PRIVACY POLICY Information we collect stays with Allen Construction. Any company or user information collected by Allen Construction will only be used to improve your Allen Construction experience. This Privacy Policy describes how Allen Construction collects, uses, shares and secures the personal information you provide. This Privacy Policy governs the manner in which Allen Construction collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from users (each, a “User”) of the www.buildallen.com website (“Site”) and our services (“Allen Construction”). This privacy policy applies to the Site and all products and services offered by Allen Construction It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information. PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION Personally Identifiable Information: This refers to information that lets us know the specifics of who you are, including but not limited to name, email address, postal address, signature, telephone phone number, and credit and debit card or other financial information (collectively, “Personally Identifiable Information”). We only collect personally identifiable information about you when you voluntarily provide such Personally Identifiable Information to us by using the Site or otherwise interacting with the Company or its affiliates offline. This includes engaging in such activities as entering a contest or sweepstakes, signing up for our electronic newsletter, completing forms, or requesting a copy of or publications. If you do not wish your personally identifiable information to be collected, please do not submit it. We do not collect or process sensitive data about you (e.g., race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs). Non-Personally Identifiable Information: This refers to information that does not by itself identify a specific individual. We gather certain information about you based upon where you visit on our Site in several ways. This information is compiled and analyzed on both a personal and an aggregated basis. This information may include the website’s Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) that you just came from, which URL you go to next, what browser you are using, and your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address. COOKIES Allen Construction and our analytics or service providers use cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit About the cookies Squarespace uses. These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely service this website to you. These analytics and performance cookies are used on this site, as described below, when you acknowledge our cookie banner. We use analytics cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data. We use cookies to remember users’ settings and test our content. You can visit www.aboutcookies.org, which provides detailed information on managing cookies in popular browsers. Blocking cookies may affect your ability to benefit from the conveniences afforded by the use of cookies, may affect your ability to use certain customization features associated with creating an account, and, in the case of cookies that are strictly necessary for the Site to operate properly, may affect your experience of the Site. This website may use the Google AdWords remarketing service to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using our contact form to make an inquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the buildallen.com website. Any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy. You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin. NO DATA COLLECTED FROM MINORS You must be at least 18 years old to have our permission to use this Site. Our policy is that we do not knowingly collect, use or disclose Personally Identifiable Information about visitors that are under 18 years of age. If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we have collected from children under age 18, please contact us at social@buildallen.com. HOW YOUR INFORMATION IS COLLECTED Squarespace This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website including: Information about your browser, network and device Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website Your IP address Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form. Allen Construction We collect data from you in different ways. Some of them are direct (for example when you sign up for our newsletter). Others are by visiting the Site or interacting with us even without having an account (such as through social media). Some other information may also be collected by simply visiting an affiliate or sales partner. Our collection endpoints include when you: Sign-up for our newsletter; Make inquiries; Engage with us on social media; and Communicate with us. Through engaging with us on social media, you may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, "posted") on public areas of the Site, or transmitted to other users of the Site or third parties (collectively, "User Contributions"). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Site with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. Automated services and Interactions As you interact with the Site, we may automatically collect technical data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. This may include information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, network and device, and browser type as well as details of your visits to our Site, including traffic data, clicks, pages visited, scrolling data, searches, timestamps, location data, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Site. We may also collect tracking data when you use the Site and/or the services, or when you click on one of our adverts. We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity. We may also receive personal data about you from various types of third parties, including: Technical data and/or tracking data from analytics providers, advertising networks and search information providers; and Identity and contact data from deal and sales partners that you have agreed to share your information with us. In the future, we may use an outside ad serving company to display banner advertisements on our Site. As part of their service, they will place a separate cookie on your computer. We will not provide any third-party ad server with any of your Personally Identifiable Information. We and our third party ad server will collect and use Non-Personally Identifiable Information about you, such as your IP address, browser type, the server your computer is logged onto, the area code and zip code associated with your server and whether you responded to a particular ad. Other advertisers may also place banner ads on our Site in the same manner as above, but we will not disclose any Personally Identifiable Information to them. LOG FILES As is true of most web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information may include IP addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data. We may combine this automatically collected log information with other information we collect about you. We do this to for purposes of analytics and to improve site functionality. WIDGETS Our Site may, at certain times, utilize Social Media Features, such as showing a Twitter or Facebook feed. