Privacy Policy
At PATH to Commercialization (the "Site"), a website created and maintained by the
NAHB Research Center, Inc. and funded by the Partnership for Advancing Technology
in Housing (PATH), 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 and use personally identifiable information through your
interaction with our Site.
Due to the Internet's rapidly evolving nature, we may need to update this Privacy
Policy from time to time. If so, we will post the updated Privacy Policy on our
Site located at www.housing-commercialization-tools.com
so you are always aware of what personally identifiable information we may collect
and how we may use this information. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy
regularly for any changes. Your continued use of this Site and/or continued provision
of personally identifiable information to us will be subject to the terms of the
then-current Privacy Policy.
Throughout this Site, you may find contact information (including e-mail addresses)
for specific NAHB Research Center employees or departments. Should you send any
correspondence to such e-mail addresses, your e-mail address will be used only to
respond to your information request and to improve the content and general administration
of our Site. If you submit a question to any service provided in conjunction with
the Site, we will use your personally identifiable information that you submit to
respond to your inquiry.
Should you sign up for any of our electronic mailing lists, 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 that you have requested and you
will receive only the type of information you requested. You will not be added to
other lists. We also may use this information to improve the content and general
administration of our Site.
At certain pages of our Site, we may 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. Additionally, we may post your information
about various products and services for other users of the Site to view, but no
personally identifiable information will be included in the posting.
If you request that we send certain information to a friend, such as an article,
we may ask you to submit your friend’s email address and we will only use such email
address to send the requested information, but we reserve the right to review any
comments that you request to be sent with such information.
We may use small text files called cookies to improve overall Site experience. A
cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information
about the user. Cookies generally do not permit us to personally identify you.
We do not share personally identifiable information collected at this Site with
outside third parties for their own marketing purposes without your prior permission.
We may disclose personally identifiable information collected about you at this
Site in the following instances:
Legal Action: We may disclose information about our users, including personally
identifiable information, 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, or to allow us to protect against misuse or unauthorized
use of our Site. We also may disclose user information whenever 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; or to satisfy any legal
obligation.
Corporate Change: We may sell, transfer, or otherwise disclose user information,
including personally identifiable information, to a successor entity in connection
with a corporate merger, consolidation, the sale of substantially all assets, or
other corporate change respecting the Site.
Additionally, we may provide your personally identifiable information to the agents
and contractors who we have engaged to assist us. Third parties who receive access
to your personally identifiable information are required to protect this information
in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy by, for example, not using
the information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing
for us and/or to improve the content and general administration of the Site.
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. This information will only
be disclosed in aggregate form.
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. You acknowledge that we are providing these links
to you only as a convenience, and further agree that we are not responsible for
the content or privacy practices of such 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.
By using this Site you agree to our Terms of Use.
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy, please
contact us at: PCT@nahbrc.com