Privacy Policy
Effective Date: 07/27/2013
SDR Contracting
respects the privacy of visitors to our site. This Privacy
Policy governs the use and collection of information from you by
SDR Contracting ("we" or "us") through your use of this site.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to any information you may
provide to us through other means; for example, at a live event,
via mail, or via telephone.
Please read this Privacy
Policy carefully so that you understand our online privacy
practices. By visiting this site, you agree that your visit, and
any dispute over our online privacy practices, is governed by
this Privacy Policy and our Visitor Agreement.
TYPES OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT
The information we gather falls into
two categories: (1) information (for example, your name and
address) that you voluntarily supply (for example, when you
register as a visitor to the site, or customize our service to
provide you services specific to your neighborhood), and (2)
information gathered on usage patterns and preferences as
visitors navigate through our sites. In some cases, it is an
agent or affiliate of ours that collects the information on our
behalf. Third-party providers featured on or linked to by our
site, such as vendors of products and services offered through
our site, may be gathering the same kinds of information. We may
use your registration information to contact you for customer
service purposes, to inform you about the services offered over
our site or of important changes or additions to our site, and
to send you newsletters, offers and information that you request
or that we think may interest you.
Contests and Other
Promotions. From time to time, we may offer contests,
sweepstakes or other promotions on our site. If you enter one of
these promotions, you'll have to provide information about
yourself (such as your name, address, telephone number and email
address) so that we can contact you if you win. We may share
this information with any wholly or majority-owned subsidiary of
SDR Contracting and any co-sponsor of the promotion (we will
identify any co-sponsor in the official rules for the
promotion). If you don't want us to collect the information
requested in the registration form or to provide it to any
wholly or majority-owned subsidiary of SDR Contracting or
contest co-sponsors, please do not enter the contest or
sweepstakes.
Email
Newsletters.
We may offer you the opportunity to
subscribe to email newsletters on topics that we believe are of
interest to our visitors. If you have opted to receive a
particular newsletter, you may always unsubscribe later if you
decide not to receive further mailings of the newsletter from
us. Each newsletter will include instructions on how to
unsubscribe from future issues by using either a designated
reply email address or hyperlink.
Cookies. To help make
our sites more responsive to the needs of our visitors, we use a
standard feature of browser software, called a "cookie," to
assign each visitor a unique, random number, a sort of user ID,
if you will, that resides on your computer. The cookie doesn't
actually identify the visitor, just the computer that a visitor
uses to access our site. The only personal information a cookie
can contain is information you supply. A cookie can't read
unrelated data off your hard drive. Our advertisers and the
third parties that provide products or services through our site
may also assign their own cookies to your browser, a process
that we don't control. We use cookies to help us tailor our site
to your needs, to deliver a better, more personalized service.
For example, we may use cookies to allow you to search for those
businesses closest to your home. In addition, we may use cookies
to track the pages on our site visited by our users. We can
build a better site if we know which pages our users are
visiting and how often. Of course, you can set your browser not
to accept cookies, but if you do, you may not be able to take
advantage of the personalized features enjoyed by other visitors
to our site.
Other Methods of Collecting Information. Our
web pages may contain electronic images (called "single-pixel
GIFs" or "web beacons") that allow us and our vendors to count
users who have visited particular pages or to access certain
cookies. We may use these tools and other technologies to
recognize which pages users visit, and which links they click
on. These features may also be included in our email newsletters
so that we can learn which messages have been opened and acted
upon. We may also be able to verify your online purchases from
us or from third party sites that have agreed to share such
information with us.
Browser Level Information and IP
Addresses. Our web servers automatically collect limited
information about your computer configuration when you visit our
site, including the type of browser software you use, the
operating system you're running, the resolution of your computer
monitor, the Web site that referred you, and your IP address.
(Your IP address is a numerical address that is used by
computers connected to the Internet to identify your computer so
that data such as the web pages you want to view can be
transmitted to you.) We also use IP address information for
systems administration and troubleshooting purposes. Your IP
address does not tell us who you are. We use this information to
deliver web pages to you upon request, to tailor our site to the
interests of our users, and to measure traffic within our site.
DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
Why we want to know.
We collect information in order to make the Web site more useful
and relevant to you. For example, we may ask you for an address
so that you can map a route from your work or home address to
that of a service provider, or so you can narrow your search to
businesses that serve your neighborhood.
Third Parties.
We will not share the personally-identifiable information you
provide when registering on our site with third parties. We may,
however, take the information you provide and aggregate it with
data from all the other people that use this site and associated
services. Then we would use that pool of information to inform
third parties about our audience without identifying you
personally. For example, we'll be able to say to a third party:
"We have 3,470 site visitors in this ZIP code," which happens to
be your location.
Vendors and Provider Partners. To make
our sites more valuable to our visitors, we may offer some
features in conjunction with other providers ("Provider
Partners"). Our email newsletters, email services and online
classifieds for example, may be made available through
cooperative arrangements with providers that specialize in
operating such services. In some instances, our Provider
Partners will have the same access to your information as we do.
Their use of the information will be subject to the terms of
their respective privacy policies, which you can find on their
Web sites. We may also use vendors and third-party contractors
to help us operate our site, analyze or process data on our
behalf, or improve the services that we offer to you. We may
provide these vendors and contractors with information about our
visitors that is necessary for them to perform the services that
we request.
Statistical Information. Much of the
information we collect is in the form of aggregated statistics,
such as the traffic that visits various pages within our sites,
and the habits and preferences of our audience. Such aggregated
information does not include any information that would identify
you personally. We may use such aggregated information and
disclose it to third parties as we see fit.
Sites to
Which We Link. Our site includes links to plenty of other Web
sites, and provides access to services offered by third parties,
whose privacy policies we don't control. When you access another
site or purchase products or services or conduct other
transactions through our sites, use of any information you
provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the
site you're visiting or the provider of such products or
services.
Other Disclosures. We may occasionally release
information about our visitors when release is appropriate to
comply with law, to enforce our Visitor Agreement, or to protect
the rights, property or safety of visitors to our sites, the
public, our customers, or our company and its employees, agents,
partners and affiliates. As our business grows, we may buy or
sell various assets. In the unlikely event that our company, or
the bulk of our assets relating to this site, is acquired by
another company, information on our visitors would be among the
transferred assets.
CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
Children should always get permission
from their parents before sending any information about
themselves (such as their names, email addresses, and phone
numbers) over the Internet, to us or to anyone else. We won't
knowingly allow anyone under 18 to register with our site, to
provide business information to our site, or to provide any
other personally identifying information. If you're under 18,
please do not provide us with any personally identifying
information about yourself (such as your name, your email
address or your phone number).
STORAGE OF
INFORMATION
All information gathered on our site
is stored within a database operated by us or by a contractor on
our behalf. Sensitive information, such as password or
information, is encoded (not encrypted) for storage. We cannot
guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee
that information you supply won't be intercepted while being
transmitted to us over the Internet.
A final note: The Web is an evolving medium. If we need to change our privacy policy at some point in the future, we'll post the changes before they take effect.