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social Media Features and Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it. HOW WE USE COLLECTED INFORMATION Allen Construction may collect and use Users personal information for the following purposes: To improve customer service | Information you provide helps us respond to your customer service requests and support needs more efficiently. To personalize user experience | We may use information in the aggregate to understand how our Users as a group use the services and resources provided on our Site. To improve our Site and Services | We may use information you provide to improve and create new products and services. To run a promotion, contest, survey or other Site features. To send Users information they agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to them. To send periodic emails | We may use the email address to respond to their inquiries, questions, and/or other requests. You may occasionally also receive emails that may include company news, updates, related product or service information, etc. We share your contact information with Mailchimp, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf. If at any time the User would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email and you may also unsubscribe within your profile settings. We use your internet protocol address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer the Site. Due to the communications standards on the World Wide Web, when you visit the Site, we automatically receive the URL of the website from which you came and the website to which you are going when you leave the Site. Additionally, advertisers receive the URL of the page you were on when you click on an advertisement or partner link on the Site. The Site also receives the internet protocol address of your computer (or the proxy server you use to access the World Wide Web), your computer operating system and type of web browser you are using, email patterns, your mobile device (including your unique device identifier) and mobile operating system (if you are accessing the Site using a mobile device), as well as the name of your internet service provider or your mobile carrier. We may also use your Personally Identifiable Information to deliver information to you and to contact you regarding administrative notices, to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our agreements with you, including our Site’s Terms of Use and this Private Policy. We reserve the right to take any action we deem prudent or necessary to safeguard the Site and your Personally Identifiable Information in our systems and databases from malicious or unwarranted attack by viruses, hackers, or other miscreants. Electronic Newsletters We offer free, electronic newsletters, updates and e-mail reminders as a service to our registrants, based upon your voluntary subscription. You will only receive an electronic newsletter if you have requested it (opted-in). We do not share our mailing lists with any third parties, including advertisers or partners. DO WE DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION? It is our policy not to sell, share, transfer, or rent to third parties any information you provide to us through the use of the Site without your written consent except as required by operation of the law or in compliance with legal authorities. We may share your Personally Identifiable Information with certain third parties (“Target Third Parties”) without your written consent in order to further the purpose for which you voluntarily provide us with the information. We do provide some of our services through contractual arrangements with affiliates, services providers, partners and other third parties. We and our service partners use your Personally Identifiable Information to operate our sites and to deliver their services. For example, we must release your address information to the delivery service to deliver products or services that you requested and provide order information to third parties that help us provide customer service. Additionally, we engage third-party information management service providers to help maintain efficient operations. Because such information management service providers may access our systems, they may have access to your Personally Identifiable Information. We do not transfer or relinquish ownership of information maintained about you within our systems and databases to such information management service providers and require these information management service providers to sign confidentiality agreements to keep all confidential information and other proprietary information found in our systems confidential. We may be required to disclose your Personally Identifiable Information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. We do not reveal information until we have a reasonable belief that an information request by law enforcement or private litigants meets applicable legal standards. Additionally, we may share information when we believe it is reasonably necessary to comply with law, to protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through the Site. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies. All such sharing of information by you on the Site is done at your own risk. Third-Party Advertisers We may also provide Non-Personally Identifiable Information about traffic patterns and related site information to third-party advertisers, but these statistics do not include any Personally Identifiable Information. Please note that we strive to use only reputable third-party service providers; however, their use of your Personally Identifiable Information is governed solely by the privacy policies of those third-party service providers. We do not have control over policies and practices of third parties and we do not have any responsibility for their policies and practices. Links to Third-Party Sites Our Site may contain links to other third-party websites. Other websites accessible through our Site have their own privacy policies and data collection, use and disclosure practices. Please consult each Site’s privacy policy. We have no control over such third-party sites and are not responsible for the policies, practices, or content of third parties. FONTS This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including: Information about your browser, network or device. Your IP address UPDATING/CORRECTING PERSONAL INFORMATION Upon request we will provide you with information about whether we hold any of your personal information. If your personal information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may access, update, or delete it by making the change on our member information page or also through the contact details mentioned above. We will respond to your request to access within a reasonable timeframe. DATA RETENTION We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary and permissible under applicable law to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. If you wish to request that we no longer use your information to provide you updates or information about our services, contact us at social@buildallen.com. HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION We adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information, username, password, transaction information and data stored on our Site. