Who We Are
Strickland Solutions is a division of The Strickland Group, Inc. ("TSG"). TSG is a consulting, technology, and engineering firm located in Fort Worth, TX. Our website addresses are: https://tsg.net/ and https://stricklandolutions.com/
The Strickland Group, Inc. ("we," "us," or "our") respects the privacy of our website visitors ("user" or "you"). This Privacy Policy governs the manner in which The Strickland Group, Inc. collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from you when you visit the https://stricklandsolutions.com/ website, including any other media form, media channel, mobile website, or mobile application related or connected to https://stricklandsolutions.com/ (collectively, the "Site"), as well as all products and services offered by The Strickland Group, Inc. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully; if you do not agree with the terms, please do not access the Site.
What Data We Collect and Why
Personal Identification Information
We may collect personal identification information from users in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when users visit our site, register on the site, place an order, fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our Site. Users may be asked for, as appropriate, contact information including name, email address, mailing address, and phone number; in some cases users can also choose to supply demographic information such as age, gender, hometown, and interests. Users may, however, visit our Site anonymously. We will collect personal identification information from users only if they voluntarily submit such information to us. Users can always refuse to supply personal identification information, except that it may prevent them from engaging in certain Site-related features or activities.
Derivative Information
We may collect non-personal, or derivative, identification information about Users when they interact with our Site. Such data may include IP address, browser name, access time, computer type, and technical information about Users’ means of connection to our Site, such as the operating system, Internet service provider, locale, server logs, and other similar information.
Mobile Device Data
If you access the site via mobile device, we may collect information such as your device ID, model, and manufacturer, operating system, and IP address.
Media
We do not currently allow the upload of media to the Site; however if this was an option in the future, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the Site can potentially download and extract location data from images on the Site.
Cookies and Web Beacons
To customize and improve your experience on our Site, we may use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies. Cookies are an industry standard and most major websites use them. A cookie is a small text file that our site may place on your computer as a tool to remember your preferences.
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.
If you enter registration information with our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and other information in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again. These cookies typically last for one year.
If you are navigating our downloadable content, we may also use cookies to keep track of your items while you’re browsing our site.
A web beacon is a transparent image file typically used by third party traffic monitoring and tracking services to monitor your journey around a single website or collection of sites. Web beacons can be used in connection with cookies to gain an understanding of how a website's users navigate through and process the content contained in that website. Your personal information is not collected through the use of tracking technology. You may not decline web beacons. However, they can be rendered ineffective by declining all cookies or by modifying your web browser’s settings to notify you each time a cookie is tendered.
Contact Forms
The coding language in the contact form on this Site uses PHP sessions, which use cookies by default for functionality. This data is not stored in the database, nor are there third party cookies for tracking or targeting involved in the submitting a contact form. The Strickland Group, Inc. may choose to keep contact form submissions for a certain period of time for customer service or marketing purposes.
Data from Contests, Surveys, and Gated Content
Personal or other information you may provide when entering contests or giveaways, responding to surveys, registering to retrieve gated content, or signing up for newsletters.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Pages 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.
Website Analytics
We may also partner with selected third-party vendors to allow tracking technologies and remarketing services on the Site through the use of first party cookies and third-party cookies, to, among other things, analyze and track users’ use of the Site, determine the popularity of certain content, and better understand online activity. By accessing the Site, you consent to the collection and use of your information by these third-party vendors. You may contact us for information regarding our website analytics vendor; you are encouraged to review their privacy policy and contact them directly for responses to your questions. We do not transfer personal information to these third-party vendors. However, if you do not want any information to be collected and used by tracking technologies, you can visit the third-party vendor or the Network Advertising Initiative Opt-Out Tool or Digital Advertising Alliance Opt-Out Tool.
You should be aware that getting a new computer, installing a new browser, upgrading an existing browser, or erasing or otherwise altering your browser’s cookies files may also clear certain opt-out cookies, plug-ins, or settings.
How We Use Collected Information
Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. The Strickland Group, Inc. may collect and use users’ personal information for the following purposes:
- To run and operate our Site: We may need your information to display content on the Site correctly.
- To improve customer service: Information you provide helps us respond to your customer service requests and support needs more efficiently.
- To personalize user experience: We may monitor and analyze aggregated usage and trend information to understand and improve how our users as a group utilize the services and resources provided on our Site.
- To improve our Site: We may use feedback you provide to improve our products and services.
- To process, fulfill, and manage orders: We may use the information users provide about themselves when placing an order only to provide service to that order. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to provide the service.
- To run a promotion, contest, survey, newsletter, or other Site feature: We may send users information they agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to them, notify them of new or recommended products and services, or announce relevant updates to the Site.
- To manage product reviews and ratings: We may use third party service providers to help us manage product reviews and ratings left by users.
- To send periodic emails: We may use the email address to send users information and updates pertaining to their order. It may also be used to respond to their inquiries, questions, and/or other requests.
