Privacy Policy

Definitions

“Non-Personal Information” (NPI) is information that is in no way personally identifiable and that is obtained automatically when you access our Website with a web browser.

“Personally Identifiable Information” (PII) is non-public information that is personally identifiable to you and obtained for us to provide you with a product or service. PII may include information such as your name, address, phone number, credit card information, and other related information that you provide to us.

Our Commitment to Privacy

Our Privacy Policy tells you what PII we may collect from you, how we may share your PII, and how you can limit our sharing of your PII.

This Privacy and Security Statement describes the privacy practices of https://ybconline.com/ (“YBC”, “Your Building Centers” “our”, or “we”). It applies to our interactions with our customers and visitors, including, but not limited to:

• Use of our website, including mobile version
• Use of our applications for mobile phones, tablets or other smart devices
• Phone and email communications
• Social media interactions on our website and other third-party websites like Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, Google, Instagram and Twitter
• Viewing our online advertisements or emails

Any capitalized terms not defined herein will have the same meaning as where they are defined elsewhere on our Website.

Your Building Centers, Inc. and our family of companies is committed to the security and privacy of all our customers. We take your privacy seriously, and we will work with you to ensure that you have an enjoyable online experience.

Your Building Centers Inc. respects your privacy and recognizes the need for appropriate protection and management of your personally identifiable information you share with our company.

As a part of our commitment, we have adopted the appropriate guidelines to handle your data you provide to us. Other than as necessary to provide you with goods and services, we agree to (1) provide our customers with notice of their ability to opt out of information exchanges with our affiliates; (2) honor our customers’ requests not to have their information transferred to our affiliates; and (3) honor our customers’ requests not to receive third party solicitations from our affiliates.

Your Building Centers, Inc. and its family of companies respects your privacy. We do not rent or sell the personal information you provide to us online to third parties. The information will only be used in the event we need to contact you, register you for contractor-based programs (such as YOURewards, Contractor Search, Contractor Corner), and for market research purposes.

The Information We Collect

Generally, you control the amount and type of information you provide to us when using our Website. As a visitor to our Website, you can browse our Website to find out more about us. You are not required to provide us with any PII as a Visitor.

The types of personal information voluntarily submitted and collected on our website may include but is not limited to:

• Names
• Addresses
• Email addresses
• Phone numbers
• Passport numbers (Contractor trip redemption)
• Business name and information (if a contractor)
• Survey information (This may include age, household description, product purchase information, etc.)

On some pages, you can make requests, locate a contractor, or provide information about what type of project you are looking to complete. If you opt not to provide us with personally identifiable information no material consequence will result, although you may be unable to participate in certain features offered through our website.

If you register as a Member of Contractor Corner or our YOURewards program to use our Website, you must provide PII in order for us to provide you with various features and/or functionality from our Website.   As one of those Members, we collect your PII in the following ways:

At Member Registration

When you register for Contractor Corner or YOURewards, we collect your name and email address {and other information listed}.

Online Forms

There may be multiple online forms used in our Website. The information that you enter on these online forms may contain PII.

Computer Information Collected

When you use our Website, we automatically collect certain computer information by the interaction of your mobile phone or web browser with our Website. Such information is typically considered NPI. We may also collect any of the following:

Cookies

Our Website uses “Cookies.” A Cookie is a small piece of data stored on your computer or mobile device by your web browser. We use Cookies to identify the areas of our Website that you have visited. We may also use Cookies to identify you as a Contractor Corner Member so that you can access various parts or features of our Website. Finally, we may use Cookies to personalize the Content that you see on our Website. Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of Cookies. However, if you disable Cookies, you may not be able to access features on our Website correctly or at all. We never place PII in Cookies.

Web Beacons and Marketing Pixels

We may also use technologies called web beacons and marketing pixels to collect general information about your use of our Website and your use of special promotions or newsletters. The information we collect by Web Beacons and Pixels allows us to statistically monitor the number of people that open our emails. Our Web Beacons and Pixels are not used to track your activity outside of our Website. We do not link NPI from Web Beacons or Pixels to PII without your permission.

Automatic Information

We automatically receive information from your web browser or mobile device. This information includes the name of the website from which you entered our Website, if any, as well as the name of the website to which you’re headed when you leave our website. This information also includes the IP address of your computer/proxy server that you use to access the Internet, your Internet Website provider name, web browser type, type of mobile device, and computer operating system. We use all of this information to analyze trends among our Users to help improve our Website.

Google Analytics Privacy Policy

Our website uses “Google Analytics” to collect information about the use of our site. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit our site, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to our site. We use the information we get from Google Analytics to improve our site. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit our site, rather than your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit our site, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to our site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use. http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html

Google reCAPTCHA

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

How Information is Used

We use the information we receive from you as follows:

Providing and Improving Our Website

We may use the PII you provide to us along with any computer information we receive to provide our Website to you as well as to make improvements to it.

