Privacy Policy

We at Charleston Island Builders (CIB) (referred to as “CIB,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) recognize the importance of protecting the privacy of certain information collected about our customers and prospective customers (referred to as “Customers,” “you” or “your”). CIB respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it all times. This privacy statement explains what information we collect, how we use it, how we safeguard it, and how to correct or change it. CIB gathers two types of data about Customers: data obtained through optional, voluntary registration and data CIB gathers through aggregated tracking. This Internet Privacy Statement applies only to information collected by CIB through its web sites.

Browsing the site and IP (Internet Protocol) Addresses

When you are only browsing www.charlestonislandbuilders.com, you are assigned an IP address.  An IP address is a unique number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you’re using the Internet so that your computer can be identified by the main computers (web servers). CIB collects IP addresses for the purposes of system administration and to audit the use of our site. When customers request pages from CIB, our servers log the customers’ IP addresses. No personal identifiable information (i.e. name, address, phone number and e-mail address) is linked to your IP address or is collected as you browse unless you choose to give it to us.

Cookies

“Cookies” are small pieces of data stored by your computer to help keep track of your user profile in order to facilitate your use of our website each time you return. Cookies do not tell us your individual identity unless you have chosen to provide it to us. Cookies are used by most major web sites.

Most cookies expire after a defined period of time and can be deleted from your computer at any time.  Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can set up your computer to choose what cookies to accept. However, if you block cookies, some parts of CIB and/or its affiliates’ services will not function properly or may be considerably slower. For example, without cookies, you will not be able to save previous real estate searches.

You may occasionally get cookies from our advertisers. CIB and/or its affiliates do not control these cookies. The use of advertising cookies sent by third-party servers is standard in the Internet industry.

We use cookies to:

1) Obtain the domain name  from which you access the Internet (for example, yahoo.com, if you are connecting from an Yahoo account, or gmail.com if you are connecting from Google’s domain)

2) Obtain he date and time you log on to our site

3) Obtain the website address from which you linked directly to our site.

4) Save a customer’s preferences and real estate searches.

5) Improve our website and customer service.

How we use personal information

When visiting our website, we do not acquire personally identifying information unless you choose to give us such information. Once collected, we may use your personal information (except for e-mail address, which is outlined below) for the following purposes:

-Register you for programs and services you have requested

-Operate our websites and deliver our services

-Inform you about other products or services available from CIB and its affiliates

-Answer your e-mails or on-line requests

-Send information you request such as construction quotes

-Send and process surveys

-Deliver CIB services such as newsletters, meetings or events

CIB may also disclose personal Information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating CIB’s terms of use or terms of service, or may be causing injury to or interference (either intentionally or unintentionally) with any of CIB’s rights or property, other CIB customers, or anyone else. CIB may disclose or access account Information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it and for administrative and other purposes that we deem necessary to maintain, service, and improve our products and services. We may also use IP addresses to identify a customer when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our site terms of use or terms of service or to protect our service, site, customers or others.

We do not share, sell, trade, exchange or rent your e-mail address to vendors for them to market their products or services to you. We only use your email to provide information relevant to CIB. You may opt-out of receiving email from CIB by contacting us via email.

Controlling personal information

If a customer wishes to update personal information or be removed from any contact lists, he/she may e-mail the requested change support@charlestonislandbuilders.com.  Customers may “opt out” of having personal information shared with parties outside of CIB and/or its affiliated companies. We will attempt to honor your request, but we cannot guarantee that your contact information will be removed from any or all lists generated as a result of your use of the website, and we will have no liability under these Terms if we do not purge contact information that you provide to us voluntarily.

Connecting to a third party site

You should be aware that when you are on CIB’s and/or its affiliates’ sites you may click on links that take you to third-party sites. For example, if you “click” on a banner advertisement or a charlestonislandbuilders.com search result, the “click” may transfer you from www.charlestonislandbuilders.com. These other sites may send their own cookies to Customers, collect data, or solicit information.  You will be subject to the third party’s privacy policy so we recommend you understand it before interacting with any web site.

CIB cannot be responsible, and will not be held responsible, for the actions of third parties.  CIB’s and/or its affiliates’ inclusion of hyperlinks to these sites do not imply any endorsement of the material on such sites or any association with their operators.

Please keep in mind that whenever you give out information online (for example, via message boards or chat) that information can be collected and used by people you don’t know. While CIB and its affiliates strive to protect their Customers’ information and privacy, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you disclose online, and you disclose such information at your own risk.

Security measures

The security of all information transmitted from your computer to our servers is an important concern to us.  Security measures have been placed on this website to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of your data. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Therefore, and despite our best efforts, CIB cannot guarantee the security of any data you transmit to us or confidentiality of your information.

Updates to the CIB Internet Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to amend the CIB Internet Privacy Statement at any time, for any reason. We will post a notice that this Internet Privacy Statement has been amended by revising the “Last updated” date at the top of this page

Contacting the Website and Acceptance of the Privacy Policy

If you have any questions about this privacy statement or this website, send an email to hello@charlestonislandbuilders.com.  By using this site, you signify your agreement to CIB’s Privacy Policy. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THIS POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS SITE. Your continued use of CIB’s and/or its affiliates’ sites following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes, regardless of whether or not you are provided with additional notice of such changes.

Equal Housing Opportunity

CIB is committed to equal housing opportunity and to advertising and marketing product that does not obstruct the obtaining of housing due to race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin.

Disclaimer

CIB is providing information on this website as a service and makes no guarantees about the suitability of this information and these services for any purpose.

Information accuracy: While CIB attempts to give accurate and current data on this website, this data may have typographical or technical errors. Please confirm the reliability of any information presented on this website.

All website information is subject to copyrights owned by CIB. The user of this website is given limited permission to reproduce, re-transmit, or reprint for such user’s own personal use part or all of any information on this website as long as the copyright notice and permission notice is included in such reproduction, retransmission, or reprinting. All other reproduction, retransmission, or reprinting of all or part of any document found on this site are expressly prohibited, unless CIB has expressly granted its prior written consent to so reproduce, retransmit, or reprint the material. All other rights reserved.

The names, trademarks, service marks, and logos of CIB seen on this website may not be used by any other party without prior, express written permission.