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Nevertheless, while we strive to protect your Personally Identifiable Information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations of the Internet which are beyond our control; (b) the security, integrity and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed; and (c) any such information and data may be viewed or tampered with in transit by a third party. The safety and security of your information also depends on you. The information you share, whether on the site or through our social media outlets, may be viewed by any user of the Site. SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION We do not sell, trade, or rent personal identification information to others. We may use third-party service providers to help us operate our business and the Site or administer activities on our behalf, such as sending out newsletters or surveys. We may share your information with these third parties for those limited purposes provided that you have given us your permission. We may also disclose your personal information as required by law such as to comply with a subpoena, or similar legal process when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request, if Allen Construction is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, you will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our Web site of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information. BLOG Our Web site offers publicly accessible blogs or community forums. You should be aware that any information you provide in these areas may be read, collected, and used by others who access them. To request removal of your personal information from our blog or community forum, contact us at social@buildallen.com. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why. TESTIMONIALS We display personal testimonials of satisfied customers on our site in addition to other endorsements. With your consent we may post your testimonial along with your name. If you wish to update or delete your testimonial, you can contact us at social@buildallen.com. COLLECTION AND USE OF THIRD-PARTY PERSONAL INFORMATION You may provide personal information about other people, such as their name, email address, phone number and job title. When you provide us with personal information about your contacts we will only use this information for the specific reason for which it is provided. If you believe that one of your contacts has provided us with your personal information and you would like to request that it be removed from our database, please contact us at social@buildallen.com. LINKING TO THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES Allen Construction may provide links to websites that are owned or operated by other companies ("third-party websites"). When you use a link online to visit a third-party website, you will be subject to that website’s privacy and security practices, which may differ from ours. You should familiarize yourself with the privacy policy, terms of use and security practices of the linked third-party website before providing any information on that website. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. Such changes, modifications, additions or deletions shall be effective immediately upon notice, which may be given in various ways including by posting the revised Privacy Policy on this page. You are responsible for reviewing this Site and Privacy Policy periodically for any modifications. Your continued use of the Site after any modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy. HOW TO EXERCISE YOUR CALIFORNIA CONSUMER RIGHTS If you are a California resident you may have certain rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (Cal. Civ. Code §1798.100 et seq.) regarding your personal information. Upon verification of your identity, you have the right to request any or all of the following information that we have collected and disclosed in the last 12 months: The personal information we have collected; The categories of personal information we have collected; The categories of sources of personal information we have collected; The categories of personal information that we have disclosed to third parties for a business purpose and the categories of recipients of the information; The categories of personal information we have sold about you (if any) and the categories of third parties to which any information was sold; and The business or commercial purpose of for collecting and/or selling the information. In addition, you may request that we delete (and direct our service providers to delete) their personal information subject to certain exceptions. You also have the right to direct us not to sell your information. Please note that we do not sell your Personal Information. If we begin to sell your Personal Information in the future, we will update this Privacy Policy to enable you to submit a request to opt-out. Please note that after we process a change or delete your Personally Identifiable Information from our active systems and databases, it is possible that non-active residual copies of your information may still exist in our systems and on archive or backup media. California's "Shine the Light" law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our Site that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. In order to make a request for disclosure, California residents may contact us by emailing us at social@buildallen.com or calling us toll-free at 833.830.7985. We will ask you for information that allows us to reasonably verify your identity. We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity and confirm that the personal information relates to you. We will not discriminate against you as a result of your exercise of any of these rights. For more information see our Privacy Notice for California Residents. YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS By using this Site, you signify your acceptance of this policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Site. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes. CONTACTING US If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact us at: Allen Construction 201 N Milpas St, Santa Barbara, CA 93103 805.884.8777 social@buildallen.com GOVERNING LANGUAGE This Privacy Policy is entered into in the English language. Any translation prepared for any reason shall be a non-binding accommodation of no legal effect, and the English version of this Privacy Policy shall govern. All communications with respect to this Privacy Policy shall be in the English language. Without limiting the generality of this provision, User acknowledges that: (i) it shall not assert any claim based upon any translation or any discrepancy or purported discrepancy between such translation and this English-language version of this Privacy Policy; and (ii) any such translation shall not be used to interpret this Privacy Policy. This document was last updated on March 15, 2020. 805.884.8777 | License #503300 | Privacy Policy | CCPA Santa Barbara | Ventura | Los Angeles | San Luis Obispo By using this website, you agree to our use of cookies. We use cookies to provide you with a great experience and to help our website run effectively. OK