Poettker Construction Company (“Company”, “we,” “our,” or “us”), takes privacy seriously. We know that the privacy of your personal information is important to you. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes the manner in which we collect, use, maintain, disclose and process information collected through this website (https://poettkerconstruction.com/) (“Website”), information collected when you engage with us through our services, which includes information collected by other means, both online and offline.

By engaging with the Website, you accept the terms of this Policy and our Website Terms of Use and consent to our collection, use, disclosure and retention of your information as described in this Policy. If you have not done so already, please also review our Website Terms of Use. The Website Terms of Use contain provisions that limit our liability to you. This Policy is incorporated into and made a part of our Website Terms of Use.

We provide this Policy to ensure that those who provide personal information to us understand what personal information we may collect and hold about them, what we may use it for and how we keep it safe. You may have legal rights to access the personal information we hold about you and to control how we use it, as set forth in this Policy. Our collection and use of your personal information is in accordance with this Policy.

This Policy is in addition to any other legally binding agreement between you and us that may govern your privacy or your use of our services. To the extent any such agreement is in writing and conflicts with this Policy, the terms of such written agreement will govern.

Applicability of the Policy (and its limitations)

We collect several types of information from you, including information:

  • By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, telephone number or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”);
  • That is about you but individually does not identify you, such as sales order/purchase order information, third-party portal identification and customer notification to customer service and/or;
  • About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.

This Policy applies to personal information we collect through our Website, as well as to personal information we collect by other means, whether online or offline.

We may collect and use your personal information and the contents of your online communications on or through the Website as necessary to operate the Website and provide you with our services and content. We use the term “personal information” to describe information that can reasonably be associated with you and can be used to identify you. Personal information does not include information that has been deidentified or aggregated.

Processing information controlled by a third-party

When we provide services to customers, we sometimes handle information provided by a third-party partner or customer. In such a scenario, we process the information solely on the instructions of the entity that provides the information, which retains control of the information. For example, this Policy does not apply to personal information that we may collect or receive from websites operated by other companies or from our business partners.

Where our use of your personal information is not covered by this Policy, you may need to contact the entity that collected your information, and on whose behalf the processing of your information is carried out in order to understand your privacy rights.

Third-Party Links

Our Website may contain links to other sites. You should review the privacy policy of each website visited before disclosing any personal information. To the extent we provide links to third-party websites, such links do not constitute our endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation of the third parties, the third-party websites, or the information contained on those websites, and we are not responsible or liable for your use of such third-party websites. Where appropriate, you should review the privacy polices of any websites or applications before submitting your personal information.

When we collect personal information

We may collect personal information from the following sources:

  • directly from you (i.e., information you enter into our website or otherwise provide to us)
  • indirectly from your interactions with our technologies or our Websites
  • other service providers and third parties

Types of personal information we collect and possible uses

The following is a summary of the types of personal information we collect, and the purposes for which that information may be used.

Website Users

When you use our website or submit an inquiry through the “Contact Us” tool, we collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal information about you which we have grouped together as follows:

  • “Communications Data” includes correspondence or messages (including emails, SMS or chat or social media messages or comments) and other personal information which you provide to us through these sources;
  • “Contact Data” includes your postal address, email address and telephone number(s);
  • “Identity Data” includes your first name, last name and title; and
  • “Technical Data” includes technical information (through the use of cookies or similar technologies, including your IP address, device identifier, browsing patterns on our website, click stream data, and HTP protocol elements) information. See “Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies” below for more information.

In certain instances, we may use IP addresses to help identify you when we feel, in our sole discretion, that it is reasonably necessary to enforce compliance with this Policy, to protect our services, website, systems, information, employees, business partners, subsidiaries, affiliates, users, customers or others, or when required by law or for law enforcement purposes.

Former, Current and Prospective Customers

When we provide services to you, we collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal information about you, which we have grouped together as follows:

  • “Communications Data” includes calls you make to our customer services team, correspondence or messages (including emails, SMS or chat or social media messages or comments) and other personal information which you provide to us within the scope of the relationship or potential relationship;
  • “Contact Data” includes your postal address, email address and telephone number(s);
  • “Identity Data” includes your first name, last name, title, job title and proof of your identity;
  • “Professional Data” includes information about your professional background, history of directorships and adverse media coverage;
  • “Event Data” includes additional details of the events you have attended, as well as additional details that you provide to us at one of our events, including information provided in surveys; and
  • “Marketing Data” includes details of your marketing and communication preferences.

