Building Optics Privacy Policy

Building Optics LLC (“Building Optics”) respects your privacy. We strive to use information to provide the best possible service while respecting the confidentiality of information we are entrusted with. This Privacy Policy governs the manner in which Building Optics collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from users of the buildingoptics.com website and its various services (together, the “Website”).

PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY. BY ACCESSING, USING, OR PROVIDING INFORMATION THROUGH THE WEBSITE YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTAND, AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ALL THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND OUR TERMS OF USE.  IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, EXIT THIS PAGE AND DO NOT ACCESS OR USE THE WEBSITE.

1. Collection of Personal Information

We collect personal information when you register an account, when you use our products, when you make a payment, when you submit information to us, when you communicate with us, and through passive collection of your information when you use our Website or services. We collect this personal information in order to establish your account, to handle billing and to understand your specific needs to serve you better.  Personal information may be information about you that is personally identifiable, such as your name, the name of your business, address, information regarding your physical assets, email address, credit card number, phone number, and other related data.

Building Optics may use cookies and other technologies to enhance your online experience and to learn about how you use our Website and services. A “cookie” is a small file containing a string of characters that uniquely identifies your browser. While most browsers accept cookies by default, you can manually set your browser to refuse all cookies, accept cookies from specific Websites, or highlight when a cookie is sent to your browser. Building Optics’ servers may also automatically record information when you visit our Website, including the URL that directed you to our Website, your IP address, browser type, internet service provider, referring/exit pages, the files and pages viewed on our Website and services, operating system, date/time stamp, and other related data.

2. How we use your information

The information Building Optics collects is used to provide Building Optics’ services, to comprehensively understand your needs and interests, and permits Building Optics to deliver a more consistent and personalized experience. For example, Building Optics may use your information to:

• provide our services and support;

• payment processing

• registering your account

• assist you in completing a transaction or order;

• communicate with you about products and services;

• update you on new services and benefits;

• provide personalized promotional offers;

• select content to be communicated to you; and

• contact you for market research regarding Building Optics products or services.

• detecting, preventing and remediating fraud or other potentially prohibited or illegal activities

Your information may be aggregated with other clients' information on a purely non-identifiable basis to understand how our services are used to help make them better. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, Building Optics shall have the right to collect and analyze data and other information relating to the provision, use and performance of various aspects of the services we provide and related systems and technologies (including, without limitation, information concerning your data and data derived therefrom).  You grant Building Optics the right to such data (during and after the term hereof) in connection with the (i) use such information and data to improve and enhance the services and for other development, diagnostic and corrective purposes in connection with the services and other Building Optics offerings, and (ii) the disclosure of such data solely in aggregate or other de-identified form in connection with its business and/or the services, including without limitation, the use and publication of aggregate data for analysis and reporting of performance and other statistics

Credit card information is used solely for payment processing and fraud prevention efforts. Credit card information, and other sensitive personal information required to process a credit decision, is not used for any other purposes by us or our financial services providers, and will not be retained any longer than necessary to provide your services.

3. Policy on sharing your information

Building Optics will not sell, rent or lease your personal information to others. Building Optics may share personal information with companies, vendors, or contractors working on our behalf and Building Optics-affiliated business entities for the purposes detailed above.  In addition, in order to access and use our services, you will need to use the services of certain third parties, including but not limited to, Asset Panda, LLC.  In any such cases, however, we strive to ensure that the companies or entities adhere to privacy standards and policies at least as restrictive as those Building Optics has in place.

Building Optics partners with third parties to provide specific services. As a condition of using Building Optics’ services, you agree when the user signs up for these services, it may be required that we will share names, or other contact information that is necessary for the third party to provide these services. These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing the services.

Circumstances may arise, whether for strategic or other business reasons, in which Building Optics decides to sell, buy, merge or otherwise reorganize businesses in various countries. Such a transaction may involve the disclosure of personal information to prospective or actual purchasers, or, conversely, the receipt of such personal information from sellers. It is Building Optics’ established practice to seek appropriate protection for all personal information in advance of any such transaction.

We may access, preserve, and disclose your Personal Information, or other account information if we have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to: (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or legitimate governmental request, (b) detect, prevent, or otherwise address suspected fraud, security or technical issues, (c) enforce any applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations thereof, or (d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of Building Optics, its services, users or the general public as required or permitted by law.

