Privacy Policy | Copyright Policy | Terms & Conditions
Who we are
With over 20 years of experience, Peninsula Publishing, Inc. has focused on the news about the U.S. homebuilder news industry. Through print and online media, Peninsula Publishing develops and operates six business-to-business publications (green home building, new homebuilding, residential construction, & more), industry websites (green homebuilding, new housing, affordable homes, & more) and weekly e-newsletters (homebuilding news and U.S. infrastructure news).
About Builder.Media
Builder.Media: The Business Management Tool for Homebuilding Professionals Builder and Developer magazine is a national homebuilder news trade magazine, with a focus on production housing. Readers include top industry executives; company presidents and CEOs; sales and marketing teams; architects, designers and engineers; and suppliers, manufacturers and distributors.
Builder.Media (parent company to Builder and Developer Magazine)
Thousands of readers access bdmag.com (Builder & Developer) for the latest editorials, up-to-date news, industry events and product & service information.
Copyright Policy
ALL digital publications and all of their contents are the copyright protected legal intellectual property of Builder Media.
None of the protected content of this publication may be copied, shared, forwarded, reposted, reformatted or in any way utilized for any purpose without the written permission of the Publisher, under penalty of suit as provided by U.S and International laws governing copyright.
All materials contained on this Web site (including text, content, photographs, video, and audio) are protected by United States copyright law and may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, displayed, published, broadcast, or modified in any way without the prior written consent from Builder.Media, or in the case of third party materials, the owner of that content. You may not alter or remove any trademark, copyright, or other notice from copies of this content. Notwithstanding the foregoing, you may download material from this Web site (one machine-readable copy and one print copy per page) for your own personal, noncommercial use only. For further information, please contact the publisher: nslevin@builder.media
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 the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site 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.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site 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
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
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
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
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
