This Privacy Policy describes how BuildSite collects, uses and discloses information about you and your use of the BuildSite services.
BuildSite, LLC ("BuildSite," "us" or "we") respects the privacy of the visitors to its website, the home page of which is located at http://www.buildsite.com (the "Site"). This Privacy Policy is intended to inform you of our policies and practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information you submit to us through our Site. This Privacy Policy is hereby incorporated in our Terms of Use and by registering for our services you accept the terms of this Privacy Policy. Personal information ("Personal Information") is information about you that is personally identifiable to you, like your name, address, e-mail address, or phone number, as well as other non-public information that is associated with the foregoing.
Consent
By using the Site, you signify your assent to our Privacy Policy and you expressly consent to the processing of your Personal Information according to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use our website. Your Personal Information may be processed by BuildSite in the country where it was collected as well as other countries (including the United States) where laws regarding processing of Personal Information may be less stringent than the laws in your country.
Your Information
The BuildSite services ("Services"), for individual and enterprise subscribers, are password-protected. To use the Services, you or your employer must sign up and provide us with contact information. You or your employer must also execute a BuildSite Customer Agreement. If you are a registered user, we track your first name, last name, User ID, password, street address, city, state, zip/postal code, country, phone number, email address and valid financial account information. We may, in the future, include other optional requests for information from you to help us to tailor the Site for you, deliver personalized information to you or otherwise improve the Services.
Automatically Gathered Information
We automatically collect browser type and browser software version to tailor the presentation of the Site and the services to your platform and to maintain a record of your activity on the Site. As an automatic process, our Web server software records a log file of IP addresses that access the Site. We also collect IP address information but do not ordinarily link IP addresses to users' Personal Information. However, we can and will use IP addresses to identify a User when we, in our sole discretion, determine that it is necessary to enforce compliance with our Terms of Use or to protect our Service, Site, customers or others.
Cookies
Cookies are tiny data files that are stored by your browser on your computer hard drive. We use cookies to enable you to specify unique preferences, to maintain your identity between sessions so that we can deliver content specific to your preferences, to personalize your website interface, to track user trends and patterns and to otherwise improve overall user experience on the Site through better functionality and design. You always have the option of disabling cookies via your browser preferences. If you disable cookies on your browser, please note that some parts of our Site may not function as effectively or may be considerably slower.
How We Use and Disclose Information
We use Personal Information for our own internal purposes including contacting you via email to inform you about updates to our services and providing you with information relating to actions you take using the Site. Operation of the Services often requires us to share your Personal Information, such as in connection with processing your submissions and proposals, but we will not rent or sell your Personal Information to third parties. We may provide you with newsletters via email. You may opt out of receiving these newsletters at any time.
We may share your Personal Information in the following circumstances:
- If you have directed us to do so
- If we are transmitting messages on your behalf to customers or other third parties specified by you;
- If we are transmitting messages on your behalf through third parties we have engaged to facilitate the Services; and
- If we are required by law or in response to a court order.
BuildSite cooperates with law enforcement inquiries, as well as other third parties to enforce laws, such as: intellectual property rights, fraud, theft, harassment and other rights. We can (and you authorize us to) disclose any information about you if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary (a) to comply with relevant laws or to respond to subpoenas or warrants served on us; (b) to protect or defend the rights or property of BuildSite or third parties; or (c) to assist in an investigation.
Although we currently do not have a parent company, any subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under a common control (collectively, "Affiliates"), we may in the future. We may share some or all of your Personal Information with these Affiliates, in which case we will require our Affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. If our company or our assets related to the Site are acquired by another company, that company will possess the Personal Information collected by us and it will assume the rights and obligations regarding your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy.
On a regular basis, we do disclose usage information in aggregate form to third parties, including manufacturers, for a number of business purposes, including marketing and market research.
We do not intentionally gather Personal Information about visitors who are under the age of 13.
Links
BuildSite is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any other Web sites to which the Site links or to that link to the Site. In the course of using the Services as a subscriber, you may provide other information, such as messages, contacts, uploaded documents, and submittals, to us ("Customer Data"). Our Customer Agreement sets forth our obligations regarding Customer Data, including our obligation to keep your Customer Data confidential. Through the use of our Services, you (or BuildSite, at your direction) may deliver Customer Data to one or more third parties, and we are not responsible for the use or disclosure of any such information by any third party. To the extent we use third parties to facilitate our Services or disclose information to third parties, such third parties adhere to their own privacy customs and policies, and BuildSite does not have any responsibility for their practices.
Security
We will use commercially reasonable methods to maintain the confidentiality of your personal information and to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. These measures include physical security procedures in place at our premises, login usernames and passwords and firewalls restricting access to the Services. Please note that with current technology, we cannot guarantee the security of your data as it travels over the Internet.
Corrections/Updates
In the event you wish to correct or change personal information you provided to us, you may do so by contacting us at support@buildsite.com.
Passwords
Your password is your private entry key into the Services. You should never discuss your password with anyone and you should change it periodically. When you have finished accessing the Services, do not forget to log off. This prevents anyone else from accessing your information if you leave your computer unattended.
Changes to Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time as our services change and expand. If we make substantial changes to this Privacy Policy, we will post the updated policy on this page and we will post notice that this Privacy Policy has changed on the home page of the Site and in this policy. Unless otherwise provided, the revised terms will take effect 30 days after the date that they are initially posted. Once any changes that we make to this Privacy Policy become effective, your continued use of the Site after such time will signify your acceptance of the new terms.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at support@buildsite.com.
Amended June 5, 2006











