Effective Date: July 29, 2025

Mountain Goat Websites is a privately owned website hosting, design, and development company. Your privacy is important to us, and we are committed to protecting any personal information you share with us. We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties, for any reason.

Who we are

Our website address is: https://mountaingoatwebsites.com.

Information We Collect

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help detect spam.

An anonymized string (hash) derived from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. You can read Gravatar’s privacy policy here: https://automattic.com/privacy. After your comment is approved, your profile picture (if applicable) may be visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, please avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the site may be able to extract this information from publicly posted images.

Cookies

If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for your convenience. These cookies last for one year.

If you visit our login page, a temporary cookie is set to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is deleted when you close your browser.

When you log in, we set cookies to store login information and display preferences. Login cookies last for two days, and display preferences last for one year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. Logging out removes these cookies.

If you edit or publish content, a cookie may be stored indicating the post ID of the content edited. It contains no personal data and expires after one day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from third-party websites behaves as if you visited the originating site directly and may collect data about you, use cookies, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content.

How We Use Your Information

We use your contact information for:

  • Sending invoices, project reports, or service-related updates
  • Important announcements or updates related to your account or services
  • Occasional company news or future promotional content (you may opt out of these communications)

We do not sell or share your personal information with third parties for marketing or sales purposes.

Analytics and Website Usage Tracking

We use Google Analytics to collect anonymous data about how visitors use our site, such as pages visited, time spent on pages, and general geographic location based on IP address. This information helps us understand traffic trends and site performance, and we may share these general insights with clients when relevant to their projects.

Google Analytics may collect personally identifiable information, such as your IP address. You can read more about how Google uses your data at: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Data Sharing

  • If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
  • Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Data Retention

  • Comments and related metadata are retained indefinitely to support follow-up comments and moderation.
  • If you register on our website, any personal data in your profile is retained unless you delete it. Website administrators can view and edit this information.

Your Rights

You can request:

  • An exported file of the personal data we hold about you
  • That we delete any personal data we hold (excluding data retained for legal, administrative, or security purposes)

To make such requests, please contact us at mountaingoatwebsites/contact.