Privacy Policy

Last Modified: December 21, 2023

The Vitruvius Project, Inc. (“we,” “us,” or “Company”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this Privacy Policy (this “Policy”).

This Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website https://strucalc.com/ (our “Website”) including when you download, install, register with, access, or otherwise use (collectively, “interact”) our StruCalc Software (the “Software”), the usage of which is subject to the End User License Agreement at https://strucalc.com/eula and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. Our Website and Software are collectively referred to herein as our “Services”.

This policy applies to information we collect:

• On our Website.
• In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and us.
• When you interact with the Software, which provides [some] dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and our Website.
• When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.

It does not apply to information collected by:

• Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party (including our affiliates); or
• Any third party (including our affiliates), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through our Services (such as for example, the data a third party may collect when you click on a hyperlink on our Services if that hyperlink takes you outside of our Services).

Please read this Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Services. By accessing or using our Website or our Software, you agree to this Policy. This Policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of our Services after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check this Policy periodically for updates.

Children Under the Age of 18

Our Services are not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 is permitted to provide any information to or on our Services. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on our Website. Do not, through any of its features, register on our Website, make any purchases through our Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at support @ strucalc.com.

Information We Collect & and How We Collect It

We collect information from and about users of our Services:

• Directly from you when you provide it to us.
• Automatically from you when you use our Services, such as, for example, your device’s operating system and other usage details (see Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies).
• From third parties, for example, our business partners and affiliates.

This information includes:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on or through our Services or contacting us through our Services. This includes information provided at the time of registering with or logging in to our Services, purchasing products, requesting further information or services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Services.
• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses and phone numbers), if you contact us.
• Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
• Details of your transactions with us that you carry out on or through our Website, and the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Services, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

• Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on our Website.
• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your Internet Protocol (“IP”), operating system, and browser type.

We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). See Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information for information on mechanisms that enable consumers to exercise choice about behavioral tracking.

The information we collect automatically may include personal information, or we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. The information we collect helps us to improve our Services and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
• Speed up your searches.
• Recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
• Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us to, for example, count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain content and verifying system and server integrity).
• Click Tracking. Click tracking is an analytical feature that measures and reports where users click or tap on our Website. Every time you click on our Website, we record the event and log your user session for future analysis. We use this information only to improve our services. Click tracking only collects the IP address assigned to you on the date when you visit our Services, rather than your name or other identifying information.
• Analytics. We collect analytics information from our web services provider and various third-party service providers. We use the information we get from analytics to improve our Website, marketing, and advertising. For example, we use “Google Analytics” to collect information about use of our Website and to remarket our products and services to users. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit our Website, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to our Website. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit our Website, rather than your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit our Website, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by Google Analytics’ Terms of Use and Google’s Privacy Policy. For more information on how to opt-out of Google Analytics, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

Sharing Information with Facebook and Google

In our efforts to provide a more tailored and effective service, we may share certain personal information with Facebook and Google. This includes, but is not limited to:

Data for Advertising: We may share information about your interactions with our Services, such as browsing behavior and purchase history, with Facebook and Google to provide you with targeted advertising on their platforms. Analytics and Measurement: We use tools like Facebook Insights and Google Analytics to understand how users engage with our Services. This involves sharing information about your usage of our Services with these platforms. Improving Service Functionality: Information shared with Google and Facebook helps us optimize the functionality and user experience of our Services.

Both Facebook and Google process this information under their respective privacy policies. We do not control their data practices and recommend that you review their policies for more information.

Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

When you click a third-party link, the result may take you outside of our Services in which case these third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

• To present our Services and their contents to you.
• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
• To notify you about changes to our Services or any products or services we offer or provide through them.
• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
• For any other purpose with your consent.
• To provide you with notices about your account/subscription, including expiration and renewal notices.

We may also use your information to contact you about our own and/or our affiliates’ goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this Policy:

• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business, including but not limited to:
  • Our Website creator.
  • Email service provider.
  • Internet service providers.
  • Hosting service providers.
  • Domain name service provider.
  • Data analytics providers and Internet cookie data recipients, like Google Analytics.
  • Operation systems and platforms.
  • Transaction processors.
• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Company’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by the Company about our Service users is among the assets transferred.
• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
• For another purpose, with your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including responding to government or regulatory requests.
• To enforce or apply our Software’s End User License Agreement https://strucalc.com/eula, and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our customers, or others.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

• Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of our Website may then be inaccessible or not function properly. Other ways to opt-out of specific data collection technologies that we utilize include:
  • Google Analytics. Google has a browser add-on for opting out of Google Analytics which can be found here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
• Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your email address/contact information used by us to promote our own or our affiliates’ products or services, you can opt-out by sending us an email stating your request to support @ strucalc.com. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may click unsubscribe in the email or send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions. This opt out does not apply to information provided to us as a result of a product purchase, use of our Software, a product service experience, or other transaction. We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website at https://thenai.org/opt-out/.

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page. You may also send us an email at support @ strucalc.com to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

Residents of certain states, such as California, Nevada, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, and Utah may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your State Privacy Rights for more information.

Your State Privacy Rights

State consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their personal information. For example, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, and Utah each provide their state residents with, among others, rights to access and delete certain personal information, and to receive personal data that they have provided in a structured, commonly used and machine readable format. California, Colorado, Connecticut, and Virginia also provide their state residents with, among others, rights to correct inaccuracies in their personal information, taking into account the information’s nature and processing purpose.

To exercise any of your state-specific rights, or to appeal a decision regarding a specific consumer rights request, please send us an email at support @ strucalc.com. Please know that we do not currently trigger many state-specific privacy rights. We do not sell your personal information, nor do we process it for targeted advertising or profiling.

Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to or from our Services. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained within our Services.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where you have a password for access to certain parts of our Services, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to this Policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by sending you a message to your account. The date this Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you (if you have an account with us), and for periodically visiting our Website and this Policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Policy, or need to access this Policy in an alternative format due to having a disability, please email us at support @ strucalc.com.