Privacy Policy

How Drake Contracting, Inc. Collects, uses, and protects your information.

Effective Date: May 11, 2026 | Last Updated: October 18, 2026

1. Introduction

Drake Contracting ("Drake," "we," "our," or "us") respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, share, and protect personal information when you visit our website at drakecontracting.com (the "Site"), submit a contact form, request a quote or project consultation, apply for employment, or otherwise interact with us by phone, email, or in person.

We are a commercial general contractor serving clients primarily in the business-to-business space. This policy is written with reference to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (collectively, "CCPA/CPRA"). Even where statutory exemptions may apply, we provide California residents with the privacy choices described below as a matter of transparency and good business practice.

2. California Notice at Collection

The following summary describes the categories of personal information we may collect, the purposes, whether each category is sold or shared, and how long it is retained. Full details appear in the sections that follow.

Identifiers (name, email, phone, address, IP, device IDs)

Purpose: respond to project inquiries, contact, employment applications, and operational communications.
Sold or shared? Not currently sold or shared for cross-context behavioral advertising. See Section 8.
Retention: see Retention section.

Project and business information

Purpose: prepare estimates, bid on projects, manage construction work.
Sold or shared? Not sold. Shared with subcontractors and project partners as needed to deliver projects.
Retention: project files retained for typical construction industry recordkeeping periods.

Employment application information (resume, work history, references)

Purpose: evaluate candidates for open positions.
Sold or shared? Not sold or shared outside the hiring process.
Retention: 7 years after the application or the hiring decision, whichever is later (see Section 10).

Internet or network activity (pages requested, server logs)

Purpose: run and secure the Site. We do not use analytics or advertising tools on the Site, and the Site sets no cookies.
Sold or shared? Not sold or shared.
Retention: see Section 10.

3. Categories of Personal Information We Collect

In the past 12 months, we have collected the following categories of personal information defined by California law:

Identifiers: name, email address, phone number, business name, mailing or job site address, IP address, online identifiers.
Professional or employment information: job history, references, resume content, and related employment application materials.
Commercial information: project inquiry details, scope of work, budget ranges, and project timelines.
Internet or network activity: pages requested on our Site and the technical details in server logs. Before we removed Google Analytics and our cookie consent manager, this also included pages viewed, referring URLs, interaction with our content, and information collected through cookies.
Geolocation data: approximate location derived from IP address.

4. Sensitive Personal Information

We do not intentionally request Sensitive Personal Information through the Site. If our practices change, we will update this policy and offer the Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information.

5. Categories of Sources

Directly from you when you submit a contact form, request a quote, apply for employment, contact us by phone or email, or interact with us in person. Our website contact forms use your device's email client to send the contents directly to us; no third-party form-handling service stores submissions on our behalf.
Automatically from your device and browser when you visit the Site, through server logs, and before we removed them, through Google Analytics and our cookie consent manager.
From our service providers.
From business partners, subcontractors, vendors, and references in the course of operating projects.

6. Business and Commercial Purposes for Collection

We use personal information to:

Respond to inquiries about projects, quotes, and consultations.
Manage construction projects, including communicating with clients, subcontractors, vendors, and partners.
Evaluate employment applications and conduct hiring.
Send occasional communications about Drake Contracting where you have opted in.
Improve our Site and services.
Detect and prevent fraud and protect Site security.
Comply with legal, tax, contracting, and licensing obligations.

7. Service Providers and Contractors

We disclose personal information to service providers and contractors who process information on our behalf and only for the purposes we direct. The list below is representative and not exhaustive. We may add, change, or replace providers from time to time, provided the new provider serves an equivalent purpose under similar confidentiality and security obligations. Examples of categories and current providers include:

Website hosting providers.
Osano, the cookie consent manager our Site used until October 2026, which keeps the records of cookie choices visitors made while it ran.
Email and communications platforms used to respond to inquiries and manage projects.
Google, which keeps the Google Analytics data collected before we removed it from the Site.
Project management, accounting, and operational software platforms used to run the business.

8. Third Parties and Advertising

We do not use Google Analytics or any other analytics or advertising service on our Site. We used Google Analytics 4 in the past. It set cookies holding a random identifier for that browser and recorded how the Site was used, such as the pages viewed, approximate location, and device and browser type. Google keeps that earlier data as described in Section 10.

We do not currently sell personal information for monetary consideration. We do not currently run paid advertising campaigns that build remarketing audiences from our website visitors. If we engage in cross-context behavioral advertising or build remarketing audiences in the future, we will:

Update this Privacy Policy to reflect that activity.
Add a cookie consent banner first, and load any such tracking only after a visitor opts in.
Provide a clearly labeled "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" opt-out link in our website footer.
Honor Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals as automatic opt-out requests.

