Effective March 2nd, 2020
Buildforce Services, Inc. and its affiliates (collectively, “Buildforce”, “we”, “us” or “our”) respects your privacy and we are committed to protecting individuals’ information.
This Privacy Policy (this “Policy”) describes the types of information we collect, how we collect information, what we do with information that we collect, and how you can contact us with any questions about our information practices or to access or request changes or updates to information concerning you.
Please review this Policy carefully to understand our practices and treatment of information. If this Policy is unacceptable to you or if you do not agree with our information policies or practices, you may choose not to visit or use this website or any services offered through this website.
This Policy applies to information that we collect through (1) our public website, buildforce.com, and any of our other websites that provide a link to this Policy, including all of our products and services provided through those websites (collectively, the “Site”), and (2) our Application (the “App”), in each case, from you as an individual user (“you”) of the Site and/or App. The Site and App are, together, the “Services.”
This Policy does not apply to information collected by other means, including information collected by websites, content or applications of third parties, including any that may be linked to or accessible from or on the Services. Some of the products and services we provide may refer you to third party apps or websites, or we may refer you to a third party website if you request certain products or services. However, this Policy does not apply to any information collected by those third party apps or web sites, regardless of whether we refer or direct you to those apps or websites. Our apps have their own privacy policies and disclosures, as should third-party apps and websites, which we encourage you to read before providing information on or through them.
We collect and maintain personal information so we can provide you with the Services. The types and categories of information we collect about you might include, for example:
Information You Provide to Us. If you communicate with us through the Services, we may ask you to provide certain information about yourself, such as your name, email address, phone number, employer or organization, professional role, social security number or similar information. For example, if you request information from us, create an account or request our products or services, we may ask you to provide certain information such as the foregoing examples. In these cases, you will know what information is collected through the Services because you will provide that information to us.
Information We Collect About Your Transactions. When you use or access the Services, we may collect information about your use of those Services to provide products and services to you. We may also collect information about your experience with us and/or the Services.
Information We Collect Automatically. As part of the standard operation of the Site, we automatically collect information from your computer or device, such as IP address, domain name (that you visited from www.company.com, for example), referral or exit data (the last website that you visited before visiting the Site and the next website you visit afterwards, respectively), as well as browser and platform type (a Google browser or an Apple platform, for example). We also collect information about how you use the Site, such as the date and time of your visit, the amount of time you spend on the Site, how often you visit the Site, the areas or pages that you spend the most time on, and other click-stream data. Information collected automatically is generally statistical data and generally does not identify you personally.
Cookies, Beacons, and Tags. A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your computer or device when you access the Site. We use cookies on the Site in order to collect the information described above, and also to remember your settings and for authentication. You can manage the use of cookies through your browser. You may still use the Site if you reject cookies, but it may limit your ability to use some areas of the Site or otherwise diminish your experience of the Site. You can learn more about cookies at Your Choices below.
Google Analytics. We use Google Analytics to collect information about use of the Site. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit the Site and what pages users visited prior to visiting the Site. We use this information to maintain and improve the Site. The information generated by Google Analytics will be transmitted to and stored by Google, and that information will be subject to Google’s privacy policies (available at http://policies.google.com/privacy). You can opt out of Google Analytics by visiting https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout and learn more at Your Choices below.
In addition, with the assistance of our third-party partners and service providers, we may use technologies such as web beacons, tags, Flash cookies or HTML5 to collect or use information about visitors to the Site and their actions on the Site. For information about opting out of or managing the collection or use of such information, please see Your Choices below.
The Site does not respond to “do-not-track” requests or similar browser settings.
We use information that we collect, including your personal information, for the following purposes:
In addition to these uses, we may combine information about you that is collected through the Services with information about you which is collected from third parties with respect to your account, such as trade confirmations from brokerage firms, financial account information for aggregation purposes, bank statements, transaction details or information from other financial services providers.
We may disclose aggregate statistical information about visitors to the Site, which does not identify individual users, without restrictions.
Personal information about you, that you provide or that we collect as described in this Policy, may be disclosed to third parties as follows:
We may also disclose personal information about you for the following purposes:
Whenever we disclose personal information to a third party, we seek to minimize the disclosure to only information that is necessary for the purpose of that disclosure.
We will hold information about you that is collected through the Services for as long as needed to fulfill the reason we collected your information or to provide our services to you. We may also continue to maintain information about you for our internal business purposes.
We may also retain personal information about you for a reasonable time for backup, archival, reactivation or audit purposes, or as needed to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes or enforce our agreements. If you have any questions about how long we may keep personal information about you, please contact us as described at Contact Us below.
For the purposes described in this Policy, we may transfer information across borders, including from your country or jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions around the world, where applicable laws may not provide the same level of protection of personal information as the laws of the country or jurisdiction where you are located. In those cases, we take steps to ensure that information will be provided the same level of protection in the recipient country or jurisdiction.
By visiting the Site or using the Services, you hereby consent to the transfer of your personal information to countries where applicable laws may not provide the same level of protection of personal information as the laws of the country or jurisdiction where you are located, including, without limitation, the United States, in accordance with this Policy.
If you have registered an account with us, you can review and change certain personal information, such as your phone number and email, on your account profile page.
You may also contact us as described below at Contact Us to make a request to access, correct, update, or delete personal information about you that we may hold. In responding to your request, we may request information from you and use information previously collected to verify your identity, or take other actions that we believe are appropriate.
In some cases, we will not be able to delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account.
Please understand that we may not be able to alter or delete your personal information if we are required under applicable law to maintain that information. We are also not obligated to comply with requests that are unreasonably burdensome or expensive, or with requests that would interfere with the rights of another individual. In some circumstances, we may charge a reasonable fee to fulfill your request.
You have certain choices about how your personal information is collected, used and shared. Although you may not be able opt out of all collection or use of personal information and still use the Services, you can take steps to limit or control how your personal information is collected, used and shared.
Emails. To opt out of receiving promotional or marketing emails from us, you may click on the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of our emails.
Cookies. You can control or delete cookies, or otherwise manage cookies, through your browser or device settings. For more details, please visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org or https://www.aboutcookies.org. Please understand, however, that you may be unable to use all of the functionality of the Site or our services if you choose to reject cookies.
We take reasonable steps and follow generally accepted industry data practices to protect personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. Unfortunately, there is no completely secure or error-free method of data transmission over the Internet, and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your personal information. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk.
The Services are not intended for children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from children under the age of 13. If we learn that we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13, we will delete that information.
If you believe that we may have collected any personal information from a child under 13, please inform us by contacting us as described at Contact Us below.
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our information practices and how we treat the personal information of visitors to the Site and users of the Services. If we make material changes to our Privacy Policy, we will notify you by updating the date the Policy was last revised. We encourage you to periodically review this page to learn of any changes we have made to this Policy.
The date our Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions, comments, complaints, or suggestions regarding this Policy or our information practices. You can email us at support@buildforce.com or contact us by postal mail at:
2815 Manor Road
Suite 204
Austin, TX 78722
