Privacy Policy
Who we are
BuildRIQ (“we”) provides a mobile app for general contractors, subcontractors and their teams. This policy explains what the app collects and how it's used.
What we collect
Account details: name, company, email, phone, trades, service area and license number, and, if you sign in with Apple or Google, the account identifier and email address that provider shares with us (with Apple this can be a private relay address).
Content you add: projects, plans, photos, daily logs, schedules, tasks, bids, estimates, change orders, invoices, budgets, material lists, receipts, messages and signatures. Receipt photos and PDFs are kept with the details read from them (store, date, amounts, items and the last digits of a card if printed on the receipt).
Camera, photos and files: only the pictures and documents you choose to take or attach.
Microphone: if you use the talk-to-type button, Apple's speech recognition turns your speech into text (on the iPhone when it supports that). We receive only the text you save; we don't record or keep audio.
Location: the job addresses and service area you type in, used to match work, subcontractors and suppliers by area and to look up local prices. The app doesn't track your device's location.
Device and usage: push notification tokens, app version, and basic technical logs used to keep the service running and secure.
Information about businesses
To help you find subcontractors and suppliers, the app shows business information from public sources: state contractor license lists and Google business listings (name, address, phone, website, license and trade). Suppliers who answer a quote link you send give us their name, contact details and prices for that request. A business can ask us to correct or remove its listing at the contact below.
How we use it
To run the app: show your work to the people on your projects and team, notify subcontractors about bid requests in their trades and area, read the plans, proposals and receipts you choose to scan, look up material prices, send the notifications you've allowed, keep the service secure, and provide support. We don't sell your personal information, show ads, or track you across other companies' apps and websites.
Who sees it
People on the same project or team see what's shared there; budgets and receipts are limited to the people your company allows to see money. Subcontractors see a project's town (not the street address) and its plans when invited to bid. Clients see only what you share with them by link.
Service providers process data for us: Amazon Web Services (hosting, storage, sign-in and email), SendGrid (email), Apple (push notifications, Sign in with Apple and speech recognition), and Google (Sign in with Google; Google business listings; and Gemini AI, which reads the plans, proposals and receipts you choose to scan and searches the web for material prices, and returns the results). Under Google's paid-service terms, the content we send to Gemini isn't used to improve Google's products.
Keeping and deleting data
We keep your data while your account is open. Delete your account in Profile & settings and we remove your profile, devices, notifications and personal records, and revoke Sign in with Apple; business records on shared projects (such as change orders, logs and receipts already applied to a job) stay with those projects. Notifications are kept for 90 days.
Your choices
You can update your profile, turn off notifications, camera, photo and microphone access in iOS Settings, and request a copy or deletion of your data by writing to buildriq@gmail.com.
Children
The service is for businesses and isn't directed to children under 16.
Changes
We'll update this page and the effective date when the policy changes.
Contact
BuildRIQ LLC · buildriq@gmail.com