Job Applicants

If you apply for a position with us, we collect the following personal information:

  • “Application Data” includes your job title, work history and other information you provide to us in connection with your application;
  • “Communications Data” includes correspondence or messages (including emails, SMS or chat or social media messages or comments) and other personal information which you provide to within these;
  • “Contact Data” includes your postal address, email address and telephone number(s); and
  • “Identity Data” includes your first name, last name and title.

Contractors

If you submit a request to be included on our subcontractor list or if we hire you as a vendor, supplier or contractor, we collect the following personal information:

  • “Communications Data” includes correspondence or messages (including emails, SMS or chat or social media messages or comments) and other personal information, which you provide to within these;
  • “Contact Data” includes your postal address, email address and telephone number(s);
  • “Financial Data” includes your bank account details; and
  • “Identity Data” includes your first name, last name and title.

We also may collect the following categories of information about the organizations of persons who interact with the Websites and use our services:

  • “Communications Data” including inquiries, partial inquiries or contact forms, even if abandoned or not submitted
  • “Identity Data” including identifying information, including name, location, industry, size, business address, business phone numbers, business website, email addresses, job titles
  • “Technical Data” including IP address, cookies, and data concerning interaction with our Website, pages visited and content engaged with

You should be aware that when you voluntarily disclose personally identifiable information (for example, your username or email address) via comments, messages, postings, or in other public areas of the Website, that information can be collected and used by third parties and may result in unsolicited messages from other posters or third parties. These activities are beyond our control.

We may also provide social media features on the Website that enable you to share personal information with your social networks and to interact with the Website. Depending on the features, your use of these features may result in the collection or sharing of personal information about you. We encourage you to review the privacy policies and settings on the social media sites with which you interact.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

  • Details of your visits to our Website including other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
  • Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically may include personal information. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

  • Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
  • Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
  • Speed up your searches.
  • Recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this data collection may include:

  • Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
  • Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies for information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies.
  • Web Beacons. Pages of our Website may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
  • Google Analytics. Our Website also utilizes Google Analytics to better understand and serve your needs. Google Analytics is a secured platform used to track web activity, including but not limited to session duration, pages per session, engagement rate and the sources of web traffic. Cookies used by Google Analytics are used to identify each customer as a unique user and are protected by Google encryption from being used by any other tracking platform. Just as with our Website’s cookies, your web browser may enable you to decline Google cookies. For more information on Google Privacy or Terms of Use, visit google.com/analytics/tos.html and google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html.

You can refuse to accept these cookies, and most devices and browsers offer their own privacy settings for cookies. You may manage your cookie settings for each device and browser you use. However, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of our Website and some online products and services.

You should visit the “Help” section of your browser for how to manage your cookie settings. For further general information on cookies and more detailed advice on how to disable and enable them, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org (https://www.allaboutcookies.org).

Lawful basis for collecting personal information

We will only use your personal information for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose and complies with applicable data protection laws.

The purposes for which we use your personal information and the lawful basis on which we rely to process it for each purpose is as follows:

  • To ensure the effective operation of our Website. This may require the use of technical data, described in this Policy, and assists us in delivering our services to you via the Website.
  • To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us. This may require use of communications, contact, identity and technical data, as described in this Policy, as necessary to both communicate with you and provide you with our services.
  • To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection. This may require use of communications, contact, identity and technical data, as described in this Policy, as necessary to both communicate with you and provide you with our services.
  • To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though them. This may require use of communications, contact and identity data, as described in this Policy, as necessary to provide you with services via our Website.
  • To learn about user behavior on the Website. This may require the use of technical data, as described in this Policy, as necessary to help us improve our services or the Website.
  • To maintain network and information security. This may require the use of technical data, as described in this Policy, as necessary to protect your information against loss or damage, theft or unauthorized access and to protect our business.
  • To protect our services, Website, systems information, employees, business partners, affiliates, users, customers or others, or when required by law or for law enforcement purposes. This may require use of communications, contact, identity and technical data, as described in this Policy, as necessary to protect our business interests and assist law enforcement.
  • In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
  • For any other purpose with your consent.

