BUILDTOOLS Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how BUILDTOOLS, LLC its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, "BUILDTOOLS") collect and process information about you or your device on BUILDTOOLS's websites and apps (the "BUILDTOOLS sites") through our use of cookies and similar technologies. We use cookies, web beacons, mobile analytics and advertising IDs, and similar technologies to provide our Products and Services and to help collect data, including usage data, identifiers, and device information.

What are cookies and similar technologies?

Cookies are small text files placed by a website and stored by your browser on your device. A cookie can later be read when your browser connects to a web server in the same domain that placed the cookie. The text in a cookie contains a string of numbers and letters that may uniquely identify your device and can contain other information as well. This allows the web server to recognize your browser over time, each time it connects to that web server.

Web beacons are electronic images (also called single-pixel or clear GIFs) that are contained within a website or email. When your browser opens a webpage or email that contains a web beacon, it automatically connects to the web server that hosts the image (typically operated by a third party). This allows that web server to log information about your device and to set and read its own cookies. In the same way, third-party content on our websites (such as embedded videos, plug-ins, or ads) results in your browser connecting to the third-party web server that hosts that content. We also include web beacons in our email messages or newsletters to tell us if you open and act on them.

Mobile analytics and advertising IDs are generated by operating systems for mobile devices (iOS and Android) and can be accessed and used by apps in much the same way that websites access and use cookies. Our apps contain software that enables us and our third-party analytics and advertising partners to access these mobile IDs.

How do we and our partners use cookies and similar technologies?

We, and our analytics and advertising partners, use these technologies in our websites, apps, and online services to collect personal information (such as the pages you visit, the links you click on, and similar usage information, identifiers, and device information) when you use our services, including personal information about your online activities over time and across different websites or online services. This data is used to store your preferences and settings, enable you to sign-in, analyze how our websites and apps perform, track your interaction with the site or app, develop inferences, deliver and tailor interest-based advertising, combat fraud, and fulfill other legitimate purposes. We and/or our partners also share the data we collect or infer with third parties for these purposes.

We use different cookies for a variety of purposes, including:

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly Necessary cookies enable you to navigate our sites and use our sites' features, such as accessing securing areas. Strictly Necessary cookies don't gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where else you have visited on the Internet. This category of cookies cannot be disabled.

Functionality Cookies

Functionality cookies enable us to enhance the functionality of our sites, including by identifying you when you sign in or remembering your specified preferences. We do not share information collected by functionality cookies for advertising purposes.

Our third-party partners who allow us to set Functionality cookies on our sites include the following:

Performance/Analytics Cookies

Performance/Analytics cookies help us to analyze how you use our sites. Performance/Analytics cookies collect and store information such as how you interact with our sites, errors you encounter when using our sites, and which pages within our sites you go to most often. We use the information collected by these cookies to improve our sites and your user experience.

Our third-party partners who allow us to set Performance/Analytics cookies on our sites include the following:

Advertising Cookies

We and our third-party partners use Advertising cookies to collect personal information (such as the cookies stored on your browser, the advertising identifier on your mobile device, or the IP address of your device) when you visit our sites to deliver ads to you on third-party websites and applications (including across devices). Mobile analytics and advertising IDs are generated by operating systems for mobile devices (iOS and Android) and can be accessed and used by apps in much the same way that websites access and use cookies. Our apps contain software that enables our third-party analytics and advertising partners to access these mobile IDs. This information is used to store your preferences and settings, track your interaction with our sites and third-party sites, develop inferences, deliver and tailor interest-based advertising, combat fraud, and fulfill other legitimate purposes.

Our third-party partners who allow us to set Advertising cookies on our sites include the following:

Some of the data disclosures to these third parties may be considered a "sale" or "sharing" of personal information as defined under the laws of California and other U.S. states. Please see the "Your choices with respect to personal information" and "California Privacy Rights" sections in our Privacy Policy for more information.

What controls are available?

There are a range of cookie and related controls available through browsers, mobile operating systems, and elsewhere.

Industry controls:

To opt-out from or otherwise control targeted advertising, you can use the opt-out controls offered by the organizations our advertising partners may participate in, which you can access at:

• United States: NAI and DAA
• Canada: Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada
• Europe: European Digital Advertising Alliance

Browser or platform controls:

• Cookie controls: Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can go to your browser settings to learn how to delete or reject cookies. If you choose to delete or reject cookies, this could affect certain features or services of our website. If you choose to delete cookies, settings and preferences controlled by those cookies, including advertising preferences, may be deleted and may need to be recreated.
• Global Privacy Control: Some browsers and browser extensions support the "Global Privacy Control" (GPC) or similar controls that can send a signal to the websites you visit indicating your choice to opt-out from certain types of data processing, including data sales and/or targeted advertising, as specified by applicable law. When we detect such a signal, we will make reasonable efforts to respect your choices indicated by a GPC setting or similar control that is recognized by regulation or otherwise widely acknowledged as a valid opt-out preference signal.
• Do Not Track: Some browsers include a "Do Not Track" (DNT) setting that can send a signal to the websites you visit indicating you do not wish to be tracked. Unlike the GPC described above, there is not a common understanding of how to interpret the DNT signal; therefore, our websites do not respond to browser DNT signals. Instead, you can use the range of other tools to control data collection and use, including the GPC, cookie controls, and advertising controls described above.
• Mobile advertising ID controls: iOS and Android operating systems provide options to limit tracking and/or reset the advertising IDs.

These choices are specific to the device or browser you are using. If you access our services from other devices or browsers, take these actions from those systems to ensure your choices apply to the data collected when you use those systems.

Modifications

We may change this Cookie Policy at any time, and any such changes will be effective when we post the modified version on the BUILDTOOLS sites, unless otherwise required by applicable law.

Contact Information

If you have any questions regarding this Cookie Policy, please email us at privacy@BuildTools.com.