skilled construction laborers help meet the needs of residential property owners, land developers and general contractors throughout Whatcom and Skagit counties. Services include excavation, grading and installation of gravel, rock, fill and topsoil. We also do foundation prep for new construction, build retaining walls, offer landscape design and installation, perform a wide range of asphalt repair and paving services, and more.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
The Ritter Dirt and Asphalt website contains a contact form that allows you to submit a message or question, along with your name and email address. We collect this information to aid us in responding to your question. Information submitted via the contact form is stored in our website’s database and sent to our website administrator via email. This is so that we can begin a conversation with you and respond quickly to your question or comment. We keep this correspondence stored in email so that we can continue our conversation later without losing the context of what we’ve already discussed.
Via cookies: Google Analytics and Google Advertising features are installed on this website, potentially to include Remarketing with Google Analytics; Google Display Network Impression Reporting; Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting; and Integrated services that require Google Analytics to collect data for advertising purposes, including the collection of data via advertising cookies and identifiers.
Information collected by Google may include end user location, search history, YouTube history, and data from sites that partner with Google—and is used to provide aggregated and anonymized insights into users’ cross device behaviors.
Included here is Google’s explanation of how its Analytics platform uses cookies:
“Google Analytics mainly uses first-party cookies to report on visitor (aka. user) interactions on Google Analytics customers’ websites. Users may disable cookies or delete any individual cookie.
In addition, Google Analytics supports an optional browser add-on that – once installed and enabled – disables measurement by Google Analytics for any site a user visits. Note that this add-on only disables Google Analytics measurement.
Where a site or app uses Google Analytics for Apps or the Google Analytics for Firebase SDKs, Google Analytics collects an app-instance identifier — a randomly generated number that identifies a unique installation of an App. Whenever a user resets their Advertising Identifier (Advertising ID on Android, and ID for Advertisers on iOS), the app-instance identifier is also reset.
Where sites or apps have implemented Google Analytics with other Google Advertising products, like Google Ads, additional advertising identifiers may be collected. Users can opt-out of this feature and manage their settings for this cookie using the Ads Settings.
Google Analytics also collects Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to provide and protect the security of the service, and to give website owners a sense of which country, state, or city in the world their users come from (also known as “IP geolocation”). Google Analytics provides a method to mask IPs that are collected (detailed below) but note that website owners have access to their users’ IP addresses even if the website owners do not use Google Analytics.”
For more information, click here. In addition, please also read Google’s Privacy & Terms.
You may opt out of Google Analytics tracking by using the tools Google has made available here. In addition, you may view Google’s My Activity page to view and delete information Google has stored about you.
Most browsers are set to accept cookies by default. You may choose to remove and/or reject cookies from within your browser settings. This may affect how the Ritter website functions in your case.
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.
Via embedded content from other websites: Occasionally, 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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. This website also may contain links to external websites. If you visit those other sites, your use of those sites is subject to the privacy policies of those sites. You are encouraged to read the privacy policies of all sites you visit.
With whom we share your data
Ritter Dirt and Asphalt does not share your information with anyone except as necessary to conduct a particular transaction.
How long we retain your data
As noted above, information submitted to us via the contact form on our website or via email may be retained indefinitely on our website and email servers so that we may continue conversations without losing the context of what has been previously written.
What rights you have over your data
If you have submitted information to us via the contact form, order form or email, 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.
Many browsers allow users to send “do not track” signals to websites. However, according to https://allaboutdnt.com/, there is no consensus on how websites should interpret these signals. At present, the Ritter Dirt and Asphalt website does not make any changes in response to DNT signals.
Where we send your data
Other than what is needed to conduct transactions, Ritter does not send your data to any third party.
How we protect your data
This website is protected with secure sockets layer (SSL) encryption, and we use security tools to help prevent unauthorized access to the website. Please keep in mind, however, that no method of online or electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure.
Stay informed of changes to this policy
For the latest updates to the Ritter Dirt and Asphalt Privacy Policy, please visit this page.
Contact information
If you have any questions related to this privacy policy, please contact Ritter Dirt and Asphalt at jason@ritterdirt.com.