Privacy Policy
Your privacy matters to us. This Privacy Policy explains how Construction Estimating Company NYC collects, uses, stores, and protects the information you share through our website, https://constructionestimatingcompanynyc.com/, or when requesting our estimating services. By using our website or submitting your information, you agree to the practices outlined in this policy.
Information We Collect
There are two buckets here. One is the stuff you hand over on purpose. The other is the technical stuff our site records on its own while you browse. Here’s the breakdown of the information we collect and where each piece comes from.
Information You Provide Directly
When you fill out a form or send us a note, you’re choosing to share some personal information. Depending on what you send, that can include:
- Your name and the name of your company
- Your email and phone number
- Whatever you write in your message or in a contact form submission
- Project drawings and documents, specs, and bid files you upload
- Anything else you decide to tell us about the job
You’re in charge of how much you share. Leave a field blank and we’ll just work with what you gave us.
Information Collected Automatically
Our site logs some basic technical details the moment you land on a page. That covers your IP address, the browser and device you’re on, your operating system, the page that sent you our way, and the paths you take through the site.
This data collection runs quietly in the background through cookies and analytics. It doesn’t usually tie back to your name. We mostly use it to keep the site working and to see how website visitors get around.
How We Use Your Information
We don’t hold onto information for the sake of it. Here’s how we use your information, and that’s about the extent of it:
- Building your estimate. We go through your plans and specs to put together an accurate takeoff and bid.
- Getting back to you. We use your contact details to answer questions and follow up.
- Keeping the site in shape. Analytics point us to broken spots and clunky pages.
- Sending updates, but only if you say yes. If you opt in, we might email you now and then about what we do. You can opt out whenever you want.
We won’t use your personal data in ways you wouldn’t expect. And we don’t sell it.
Project Drawings, Specifications & Estimate Requests
Your architectural drawings, specs, and bid documents are your business, and we treat them that way. The second you upload them, we handle them as confidential material.
We only look at those files to build the estimate you asked for. We don’t pass them to competitors, we don’t sell them, and we don’t recycle them for some other job down the road.
Files sit on secure systems, and access is locked down. The only people who open them are the ones on our team working your estimate. Once the job wraps up, we hold the files based on the schedule in the Data Retention section below.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Our site uses cookies and a few similar tools to run right and to count traffic. Cookies are small files that land on your device and remember things like your settings and what you looked at.
Some are essential and keep the site functioning. Others are analytics cookies that show us how people move through the pages, and a handful of those come from outside analytics companies.
You can control all of this from your browser. Most browsers let you block cookies or clear the ones already saved, though shutting them off can make parts of the site act up. This cookies policy sits inside the wider privacy policy and follows the same data protection standards.
How We Share Your Information
We don’t sell your personal data. We only hand information off when it’s needed to run the business or when the law says we have to. Our third-party sharing stays limited to service providers we trust, such as:
- Estimating software we use to build takeoffs and bids
- Email and CRM tools that keep our messages with you organized
- Analytics providers that track how the site performs
Those companies can only use your information to do the job we hired them for, nothing else. Beyond that, we’ll release information if a court order, subpoena, or other legal demand forces our hand, or if we need to protect our rights and safety.
Data Security
We take reasonable steps to guard your personal information and your files. That means real safeguards on the admin and technical side, like access limits, secure storage, and encryption where it makes sense.
Here’s the honest part, though. No system that sends or stores data online is bulletproof, so we can’t promise nothing will ever go wrong. What we can tell you is that we work hard to keep your data locked down and to keep the number of people who can touch it small. Questions about data security? Reach out using the info at the bottom.
Data Retention
We keep information around only as long as there’s a reason to. Contact details and messages usually stay on file while we’re working together, plus a stretch afterward for our own records.
Project drawings and documents stick around through the life of your project and for a while after, in case you come back for revisions or more work. Once we don’t need something anymore, we delete it or dispose of it securely. Want your files gone sooner? Ask, and we’ll take care of it.
Your Privacy Rights and Choices
You’ve got a say over your own personal data. Depending on where you live, your privacy rights may let you:
- See what personal information we’re holding on you
- Fix anything that’s wrong or outdated
- Ask us to delete your personal data
- Opt out of our emails using the unsubscribe link on any message
If you live in California, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) throws in a few extra rights. You can ask what we collect, and you can tell us “do not sell my personal information.” We don’t sell it in the first place, but you’re welcome to make that request anyway.
If you’re in the European Union, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) gives you similar coverage, including the right to see, correct, or erase your data. To use any of these rights, or to opt out of our emails, just get in touch. We’ll get back to you inside the windows the law sets.
Children's Privacy
This site is built for businesses and the people who run them. It isn’t aimed at kids under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect anything from them.
If you think a child under 13 sent us their information, let us know and we’ll wipe it. Children’s privacy matters to us, and we don’t want that data on our hands.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
Things change, whether it’s how we work, the tools we use, or the law itself. When that happens, we’ll make changes to this policy and post the new version right here with a fresh date up top.
It’s worth swinging back to check this page every so often. If you keep using the site after we update it, that means the new version applies to you.