Privacy Policy
About This Policy
Brazil Floors installs, refinishes and sells hardwood, vinyl and laminate flooring, and we bring samples to your home for free estimates. In this policy, "Brazil Floors," "we," "us" and "our" mean our company. "You" means anyone who visits our website, contacts us or hires us.
The policy covers information we collect online and offline, including through our website, phone calls, emails, text messages, estimate visits and the jobs we complete. It doesn't cover information about our own employees or job applicants.
Information We Collect
Here are the kinds of personal information we may collect, depending on how you work with us:
- Contact details: your name, phone number, email address and the address of the property where the work would take place.
- Project details: room measurements, flooring choices, colors you're considering, preferred dates, notes from your estimate and the scope of work you approve.
- Purchase records: estimates, invoices, payments received and warranty information for your job.
- Photos: pictures you send us of your rooms or floors, and photos our team takes on site to plan or document the work.
- Messages: the content of emails, texts and form submissions you send us.
- Device and usage data: your IP address, browser and device type, the pages you view on our site and how you arrived there.
We don't ask for your Social Security number. If you apply for financing, that application goes straight to the lender, and the lender's own privacy policy covers it.
Where It Comes From
- Directly from you when you fill out a form, call, email, text or meet with us.
- From your device automatically when you browse our website.
- From partners who help us with your project, such as a financing company letting us know your application was approved.
- From review and referral sites when you choose to contact us through them.
How We Use Your Information
- To answer questions, prepare estimates and schedule in home visits.
- To order materials, plan installation and complete the work you approve.
- To send confirmations, reminders and updates about your project by phone, email or text.
- To handle payments, warranty questions and follow up service.
- To ask for feedback or a review after your job, which you're always free to skip.
- To share offers or flooring tips by email, only if you haven't told us to stop.
- To understand how visitors use our website so we can improve it.
- To prevent fraud, keep our systems secure and meet our legal obligations.
How We Share Information
We don't sell your name, phone number, email or address to anyone, and we don't rent our customer list. We share information only in these situations:
- Our crews and installers who need your address and project details to do the work.
- Service providers that help us run the business, such as website hosting, scheduling, email, text messaging, payment processing, accounting and data storage. They may use your information only to provide their service to us.
- Financing partners if you choose to apply for a payment plan.
- Legal reasons when we're required to respond to a court order, subpoena or government request, or to protect our rights, our customers or the public.
- Business changes if Brazil Floors is ever sold or merged, in which case the new owner would have to keep honoring this policy.
Cookies and Similar Tools
Cookies are small files a website stores in your browser. Our site uses them for a few reasons:
- Essential cookies keep the site working, load pages correctly and protect forms from spam.
- Analytics cookies may count visits and show which pages people find useful. Tools like Google Analytics collect this data in a way that doesn't tell us who you are.
- Advertising cookies may be placed by ad platforms such as Google or Meta to measure our ads and show them to people who've visited our site.
You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. The site will still work, though some features may load more slowly. You can also limit interest based ads through the Digital Advertising Alliance at optout.aboutads.info.
Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
Browsers send "Do Not Track" signals in different ways, and there's no common standard, so our site doesn't respond to them. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, we treat it as a request to opt out of any ad related sharing from that browser.
Text Messages
When you share your mobile number and agree to receive texts from Brazil Floors, we use it only to communicate about your estimate, appointments and project. No mobile information will be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. Text messaging originator opt in data and consent will not be shared with any third parties. The only exception is the messaging provider that delivers our texts, which uses your number solely to send them.
Reply STOP to any text to opt out, or reply HELP for help. Message frequency varies, and message and data rates may apply. Our Terms of Use include the full SMS terms.
How Long We Keep It
We keep your information while we're working with you and afterward for as long as we reasonably need it for warranty service, tax and business records, or legal claims. When we no longer need it, we delete it or remove anything that could identify you. Copies in backups are erased on our normal backup schedule.
How We Protect It
We use reasonable safeguards, such as password protected accounts, limited access for staff and secure providers, to protect your information. No system is completely secure, so please never send card numbers, bank details or passwords by text or email.
Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live, privacy laws in states such as Connecticut, New Jersey and Rhode Island may give you the right to:
- Find out what personal information we have about you and get a copy of it.
- Ask us to correct information that's wrong.
- Ask us to delete your information, unless we need to keep it by law or for warranty work.
- Opt out of targeted advertising or any sale of personal information. We don't sell your information, but you can still ask us to stop ad related sharing.
- Appeal if we turn down your request.
We'll honor these requests for any customer, no matter which state you call home. To make a request, call 800-909-0730 or email sales@brazilfloors.com. We'll confirm your identity by matching at least two details you've given us before, and we'll answer within 45 days. If we need more time, we'll tell you why. If we decline a request, you can appeal by replying to our decision within 30 days, and we'll respond to the appeal within 45 days. You can also send a request through someone you authorize in writing. We'll never charge you more or treat you differently for using these rights.
Children's Privacy
Our website and services are meant for adults. We don't knowingly collect information from anyone under 18. If you believe a child has sent us personal information, contact us and we'll delete it.
Links to Other Websites
Our pages link to manufacturers, lenders, review sites and social media. Those sites have their own privacy policies, and we're not responsible for how they handle your information.
Accessibility
If you'd like this policy in another format, or you have trouble using any part of our site, call us and we'll help.
Updates to This Policy
We review this policy from time to time. When we change it, we'll update the date at the top of the page. If a change affects how we use information you've already given us, we'll post a clear notice on our website or email you.
Contact Us
Questions about your privacy? Reach our office at 800-909-0730 or write to sales@brazilfloors.com. A real person reads every message.