Terms of Service and Privacy Policy

Use of the Archtoolbox.com website ("the site", "the website", "Archtoolbox") and the information contained herein constitutes full acceptance of the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy listed below. Archtoolbox.com is owned and operated by Aggregate Digital LLC.

Terms of Service

The data, drawings, tables, and other information contained in the site have been created by Archtoolbox.com with information obtained from many sources. The owners, authors, and consultants of Archtoolbox.com ("we") have made every reasonable effort to provide accurate and current information; however, we do not provide any warranties, implied or explicit, and assume no liability for the use of the information, nor the accuracy and completeness of the information, nor its fitness for any specific purpose. The information contained in the site shall be used at the sole risk of the viewer. IT SHALL BE UNDERSTOOD THAT THE OWNERS, AUTHORS, AND CONSULTANTS OF ARCHTOOLBOX.COM ARE NOT RENDERING PROFESSIONAL SERVICES. It is the responsibility of the viewer of the site to apply their professional knowledge and judgment to the information provided and to verify the information with other professional sources. CONSULT A PROFESSIONAL ARCHITECT, ENGINEER, AGENCY, OR CONSULTANT FOR ADVICE ABOUT SPECIFIC PROJECTS, BUILDINGS, CONDITIONS, CODES, AND/OR REGULATIONS.

Artificial Intelligence

We occasionally use AI to help us do research for articles or to generate an outline of important topics to cover. However, we do not use AI to write the article and any AI generated content is fact-checked by a human editor.

Archtoolbox makes a commission when you click on any of the advertisements (Ads by Google, AdChoices, Ezoic, AdThrive, etc.) displayed on the site. All advertisements are automatically served and are not selected by Archtoolbox.com. We do not recommend particular building products on this website.

Reviews

We provide recommendations for books, courses, study guides, and other products that we find useful; however, we do not accept payment to include reviews of any products on the site. Our reviews are impartial and based on our own experience using and/or reviewing the product.

Affiliate Links

We earn a commission when you purchase items from companies with whom we have an affiliate relationship (Amazon, GBES, Projectific, Archiroots, etc.) after having followed our affiliate links or used our coupon codes. Our reviews are impartial and we do not embellish reviews to earn more commissions. Rather, we find products that are helpful to us and our readers. If you return a product then we don't make anything so it only makes sense for us to recommend products that will make you happy. Full disclosure, some companies will provide access to their products at our request so we can do a thorough review or so we can update an older review when their product is updated.

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Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us. At Archtoolbox.com, we have a few fundamental principles:

We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.

The following policy is an attempt to provide you with a clear understanding of what information we collect. We have kept the principles above in mind while creating this document.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Archtoolbox.com collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. The purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Archtoolbox.com visitors use the website. From time to time, Archtoolbox.com may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Google Analytics is a web analytics tool Archtoolbox.com uses to help understand how visitors engage with this website. It reports website trends using cookies and web beacons without identifying individual visitors. You can read more at the Google Analytics Data Privacy and Security.

Archtoolbox.com also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users sending messages with Archtoolbox.com's various contact forms. We only disclose logged in user and form-submitter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that logged in user and form-submitter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators and staff of Archtoolbox.com.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Archtoolbox.com websites choose to interact with Archtoolbox.com in ways that require us to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that is gathered depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask companies who sign up for a Manufacturer account to provide a number of pieces of information to help our website visitors get in contact with them. Those who engage in transactions with Archtoolbox.com – by purchasing products or business listings, for example – are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Archtoolbox.com collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Archtoolbox.com. Archtoolbox.com does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Archtoolbox.com discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Archtoolbox.com’s behalf or to provide services available at Archtoolbox.com’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Archtoolbox.com’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Archtoolbox.com will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Archtoolbox.com discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Archtoolbox.com believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Archtoolbox.com, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Archtoolbox.com website and/or have supplied your email address, Archtoolbox.com may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with our websites and our products. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Archtoolbox.com takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Archtoolbox.com uses cookies to help identify and track visitors, their usage of the website, and their website access preferences. Archtoolbox.com visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Archtoolbox.com’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of the websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

We use cookies in the following ways:

Google Analytics (third party): to understand how many people visit our site, where they come from, and what content they read.
Google Adsense (third party): to serve advertisements to visitors.
Mailchimp (third party): to manage our mailing list signup process.
Archtoolbox (first party): to allow users to log in to the website and maintain their settings.
AdThrive (third party): to serve advertisements to visitors. Read more about CafeMedia and AdThrives's cookies below.

Advertising

This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a CafeMedia (“CafeMedia”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and CafeMedia will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about CafeMedia’s data usage, click here: www.cafemedia.com/publisher-advertising-privacy-policy.