Who We Share Your Data With
We do not sell, trade, or rent users’ personal identification information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information, not linked to any personal identification information, regarding visitors and users with our business partners, trusted affiliates and advertisers for the purposes outlined above.
We may use third party service providers to help us operate our business and the Site or administer activities on our behalf, such as sending out newsletters or surveys. We may share your information with these third parties for those limited purposes provided that you have given us your permission.
We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:
By Law or to Protect Rights
If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation. This includes exchanging information with other entities for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Third-Party Service Providers
We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing assistance.
Marketing Communications
With your consent, or with an opportunity for you to withdraw consent, we may share your information with third parties for marketing purposes, as permitted by law.
Trusted Affiliates
We may share your information with our trusted affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Such affiliates include our subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
Business Partners
We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services or promotions.
Other Third Parties
We may share your information with advertisers and investors for the purpose of conducting general business analysis. We may also share your information with such third parties for marketing purposes, as permitted by law.
Sale or Bankruptcy
If we reorganize or sell all or a portion of our assets, undergo a merger, or are acquired by another entity, we may transfer your information to the successor entity. If we go out of business or enter bankruptcy, your information would be an asset transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that the transferee may decline to honor commitments we made in this Privacy Policy.
We are not responsible for the actions of third parties with whom you share personal or sensitive data, and we have no authority to manage or control third-party solicitations. If you no longer wish to receive correspondence, emails or other communications from third parties, you are responsible for contacting the third party directly.
What Rights You Have Over Your Data
You may at any time review, change the information in, or terminate your account, as well as request that we erase any personal data we hold about you, by contacting us. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where We Send Your Data
Visitor submissions may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Contact forms are submitted via email.
Your Contact Information
We may use the contact information users provide when placing an order or submitting an inquiry, only to provide service to that order or inquiry. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to provide the service.
If you communicate with The Strickland Group, Inc. by sending an email, your email address may be retained for further communication with you in connection with processing your request or as provided by law. Do not send any sensitive or confidential information in the body of, or as an attachment to, an electronic mail message unless the data is adequately encrypted. Data sent via email is not inherently secure or encrypted. Any information contained in an email message or attachment may be retained and stored by The Strickland Group, Inc.
Electronic Newsletters
If a user decides to opt-in to our mailing list, they may receive emails that may include company news, updates, related product or service information, etc. If at any time the user would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email or user may contact us via our Site. We may use third party service providers to help us operate our business and the Site or administer activities on our behalf, such as sending out newsletters or surveys. We may share your information with these third parties for those limited purposes. If you no longer wish to receive correspondence, emails, or other communications from third parties, you are responsible for contacting the third party directly.
Advertising
Ads appearing on our Site may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile non personal identification information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy policy does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers. You may learn more about opting out of major ad networks at https://websitebuilders.com/tools/advertiser-opt-out/.
Google Adsense
Some advertising may be served by Google. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to users based on their visit to our Site and other sites on the Internet. DART uses “non personally identifiable information” and does not track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, etc. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html.
Additional information
How We Protect Your Data
We adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information, username, password, transaction information and data stored on our Site.
We have implemented and will maintain the following technical and organizational measures that address (a) digital data security; (b) physical security on business premises; (c) controls around employee and contractor access to (a) and/or (b); and (d) the processes for testing, assessing and evaluating the effectiveness of technical and organizational measures.
While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse. Any information disclosed online is vulnerable to interception and misuse by unauthorized parties. Therefore, we cannot guarantee complete security if you provide personal information.
What Data Breach Procedures We Have in Place
Security is a continuous process, not a static state. This Site utilizes protective technologies and a continuously monitored security framework to mitigate the risks of website compromises and respond to issues if they arise. We strive to keep our content management system and related software up-to-date at all times. We also have a multi-step plan in place to identify, protect against, detect, respond to, and recover from potential hacking.
Third Party Sites, Apps, and Platforms
Our Site may include links to third-party sites, apps, and social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn. Clicking on those links may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control third-party sites, apps and social media platforms and we encourage you to read their privacy notices so that you understand how they process information about you.
Automated Decision Making
Automated decision making is a decision based solely on automated User data processing, with no human involvement in the decision process. We don’t currently, but may choose in the future to use automated decision making to segment and target product offers based on our customers’ demands and needs. In that event, this policy will be updated with information about how the information is used, what decisions are made with aggregated data, and what rights Users have over decisions made without human intervention.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
The Strickland Group, Inc. has the discretion to update this privacy policy at any time. Any modifications or updates shall be effective upon posting to the Site; we will alert you about any changes by updating the “last updated” date of this Privacy Policy. We encourage Users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this privacy policy periodically and become aware of modifications.
Your Acceptance of These Terms
By using this Site, you signify your acceptance of this policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Site. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this Site, or your dealings with this Site, please contact us:
The Strickland Group, Inc.
4055 International Plaza #450
Fort Worth, TX 76109
817-338-0800
info@tsg.net
This document was last updated on July 16, 2020