Texas Business ELVES Privacy Policy (9/2/2025)

This Privacy Policy describes the privacy practices of Texas Business ELVES. This Privacy Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you when you interact with our website and that we may collect from other entities, and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, you can choose not to use the Texas Business ELVES website. By accessing or using our website, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time, and we will notify you of any material changes as required by law. Your continued use of our website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check this Privacy Policy periodically for updates.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU

We collect information, including Personal Information, from and about you when you interact with us. Some of this information may be provided directly by you and some of it may be collected automatically when you interact with our website or use our services. When we use the term “Personal Information” we mean information by which you may be personally identified, such as your name, address, phone number, and email address.

Information You Provide to Us Directly

We collect Personal Information and other information when you directly provide it to us through your use of our website. Depending on how you use our website, we may collect different categories of Personal Information, including:

  • Identifiers and similar information such as, your name, online identifiers, email address, mailing address, phone number, or other similar identifiers.

  • Internet or other electronic network activity information, including your browsing history and your interactions with our website.

  • Inferences drawn from other information to create a profile reflecting a subscriber’s preferences or characteristics.

  • Audio, electronic, or visual information.

  • Geolocation data such as information about your location or the location of your device.

We may combine information that we have collected offline with information we collect on or through our website, or we may combine information we get from third parties with information we already have.

Information We Automatically Collect with Cookies

When you visit our website or interact with us through online media and advertisements, certain information about your visit and/or interaction with us is automatically logged, including certain traffic data and usage information. This information may include information about your browsing actions and patterns when you visit our website, including the referring and exit pages, and information about the effectiveness of our advertisements. We collect this information to help us manage our content and improve your use of our website. We may use cookies and other similar industry standard technologies to capture this information.

HOW WE COLLECT INFORMATION

We collect Personal Information about you when you provide it to us or automatically through your use of our website. Where required by applicable law, we will not collect your Personal Information without your consent.

Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect Personal Information in the following ways:

  • When you visit our website or interact with us through online media and advertisements, certain information about your visit and/or interaction with us is automatically logged through the use of various tracking tools like browser cookies. We collect information about users over time when you use our website.

  • Depending on how you interact with us directly and use our services, we may collect your Personal Information through web forms. For example, if you fill out a web form on our website, we will collect the information you provide to us.

WHY WE COLLECT YOUR INFORMATION

We use the information that we collect from you to provide our services and to manage our business. How we use the information we collect from you may depend on what services you have requested from us. Depending on how you interact with us, we may use your Personal Information and other information for various business or commercial purposes, including:

  • Providing Services to You. This includes contacting you at your request and notifying you of updates to our website and services that you may be interested in. We also might use your information to collect more information about you, such as when we contact you to collect information about your feedback about our website.

  • Business Operations. This includes operating our website, facilitating subscriber relationships, accounting, auditing, billing, and collection activities.

  • Marketing and Advertising. For example, if you give us permission, we might contact you periodically via email newsletter.

  • Improve Our Services. We might use your information to request feedback so that we can improve our website and our subscriber offerings.

  • Contractual Obligations. This includes performing our contractual obligations to a subscriber or others and protecting legal rights.

  • Security. We may use your information to protect our company, our subscribers, and our website. This includes detecting security incidents and verifying subscriber identities to help deter fraud, money laundering, or other illegal activity.

  • To Communicate With You. For example, we will communicate with you to provide access to our resources. We may contact you about your feedback or to you to tell you about updates to our website or services.

  • As Otherwise Permitted by Law/As We May Notify You. For example, we may use your personal information to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us. We may also notify you of other purposes and obtain your consent as required by law. We may also use the information that you provide in any other way that we describe when you provide the information and for any other purpose with your consent.

HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION

We retain information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Information, for business purposes and as long as is reasonably necessary to provide you with our services. We will also retain the information as reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. We may also retain cached or archived copies of your information for a reasonable period of time.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We may share your Personal Information and other information as follows:

  • In Order to Comply With the Law or to Protect Ourselves. For example, we will share information to respond to a court order or subpoena. We may also share it if a government agency or investigatory body requests as required or permitted by law.

