Privacy Policy Updated on January, 2024
This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) of TheContractorQuotes which will always be available at http://thecontractorquotes.com/privacy-policy-2/ is intended to help you understand our privacy practices and how we collect, use, disclose and process your personal information. We also describe your rights and choices with respect to how we process your personal information. This Policy applies to www.thecontractorquotes.com This Policy describes our collection and use of information of users of our Sites and Services and is incorporated into our agreements for those Services. This Policy does not apply to any other websites owned or operated by TheContractorQuotes terms for which are included with those sites individually. TheContractorQuotes has a “data controller” or direct relationship with all individuals accessing the Sites or submitting personal information via the Sites and Services for any reason.
ACCEPTANCE
Any entity accessing the Sites and Services (“you”) represents and warrants that you accept the data practices and terms described in this Policy. If you do not agree with this Policy, please discontinue your use of the Sites and Services immediately.
CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
We may revise this Policy from time to time and without prior notice to you. Except as otherwise noted in this Policy, such changes may apply to any personal information we already hold about you or personal information collected after the Policy is modified. Changes will be posted on this page and are effective as of the “Last Modified” date at the top of this Policy. Please visit this page regularly so that you are aware of our latest updates. Continuing to access or use this Site after any changes become effective indicates your acceptance of the revised Policy. In addition, we may provide you with “just-in-time” disclosures or additional information about the data processing practices of specific parts of our Site. Such notices may supplement this Policy or provide you with additional choices about how we process your personal information.
OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU
You may access the Sites through one or more roles that may affect your relationship with us. Pros are home services providers who access the Sites and Services, create accounts, and contract with us for marketing services which may be subject to additional terms.
Visitors are individual consumers who access the Sites to find home services providers in our directory. Business Owners are owners or authorized representatives of businesses listed in our directory. The directory available through our Sites is public information and provided as a convenience for our users. If you are a Business Owner and would like to have your business record removed from our directory, please contact us using the contact information provided below.
THIRD PARTIES
This Policy does not apply to information processed by third parties, for example, when you visit a third-party website or interact with third-party services including those you may access by following a link from the Sites or those with whom we may share information as set forth in this Policy. Please review any third parties privacy policies before disclosing information to them.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
“Personal Data” means any information about an identified or identifiable individual and any device information that may be linked with an identifiable individual. We collect and process the following types of information. Note: Specific Personal Data elements listed in the example are provided for example only and may change. We may create anonymous records from Personal Data for certain business purposes of TheContractorQuotes and its Affiliates as defined below. Any information that is anonymized or aggregated is no longer Personal Data and we may indefinitely use it, share it and retain it for any reason.
Contact Data: Personal Data about you used to contact you. For example your name, company name, title, email address, physical address, phone number, username.
Performance & Log Data: Information created by your use of our Sites and Services. For example, your IP address, browser type, operating system, command-line information, diagnostic information related to the Sites (i.e. crash activity reports), the referring webpage, pages visited, date, your geo-location, your mobile carrier, your device, and application IDs and search terms. Note that Depending on the law of your country of residence, your IP address may legally be considered personally identifiable information.
Cookies: A cookie is a small amount of data generated by a website and saved by your web browser. Its purpose is to remember information about you, similar to a preference file created by a software application. In some cases, Cookies and similar automated data collection technologies may be used to collect personal information or information that becomes personal information if we combine it with other information.
Payment Data: Billing and financial information provided by a Pro to us for us to process payments for our Services and the related transaction information. Note, we do not store any bank account or credit card information in our own systems. All payment card data and bank account data are stored by our third-party vendors who are contractually required to be PCI compliant and to adhere to all NACHA rules for ACH payment processing.
Device Information: When you download and use a Mobile App we may collect certain information automatically, such as the type of mobile device you use, your unique device ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile phone number, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile internet browsers you use, geolocation information and information about the way you use the Mobile App.
Other Data: Any other information that an individual provides to us. For example survey responses, blog comments, or other communication submitted to TheContractorQuotes.com
COLLECTION AND PROCESSING
We collect your Personal Data through our Sites and Services. Our Sites are public, any information that is disclosed on our Sites may appear on search engines, or other publicly available platforms and may be “crawled,” searched, and used by unaffiliated third parties. Please do not post any information that you do not want to reveal publicly.
