Privacy Policy

New River Computing, Inc. (the “Company”, “we” or “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This policy (the “Privacy Policy”) describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit www.newrivercomputing.com (the “Website”) that identifies or is associated with you and our practices for collecting, storing, using, maintaining, protecting, processing, transferring and disclosing that information.

Please read this 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, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Terms of Use, Notice and Revisions section below). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy frequently for updates.

Our Policy Towards Children

The Website is not directed to persons under 16 and the Company does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from children. If you are under 16, please do not attempt to send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one under the age of 16 may provide any personal information to or on the Website. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under the age of 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal information without appropriate consent, then please contact us using the details below so that we can take the appropriate steps in accordance with our legal obligations and this privacy policy.

What information do we collect?

We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or device ("Personal Information"). When you visit the Website, you provide us with two types of information: website usage information that is collected by us as you interact with the Website and Personal Information that you knowingly choose to disclose as part of your use of the Website.

1. Automatic Data Collection
   • Cookies and Web Logs. When you enter the Website as a visitor, we may collect your browser type and IP address. In addition, we may store certain information from your browser using "cookies." A cookie is a data file containing a string of characters that uniquely identifies your browser and is stored on your computer. We may use cookies to improve the quality of our service by storing user preferences, personalization features and other information about the user. You can remove or block cookies using the settings in your browser if you want to disable this convenience feature. In addition, our web logs automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. These web server logs may include information such as the URL of the web page you have requested, your IP address, your browser type, your browser language, the date and time of your request to be served a certain page and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser. We may also record information about the URL from which you came to the Website if the associated website contained a direct link to the Website.
   • [Web Beacons. Pages of our Website may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).]
   • [Google Analytics.When someone visits this Website, we may use a third-party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behavior patterns. We do this to find out information such as the number of visitors to various parts of our Website. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make, and do not allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our Website. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.]
2. Data Voluntarily Provided by You. We collect information from you when you add a comment on our blog or when you contact us through the Website’s contact form.

In summary, we have collected the following categories of personal information from consumers within the last twelve (12) months:

Category	Examples	Collected
A. Identifiers.	A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, Social Security number, driver's license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.	YES
B. Personal information categories.	A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver's license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories.	YES
C. Sensitive Date, as defined in Va. Code Ann. § 59.1-575	Personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, mental or physical health diagnosis, sexual orientation, or citizenship or immigration status; The processing of genetic or biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person; The personal data collected from a known child; or Precise geolocation data. Va. Code Ann. § 59.1-575	NO
D. Commercial information.	Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.	YES
E. Biometric Information.	Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data.	NO
F. Internet or other similar network activity.	Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer's interaction with a website, application, or advertisement.	YES
G. Geolocation	Physical location or movements.	NO
H. Sensory data.	Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.	NO
I. Professional or employment-related information.	Current or past job history or performance evaluations.	NO
J. Non-public education information (per Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)).	Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records.	NO
K. Inferences drawn from other personal information.	Profile reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities and aptitudes.	NO

Personal information does not include:

• Publicly available information from government records.
• De-identified or aggregated consumer information.
• Information excluded from the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act’s (“VCDPA”) scope, like:
  • health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and other relevant federal and state laws, or clinical trial data; and
  • personal information covered by certain federal and state sector-specific privacy laws, including but not limited to, the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FRCA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), and the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994.

What do we use your information for?

We may use or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following purposes:

• To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information. For example, if you share your name and contact information to ask a question about our products or services, we will use that personal information to respond to your inquiry. If you provide your personal information to purchase a service, we will use that information to set up an account with you.
• To provide, support, personalize, and develop our Website, products, and services.
• To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.
• To personalize your Website experience and to deliver content and service offerings relevant to your interests (with your consent, where required by law).
• As necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property or safety of us, our clients or others.
• For testing, research, analysis, and service development, including to develop and improve our Website, products, and services.
• To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
• As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the VCDPA.
• To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our Website user is among the assets transferred.

We will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.

Sharing Personal Information

We may share your personal information internally in furtherance of the purposes described above.

We may disclose your personal information to a third party for a business purpose. When we disclose personal information for a business purpose, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract.

We share your personal information with the following categories of third parties:

Service providers.

Disclosures of Personal Information for a Business Purpose

In the preceding twelve (12) months, Company has disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose:

• Category A: Identifiers.
• Category B: Personal information categories.
• Category D: Commercial information.
• Category F: Internet or other similar network activity.

We disclose your personal information for a business purpose to the following categories of third parties:

Service providers.

Sales of Personal Information

In the preceding twelve (12) months, the Company has not sold personal information. You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information. You can learn more about exercising this right below.

Your Rights and Choices

The VCDPA provides Virginia residents with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your VCDPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.

Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights

You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights), we will disclose to you:

• Whether we are processing personal data about you.
• The categories of personal information we collected about you.
• The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.
• Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information.
• The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
• The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).

Correction and Deletion Request Rights

You have the right to request that we correct inaccuracies in or delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights), we will as requested, either correct or delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies.

We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:

1. Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
2. Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
3. Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
4. Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
5. Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information's deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research's achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.
6. Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
7. Comply with a legal obligation.
8. Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

The above list is not exhaustive, and we may deny your request for any reason permitted by the VCDPA.

Opt-out Rights

You have the right to opt out of the processing of personal data for the purposes of targeted advertising, the sale of personal data, or profiling.

Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights

To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by email or by mail to the following address:

New River Computing, Inc.
104 Hubbard St
Blacksburg, VA 24060

Only you may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. If you are the parent or legal guardian of a child, you may make a verifiable consumer request related to the personal information of that child. You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:

• Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person or an authorized representative of the person we collected personal information on.
• Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.

Response Timing and Format

We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to 90 days total from day of receipt), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing within the initial 45-day period. If you have an account with us, we will deliver our written response to that account. If you do not have an account with us, we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option. Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request's receipt. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. In addition, we do not charge for a customer’s first two data requests, unless excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded, in any given year, but VCDPA allows us to charge for responding to more than two data requests per year per customer. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

Appeal Rights

To appeal our response to your consumer request, please email us.

Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your VCDPA rights. Unless permitted by the VCDPA, we will not:

• Deny you goods or services.
• Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
• Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services.
• Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to amend this privacy notice at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this privacy notice, we will post the updated notice on the Website and update the notice's effective date. Your continued use of our Website following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.

Contact Information

If you have any questions regarding this privacy policy you may contact us using the information below.

Email us through our contact form.

Give us a call at (540) 808-2900 (option 1).