Oak City Digital - Privacy Policy  

Introduction

This Privacy Policy outlines Oak City Digital's (" we ", " our " or " the Company ") practices with respect to information collected from users who access our website at https://www.oakcity.digital (" Site "), or otherwise share personal information with us (collectively: " Users "). 

Grounds for data collection 

We collect and process Personal Information for purposes that are reasonably necessary to operate our business, provide and improve our services, communicate with you, maintain and improve our Site, and comply with applicable legal obligations.



Depending on the circumstances, we may collect and use Personal Information when it is:


  • Necessary to provide our services: We may use Personal Information when it is necessary to respond to inquiries, provide services you request, manage client relationships, process transactions, or fulfill our contractual obligations.
  • Necessary for our legitimate business purposes: We may use Personal Information for reasonable business purposes, such as maintaining and improving our Site, understanding how visitors use our Site, preventing fraud or misuse, protecting the security of our systems, and communicating with you about our services.
  • Required by law: We may collect, use, or retain Personal Information when necessary to comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, or other lawful requests.
  • With your consent: Where required by applicable law, we may ask for your consent before collecting or using certain Personal Information, including information collected through certain cookies or similar technologies.


We encourage Users to read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand how we collect, use, and protect Personal Information and to make informed decisions about using our Site and services.


What information we collect?

We may collect information from you when you visit our Site, communicate with us, request information about our services, or otherwise interact with Oak City Digital.


The types of information we may collect include:


  • Information you provide to us. This may include information you voluntarily provide when you contact us, request a quote, submit an inquiry, communicate with us, or otherwise interact with our business. Depending on how you interact with us, this may include your name, email address, phone number, company name, mailing address, and the contents of your communications with us.
  • Device and usage information. When you visit our Site, we may automatically collect certain technical and usage information about your device and interaction with our Site. This may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, device type, referring website, pages viewed, approximate location, date and time of visits, and information about how you interact with our Site.
  • Analytics and website interaction information. We use third-party services, including Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity, to help us understand how visitors use our Site and improve its performance and functionality. These services may collect information about website visits, clicks, scrolling, navigation, and other interactions with our Site. Depending on your browser settings and applicable consent requirements, these services may use cookies or similar technologies.
  • Information from other sources. We may receive information from third-party service providers or other sources when necessary to provide our services, operate our business, communicate with you, or comply with applicable law.


We do not intentionally collect sensitive personal information through our Site unless it is necessary for a specific business purpose and permitted by applicable law. We also ask that you avoid submitting sensitive or unnecessary personal information through forms or other communications on our Site.

How do we receive information about you?

We receive your Personal Information from various sources:
  • When you voluntarily provide us your personal details in order to register on our Site;
  • When you use or access our Site in connection with your use of our services;
  • From third party providers, services and public registers (for example, traffic analytics vendors).

What information we collect?

We collect two kinds of information:


Information you give us directly:


  • Your name, phone number, and business email address
  • Business details you share with us — company name, website, industry, and what you need help with — through our contact form, phone calls, or email
  • If you respond to one of our lead ads on Facebook or Instagram, we receive the name, phone number, and business email you entered there


Information collected automatically:


  • Basic, anonymous browsing data — including which pages get visited, roughly how long visitors stay — so we can improve the site. We don't use this to identify you personally.
  • We don't collect payment card details through the site, and we don't ask for sensitive personal information.


How we use it:


  • To respond to your inquiries and communicate with you about our services
  • To prepare proposals and marketing plans, and to run the services you hire us for (ad campaigns, directory listings, social posting)
  • To keep you informed of our updates and services — you can opt out of marketing emails anytime by replying "stop" or using the unsubscribe link
  • For statistical and analytical purposes, to improve the site


Who we share it with:


We don't sell your information, and we don't share it with anyone except:


  • The advertising platforms we run campaigns on (Google, Meta)
  • The service providers who help us deliver our work — listings fulfillment, social posting tools, and the email tools we use to communicate with you
  • Anyone else, only if the law requires it
  • We may also disclose information when we believe it's reasonably necessary to comply with a law or legal request, enforce our agreements, investigate fraud or security issues, defend against legal claims, or protect the rights, property, or safety of our company, our users, or others.


User Rights

You may request to:


  1. Receive confirmation of whether we process personal information about you, and access that information along with supplementary details
  2. Receive a copy of the personal information you gave us directly, in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format
  3. Correct personal information we hold about you
  4. Delete your personal information
  5. Object to how we process your personal information
  6. Restrict how we process your personal information
  7. Lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority


These rights aren't absolute — they may be limited by our legitimate business interests and legal requirements.


To exercise any of these rights, or for more information, contact us: info@oakcity.digital or (919) 205-4346.


Retention

We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to provide our services, and as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies. Retention periods will be determined taking into account the type of information that is collected and the purpose for which it is collected, bearing in mind the requirements applicable to the situation and the need to destroy outdated, unused information at the earliest reasonable time. Under applicable regulations, we will keep records containing client personal data, account opening documents, communications and anything else as required by applicable laws and regulations. 


