At NAHBGreen.org (the "Site"), National Association of Home Builders, Research Center, Inc. ("we") respect your right to privacy and will protect it when you visit our Site in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy. The following summarizes how we collect, use, and disclose personally identifiable information that you provide through this Site.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time so that you can always be aware of how we collect, use, and disclose your personally identifiable information. Each time we materially change the Privacy Policy on this Site we will change the effective date located at the bottom. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes. Your continued use of this Site will be subject to the terms of the then-current Privacy Policy.
Throughout this Site, you will find contact information (including e-mail addresses) for specific NAHB and NAHB Research Center employees or departments. Should you send any correspondence by using a form on this Site, your e-mail address will be used only to respond to your e-mail and to improve the content and general administration of our Site.
Should you sign up on any of our electronic mailing lists through this Site, you may be required to provide us with your name, email address and other contact information. We will use this information to send you the information you have requested, and you will not receive as a result of that request any type of information other than the type you requested. We also may use this information to improve the content and general administration of our Site.
At certain pages of our Site (e.g., in connection with your scoring reports), we request that you provide contact information (e.g., name, address, e-mail address and phone number) to enable us to contact you, if need be, regarding your communications. We may also use this information to process your requests, and to improve our program and service offerings, as well as the content and general administration of our Site.
We may use small text files called cookies to improve your overall Site experience. A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive and containing information about the user. If you select the "remember me" box, the cookie will store your encrypted username and password.
Without your prior permission we do not share personally identifiable information collected at this Site with outside third parties for their own marketing purposes. We may disclose personally identifiable information collected about you at this Site in the following instances: when you give us permission to do so; when requested by governmental or quasi-governmental authorities to conduct an investigation, hearing or the like; to allow us or a government or quasi-government authority to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing our Site and applicable laws; to allow us to protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our Site; when we believe disclosure is necessary to limit our legal liability; to protect or defend our rights or property; to protect the safety, rights, or property of our users; to satisfy any legal obligation; to a successor entity in connection with a corporate merger, acquisition, consolidation, the sale of substantially all assets, or other corporate change involving the Site; to our affiliate National Association of Home Builders; and to the agents and contractors we have engaged to assist us. For the purpose of market research, and to improve the content and general administration of the Site, we may also share some of your information, in the aggregate and not including personally identifiable information, including project location, project score and details, overall number of projects, and number of Scoring Tool users, with state and local home builders associations, Home Builders Institute, and National Housing Endowment.
To the extent we are reasonably able to require it, third parties who receive access to your personally identifiable information will be contractually required to protect it in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.
You are entitled to review any personally identifiable information we have collected about you through this Site, by e-mailing your request to webmaster@nahbrc.com, and to correct any of that information that is inaccurate.
This Site routinely logs and analyzes statistical information on user sessions (such as number of visits, pages visited, platforms used, etc.), but such information will be maintained, used and disclosed in aggregate form only, and it will not contain personally identifiable information. We may use such aggregate information to analyze trends and security, improve and administer the Site, track users' movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.
We take reasonable precautions to protect the security of your personally identifiable information, including the use of passwords, which are stored in encrypted format, for access to scoring data, and use of a security question before access is granted to scoring data.
The Site may provide links to other Web sites or resources over which we do not have control ("External Web Sites"). Such links do not constitute an endorsement by us of those External Web Sites. We provide these links only as a convenience, and we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of External Web Sites, or the actions of their operators. Your use of External Web Sites is subject to the terms of use and privacy policies located on the External Web Sites.
If you believe we are not living up to any part of this Privacy Policy, or have any questions, comments, or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact us at: webmaster@nahbrc.com.
This Privacy Policy was last updated and is effective as of: February 14, 2008