Disclosure of Personal Information to Third Parties

We will not disclose your personal information to third parties other than as described in this Policy unless we have your permission or are required or permitted to do so by law. We may share such information with our affiliates as necessary to carry out the purposes for which the information was supplied or collected. Similarly, third-party contractors, consultants and/or vendors engaged by us to provide services may have access to your personal information. These third parties will be subject to their own data protection requirements providing the same or greater level of security provided by us and in most instances will also have entered into a written agreement with us which addresses the protection of your personal information.

We may share personal information about you with third parties when we engage them to perform services, including maintenance services, hosting, data storage, security, analytics and data analysis, payment processing, marketing, email and text message distribution, customer service, providing certain interactive tools, and conducting surveys.

We may also disclose your personal information for the purposes of:

  • responding to requests from law enforcement agencies, regulators or courts, or to subpoenas, search warrants, or other legal requests;
  • the prevention and/or detection of crime;
  • establishing legal rights or to investigate or pursue legal claims;
  • a merger, acquisition or corporate restructuring to which we are subject; and/or
  • preventing risk of harm to an individual.

Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your jurisdiction and subject to certain limitations, you have the following rights with respect to the personal information we process about you:

  • Request a copy of the personal information the Company holds about you (including as necessary to support your right of data portability),
  • Request to know information about the categories of personal information we process about you,
  • Request that the Company correct your data,
  • Request that your data be deleted, and
  • Withdraw consent for any processing where we have requested your consent.

If you would like to exercise any of these rights, you may submit your request at our Privacy Policy Form or privacy@poettkerconstruction.com. If we deny your request, you may appeal our decision by contacting us at privacy@poettkerconstruction.com (please put “APPEAL” in your subject line). If you have concerns about the results of an appeal, you may contact the attorney general in the state where you reside.

Retention of your personal information

We retain your personal information for the period of time reasonably required for the purposes for which it was collected, any compatible purposes which we subsequently establish, or any new purposes to which you subsequently consent, or to comply with legal, regulatory and our own policy requirements. This period of time will usually be the period of your, or the relevant client’s, relationship or contract with us plus a period reflecting the length of time for which legal claims may be made following the termination of such relationship or contract. Some information (such as call recordings, tax records and certain information required to demonstrate regulatory compliance) may need to be kept for longer. Personal information will be kept for a shorter or longer period of time if so required by law or our policies, if the information becomes subject to a legal hold (for example, following a communication from our regulator) or if we have identified through a data protection impact assessment that a different retention period is appropriate. Please contact us using the information below if you have any questions about retention periods.

Information security

We employ industry-standard security measures designed to protect the security of all information submitted through our services or Websites. However, the security of information transmitted through the internet can never be guaranteed. We are not responsible for any interception or interruption of any communications through the internet or for changes to or losses of data. Users of the services are responsible for maintaining the security of any password, user ID or other form of authentication involved in obtaining access to password protected or secure areas of any of our digital services. In order to protect you and your data, we may suspend your use of any of the services, without notice, pending an investigation, if any breach of security is suspected. Access to and use of password protected and/or secure areas of any of the Services are restricted to authorized users only. Unauthorized access to such areas is prohibited and may lead to criminal prosecution.

Children

Our Websites are not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any information to or on the Websites. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on the Websites. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at: privacy@poettkerconstruction.com

Opting Out of Communications

Communications from us may include requested communications, such as email newsletters or updates that you expressly requested or consented to receive, and general communications, such as information about products, services, or special offers.

You may “opt out” of receiving any further communications from us by (i) selecting the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any of our email communications, or (ii) emailing us at communications@poettkerconstruction.com with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line.

Modifications to Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. Updated versions of the Privacy Policy will appear on this website and are effective immediately. You are responsible for regularly reviewing the Privacy Policy. Continued use of the websites after any such changes constitutes your consent to such changes.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacy@poettkerconstruction.com

Last revised July 10, 2025