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Privacy Policy

Written to describe what the site actually does — including the verification checks that run when you submit the contact form.

Effective August 11, 2026 · Last updated August 11, 2026

Gold Bird, Inc. (doing business as Gold Bird Group, “we”, “us”) operates https://goldbirdgroup.io. This policy describes what we collect, what we do with it, who else sees it, and how to get it removed.

The part most policies leave out. When you submit our contact form, we run automated checks on the information you provide — including a lookup of your company against a public federal database. Those checks send limited information to third parties. Section 3 says exactly what and to whom.

1. What we collect

Information you give us

Only through the contact forms. There are no accounts, no logins, and no passwords on this site.

  • Your name and email address (required)
  • Your company name and website (optional)
  • Which services you’re asking about and your timeline
  • The message you write

Information collected automatically when you submit

  • Your IP address, and the approximate city, region, and country derived from it
  • Your browser type (User-Agent), language preference, and time zone
  • How long the form took to fill in

The last two exist to distinguish people from bots. We do not build advertising profiles and we do not track you across other websites.

Analytics

We use Vercel Analytics to count page views. It is cookieless and does not identify you individually. This site sets no cookies at all, which is why you see no cookie banner — there is nothing to consent to.

2. What we do with it

  • Reply to you
  • Understand which of our services people ask about, so we know which to keep
  • Assess whether an inbound enquiry is genuine. We work in fraud prevention and receive impersonation attempts; the checks in Section 3 exist for that reason

We do not sell personal information. We do not share it for advertising. We will not add you to a marketing list from a contact-form submission.

Automated assessment

The checks described below produce a coherence score and a red/amber/green flag that a human reads alongside your message. It never blocks your submission and no decision is made automatically — every enquiry reaches a person regardless of the score. If you believe a check reached a wrong conclusion about you, contact us and we will correct it.

Legal bases (GDPR, where it applies): legitimate interests for fraud prevention and for replying to an enquiry you initiated; legal obligation where a law requires retention.

3. Who receives your information

We do not sell your data. It reaches the following parties, and only for the purposes listed:

  • Vercel — hosts this website and processes the form submission. Receives everything you submit
  • Google Workspace — our email provider. Your enquiry is delivered to our mailbox and stored there. Receives everything you submit. This is our inbox for form enquiries, and for anything you write to us directly
  • Public DNS and RDAP services (including Verisign) — receive your email domain so we can check its mail configuration and age. Not your address, just the part after the @
  • FMCSA (U.S. Department of Transportation) — receives your company name, if you give us one, to check for public carrier or broker authority records. Most of our clients are in freight; an absent record is treated as neutral. Not every form on this site asks for a company, and this check only runs when one is provided

We may also disclose information where required by law, and would transfer it as part of a sale of the business — with notice to you first.

What changed on August 11, 2026. Enquiries used to be delivered to us through a third-party messaging app, which received everything you submitted and held it indefinitely. They now go to our own email inbox instead. That messaging app still alerts us that an enquiry has arrived, but the alert carries no personal information — no name, email, company, website, message, location, or IP address — only a reference number and a flag. Enquiries received before this date are being deleted from the old channel.

4. How long we keep it

  • Contact-form enquiries: 12 months from the date you submit, then deleted
  • Server logs: retained by our hosting provider on its standard schedule. These contain a random reference number and non-identifying details — not your name, email, or message
  • Ongoing client correspondence: kept for the life of the engagement and as long afterwards as tax and professional-records law requires

5. Your rights

Wherever you are, you may ask us to: give you a copy of what we hold about you, correct it, delete it, or stop using it. Residents of California, the EU, the UK, and a number of U.S. states have these rights by statute; we extend them to everyone because operating two processes is worse than operating one.

Email info@goldbirdgroup.io with “Privacy request” in the subject. We respond within 30 days. There is no charge and we will not ask you to create an account to make a request.

If you are in the EU or UK you may also complain to your local data protection authority. We do not sell or share personal information for cross-context advertising, so there is nothing to opt out of on that front.

6. Security

Traffic to this site is encrypted in transit (HTTPS, enforced). Your submission is transmitted to us over encrypted connections and stored by the providers named in Section 3 under their own encryption at rest. Access is limited to the operator of the business.

No system is completely secure. If personal information is exposed in a way that triggers a notification duty, we will notify affected individuals — and, where required, the Florida Department of Legal Affairs — within the timeframes set by Florida Statute § 501.171 and any other applicable law.

7. International visitors

We operate from the United States and your information is processed there. If you contact us from outside the U.S., you are sending it to a U.S. recipient. We do not target our services to the EU or UK, but we honour the rights in Section 5 regardless of where you are.

8. Children

This is a business-to-business site and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 16, and will delete it if we discover we have.

9. Changes

If we change this policy we will update the date at the top. If a change materially affects what we do with information already collected, we will say so prominently rather than quietly re-dating the page.

10. Contact

Gold Bird, Inc. (DBA Gold Bird Group)
Boca Raton, FL, US
info@goldbirdgroup.io