Privacy policy

Brar Homes Ltd. is a home builder in Calgary, Alberta. This policy covers this website, brarhomes.ca, and the enquiries that reach us through it. It does not cover other websites we link to, which have policies of their own.

We are a small company, so privacy questions go to the same place everything else does: brarhomesltd@gmail.com or (587) 224-5440. A real person reads both.

We collect three things, and only for the reasons given here. We do not ask you to create an account, and nothing on this site asks for financial details or identification numbers.

A cookie is a small file a website asks your browser to keep. This site does not set any. To understand how the site is being used, how many people visit, which pages they read, roughly which country they are in, and whether they arrived from a search engine or a link, it uses Cloudflare Web Analytics. That service is built not to use cookies or to store anything on your device, and it does not follow you from one website to another.

Cloudflare receives the technical details your browser sends with a page request, such as the page you opened, the site you came from, the type of browser and device, and the internet address of your device, which it uses to estimate your country. Cloudflare acts as our service provider here and may process that information on servers outside Canada. What we see are totals and trends. We do not build a profile of you, and we do not try to identify individual visitors from analytics.

If you would rather not be counted, a browser or extension that blocks trackers will stop it. Nothing on this site stops working if you do.

Apart from whatever the map below sets, this site does not put anything on your device. There is nothing to log in to and nothing we store to remember you between visits.

Our show home page includes a map from Google Maps, so that you can see where the house is before you drive out. When that part of the page loads, your browser contacts Google directly, and Google may set its own cookies and receive the internet address of your device. That happens under Google policies rather than ours.

The address is written out in plain text on the same page, so you never have to load the map to get it. If you would rather it did not load, blocking third-party cookies in your browser will usually stop it.

Some of what a privacy policy has to say is about what is absent, and on this site a good deal is absent.

The typefaces are served from this website rather than from a font service, so reading these pages does not report your visit to a font provider. The photographs and the video are hosted here too. There are no advertising pixels, no social media trackers, no chat widget, and no embedded content from anywhere except the map described above. We do not run advertising on this site, and we have not connected it to any advertising network.

Under Canadian federal law, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, and Alberta law, the Personal Information Protection Act, we need your consent to collect and use personal information. Most of the time that consent is plain from what you are doing. If you fill in the form to ask about a lot, you are asking us to call you back, and calling you back is what we do with it.

If we ever want to use your details for something you did not ask for, such as letting you know when a new phase is released, we will ask you first.

You can withdraw your consent whenever you like. Email us, or say so on the phone, and we will stop contacting you and remove your details. The only exception is anything the law requires us to keep, such as records tied to a contract we have signed with you.

We do not sell personal information. We do not rent it, trade it, or pass it to advertisers or list brokers. There is no arrangement of that kind behind this website and there never has been.

We share it only with the companies whose services this business runs on: the company that hosts this website and provides the analytics described above (Cloudflare), the service that delivers the enquiry form to us (Web3Forms), and our email provider. They may use what they see only to provide their service to us. Some of them store and process information outside Canada, which means it can be subject to the laws of the country it sits in, including lawful requests from authorities there.

Beyond that, we would disclose personal information only if the law required it of us, for example under a court order, or if it were needed to protect someone from harm.

We keep an enquiry only as long as we need it: long enough to answer you, long enough to carry on the conversation while you are deciding, and long enough afterwards to meet any legal, tax or warranty obligation that applies. When none of that is true any more, we delete it. Web3Forms, which delivers the form, keeps its own copy of each submission for up to 30 days and then removes it.

We have deliberately not written a fixed number of months here, because it would be a number we could not honestly stand behind for every kind of record. If you want your details removed sooner, ask us and we will do it.

Enquiries are delivered by Web3Forms into ordinary business email and are read by the people at Brar Homes who need to answer them. The site is served over an encrypted connection, so what you type into the form is encrypted on its way from your browser to the form service.

No system is perfect and we will not claim ours is. What we can say is that we collect very little, we keep it in few places, and we do not hold on to it once it has served its purpose, which is the most reliable protection there is.

You have the right to ask what personal information we hold about you, how we have used it, and who we have given it to. You also have the right to have anything inaccurate corrected.

Email brarhomesltd@gmail.com or call (587) 224-5440 and tell us what you would like. There is no charge for a straightforward request. We may ask you to confirm who you are before we hand anything over, which protects you more than it protects us.

We will respond within 30 days, and we will tell you if the law allows us longer and we need it. If there is something we cannot give you, for instance because it would reveal information about someone else, we will tell you that and explain why.

If you are unhappy with how we have handled your personal information or your request, tell us first. It is usually the fastest way to put something right, and we would rather hear it.

You do not need our agreement to take it further. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada oversees the federal law and accepts complaints at priv.gc.ca. Because we operate in Alberta, the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta oversees the provincial law and accepts complaints at oipc.ab.ca.

If we change what this site collects or how we use it, we will change this page and the date at the top of it. Where a change is significant and we have a way to reach you, we will tell you rather than waiting for you to notice.