Oakridge Venture Group LLC (“Oakridge”, “we”, “our” or “us”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose and protect information when you visit oakridgeventuregroup.com, submit an inquiry or communicate with us.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect information you provide directly, including your name, business email address, telephone number, company name, business address, reason for inquiry and message content. We may also collect technical information such as IP address, browser type, device information, access times, pages viewed and referring pages.
When you submit a business introduction, we may collect your relationship to the business, an identifying or anonymized business description, sector, operating location, approximate business scale, timing and owner objectives, together with your contact details.
2. How We Collect Information
We collect information when you submit a website form, contact us by email or telephone, schedule a discussion or otherwise communicate with us. The website may also collect information through essential cookies and, where enabled, analytics or similar technologies.
3. How We Use Information
We use information to respond to inquiries, assess whether our services may be relevant, provide and improve services, schedule discussions, manage business relationships, maintain website security and functionality, analyze website performance, comply with legal obligations and protect our rights.
We use business-introduction information to assess possible acquisitions for our own account, manage related communications and records, and determine whether further discussion is appropriate. Advisory inquiries are assessed separately. We do not use a business introduction as permission to market the business to other buyers.
4. Communications
We may contact you by email or telephone regarding your inquiry and related business services. We will send marketing communications only where permitted by law. You may ask us to stop marketing communications at any time. Text messages should be used only where a separate and legally sufficient consent process has been implemented.
5. Sharing Information
We may share information with service providers that support website hosting, email, scheduling, analytics, customer relationship management, data storage or professional services. We may also disclose information when required by law, legal process, regulatory request, fraud prevention or protection of our rights. We do not sell personal information in the ordinary meaning of that term.
6. Cookies, Analytics and Maps
The website may use essential cookies required for functionality. If analytics, advertising pixels or non-essential cookies are enabled, the website should display any legally required consent mechanism and this policy should be updated to identify the relevant categories of technology. The optional interactive map on the Contact page is loaded only after you choose to view it; the map provider may then receive technical information such as your IP address, browser and device details.
7. Data Security
We use commercially reasonable administrative, technical and organizational measures designed to protect personal information. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and absolute security cannot be guaranteed.
Our Contact form, including acquisition inquiries, uses Cloudflare Turnstile in Managed mode to help distinguish people from automated traffic. Cloudflare processes technical signals such as your IP address, browser and connection information, and the website where verification occurs, to provide and improve bot detection. See Cloudflare’s Turnstile Privacy Addendum. Our server validates the verification result before accepting or emailing an inquiry. We also use a hidden anti-spam field and submission-rate limits. If verification is unavailable, you can contact us by email or telephone.
Rate limiting uses a keyed, hashed version of the connecting IP address and attempt timestamps stored on our server. Expired entries are removed when subsequent attempts are processed. These security records do not contain your inquiry text or email address. Our hosting and email providers may also retain operational logs for security and delivery troubleshooting.
8. Data Retention
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to respond to inquiries, provide services, maintain business records, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes and protect our rights.
9. Privacy Rights
Depending on your location, you may have rights to request access to, correction of or deletion of certain personal information, or to object to or restrict certain processing. To make a request, contact info@oakridgeventuregroup.com. We may need to verify your identity before completing a request.
10. Third-Party Links
The website may contain links to third-party websites. Oakridge is not responsible for the privacy, security or content practices of third parties.
11. Children
The website and services are intended for business users and are not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
12. Contact
Oakridge Venture Group LLC, 440 Louisiana Street, Suite 900, Houston, TX 77002, United States. Email: info@oakridgeventuregroup.com. Phone: +1 (713) 912-8845.
13. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically. The revised policy will be posted on this page with an updated effective date.