Privacy Policy

Who We Are We are Fortress Fence Company, proudly providing custom fencing and gates to Lompoc, CA, and the surrounding areas. Our website address is: https://fortressfenceco.com.

Comments When you leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with your IP address and browser user agent string to help us detect and prevent spam.

An anonymized string (also called a hash) created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. You can review the Gravatar privacy policy here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible alongside your comment.

Media If you upload images to our website (for example, photos of your property for a fencing estimate), please avoid uploading files with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Other visitors to the website can potentially download and extract this location data from those images.

Cookies

• Comments: If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is for your convenience so you do not have to re-enter your details the next time you leave a comment. These cookies last for one year.

• Login & Accounts: If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to check if your browser accepts cookies. This contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we set up cookies to save your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options last for a year. Selecting “Remember Me” keeps your login active for two weeks. Logging out removes these cookies.

• Publishing: If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded Content From Other Websites Pages and articles on this site may include embedded content, such as videos, maps, or images. This embedded content behaves exactly as if you had visited the originating website directly.

These third-party websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with that content, especially if you have an account and are logged into their website.

Who We Share Your Data With We respect your privacy and keep your personal information secure. However, if you request a password reset for an account on our site, your IP address will be included in the reset email for security purposes.

How Long We Retain Your Data

• Comments: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to automatically recognize and approve follow-up comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

• Registered Users: For users who register on our website, we store the personal information provided in their user profile. You can see, edit, or delete your personal information at any time (with the exception of changing your username). Website administrators can also view and edit this information.

What Rights You Have Over Your Data If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you have the right to request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any information you provided. You may also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. Please note that this does not include any data we are legally or administratively obliged to keep for security or legal purposes.

Where Your Data is Sent To maintain the security and integrity of our website, visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.