Declarations
This Privacy Policy is for the website named HVACR Toolkit located online at the following URL: http://www.hvacrtk.com, https://hvacrtk.com
This Privacy Policy must be agreed to upon: visiting this website, when registering and creating an online account with this website. Other conditions may require agreement, when warranted.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to this website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to this website can download and extract any location data from images on the website. Also, do not upload any images or videos that are copyright protected.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our website – you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
If you do not agree with any of these cookies being saved to your device – please open your browser or device settings and delete any cookies related to our website.
Embedded content from other websites
Suggested text: Articles on this website may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
Suggested text: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
Suggested text: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
Suggested text: If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Suggested text: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
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United States & Canadian Regional
Privacy Policy/Notice
Effective January 1, 2025
This United States & Canadian Regional Privacy Policy/Notice (“Notice”) (“Policy”) is for people living in the United States and Canada. This notice is for our website, mobile applications and all other platforms used to access our products and services.
This notice explains how we, HVACR Toolkit, collect, use, and disclose your Personal Information.
It also describes how to exercise your rights under applicable U.S. and Canadian privacy laws. When we say “Personal Information” in this Notice, we mean information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked with you, directly or indirectly. Personal Information does not include information that cannot be reasonably linked to you. When data is deidentified (as defined under applicable U.S. privacy laws), we maintain it in deidentified form and do not attempt to reidentify the information.
This Privacy Policy must be accepted to in order to use our website, products and services.
Who are we?
Our website address is: https://www.hvacrtk.com or https://hvacrtk.com.
How we collect, use, and disclose Personal Information
To provide the products or features offered by HVACR Toolkit, we process information about you, including Personal Information, whether or not you have an account or are logged in. The best way to learn about the types of information we collect and how we use them is to review the terms of service and the privacy policies of our products. Subject to the limitations we describe in our privacy policies, we may disclose your Personal Information for business purposes, with strict restrictions on how our partners can use and disclose the data we provide. We may also disclose it at your direction or in other ways that are in accordance with applicable U.S. privacy laws. We don’t “share” your Personal Information, as defined in the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). We also don’t sell any of your Personal Information, and we never will. The information we collect, use and disclose about you will vary depending on how you interact with HVACR Toolkit and our website, products and services. For the products covered by this Notice, here’s a summary of:
The categories of Personal Information we may have collected about you over the past 12 months.
How we may use your Personal Information.
To whom we may have disclosed that information.
Categories of Personal Information we collect may include:
Identifiers.
Characteristics of protected classifications.
Commercial information.
Photos and videos – which may include face imagery.
Internet or other electronic network activity information, including browser and app logs, content you view or engage with, and app, browser and device information.
Location-related information.
Audio or visual information, including photos, videos, and voice recordings.
Professional or employment information.
Education information.
Information derived from other Personal Information about you, which could include your preferences, interests, and other information used to personalize your experience.
Other information you provide.
We may also collect sensitive personal information (as defined by applicable U.S. privacy laws), which may include:
Social security, driver’s license, state identification card or passport number.
Precise geolocation.
Information about your racial or ethnic origin or religious views or union membership.
The content of messages you send and receive, which are considered sensitive personal information under CCPA.
Information about your sexual orientation.
Information about your health.
Information about your citizenship, immigration status or national origin.
Information about your status as transgender or non-binary.
Face imagery or voice recordings which may be used to identify you when you use relevant features.
Examples of how Personal Information may be used include:
Providing, personalizing, and improving our products, including to show you ads.
Providing measurement, analytics, and other business services.
Promoting safety, integrity, and security.
Providing marketing communications to you.
Communicating with you.
Researching and innovating for social good.
For categories of sensitive personal information that we collect, we will only use or disclose it either with your specific consent when required, or as otherwise permitted by law, including the CCPA.
Parties with whom each category of Personal Information may be disclosed include:
People and accounts you share and communicate with.
People and accounts with which others share or reshare content about you.
If you’re connected to a supervised account user, parents or guardians of the supervised account users who you are connected to.
Apps, websites, and third-party integrations on or using our products.
New owners in the event of a change of ownership or control of all or part of our products or their assets changes.
Partners, including partners offering goods and services on our products, as explained in our Privacy Policy.
Vendors, including measurement and marketing vendors.
Service providers.
Third parties, including external researchers and academics.
Law enforcement or other third parties in connection with legal requests, to comply with applicable law or to prevent harm.
