Privacy Policy
The Building Centre's commitment
The Building Centre is committed to protecting your online privacy while providing you with the most useful and enjoyable Web experience possible. While you can use many features of the buildincentre.com anonymously, you are required to provide personal information to gain access to some of our premium content and services.
How we collect and use Personal Information
Registering for membership on buildingcentre.com gives you access to most of the website's information and features. The information required is your full name, contact phone, email address, street address, and postcode. With your approval, if applicable, we occasionally will send email to notify you about important changes to the site, new services, and special offers from us. If you would rather not receive these email notifications, you can simply indicate that preference either when you register or at any time you modify your account, or by sending an email to info@buildingcentre.com indicating that you would like to cancel your membership. In addition to receiving email announcements, you can also sign up for daily and weekly email services that provide information on innovative building and renovating products and services, and changes to our website.
If you enter a contest or respond to a promotion, we may use members' postal address so we can notify contest winners and deliver promotional goodies. We occasionally, if applicable, may also send you postal mail to notify you about important changes to the site, new services, and special offers from us and select buildingcentre.com partners. If you would rather not receive such information via postal mail, you can indicate this when you enter your address or you can modify your account at any time to indicate your preference, or by sending an email to info@buildingcentre.com
What happens to the information you submit to us
The Building Centre will use the information collected, via this web site, to provide you with services that you have requested, and to help us better understand your needs and interests.
The Building Centre will not sell, rent or lease your personal information to others. The Building Centre shares customer information across its business department entities. However, we will not share your personal information with third parties except in responding to your requests for products and services.
How we protect your Personal Information
All personal data you enter on buildingcentre.com is sent to us via email and then entered into our local system and stored on our local server, which uses state-of-the-art security software to guard all of our company's essential business data and your personal data as well.
In addition to using the most secure technology available, we work tirelessly to make sure that we use any information you provide us only in ways you have approved. We send you only the email you have approved in your account information or on your email subscription sign-up page. And when you sign up for Product Information, we distribute all the announcement emails you request directly without ever releasing your email address to a third party.
How we use "cookies"
As you probably know, "cookies" are small pieces of information that some websites store on your computer's hard drive when you visit them. Like many other websites, buildingcentre.com uses cookies to identify members so they don't have to enter a user ID and password upon each visit. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies but allow you to modify security settings so you can approve or reject cookies on a case-by-case basis. Even if you do not use cookies, you can still access all of the features on our site by logging in manually with each visit.
What we provide to Service Providers and third-party companies
While The Building Centre does not provide any third-party access to your personal information directly, except to facilitate your own attempts to register with our partners or receive offers from select partners as mentioned elsewhere in this policy. We may provide stragegic partners with aggregate statistics about our customers, traffic patterns, and related website information. This data reflects site usage patterns gathered during customer visits to our website each month, but it does not contain behavioral or identifying information about any individual member unless that member has given us permission to share that information, or requested a service which is provided in conjunction with our strategic partner.
The Building Centre uses a third-party advertising company to serve ads when you visit our sites. This company may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to our and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. In addition, we may share website usage information about visitors to our site with this company for the purpose of managing and targeting advertisements on our sites. For this purpose, we and our third-party advertising company note some of the pages you visit on our sites through the use of pixel tags (also called "clear gifs").
Obtaining your consent
By using our website, you give The Building Centre permission to collect information about the pages served to you as an anonymous user for the purpose of calculating aggregate site statistics. If you register at buildingcentre.com, you authorise The Building Centre to use information you provide to personalise the information we deliver to you and to use your demographic information when calculating aggregate customer data. As a registered member, you give The Building Centre and our agents permission to send you emails related to the subscription email services to which you subscribe and the Product Information topics you select.
If you are under the age of 18, you must not provide your name, email address, or any other identifying information without the consent of your parent or guardian, or as otherwise provided for by applicable law. Any changes to our privacy policy will be posted on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
Tell us what you think
The Building Centre welcomes your questions and comments about our privacy policy. Please send email to info@buildingcentre.com
