Home Builder’s Network Privacy Policy

Effective Date: December 1st, 2023

Introduction

The Home Builder’s Network, Inc. (“We”, Our, or “Us”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

This policy describes the types of information We may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website located at https://myhomebuildersnetwork.com (our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. Use of the Website does not create any business relationship between you and Us whatsoever and any continued use of the Website indicates that you have read and agree to be bound by the Our Terms of Use.

This policy applies to information We collect on this Website. It does not apply to information that We receive from you in the course of a business relationship, information We collect offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Us or any third party, or information received from any third party, including through any application or content that may link to or be accessible from or through this Website.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how We will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, you should choose to not use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy below). Your continued use of this Website after We make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Privacy Policy periodically for updates.

Children Under the Age of 18

Our Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any personal information through the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, or provide any information about yourself to Us, including your name, address, telephone number, or e-mail address. If We learn We have inadvertently collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, We will delete that information. If you believe We might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at Mike at mikem@myhomebuildersnetwork.com.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

You may access the Website without providing any information that personally identifies you. You may, however, voluntarily chose to provide personal information to Us through our “Contact Us” or “Subscribe” pages. While you access the Website, We may collect several types of information from and about users of our website, including information

• By which you may be personally identified, such as name, title, employer, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”); or
• About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.

We collect this information:

• Directly from you when you provide it to Us.
• Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.

Information You Provide to Us

The information We collect on or through our Website may include:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of subscribing to our information services or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website.
• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact Us.
• Your responses to surveys that you elect to complete for our research purposes.
• Your search queries on the Website.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, We may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

• Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information We may collect automatically is only statistical data and does not include personal information, but We may maintain it or associate it with personal information We collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps Us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling Us to:

• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
• Store information about your preferences, allowing Us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
• Speed up your searches.
• Recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies We use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
• Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit Us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

We do not collect personal information automatically, but We may tie this information to personal information about you that We collect from other sources or you provide to Us.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that We collect about you or that you provide to Us, including any personal information:

• To present our Website and its contents to you.
• To provide you with information or services that you request from Us. To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and Us, including for billing and collection.
• To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services We offer or provide though it.
• In any other way We may describe when you provide the information.
• For any other purpose with your consent.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that We collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties We use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which We disclose it to them.
• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
• For any other purpose disclosed by Us when you provide the information.
• With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
• To enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
• If We believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Us, our clients, or others.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to Us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

• Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
• Promotional Offers from Us. If you do not wish to have your e-mail address/contact information used by Us to promote our own services or events, you can opt-out by sending Us an email stating your request to Mike at mikem@myhomebuildersnetwork.com. If We have sent you a promotional email, you may send Us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions.

Correcting Your Information

 You may send Us an email at mikem@myhomebuildersnetwork.com to correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to Us. We may not accommodate a request to change information if We believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

 Data Security

 We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to Us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although We do our best to protect your personal information, We cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

 Changes to Our Privacy Policy

 It is our policy to post any changes We make to our privacy policy on this page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring We have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

 To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: mikem@myhomebuildersnetwork.com