We may rectify, replenish or remove incomplete or inaccurate information, at any time and at our own discretion.

Cookies

We and our trusted partners use cookies and other technologies in our related services, including when you visit our Site or access our services. 

A "cookie" is a small piece of information that a website assign to your device while you are viewing a website. Cookies are very helpful and can be used for various different purposes. These purposes include allowing you to navigate between pages efficiently, enable automatic activation of certain features, remembering your preferences and making the interaction between you and our Services quicker and easier. Cookies are also used to help ensure that the advertisements you see are relevant to you and your interests and to compile statistical data on your use of our Services. 

The Site uses the following types of cookies:

a. 'session cookies' which are stored only temporarily during a browsing session in order to allow normal use of the system and are deleted from your device when the browser is closed; 

b. 'persistent cookies ' which are read only by the Site, saved on your computer for a fixed period and are not deleted when the browser is closed. Such cookies are used where we need to know who you are for repeat visits, for example to allow us to store your preferences for the next sign-in; 

c. 'third party cookies' which are set by other online services who run content on the page you are viewing, for example by third party analytics companies who monitor and analyze our web access.

Cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies you, but Personal Information that we store about you may be linked, by us, to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. You may remove the cookies by following the instructions of your device preferences; however, if you choose to disable cookies, some features of our Site may not operate properly and your online experience may be limited.

We also use a tool called “Google Analytics” to collect information about your use of the Site. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users access the Site, what pages they visit when they do so, etc. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve our Site and services. Google Analytics collects the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit sites, rather than your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this Site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy.

Third party collection of information

Our policy only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. To the extent you disclose your information to other parties or sites throughout the internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the information you disclose to them. Accordingly, we encourage you to read the terms and conditions and privacy policy of each third party that you choose to disclose information to. 


This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that we do not own or control, or to individuals whom we do not employ or manage, including any of the third parties which we may disclose information as set forth in this Privacy Policy. 

How do we safeguard your information?

We take reasonable measures to protect the information we collect and maintain from unauthorized access, use, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards appropriate to the nature of the information we handle.


We limit access to personal information to individuals and service providers who have a legitimate business need to access it, and we take reasonable steps to ensure that third-party service providers handling information on our behalf maintain appropriate safeguards.


We also use third-party services, such as Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity, to help us understand website usage and improve our website. These services may process certain information in accordance with their own privacy policies and applicable terms.


While we take reasonable precautions to protect your information, no method of transmitting, storing, or processing information is completely secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee that our security measures will prevent every possible security incident, unauthorized access, or other security threat.


If we become aware of a security incident involving personal information, we will take reasonable steps to investigate and respond to the incident and provide any notices required by applicable law.

Transfer of data outside the EEA 

Please note that some data recipients may be located outside the EEA. In such cases we will transfer your data only to such countries as approved by the European Commission as providing adequate level of data protection, or enter into legal agreements ensuring an adequate level of data protection.

Advertisements

We don't serve third-party advertisements on our site. We may use advertising technology such as the Meta Pixel and the Google Ads tag to measure how our own ads perform and to show you our ads on Facebook, Instagram, and Google after you visit our site. These use cookies to recognize your browser.


You can opt out of personalized ads from many ad networks through the Network Advertising Initiative at optout.networkadvertising.org and the Digital Advertising Alliance at optout.aboutads.info, or adjust your ad settings directly in your Facebook and Google accounts.

Marketing

We may use your Personal Information, such as your name, email address, telephone number, etc. ourselves or by using our third party subcontractors for the purpose of providing you with promotional materials, concerning our services, which we believe may interest you.  

Out of respect to your right to privacy we provide you within such marketing materials with means to decline receiving further marketing offers from us. If you unsubscribe we will remove your email address or telephone number from our marketing distribution lists. 

Please note that even if you have unsubscribed from receiving marketing emails from us, we may send you other types of important e-mail communications without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them. These may include customer service announcements or administrative notices.

Corporate transaction

We may share information in the event of a corporate transaction (e.g. sale of a substantial part of our business, merger, consolidation or asset sale). In the event of the above, the transferee or acquiring company will assume the rights and obligations as described in this Privacy Policy.

Minors

Protecting children's privacy matters, especially online. Our site isn't designed for or directed at children, and we don't knowingly collect personal information from minors. Our services aren't for use by anyone under 18 without a parent or legal guardian's consent.



If you're a parent or guardian and believe your child has given us personal information without your consent, contact us at info@oakcity.digital and we'll delete it.


Updates or amendments to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to periodically amend or revise the Privacy Policy; material changes will be effective immediately upon the display of the revised Privacy policy. The last revision will be reflected in the "Last modified" section. Your continued use of the Platform, following the notification of such amendments on our website, constitutes your acknowledgment and consent of such amendments to the Privacy Policy and your agreement to be bound by the terms of such amendments.

How to contact us

If you have any general questions about the site or the information we collect about you and how we use it, contact us at info@oakcity.digital.


Oak City Digital LLC

Raleigh, North Carolina

Phone: (919) 205-4346

Web: oakcity.digital


Last modified: October 16, 2026