Directory Searches: When a Visitor uses the Sites to access the directory of home services providers, we may collect Performance & Log Data and Cookies. We may use this Personal Data for essential and functional purposes including for site administration, to improve the performance and usability of the Sites, and analyze how users interact with the Sites. On certain portions of our Sites, we may collect Personal Data through these technologies for advertising, remarketing, or other similar purposes. No other Personal Data is collected from Visitors.
Pros: When you create an account through the Sites and Services you will be required to provide Personal Data, including Contact Data. We will use this data to administer your account, to provide our Services, and to communicate with you about our company, our Services, and your account. If you choose to use any of our paid Services, you will be required to provide Payment Data. We will use Payment Data to process fees for our Services via third-party payment processors. You may be required to provide Other Data for us to provide certain services.
Customer Service: When you contact us through the Sites or Services, including submitting a “contact us” or another online inquiry form, subscribing to a newsletter or blog, entering a contest, registering for a demo or webinar, completing an online survey, submitting a support ticket, or any other means, we may record your Contact Data in our customer relationship management system and use your Personal Data to respond to you. If you provide a mobile phone number to us, you are explicitly granting us permission to send text messages to that number to respond to your request and to contact you at that number via an auto-dialer, which we may do at our discretion.
Marketing: We may use your Personal Data to keep you updated about our products and services and send you promotional material about TheContractorQuotes and as permitted by applicable law, on behalf of our parent company, affiliates, subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under common control with us (collectively, “Affiliates”) and partner companies. Promotional materials may include marketing communications, online surveys, notifications regarding our events and webinars, and those of our Affiliates and partners. If you provide a mobile phone number to us, you are explicitly granting us permission to send text messages, recorded messages, and/or use an auto-dialer to contact that number for marketing and promotional purposes, which we may do at our discretion. You may opt out of our marketing communications at any time.
Cookies & Similar Tech: When you access the Sites or open one of our HTML emails, we may automatically record Performance & Log Data and Device Data, set Cookies, or use web beacons, pixel tags, click-stream tracking, and similar automated data collection technologies. We use this Personal Data for essential and functional purposes including for site administration, to improve the performance and usability of the Sites and Services, and to analyze how users interact with the Sites and Services. On certain portions of our Sites and Services, we may collect Personal Data through these technologies for advertising, remarketing, or other similar purposes. Security: We process your Personal Data to enhance the security of our Sites and Services and to combat spam, malware, or other security risks. This may include monitoring your activities on our Sites and Services. Without processing your Personal Data for such purposes, we may not be able to ensure the security of our Sites and Services.
Additional Processing: If we process Personal Data in connection with your use of the Sites and Services in a way not described in this Policy, this Policy will still apply generally (e.g. with respect to Your Rights and Choices) unless otherwise stated when you provide it.
SHARING
Information we collect may be shared with a variety of parties depending upon the purpose for and context in which that information was provided. In all cases where we share Personal Data with third parties, we will use a “minimum necessary” standard to disclose only that information required for satisfying the purpose of or performing the service for which the information is disclosed. We generally transfer Personal Data.
Consent: We will share your Personal Data in accordance with your consent for us to do so. Service Providers: In connection with our general business operations, to enable certain features, and in connection with our other legitimate business interests, we may share your Personal Data with service providers or sub-processors who provide certain services or process data on our behalf. Our contracts with these service providers dictate that they only use your information in connection with the services they perform for us and you consent to our sharing of information with these parties by using our Sites and Services subject to this Policy.
Affiliates: In order to streamline certain business operations, develop products and services that better meet the interests and needs of our customers, and inform our customers about relevant products and services, we may share your Personal Data with any of our current or future affiliated entities, subsidiaries and parent companies (“Affiliates”). You hereby agree to our sharing some or all of your information and Personal Data with our Affiliates.
