At ToolBase.org (the "Site"), a website operated as part of the ToolBase Services suite of services provided by the NAHB 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 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.toolbase.org 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 will 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 “ask the expert” 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 (e.g., in connection with testimonials or surveys), 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. Additionally, we may post your testimonial about various products and services for other users of the Site to view, but no personally identifiable information will be included in your posted testimonial.

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: clucas@nahbrc.com

This Privacy Policy was last updated: August 3, 2006

This Privacy Policy is effective as of: July 19, 2006