  • With Your Consent or at Your Direction. We may disclose or share your Personal Information to other entities with your consent or when you have directed us to.

  • We may share your information for reasons not described in this Privacy Policy. We may share your Personal Information for other reasons that we may describe to you at the time of information collection.

Additionally, we may convert or combine some Personal Information of subscribers into unidentified, redacted, or aggregated data that does not disclose any of the Personal Information of any individual subscriber. We may use and disclose any such unidentified, redacted, or aggregated data without restriction as allowed by law.

COOKIES AND SIMILAR TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

Our website uses cookies to collect information about you and your usage of our website. For example, we use cookies for lead tracking purposes when you arrive at our website. We also may use cookies and similar technologies to measure the effectiveness of our advertisements, such as how many clicks our advertisements receive. We may use third party providers for these advertisements, such as Google. We may use Google Analytics and similar resources to understand how visitors and subscribers interact with our website, such as how you access our website or the pages you visit. Google Analytics and similar resources may use their own cookies.

YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Under applicable law, you have certain rights and choices regarding the Personal Information you provide to us:

  • You Can Set Your Browser to Refuse All or Some Browser Cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, some parts of our website may then become inaccessible or not function properly.

  • Opt-Out of Receiving Our Marketing Emails. To stop receiving our promotional emails please click on the “unsubscribe” link provided in all marketing emails or email us at ceo@texasbusinesselves.com. This opt-out does not apply to transactional or informational emails, such as our email response to your request for information from us.

  • Accessing, Correcting, and Deleting Your Information. You may send us an email at ceo@texasbusinesselves.com to request access to any Personal Information that you have provided to us, to correct, or to delete that Personal Information. We will evaluate such requests on a case-by-case basis. Generally, we will provide it as long as it is reasonably retrievable and within our control, and will make reasonable efforts to respond to such requests within 72 business hours. You must make your request in writing. For legal reasons, we may not show you anything we learned as part of a claim or lawsuit, unless required by law. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

Our website may contain links to third party websites. If you click on a third party link, you will be taken to a platform we do not control. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the information practices of those third-party websites or platforms, including those websites or platforms operated by federal or state governmental entities. Read other entities’ privacy policies carefully. We are not responsible for these third parties.

USERS OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES

Our website is hosted in Texas and the United States. Our services are provided from Texas and the United States. Our Website is targeted toward subscribers and potential subscribers who are located in Texas and the United States. Certain information may be stored on servers in other countries on the “cloud” or other similar distributed hosting platforms. If you are a user accessing our website or services from the European Union (EU), Asia, or any other region with laws governing personal information collection, use, and disclosure that differ from United States laws (e.g., the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation), please note that you are transferring your Personal Information outside your home jurisdiction, and that by providing your Personal Information to us, you are consenting to the transfer of your Personal Information to the United States and other jurisdictions as indicated above, and to our use and disclosure of your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

Our website is primarily targeted toward users and subscribers (and potential users and subscribers) in Texas. That being said, if you are a California resident, you may obtain certain information regarding our disclosure of your Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to ceo@texasbusinesselves.com with “California Privacy Rights” in the subject line. Please note, however, that we do not currently disclose any of your Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes without your consent.

Some web browsers have a “Do Not Track” feature. This feature lets you tell websites you visit that you do not want to have your online activity tracked. These features are not uniform across all browsers and our website is not currently designed up to respond to those signals.

OUR WEBSITE AND CHILDREN

Texas Business ELVES is meant for use by those ages 18 or older and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you are not at least 18 years of age, do not use or provide any information on our website, or otherwise provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or username you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child, we will delete that information. If you are a parent who believes we might have any information from or about your child, please contact us at ceo@texasbusinesselves.com.

DATA SECURITY

We have implemented commercially reasonable security measures, including physical, technical, and administrative safeguards, designed to secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information over the Internet is not completely 100% secure. Although we have implemented security measures that we reasonably believe are adequate, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted to our website. Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for the circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on our website.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

We will post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ or subscribers’ Personal Information, we will notify you through a notice on the Texas Business ELVES home page. The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of this page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date, active, and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our website and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.

CONTACT INFORMATION

To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, contact us at ceo@texasbusinesselves.com.