Third-Party Partners: When you complete an online inquiry form to which you were referred by a third-party partner, any information collected through the Third Party Partners hosted online inquiry form may be shared with the referring third-party partner. We may share your Personal Data with third parties for marketing or adverting purposes, as permitted by law. For example, when you sign up for a webinar co-hosted by us and a third-party partner, we may share your Personal Data with the third-party partner. Third-party partners may use your Personal Data for their own purposes subject to their own privacy policies.
Business Transactions: Your Personal Data may be processed in the event of a business transaction, such as a merger, acquisition, liquidation, or sale of all or a portion of our assets. For example, Personal Data may be disclosed (subject to confidentiality restrictions) during the due diligence process for a potential transaction or may part of the assets transferred, in such case the acquiring company will possess any rights granted to us under this Policy.
Legal Disclosures: In limited circumstances, we may without notice to you or your consent, access and disclose your Personal Data any communications sent or received by you, and any other information that we may have about you to the extent we believe such disclosure is legally required, to prevent or respond to a crime, to investigate violations of our Terms of Use, or in the vital interests of us or any person. Note, these disclosures may be made to governments that do not ensure the same degree of protection of your Personal Data as to your home jurisdiction. We may, in our sole discretion (but without any obligation), object to the disclosure of your Personal Data to such parties.
RETENTION
We retain Personal Data for so long as necessary to serve the purpose(s) for which your Personal Data was processed and for a reasonable time thereafter, or as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, to resolve disputes, or enforce our agreements. While retention requirements can vary by jurisdiction, we generally apply the retention periods noted below:
Services Usage: We will retain Personal Data for as long as you remain an active user of our Services and for a reasonable time thereafter, to serve the purpose(s) for which your Personal Data was processed.
Payment Data: Our third-party services providers will store the Payment Data you provide to us for as long as you remain an active user of our services and for a reasonable time thereafter. These service providers are contractually required to maintain compliance with PCI DSS for storage processing and transmission of cardholder data and to adhere to all NACHA rules for ACH payment processing.
Site Activity: We may store any information about your activity on our Sites and Services or any Other Data created, posted, or shared by you on our Sites or via our Services for as long as we deem it necessary or until you provide specific instructions to delete it, which may be indefinitely, or where a valid business reason exists for such storage, such as maintaining the integrity of our systems and logs or for the establishment or defence of legal claims, audit, and crime prevention purposes.
Marketing: We store information used for marketing purposes indefinitely until you unsubscribe. When you unsubscribe from marketing communications, we add your contact information to our suppression list to ensure we respect your unsubscribe request.
Cookie Data: We retain any information collected via cookies, clear gifs, flash cookies, webpage counters, and other technical or analytics tools up to one year from the expiry of the cookie or date of collection. Cookies owned by third parties may have other retention periods.
Call Recording: As required by applicable law, we will inform you that a call will be recorded before doing so. Any recorded telephone calls with you may be retained for a period of up to six years.
YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES
Rights
You have the following rights in your Personal Data, in each case to the extent required/permitted under applicable law, and subject to our rights to limit or deny access or disclosure under applicable law.
Access: You may request a list of your Personal Data that we process by submitting an official request in writing via US Mail to the address provided below.
Rectification: You may correct any Personal Data that we hold about you by emailing us at the address provided below and indicating both the inaccurate and corrected information. Business Owners may send a request to the address provided below to request a change to the information published in our online directory.
Erasure: You may request that we delete your Personal Data from our systems once per year by making an official request in writing via US Mail to the address provided below and indicating the specific information you would like permanently deleted from our systems. Business Owners may request in writing to the address provided below to request that information about their business be deleted from our online directory.
Data Export: You may request a copy of your Personal Data in a common portable format of our choice by submitting an official request in writing via US Mail to the address provided below.
We may require that you provide additional Personal Data to exercise these rights, e.g. information necessary to prove your identity. We also reserve the right to retain certain account information for our recordkeeping or compliance purposes.
Choices
It is possible for you to access and use the Sites without providing any Personal Data, but you may not be able to access certain features or view certain content and some portions of the Sites may not function properly. You must provide Personal Data in order to utilize the Services. You have the following choices regarding Personal Data we process:
Consent: If you consent to process you may withdraw your consent at any time to the extent required by law.
