Privacy Policy

Version 2026-07-15 · Last updated July 15, 2026

PLACEHOLDER, PENDING LEGAL REVIEW. This page is a structural draft that reflects how the product actually handles data. The final binding wording must be prepared and approved by qualified counsel before launch.

1. What we collect

[Counsel to finalize. In substance: account details (name, email), and the material and labor pricing data you enter to build estimates.]

2. Your drawings stay on your device

Markup, measurement, takeoff, and on device AI estimating run locally. Your PDF drawings are processed on your own machine and are not uploaded to TRACEBUILD to run these features.

3. How we use pricing data (aggregation and anonymization)

With your permission (granted in the Terms of Service), TRACEBUILD aggregates and anonymizes the pricing figures you enter to build and improve a shared construction cost dataset. This is designed to protect you:

Your individual pricing is never shown to other users as yours.
A figure is only ever surfaced in aggregate, computed across many independent contributors, and only once enough distinct contributors exist that no single project can be reverse engineered from it (a minimum contributor threshold, that is, k anonymity).
You retain ownership of your own raw project data. TRACEBUILD owns only the aggregated, anonymized dataset and the indices derived from it.

4. Provenance

Every published figure carries a record of where its component facts came from (your aggregate contributions, public wage or index data, or a licensed feed served under a subscription). We never ingest an export of a licensed third party cost database.

5. Cookies and sessions

[Counsel to finalize. In substance: a single signed session cookie keeps you logged in. No third party advertising trackers.]

6. Data retention and your choices

[Counsel to finalize: retention periods, how to request access or deletion of your account data, and applicable regional rights.]

7. Contact

Privacy questions: hello@tracebuild.app.