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Project Ground, Inc.
Privacy Policy
Project Ground, Inc. respects your privacy. Accordingly, it has adopted the following privacy policy. This policy notifies you of:
• what personally identifiable information of yours is collected from you through our website,
• the organization collecting the information,
• how the information is used,
• with whom the information may be shared,
• what choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution of the information,
• the kind of procedures we employ in an effort to hinder the unauthorized access, deletion, alteration, use or disclosure of information you provide to Project Ground, Inc., and
• how you can correct any inaccuracies in the information you provide to us.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should contact us by sending an e-mail to support@projectground.com.
Scope of Policy
This policy applies to Project Ground, Inc.’s treatment of personally identifiable information that ProjectGround, Inc. collects through ProjectGround, Inc.’s website and when you use ProjectGround, Inc.’s services. The policy does not apply to practices of companies whose sites may be linked to this website, any sub-domain thereof, or any other website owned and/or managed by ProjectGround, Inc. For example, certain contractors, members, users, advertisers, and/or visitors may be allowed to post various types of content, including hyperlinks, within our website, including advertisements, coupons, project descriptions, project bids, and similar content. For access to the privacy policies of such linked websites, please refer to the information provided by such websites at their home pages. Of course, ProjectGround, Inc. is not affiliated with any such third party websites, nor does ProjectGround, Inc. monitor or have knowledge regarding the compliance of such third party websites with local, state, or federal privacy laws.
Information Collection & Use
ProjectGround, Inc. collects personally identifiable information when you request information or services from ProjectGround, Inc. On such occasions, Project Ground, Inc. asks for your name, e-mail address, mailing address, personal residential address, credit and debit card information, insurance status, gender, work experience, whether you are subject to any pending or potential claims arising from your provision of contractor services, and/or other personal information concerning your occupation, skill set, experience and other demographic information. Project Ground, Inc. also receives and records information from server logs from your browser, including cookie information relating to pages requested and the like.
Project Ground, Inc. does not seek to collect such information from persons under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, please do not submit any such information to us. If you are the parent or guardian of a person under the age of 18 who has provided such information to us, please inform us (through the website or telephone number listed above) and we will remove such information from our database as described further below.
In addition, no person (of any age) is required to provide us with the personally identifiable information we request. If you do not wish to provide such information, you are free not to do so. Your provision of requested information to us through our website or other means is presumed by us to be voluntary and with your consent to the uses described herein, as well as the uses, terms, and conditions of our Terms of Use Agreement, which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety. If, after submitting personally identifiable information to us, you wish to “opt-out,” please contact us as noted above and we will remove your information from our database as set forth below in the section titled “Managing Your Information.” Please know that such a decision will not stop advertising or content that is generated prior to the time when we can accomplish the removal of your information. Furthermore, please understand that such a decision may preclude your ability to receive many of the services offered by Project Ground, Inc. within or using this website, including the ability to post projects for hire, submit bids to perform such projects for hire, and/or advertise within this website in any capacity.
Project Ground, Inc. uses the information you provide to us to facilitate your ability to, among other things, post projects for hire, submit bids to perform such projects for hire, and/or advertise within our website, and to contact you concerning specials and new products and to enhance our product offerings. Project Ground, Inc. will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to any third party except when:
• You have been given an opportunity to “opt out” of sharing the information and have declined to exercise that right within the time period provided;
• Project Ground, Inc. must share the information in order to provide a service that you have requested, in which case we will demand that any third party we use to fulfill your request first agree that it does not have the right to use the personally identifiable information other than to fulfill your request; or
• Project Ground, Inc. is required to respond to subpoena, court orders or other legal process requiring such disclosure.
Use of Cookies
Project Ground, Inc. uses cookies to enhance the interactive nature of your Internet experience and to provide a convenient feature to save you time. Cookies enable Project Ground, Inc. to quickly retrieve specific information from previous visits and to recall features that you may have customized on your browser.
Managing Your Information
You are entitled to request access to and correction of all your personal data collected by us via this website, as well as to require us to delete your data if you no longer want us to process it. You can make such a request or a related inquiry by sending an e-mail to info@projectground.com or by calling 1-800-[----]. Please note that there may be a small charge for making an access request or it may be free, depending on the circumstances. You obtain further details by e-mailing or calling us as provided above. We will keep your data as long as it is reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy Statement, our Terms of Use Agreement, or any other contractual arrangement that you have entered into with Project Ground, Inc., including that certain Subscriber-Member Agreement and/or Advertising Agreement. You may choose not to receive unsolicited marketing material from Project Ground, Inc. and you have the right to request deletion of your Project Ground, Inc. account information, subject to Project Ground, Inc.’s need to keep appropriate archives of its business operations.
Security
Project Ground, Inc. employs reasonable measures to maintain all personally identifiable information provided by you on computer servers in a controlled and secured environment, in an effort to hinder unauthorized access, loss, alteration, use or disclosure of such information. However, the nature of the Internet is such that information may be transmitted over networks without appropriate security measures and may be accessed, deleted, altered, used or disclosed by unauthorized persons.
Because of the national and/or international nature of the services provided by this website and the nature of Project Ground, Inc.’s business, personal data may, subject to applicable law, be transferred internationally for the purposes described above. This may mean that personal data are transferred to countries which do not have laws or regulations which protect personal data, such as the United States, where the server for this website is located. We use reasonable measures to limit the disclosure of the data you provide to us only to certain staff within Project Ground, Inc. and its affiliates (i.e., staff whose job it is to process your project submissions, bids for projects, advertising submissions, inquiries regarding any of the foregoing, or otherwise to administer the website, and those staff involved in the provision of Project Ground, Inc. services which may be of interest to you) and to require that they process the data only for the purposes identified in this Policy Statement.
Modifications to this Policy
Project Ground, Inc. may make modifications or amendments to this policy from time to time. In the event that such changes alter how Project Ground, Inc. gathers, processes, uses or discloses your personally identifiable information, Project Ground, Inc. will post such changes on our website.
Hypertext Links
This site contains hypertext links to websites that are not created or maintained by Project Ground, Inc. This Privacy Policy applies only to this website, and sub-domains thereof, and not to any of these third party websites. Project Ground, Inc. is not responsible for the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of those third party sites. The inclusion of any link to such sites does not imply endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation by Project Ground, Inc. of the site. Project Ground, Inc. disclaims any liability for links (1) from another website to www.projectground.com (or any sub-domain thereof) and (2) to another website from www.projectground.com (or any sub-domain thereof). Project Ground, Inc. cannot guarantee the standards of any website to which links are provided on this website nor shall Project Ground, Inc. be held responsible for the contents of non-Project Ground, Inc. websites, or any subsequent links. For this reason, Project Ground, Inc. does not represent or warrant that the contents of any third party website is accurate, compliant with state or federal law, or compliant with copyright or other intellectual property laws. Project Ground, Inc. does not endorse the contents of these third party websites in any way. Furthermore, Project Ground, Inc. is not responsible for web casting or any other form of transmission received from any linked website. Any reliance on the contents of a third party website is done at your own risk and you assume all responsibilities and consequences resulting from such reliance. |