We may share information with subcontractors, project partners, vendors, professional advisors (accountants, attorneys), and government or licensing authorities when required by law, by subpoena or court order, or to protect our legal rights. We may also share information with successor entities in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of assets.

9. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Our Site sets no cookies. It runs no analytics, advertising, pixel, session-replay, or chat tools, and it shows no cookie consent banner because nothing on it needs your consent. Our typefaces are served from our own server, and no other company’s content loads on our pages.

Server logs. When your browser requests a page, our hosting provider’s servers record technical information automatically. Standard server logs can include the IP address making the request, the page requested, the time, and the browser’s user-agent string. These logs keep the Site running and secure, and we keep them as described in Section 10.

Google Maps link. Our contact page links to our office location on Google Maps. Nothing from Google loads on our pages. If you click the link, Google Maps opens in a new tab on Google’s site, and Google’s privacy policy applies there.

Earlier cookies. Until October 2026 our Site used the Osano cookie consent manager, which stored your cookie choices in a cookie. The Site no longer sets that cookie. If your browser kept one from an earlier visit, clearing this site’s data in your browser removes it.

Do Not Track. Some browsers send a “Do Not Track” signal. Our Site does not change its behavior in response to it, because it runs no tracking for the signal to turn off. The server logs described above still apply.

Display preferences. The display preferences button on each page lets you change text size, switch to a dark appearance, or stop site animations. If you change a setting, your browser saves it in its local storage on this device so it applies on later pages. This is not a cookie, and the setting is never sent to us or to anyone else. Use Reset preferences in that panel, or clear this site’s data in your browser, to remove it.

10. Retention

We retain personal information only as long as needed for the purposes described in this policy, to comply with legal and business recordkeeping obligations, and to resolve disputes. Typical retention periods:

Project inquiry records: 7 years after the inquiry, longer if a project is awarded.
Project files: retained per construction industry recordkeeping practice, typically the term of the contract plus applicable statute of repose.
Employment applications: 7 years after the application or the hiring decision, whichever is later.
Communications records: as needed for business operations and legal compliance.
Site analytics collected before we removed Google Analytics: Google keeps data tied to a browser’s random identifier for up to 14 months. Summary reports that do not identify a browser are kept longer.
Server logs and security data: up to 12 months.

11. Your California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, you have the following rights under CCPA/CPRA:

Right to Know: request that we disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, the sources, the purposes, and the categories of third parties with whom we have shared the information.
Right to Delete: request that we delete personal information we have collected from you, subject to legal exceptions.
Right to Correct: request that we correct inaccurate personal information we hold about you.
Right to Opt Out of Sale or Sharing: direct us not to sell or share your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. As noted above, we do not currently engage in such activity.
Right to Data Portability: receive a copy of your personal information in a portable format.
Right to Non-Discrimination: we will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights.

12. How to Submit a Request

Email: steve@drakecontracting.com
Phone: (559) 297-8450
Mail: Drake Contracting, 850 San Jose Ave, Clovis, CA 93612

We will verify your identity before responding to a request involving specific personal information. We will respond to verifiable requests within 45 days. If we need more time, we will notify you and may extend by an additional 45 days as permitted by law.

Authorized agents: you may designate an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf. We will require the agent to provide written, signed authorization from you and verify your identity directly.

13. Children's Privacy

Our Site is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, contact us and we will delete it.

14. Data Security

We implement reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect personal information. No method of transmission or storage is fully secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security. Notify us immediately if you suspect a security issue with your information.

15. Links to Third-Party Sites

Our Site may link to third-party websites and services. Their privacy practices are governed by their own privacy policies, not ours.

16. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post the updated version on this page with a revised Last Updated date. Material changes will be communicated by a notice on our Site or by email where appropriate.

17. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices:

Drake Contracting
850 San Jose Ave
Clovis, CA 93612
Phone: (559) 297-8450
Email: steve@drakecontracting.com

California residents may opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. As stated in Section 8, we do not currently sell or share personal information for these purposes, so there is nothing to opt out of and no opt-out control on our Site. Some browsers send a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal, which is a request not to sell or share. Because we do neither, that request is already met on our Site. If we engage in such activity in the future, we will update this policy first, add a clearly labeled opt-out link to our website footer, and honor GPC signals as opt-out requests for the browser or device sending the signal.