Sources of Personal Information
Depending on how you interact with HVACR Toolkit, and our website, products and services, the categories of sources from which we’ve collected Personal Information about you may include:
You: We receive Personal Information from the information that you provide. For example, we collect the content, communications, and other information you provide when you use our products, including when you sign up for an account, create or share content, and message or communicate with others. We collect information about the people, pages, accounts, hashtags, metadata and groups you are connected to, and how you interact with them across our products, such as the people you communicate with the most or the groups you are part of. We also collect information about how you use our products, including ads we serve on and off our products, such as the types of content you view or engage with, the features you use, the actions you take, the people or accounts you interact with, and the time, frequency, and duration of your activities.
Other people: We may also receive and analyze content, communications, and information about you that other people provide when they use our products, such as when others share or comment on a photo of you, send a message to you, or upload, sync, or import your contact information.
Your device(s): We collect information from and about the computers, phones, connected TVs, and other web-connected devices you use that integrate with our products, and we combine this information across different devices you use.
HVACR Toolkit: We receive information from others according to their terms and policies and as permitted by applicable law. In some cases, we act as a service provider for other HVACR Toolkit companies, and act on their behalf and in accordance with their instructions and terms.
Partners, vendors and third parties: Advertisers, app developers, and publishers and other partners can send us information for business purposes including through the plugins and scripts they use, our social plugins (such as the Like button), HVACR Toolkit Login, our APIs and SDKs, or other products or services. These partners provide information about your activities on and off our products—including information about your device, websites you visit, apps you use, games you play, and purchases you make. We also receive information about your online and offline actions, and purchases from third-party data providers who have the rights to provide us with your information. These partners collect your information when you visit their websites or use their services or through third parties they work with. We require each of these partners to have rights to collect, use, and disclose your information before providing any information to us. We also obtain information from publicly available sources, research institutions and professional and non-profit groups, including companies or organizations that provide content including videos, photos, or audio.
How long do we keep your Personal Information?
We keep Personal Information, including sensitive Personal Information, as long as we need it to provide our products, comply with legal obligations or protect our or other’s interests. We decide how long we need information on a case-by-case basis.
Here’s what we consider when we decide:
If we need it to operate or provide our products.
The feature we use it for, and how that feature works.
How long we need to retain the information to comply with certain legal obligations.
If we need it for other legitimate purposes, such as to prevent harm; investigate possible violations of our terms or policies; promote safety, security and integrity; or protect ourselves, including our rights, property or products.
How can you exercise your rights provided under applicable privacy laws?
Depending on where you live and subject to certain exceptions, you may have some or all of the following rights:
Right to Know: The right to request that we disclose to you the Personal Information we collect, use, or disclose, and information about our data practices.
Right to Request Correction: The right to request that we correct inaccurate Personal Information that we maintain about you.
Right to Request Deletion: The right to request that we delete your Personal Information that we have collected from or about you.
Right to Opt Out of Targeted Advertising: The right to opt out of the processing of your Personal Information for purposes that may be considered “targeted advertising” under applicable U.S. privacy laws, including information obtained from your activities on nonaffiliated websites or online applications.
Right to Non-Discrimination: The right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your privacy rights.
To submit a request to exercise your rights, and as applicable, to appeal a consumer rights action, please contact us through our contact page.
Here’s how you can exercise the right to opt out of targeted advertising:
For ads you see through Advanced Computer Services products or services, log in and visit your profile page on our website.
If you do not have an account, you can use the Digital Advertising Alliance and/or the NAI industry opt-out platforms, along with your mobile device advertising settings offered by the device manufacturer. Certain ad blockers and tools to restrict cookies can interfere with your ability to opt out through the industry opt out platforms. Different device manufacturers provide different ways to opt out. Depending on where you live, you may have the right to opt out of targeted advertising through a Global Privacy Control (GPC) enabled browser setting. If you have this right, when you visit and log in to our websites in a GPC-enabled browser, we will treat our initial receipt of the GPC signal as a valid request to opt-out of targeted advertising, as defined by applicable U.S. privacy laws granting this right. Please note that if you are logged out, our processing of the signal will be limited to the specific browser that you are using. You may need to renew your opt‑out choice if you use a different browser to access our websites. Other than GPC, we do not recognize any “do not track” signals.
Please note that to protect your information and the integrity of our products, we may need to verify your identity before processing your request. In some cases, we may need to collect additional information to verify your identity, such as a government issued ID. Under certain U.S. privacy laws, you may also designate an authorized agent to make these requests on your behalf. If you use an authorized agent to submit a request, we may need to collect additional information, such as a government issued ID, to verify your identity before processing your request to protect your information. In most cases, we will facilitate your request through automated tools available through your password-protected account.