Communications and Email Alerts

When we communicate with you about our Website, we will use the email address you provided when registering as a Member. We may also send you Website alerts regarding your use of our Website. Finally, we may also send you emails with promotional information about our Website or offers from us or our affiliates, unless you have opted out of receiving such information. You can change contact preferences at any time through your account. While you can opt-out of promotional messages, you cannot opt-out of receiving Website alerts.

Sharing Information with Affiliates and Other Third Parties

We do not sell, rent, or otherwise provide your PII to third parties for marketing purposes. However, we may use your Non Personal Information for data aggregation purposes which might be sold to other parties at our discretion. Any such data aggregation would not contain any of your PII. We may provide your PII to affiliates that provide services with regards to our Website (i.e. payment processors, webhosting companies, travel agents for YOURewards trips, etc.); such affiliates will only receive information necessary to provide the respective service and will be bound by confidentiality agreements limiting the use of such information.

Legally Required Releases of Information

We may be legally required to disclose your PII, if such disclosure is (a) required by subpoena, law, or other legal process; (b) necessary to assist law enforcement officials or government enforcement agencies; (c) necessary to investigate violations of or otherwise enforce our Legal Terms; (d) necessary to protect us from legal action or claims from third parties including you and/or other Members; and/or (e) necessary to protect the legal rights, personal/real property, or personal safety of our company, our Users, employees, and affiliates.

Disclosures to Successors

If our business is acquired or merges, in whole or in part, with another business that would become responsible for providing the Website to you, we retain the right to transfer your PII to the new business. The new business would retain the right to use your PII according to the terms of this Privacy Policy as well as to any changes to this Privacy Policy as instituted by the new business.

Changing Your Information

You may change your PII at any time using facilities found on our Website. If you need assistance with updating your PII or removing yourself from our mailing lists, just send us an email with your request or contact us using the Contact us information found on our Website.

Opting Out of Sharing Information

You can always opt out of future unaffiliated third-party disclosures of your information. Such opt-out will not affect disclosures otherwise permitted by law including but not limited to: (i) disclosures to affiliates, (ii) disclosures to third-party service providers who provide certain services for our business, such as credit card processing, computer system services, shipping, data management, or promotional services, (iii) disclosures to third parties as necessary to fulfill your requests, (iv) disclosures to governmental agencies or law enforcement departments or otherwise required to be made under applicable law, (v) previously completed disclosures to third parties, or (vi) disclosures to third parties in connection with subsequent contests or promotions you may choose to enter, or third-party offers you may choose to accept.

Protecting Your Child’s Privacy

We follow the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Even though our Website is not designed for use by anyone under the age of 18 (child), we realize that a child may attempt to access our Website. We do not knowingly collect PII from a child. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child is using our Website, please contact us. We may ask for proof of identification before we remove any information to prevent malicious removal of account information. If we discover on our own that a child is accessing our Website, we will delete the information as soon as we discover it, we will not use the information for any purpose, and we will not disclose the information to third parties. You acknowledge that we do not verify the age of our users nor do we have any liability to do so. If you are a child, please seek the permission of a parent or guardian before accessing our Website.

 Our Email Policy

We comply with the federal CAN-SPAM Act. You can always opt out of receipt of further email correspondence from us or our affiliates. We will not sell, rent, or trade your email address to any unaffiliated third-party without your permission except in the sale or transfer of our business.

Our Commitment to Data Security

We have taken steps to build our Website using sophisticated encryption and authentication tools to protect the security of your PII.   When we collect your PII through our Website, we will encrypt your PII before it travels over the Internet using industry standards as establishing for conducting secure online transactions. We also use industry standard technologies such as secure routers and fire walls to make sure that your PII is safe. Unfortunately, data transmissions over the Internet cannot be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Accordingly, despite our efforts to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us. You transmit all such information at your own risk.

Once we receive your PII, we have industry standard security measures in place to protect against the loss or misuse of your PII, though again, we cannot fully guarantee against such loss or misuse. We make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems. We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information under our control.

We strongly urge you to protect any password you may have for our Website and not share it with anyone. You should always log out of our Website when you are done using it, especially if you are sharing a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place.

A note on third party content

Along with our website, we link to third party sites (such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Google) and may also include or embed third party content to share information and promotional content (such as products, coupons, etc.).

We cannot control or correct problems with these third party sites.

You understand that these websites are not under our control and are not subject to our Privacy Policy. These websites will likely have their own privacy policies. We have no responsibility for these websites and provide links to these websites solely for your convenience.

You acknowledge that your use and access of these websites is solely at your own risk. We also do not have control over the data those third party sites collect from the end user.  It is your responsibility to check the privacy policies of these websites to see how they treat your personal information.

Changes to this Privacy Statement

Occasionally Your Building Centers, Inc. may use customer information for new purposes not previously disclosed in this privacy notice. If our information practices change in the future, we will make every effort to update this page with those details, and we encourage you to check back to our website periodically to review.

Questions about Our Privacy Policy

This will certify that I have read and understand the Privacy Policy. Furthermore, I also understand that Your Building Centers Inc., is committed to protecting its records and fully complying with all applicable laws and regulations. If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us using the Contact Us information found on our Website.