Cookies: If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, you can manage/deny cookies (and certain technologies) using your browser’s settings menu or by using a variety of tools.
You can visit the Google Ads Settings page here.
You can use the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser add-on.
Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page here allows you to opt-out from receiving third-party advertiser cookies.
You can visit the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page here.
You can control Facebook’s use of interest-based ads through your Facebook account settings or can visit the customer support page here.
To learn more about cookies and similar tracking technologies, and how they can affect your privacy, visit allaboutcookies.org.
As there is no consistent industry understanding of how to respond to “Do Not Track” signals, we do not alter our data collection and usage practices when we detect such a signal from your browser.
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
This section only applies to users of our Sites and Services that are residents of the State of California at the time of data collection and are in addition to the rights set forth above. California residents have certain additional rights subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”). Consumer Information collected through the Sites and Services is collected for our use and is not transferred to any third party for valuable consideration. However, if you are a California resident, you may send us specific instructions not to sell your personal information now or in the future. Such requests can be made via phone, email, or in writing to the contact information provided below.
Access: You may request a list of your Personal Data that we process by submitting an official request in writing via US Mail to the address provided below.
Rectification: You may correct any Personal Data that we hold about you by writing to us at the address provided below and indicating both the inaccurate and corrected information.
Erasure: You may request that we delete your Personal Data from our systems that: is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed; was collected in relation to processing that you previously consented to but later withdrew such consent, or was collected in relation to processing activities to which you object and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for our processing.
Data Export: You may request a copy of your Personal Data in a common portable format of our choice by submitting an official request in writing via US Mail to the address provided below.
Third Parties: California law provides you have the right to receive the following information: the categories of information we disclosed to third parties for the third parties direct marketing purposes during the preceding calendar year; and the names and addresses of third parties that received such information or if the nature of their business cannot be determined from the name, examples of the products or services marketed. You are entitled to receive a copy of this information in a standardized format and the information will not be specific to you individually. You may make this request by emailing us at the address provided below.
California residents have the right to exercise the privacy rights in this section twice within any 12-month period under the CCPA by contacting Third Party Partners at the contact information provided below. California residents may exercise these rights via an authorized agent who meets the agency requirements of the CCPA. Any request subject to CCPA is subject to an identification and residency verification process. We will not fulfil any CCPA request unless we have received sufficient information for us to verify the requestor is properly authorized to make such request and the request provides sufficient detail for us to properly understand, evaluate and respond. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA: we will not deny you goods or services; charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties; provide you with a different level or quality of good or services, or suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.
SECURITY
We have implemented reasonable security measures designed to secure your Personal Data from accidental loss, unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure, however, we do not provide any guarantee that your Personal Data will remain secure. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Sites and Services. All information you provide to us is stored on our service providers’ servers which utilize industry-standard security controls; however, we do not have control over and will not be liable for third parties security processes. Any transmission of information or Personal Data is at your own risk
MINORS
Our Sites and Services are neither directed at nor intended for direct use by individuals under the age of 18 or the age of majority in the jurisdiction where they reside. Further, we do not intentionally gather information about such individuals. If we learn that we have inadvertently done so, we will promptly delete it. Do not access or use the Sites and Services if you are not the age of majority in your jurisdiction unless you have the consent of your parent or guardian.
INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
We operate in the United States and our servers are located in the United States. The measures we take to protect your Personal Data are subject to legal requirements in the United States. Our Sites may be accessed from anywhere, and users outside of our target United States market may submit their Personal Data to us via forms, comment fields, or other input mechanisms. If you are accessing the Sites or Services from outside the United States or submitting your Personal Data to us from outside the United States, your Personal Data may be transferred to, stored, or processed in the United States and maintained on computers or servers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the privacy laws may not be as protective those in your jurisdiction. By accessing our Sites and Services, you understand and consent to the transfer of your information to the United States and to those third parties with whom we share it as described in this Policy, whether or not we can currently serve your jurisdiction.
CONTACT INFORMATION
TheContractorQuotes
PO BOX 135939
CLERMONT, FL 34713-5939