4. Sites covered by this Privacy Policy

The Building Optics Website may from time-to-time link to third-party websites for your convenience and to provide easy access to additional useful information. Should you select such a link you will leave the Building Optics Website. Building Optics does not control those sites nor their privacy practices, which may differ from Building Optics’ practices and policies. Any personal data you choose to provide to or that is collected by such third parties is not in any way covered by this Privacy Policy. We recommend that you read over such website’s privacy policy before providing any personal information. A link to another website from Building Optics does not constitute an endorsement or representation about the value, quality or usefulness of anything found on that third-party website.

Building Optics’ Service runs on Third Party Service Providers. These Third Party Service Providers adopt and post privacy policies.  However, the use of your Personally Identifiable Information by such parties is governed by the privacy policies of such parties and is not subject to our control.

PLEASE BE AWARE THAT IF YOU ELECT TO HAVE US SHARE YOUR INFORMATION WITH THIRD PARTIES, SUCH AS OUR INFRASTRUCTURE AND OTHER THIRD PARTY PROVIDERS, THOSE ELECTIONS TO HAVE YOUR INFORMATION SHARED WILL SUPERSEDE ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY.

5. Access to and accuracy of your information

Building Optics strives to keep your personal information accurate and up-to-date. Towards this goal we utilize various technology, management processes and policies. As part of our overall data accuracy initiative Building Optics provides you with reasonable access to your personal information so you may review and correct your information if needed. To safeguard your privacy and security, we will verify your identity through various means, such as by requiring a password and user ID, before granting access to your data. We ask that you update your information as and when it changes so any information used to serve you remains as accurate as possible.

6. Keeping your information secure

Building Optics values your trust and takes it seriously. To prevent unauthorized access and disclosure, to maintain data accuracy, and to ensure the appropriate use of your information, Building Optics utilizes industry standard physical, technical and administrative procedures to safeguard any personal information we collect.

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.  As a result, while we employ commercially reasonable security measures to protect data and seek to partner with companies which do the same, we cannot guarantee the security of any transmitted information, and we are not responsible for the actions of any third parties that may receive any such information.

7. Changes to this policy

The world of technology changes quickly and Building Optics reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If and when there are future changes to our Privacy Policy in response we will post them at buildingoptics.com/privacy

8. Data Tracking

9.  Data Tracking

a. Cookies.  To facilitate and customize your experience with the Website, we may store cookies on your computer.  A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a User’s computer for record-keeping purposes which contains information about that User.  We use cookies to save you time while using the Website, remind us who you are, and track and target User interests in order to provide a customized experience.  Cookies also allow us to collect information from you, like which pages you visited and what links you clicked on. Use of this information helps us to create a more user-friendly experience for all visitors.  In addition, we may use Third Party Advertising Companies to display advertisements on our services. As part of their service, they may place separate cookies on your computer. We have no access to or control over these cookies.  This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by our Website only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertiser or other third party. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you may be able to modify your browser settings to decline cookies.  Users may choose to set their web browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If they do so, note some parts of the Website may not function properly.

b.  Google Analytics.  Visitors to this Website who have JavaScript enabled are tracked using Google Analytics. Google Analytics may collect some or all of the following types of information from you: type of user agent (web browser) used, software manufacturer and version number; type of operating system; color processing ability of your screen; JavaScript support; Flash version; screen resolution; network location; IP address; country, city, state, region, county, or any other geographic data; hostname; bandwidth (internet connection speed); time of visit; pages visited; time spent on each page of the Website; referring site statistics; the website URL you came through in order to arrive at the Website; or search engine query used to find the Website. This data is primarily used to optimize our Website for our visitors and for internal marketing purposes.

c. Other Tracking Devices.  We may use other industry standard technologies like pixel tags and web beacons to track your use of our Website pages and promotions, or we may allow our third party service providers to use these devices on our behalf.  Pixel tags and web beacons are tiny graphic images placed on certain pages on our Website, or in our emails that allow us to determine whether you have performed a specific action. When you access these pages or open or click an email, pixel tags and web beacons generate a notice of that action.  Pixel tags allow us to measure and improve our understanding of visitor traffic and behavior on our Website, as well as give us a way to measure our promotions and performance. We may also utilize pixel tags and web beacons provided by our affiliates and/or partners for the same purposes.

10. Contacting us.

You have the right to request information with respect to the types of personal information we share with third parties and the identities of the third parties with whom we have shared such information during the immediately preceding calendar year. To obtain this information, please send a request by email to admin@buildingoptics.com  Please allow 30 days for a response.

We value your opinions and suggestions. Please email us with any questions or concerns (at support@buildingoptics.com, or alternately you can write to us at the following address:

Building Optics LLC

Attn: Frank Morgigno

Address: 90 Plant Avenue. Hauppauge, NY 11788

This Privacy Policy is Effective as of April 1, 2019