BuildTools Privacy Policy

Last updated: March 2024

Overview

Please note that the practices of BuildTools, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, “BuildTools”), with respect to personal information collected and used by BuildTools in connection with this website and all products and services licensed or otherwise made available by BuildTools, its subsidiaries and affiliates to customers and potential customers and other BuildTools products and services offered by BuildTools (“Products and Services”) are governed by this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”), as amended from time to time. Please regularly review our Privacy Policy.

BuildTools Products and Services are intended for and provided to businesses and other organizations, and not individual consumers or end-users. In some cases, in providing those services, we process personal information of consumers or end-users at the direction of our enterprise customers. When we do, we do so as a service provider or a “data processor” to those organizations, but we do not control and are not responsible for the privacy practices of those organizations. This privacy statement does not apply to personal information we process as a service provider or data processor on behalf of our enterprise customers. If you are a consumer end-user of one of those organizations, you should read that organization’s privacy statement and direct any privacy inquiries to that organization.

Personal Information: Collection

All personal information that we collect and maintain is subject to this Privacy Policy, as amended from time to time. “Personal information” means any information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular individual or household.

Personal information provided in connection with the Products and Services is collected by BuildTools, Inc., who is responsible for this Site. BuildTools’ address is 153 Lake St East, Wayzata, MN 55391, and its telephone number is 855-760-2011. BuildTools’ subsidiaries and affiliates may also collect information in connection with the Products and Services and, to the extent they do, their collection and use of such information shall also be governed by this Privacy Policy.

The Products and Services may contain links to other websites, products or services at or from which personal information is collected. In such instances, unless expressly provided to the contrary, the collection and use of your personal information will be governed by the privacy policy applicable to those websites, products or services.

What Personal Information is Collected

The personal information we collect depends on how you interact with us, the Products and Services you use, and the choices you make, including information you provide directly online or over the phone, email or otherwise, information collected automatically, information from third-party data sources, and data we infer or generate from other data.

Information You Provide Directly

Client Information: We collect the name and contact information of our clients and their employees with whom we may interact. We have a legitimate interest in contacting our clients and communicating with them concerning normal business administration such as projects, services, and billing.

Content Files: We collect any files or documents you upload through your use of our Products and Services, including any emails or other communications you may send to us.

Cookies and First-Party Tracking: We use cookies and clear GIFs. See our Cookie Policy for more information.

Cookies and Third-Party Tracking: We may place tracking technology on our website that collects analytics, records how you interact with our website, or allows us to participate in behavior-based advertising. Where required by law, we base the use of third-party cookies upon consent.

Demographic Information: We collect personal information, such as your age or location.

Email Interconnectivity: If you receive email from us, we use certain tools to capture data related to when you open our message, click on any links or banners it contains and make purchases.

Employment: If you apply for a job posting, or become an employee, we collect information necessary to process your application or to retain you as an employee.

Feedback/Support: If you provide us feedback or contact us for support we will collect your name and email address, as well as any other content that you send to us, in order to reply.

Mailing List: When you sign up for one of our mailing lists we collect your email address or postal address.

Mobile Devices: We collect information from your mobile device such as unique identifying information broadcast from your device when visiting our website.

Order Placement: We collect your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, and credit card number when you place an order.

Website Interactions: We use technology to monitor how you interact with our website. This may include which links you click on, or information that you type into our online forms.

Web Logs: We collect information, including your browser type, operating system, Internet Protocol (IP) address, domain name, click-activity, referring website, and/or a date/time stamp for visitors.

Sensitive Personal Information

We collect the following categories of sensitive personal information: a consumer’s debit or credit card number in combination with any required security code and a consumer’s precise geolocation. This information is collected in order to process transactions, comply with laws, manage our business, or provide you with services. We do not “sell” or “share” sensitive personal information for purposes of cross-context behavioral advertising.

How Your Personal Information is Used

By using our Products and Services, you grant BuildTools a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, process, analyze, modify, and exploit your personal information and any data you provide for any lawful business purpose, in our sole discretion. This includes, without limitation, the following purposes:

• Product and Service Delivery: to record, support, and facilitate your use of the Products and Services.
• Business Operations: to operate our business, such as billing, accounting, improving our internal operations, securing our systems, detecting fraudulent or illegal activity, and meeting our legal obligations.
• Product and Services Improvement, Development, and Research: to develop new products and services, and to conduct research.
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: to train, develop, improve, and refine artificial intelligence, machine learning models, algorithms, and other automated systems.
• Data Analytics: to analyze, aggregate, and derive insights from your data for any purpose.
• Customer Support: to provide customer support and respond to your questions.
• Communications: to send you information, including confirmations, invoices, technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages.
• Marketing and Advertising: to market, advertise, and promote our products and services or those of our partners and affiliates through any channel.
• Any Other Lawful Purpose: to use your information for any other lawful purpose that we determine, in our sole discretion, to be in our business interest.

How We Disclose Your Personal Information

We disclose personal information with your consent or as we determine necessary to complete your transactions or provide the Products and Services you have requested or authorized. We disclose each of the categories of personal information described above, to the types of third parties described below, for the following business purposes:

• Public Information: You may select options available through our services to publicly display and disclose your name and/or username.
• Service Providers: We provide personal information to vendors or agents working on our behalf.
• Financial Services & Payment Processing: When you provide payment data, we will disclose payment and transactional data to banks and other entities as necessary.
• Affiliates: We enable access to personal information across our subsidiaries, affiliates, and related companies.
• Corporate Transactions: We may disclose personal information as part of a corporate transaction or proceeding such as a merger, financing, acquisition, bankruptcy, dissolution, or a transfer, divestiture, or sale of all or a portion of our business or assets.
• Legal and Law Enforcement: We will access, disclose, and preserve personal information when we believe that doing so is necessary to comply with applicable law.
• Security, Safety, and Protecting Rights: We will disclose personal information if we believe it is necessary to protect our customers and others.
• Other Disclosures with Your Consent: We may disclose your information to other third parties when we have your consent or direction to do so.

No mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes.

Your Choices with Respect to Personal Information

• Right to Know: You have a right to request that we disclose to you the personal information we have collected about you.
• Rights to Request Correction or Deletion: You have rights to request that we correct inaccurate personal information and that we delete personal information under certain circumstances.
• Right to Withdraw Consent: If the processing of personal information is based on your consent, you can withdraw consent at any time for future processing.
• Right to Object to Processing: You can object to, or obtain a restriction of, the processing of personal information under certain circumstances.
• Right to Opt-Out: You have a right to opt-out from future “sales” or “sharing” of personal information.
• Confirmation of Processing: You have the right to confirm we have information about you.
• Do Not Track: We do not currently recognize the “Do Not Track” signal.
• Communications Preferences: You can choose whether to receive promotional communications from us by email, SMS, physical mail, and telephone.

Protection of Your Personal Information

We take reasonable and appropriate steps to help protect personal information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. In the event that we are required by law to inform you of a breach to your personal information we may notify you electronically, in writing, or by telephone, if permitted to do so by law.

To help us protect personal data, we request that you use a strong password and never share your password with anyone or use the same password with other sites or accounts.

Changes in This Privacy Policy

BuildTools may change this Privacy Policy from time to time at its sole discretion and will update the effective date of this Privacy Policy when we do so. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will provide notice or obtain consent regarding such changes as may be required by law.