Privacy Policy

Last Updated: January 15, 2026

Who We Are

Washington County Local is a website highlighting locally owned businesses in and around Washington County, Oregon for the purpose of promoting and supporting local businesses in our community. Washington County Local is operated by Wolff & Co ("we," "us," or "our").

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your information when you visit our website or participate in our community and raffles.

Communications

When you visit Washington County Local or send emails or texts to us, you are communicating with us electronically. You consent to receive communications from us electronically. We will communicate with you by email, SMS/text, or by posting notices on this site. You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.

SMS Privacy Disclaimer

We respect your privacy. When you provide your mobile phone number and opt in to receive SMS communications from Washington County Local, we will use it solely for the purposes described in our Terms & Conditions and raffle communications.

We do not sell, rent, or share your mobile opt-in information with third parties for their own marketing or promotional purposes (except for raffle sponsors as described below).

Your phone number will only be used to send you relevant communications, such as raffle updates, winner notifications, or promotional messages related to our local business community. Standard message and data rates may apply.

Phone (Voice & Text Messages)

You consent to receive text messages when filling webforms, entering raffles, reaching out to support, scheduling calls, or similar interactions. You agree that the agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.

Interpretation and Definitions

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

• Account means a unique account created for you to access our Service or parts of our Service (if applicable).
• Company (referred to as either "the Company", "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to Wolff & Co / Washington County Local.
• Cookies are small files that are placed on your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
• Country refers to Oregon, United States.
• Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.
• Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
• Service refers to the Website.
• Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.
• Third-party Social Media Service refers to any website or any social network website through which a User can log in or create an account to use the Service.
• Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
• Website refers to Washington County Local, accessible from washingtoncountylocal.com
• You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

• Email address
• First name and last name
• Phone number
• Business name and address (for business listings)
• Usage Data

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.

Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service. The technologies We use may include:

• Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.
• Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Service may use local stored objects (or Flash Cookies) to collect and store information about Your preferences or Your activity on our Service. Flash Cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as those used for Browser Cookies. For more information on how You can delete Flash Cookies, please read "Where can I change the settings for disabling, or deleting local shared objects?" available at Adobe's support site.
• Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Service and our emails 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 opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).

Cookies can be "Persistent" or "Session" Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser.

We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:

Necessary / Essential Cookies

• Type: Session Cookies
• Administered by: Us
• Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.

Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies

• Type: Persistent Cookies
• Administered by: Us
• Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.

Functionality Cookies

• Type: Persistent Cookies
• Administered by: Us
• Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website.

Analytics Cookies

• Type: Persistent Cookies
• Administered by: Us and Third Parties (e.g., Google Analytics)
• Purpose: These Cookies help us understand how visitors use the Site, including pages visited, time spent, and engagement patterns.

For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please visit our full Terms and Conditions.

Use of Your Personal Data

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

• To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.
• To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.
• For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service.
• To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
• To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.
• To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
• For business transfers: We may use Your information 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 Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.
• For raffle and giveaway management: To process raffle entries, select winners, notify participants, and share information with sponsoring businesses.
• For community building: To operate and moderate our online community, whether on our website or external platforms like Facebook or Circle.
• For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service, products, services, marketing and your experience.

Sharing Your Personal Data

We may share Your personal information in the following situations:

With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to contact You. These include:

• Website Hosting: Webflow (hosting and CMS)
• Email Services: Email marketing and transactional email providers
• Raffle Software: RafflePress or similar platforms for raffle management
• Analytics: Google Analytics and similar services
• Social Media: Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms we use for promotion

With Participating Businesses (Raffles): When you enter a raffle sponsored by a local business, we share your email address and, if you win, your name with that business. The business may use your email to send promotional communications (you can unsubscribe from their emails at any time).

For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.

With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.

With business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions.

With other users: when You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside. If You interact with other users or register through a Third-Party Social Media Service, Your contacts on the Third-Party Social Media Service may see Your name, profile, pictures and description of Your activity. Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of Your activity, communicate with You and view Your profile.

With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.

Public Information

The following information may be publicly displayed on our Site:

• Business listings and information
• Community posts and comments
• Raffle winner names and photos (with consent)
• Reviews and testimonials from Google Business Profiles and other sources

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles and pages on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, social media posts, Google Maps, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of third-party websites.

How We Share Data

Raffles and Giveaways

If you enter or win a raffle from a local business:

• We will share your email address with the sponsoring business
• If you win, we will share your first and last name so they know to expect you to redeem the prize
• We may feature your name and photo on our website and social media
• The business may send you promotional emails (you can unsubscribe at any time)

We do not share any other personal information with businesses beyond what is necessary for raffle fulfillment.

Email List

When you subscribe to the Washington County Local mailing list:

• We will never sell your email address to anyone
• We will never share your contact information with third parties for their marketing purposes
• The only exception is when you enter raffles (as described above)
• You may request to have your email address removed from the mailing list at any time by clicking "unsubscribe" in any email or contacting us directly

Retention of Your Personal Data

The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

Specific Retention Periods

• Email Subscribers: Your email address is retained as long as you remain subscribed to the Washington County Local email list. You may remove yourself or request removal at any time.
• Raffle Participants: We retain raffle participant information for 90 days after the raffle ends for winner selection, notification, and featuring winners on our site.
• Usage Data: The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

When information is no longer needed, we will securely delete or anonymize it.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.

The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions

If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Law Enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Other Legal Requirements

The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• Comply with a legal obligation
• Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
• Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
• Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
• Protect against legal liability

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Children's Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 18 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.

If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent's consent before We collect and use that information.

Your Privacy Rights

Access and Correction

You may:

• Request access to your personal information
• Update or correct inaccurate information
• Request deletion of your information (subject to legal requirements)

Marketing Communications

You may opt out of marketing emails by:

• Clicking "unsubscribe" in any marketing email
• Contacting us directly at [Your Email]
• Adjusting your preferences (if applicable)

Note: You cannot opt out of essential communications about raffles you've entered or prizes you've won.

Cookie Management

Most browsers allow you to:

• View and delete cookies
• Block cookies from specific sites
• Block all cookies
• Delete all cookies when you close the browser

Note that disabling cookies may limit your ability to use certain features of the Site.

Do Not Track

Some browsers have "Do Not Track" features. Currently, we do not respond to Do Not Track signals.

California Privacy Rights (CCPA)

If you are a California resident, you have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA):

Right to Know

You can request information about:

• Categories of personal information collected
• Sources of personal information
• Business purposes for collection
• Third parties with whom we share information
• Specific pieces of personal information we hold

Right to Delete

You can request deletion of your personal information, subject to certain exceptions.

Right to Opt-Out

You can opt out of the "sale" of personal information (though we do not sell personal information in the traditional sense).

Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising your CCPA rights.

To exercise these rights, contact us at [Your Email].

Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services, including:

• Business websites
• Social media platforms
• Google Business Profiles
• Payment processors (if applicable)

International Users

The Site is operated in the United States and intended for users in the United States, particularly Washington County, Oregon. If you are accessing the Site from outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States where our servers are located and we operate.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:

Wolff & Co / Washington County Local
Email: andrew@wolffand.co, andrew@washingtoncountylocal.com
Website: www.wolffand.co, www.washingtoncountylocal.com