The Home Improvement Web Directory

This is the website of The Home Improvement Web. We can be reached via our contact form. For each visitor to our Web page, our Web server automatically recognizes no information regarding the domain or e-mail address. We collect no information on consumers who browse our Web page and only the necessary information provided by you in your inquiry about our services.

The information we collect is not shared with other organizations for commercial purposes and used to respond to your inquiry unless otherwise noted.

With respect to cookies: we do not use cookies although directory listings may use cookies. You should know that third parties may be placing and reading cookies on your browser, or using web beacons to collect information, in the course of ads being served from this site.

Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve contextual ads to the user  on our site.

Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve contextual ads to our users based on their visit to our site and other sites on the Internet.

Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html.

With this browser plugin you can permanently opt out of the DoubleClick cookie, which is an advertising cookie that Google uses. You can download it at http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/plugin/

From time to time we may send you a email to alert you to special promotion items we think may be of interest to you. If you do not want to receive e-mail from us in the future, please let us know contacting us via our contact form.

If you supply us with your postal address on-line you may receive periodic mailings from us with information on new products and services or upcoming events. If you do not wish to receive such mailings, please let us know by e-mailing us at the above address. We do not share this, or any other information collected from you with outside companies. Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers on-line will only receive telephone contact from us with information regarding inquiry's they have placed on-line.

From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will contact you before we use your data for these new purposes to notify you of the policy change and to provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses, we will post the policy changes to our website to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our website periodically.

Upon request we provide site customers with access to all information [including proprietary information] that we maintain about them, transaction information (e.g., dates on which customers made purchases, amounts and types of purchases) that we maintain about them, communications that the consumer/visitor has directed to our site (e.g., e-mails, customer inquiries), contact information (e.g., name, address, phone number) that we maintain about them , a description of information that we maintain about them. Customers can access this information by e-mailing us at the above address. Upon request we offer customers the ability to have inaccuracies corrected in contact information, transaction information, communications that the consumer/visitor has directed to the site. Customers can have this information corrected by contacting us via our contact form.

With respect to security: We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site. If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us at the above email address, The DMA's Committee on Ethical Business Practices at mgoldberger@the-dma.org.