Contact us for more information.
If you have additional questions about this Notice or how to exercise your rights under applicable U.S. privacy laws, please contact us.
What if the information we collect doesn’t identify individuals?
In some cases information is de-identified, aggregated, or anonymized by third parties so that it no longer identifies individuals before it’s made available to us. We use this information as described below without trying to re-identify individuals.
Cookies and how we use them.
Cookies are small pieces of text used to store information on web browsers. Cookies are used to store and receive identifiers and other information on computers, phones and other devices. Other technologies, including data that we store on your web browser or device, identifiers associated with your device and other software, are used for similar purposes. In this policy, we refer to all of these technologies as “cookies”. We use cookies if you have an account with us, including our website and apps, or visit other websites and apps that use our plugins or services (including the Like button). Cookies enable Advanced Computer Services to offer the products and services to you and to understand the information that we receive about you, including information about your use of other websites and apps, whether or not you are registered or logged in.
This policy explains how we use cookies and the choices you have. Except as otherwise stated in this policy, the Privacy Policy will apply to our processing of the data that we collect via cookies.
Cookies help us provide, protect and improve our products and services, such as by personalising content, tailoring and measuring ads, and providing a safer experience. The cookies that we use include session cookies, which are deleted when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay in your browser until they expire or you delete them. The cookies we use and how we use them may change over time as we improve and update products and services, we typically use them for the following purposes:
Authentication – We use cookies to verify your account and determine when you’re logged in so that we can make it easier for you to access our products and services and show you the appropriate experience and features.
Security, site and product integrity – We use cookies to help us keep your account, data and the products and services we offer, safe and secure. For example: Cookies can help us identify and impose additional security measures when someone may be attempting to access your account without authorization, for instance, by rapidly guessing different passwords. We also use cookies to store information that allows us to recover your account in the event that you forget your password or to require additional authentication if you tell us that your account has been hacked. This includes, for example, our “acsb” and “acsdbln” cookies, which enable us to identify your browser securely, as well as “acsdatr.” “Acsdatr” is a unique identifier for your browser that, amongst other things, helps us protect you from fraud. For example, it helps us identify trusted browsers where you have logged in before. “Acsdatr” has a lifespan of 365 days.
Advertising, recommendations, insights and measurement – We use cookies to help us show ads and to make recommendations for businesses and other organisations to people who may be interested in the products, services or causes they promote. For example: Cookies allow us to help deliver ads to people who have previously visited a business’s website, purchased its products or used its apps and to recommend products and services based on that activity. Cookies also allow us to limit the number of times that you see an ad so you don’t see the same ad over and over again. For example, the “acsfr” cookie is used to deliver, measure and improve the relevancy of ads, with a lifespan of 60 days.
Site features and services – We use cookies to enable the functionality that helps us provide the products and services we offer. For example: Cookies help us store preferences, know when you’ve seen or interacted with product and service content and provide you with customized content and experiences. For instance, cookies allow us to make suggestions to you and others, and to customise content on third-party sites that integrate our social plugins. We use cookies such as the session-based “presence” cookie to support your use of chatrooms and forums. We also use cookies to help provide you with content relevant to your locale. For example: We store information in a cookie that is placed on your browser or device so that you will see the site in your preferred language.
Analytics and research – We use cookies to better understand how people use our products and services so that we can improve them. For example: Cookies can help us understand how people use our products and services, analyse which parts of our products and services people find most useful and engaging, and identify features that could be improved.
Third-party websites and apps – Our business partners may also choose to share information with Advanced Computer Services from cookies set in their own websites’ domains, whether or not you have an account with us or are logged in. Additional – We also use cookies to combat activity that violates our policies or otherwise degrades our ability to provide the our products and services. For example: Cookies help us fight spam and phishing attacks by enabling us to identify computers that are used to create large numbers of fake accounts. We also use cookies to detect computers infected with malware and to take steps to prevent them from causing further harm. Our “csrf” cookie, for example, helps us prevent cross-site request forgery attacks. The “acsdatr” cookie also helps us to identify the browsers used by malicious actors and to prevent cyber-security attacks, such as a denial of service attack that could prevent you from accessing the our products and services.
Access and Availability
We tailor our products and services to the United States and Canada. If you are not located in one of regions, you must request special access.
Cookies are required to use our products and services.