This Privacy Policy describes how Spire Builds ("we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, and shares your personal information when you visit our website at www.spirebuilds.com.

1. Information We Collect

We do not require user accounts, payments, or personal profiles. However, like most websites, we automatically collect certain information when you visit:

  • Log data: Your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages visited, and timestamps. This is processed by our hosting provider for security and reliability.
  • Cookies and similar technologies: We use cookies to analyze traffic, improve user experience, and, after advertising is enabled, serve advertisements through third-party partners. Advertising services may also process IP addresses, web beacons, and device or browser identifiers.
  • Analytics data: We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors interact with our site. Google Analytics collects information such as your device type, browser, and browsing behavior.
  • Email feedback: The feedback form prepares a message in your own email application. The website does not store the form fields. We receive the message only after you choose to send the email.
  • Saved guides:Your optional reading list is stored in your browser's local storage. It is not sent to Spire Builds and does not sync between devices.

2. How We Use Your Information

  • To operate, maintain, and improve our website and content
  • To analyze traffic patterns and user engagement
  • To serve advertisements through Google AdSense after advertising is enabled
  • To respond to corrections, guide requests, partnership inquiries, and other feedback
  • To detect and prevent fraud, abuse, or security issues
  • To comply with legal obligations

3. Cookies and Advertising

If advertising is enabled, Google and other vendors may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, and other identifiers to serve, measure, and protect ads. Personalized advertising is used only where the required consent has been collected.

You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings or About Ads.

Google Analytics loads by default unless you have selected "Turn off analytics". It may collect visit information and set analytics cookies before you choose. An existing saved refusal remains in effect. You can stop further analytics collection or re-enable it at any time with the Privacy choices button in the site footer. Turning it off does not erase data already sent to Google. If your browser blocks access to saved choices, analytics stays off until you explicitly enable it for that page session. Advertising is currently disabled.

Learn more about how Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.

4. Third-Party Services

We rely on the following third-party services:

  • Vercel: Our hosting provider. Vercel processes server logs and may store data in the United States.
  • Google Analytics:Traffic analysis. Data is processed under Google's privacy policy.
  • Google AdSense: Advertising, if enabled. Google may use cookies and other identifiers for ad delivery, measurement, fraud prevention, and personalization where permitted.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party services. We encourage you to review their privacy policies.

5. Your Rights

Depending on your location, you may have rights regarding your personal data under laws such as the GDPR (European Union) and CCPA/CPRA (California).

  • GDPR Rights (EU/EEA): You have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict processing, data portability, and object to processing of your personal data. To exercise these rights, contact us at the email below.
  • CCPA/CPRA Rights (California): California residents have the right to know what personal information is collected, the right to delete personal information, the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information, and the right to non-discrimination for exercising privacy rights.

We do not sell your personal information in the conventional sense. However, the use of cookies for personalized advertising may be considered a "sale" or "sharing" under California law. You can opt out by using the applicable advertising opt-out controls if advertising is enabled in the future. The current "Turn off analytics" button controls Google Analytics, not a separate advertising consent service.

6. Data Retention and Security

We retain log data and analytics information only as long as needed for the purposes described here and according to the active retention settings of our service providers. We implement reasonable security measures to protect your information, but no internet transmission is completely secure.

7. Children's Privacy

Our website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe we have collected information from a child under 13, please contact us immediately.

8. International Data Transfers

Our website is hosted in the United States. If you are accessing our site from outside the United States, your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States or other jurisdictions where our service providers operate.

9. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post the updated version on this page with a revised "Last updated" date. Continued use of the site after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

10. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise your rights, please contact us at shane768777@gmail.com.