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(a) Website Owner
PARAGON HOMES (“PARAGON HOMES”) is the owner of this PARAGON HOMES website www.paragonhomesfm.com (โWebsiteโ). PARAGON HOMES can be contacted by mail at 1153 4th Ave S, Moorhead, MN 56560, by phone at (701) 371-8791, or by email at mark@paragonhomesfm.com. This online privacy notice discloses PARAGON HOMESโ information practices for this PARAGON HOMES Website, including what type of personal identifiable information is requested in order to make an appointment request or inquiry, how the information is used, and with whom the information is shared.
(b) Website Visits
In general, you can visit the PARAGON HOMES Website without disclosing or revealing any personal information. PARAGON HOMES does not keep track of the domains from which people visit us.
(c) Website Transactions
Currently, PARAGON HOMES collects personal information such as name, email address, physical address, and phone number on its website through the “Contact Us” feature and estimate request forms. PARAGON HOMES may adapt its website in the future to capture additional personal information regarding a customer or a prospect. For example, to process a design request or schedule a consultation, PARAGON HOMES may need to know a customer’s name, mailing address, e-mail address, and other relevant details. It is PARAGON HOMES’ intent to inform you before we collect personal information, such as user’s name and/or address on the Internet. If you tell us that you do not wish to have this information used as a basis for further contact with you, PARAGON HOMES will respect your wishes.
(d) Terms
All terms, including headings and bold terms, shall have their ordinary meaning unless otherwise defined in this document. The definition in this document shall prevail in all instances.
2. Personal Information That May Be Collected
(a) Identifying Information
This section includes current data collection and PARAGON HOMES adapting its website data collection to supplement the current use. In order to complete the ‘Contact us’ section or to make a service request online, PARAGON HOMES may request a user to provide certain personal identifying information, which may include: name, postal address, e-mail address, screen name, password, daytime telephone number, facsimile number, and method of payment. PARAGON HOMES may request additional information necessary to establish and maintain a customer’s account.
(b) Service Quality Monitoring
Some Website transactions may require a customer to telephone PARAGON HOMES, or PARAGON HOMES to call the customer. PARAGON HOMES will not contact you by telephone without your prior consent, except to confirm an appointment made online and/or to inform a customer of the status of such request. Customer should be aware that it is PARAGON HOMES’ practice to monitor, and in some cases record such calls for staff training or quality assurance purposes.
(c) Information from Children
PARAGON HOMES does not sell products or services for purchase by children, and will not collect or post information from a child under the age of 18 without the involvement of a parent or guardian. Should PARAGON HOMES become aware that a child has made contact through their website and a parent’s contact information is available, PARAGON HOMES will notify the child’s parent or guardian at the e-mail address provided by the prospective customer, alerting the parent or guardian to the child’s use of the Website and providing instructions as to how the parent or guardian can delete the child’s registration from the Website.
(d) Lost or Stolen Information
If a customer’s payment information is lost or stolen, the customer should promptly notify PARAGON HOMES in order to enable PARAGON HOMES to cancel the lost or stolen information and to update its records with changed payment information.
(e) Chat Rooms, Forums and Bulletin Boards
If customer participates in any current or future PARAGON HOMES chat room, discussion forum, or posts messages to a PARAGON HOMES bulletin board, customer should be aware that the information disclosed and shared will be broadly available to other persons, both inside of and/or outside PARAGON HOMES, who have access to that chat room, forum or bulletin board. Some individual PARAGON HOMES chat rooms, forums or bulletin boards have additional rules and conditions regarding participation. Also, participant’s expressed opinion is his or her own and should not be considered as reflecting the opinion of PARAGON HOMES.
(f) Links to Other Websites
A PARAGON HOMES Website may contain links to other websites. PARAGON HOMES is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those other websites.
3. Uses Made of the Information
(a) Limited Uses Identified
Without customer’s prior consent, PARAGON HOMES will not use your personal identifiable information for any purpose other than that for which it is submitted. PARAGON HOMES uses personal identifiable information to reply to inquiries, handle complaints, provide operational notices, and in program record-keeping. PARAGON HOMES also processes business requests related to PARAGON HOMES Website participation.
(b) Marketing Uses
PARAGON HOMES reserves the right to provide customers with information about PARAGON HOMES’ Website, PARAGON HOMES products and services, and related information in which the customer has indicated an interest.
(c) Stored Information Uses
PARAGON HOMES stores and retains the information provided by customers and the information entered on the PARAGON HOMES Website. Stored information is used by PARAGON HOMES and/or PARAGON HOMES agents: to support customer interaction with the PARAGON HOMES Website; to deliver customer services; and/or to contact customers about other PARAGON HOMES services and products.
(d) Online Advertising
In the future, PARAGON HOMES may request companies to help PARAGON HOMES deliver interactive on-line advertising, such as banner ads. These companies may collect and use information about PARAGON HOMES’ customers to help PARAGON HOMES better understand the types of advertising or promotions that are most appealing to PARAGON HOMES’ customers. After it is collected the information is aggregated so it is not identifiable to a specific individual.
4. Disclosure of the Information
(a) Within Corporate Organization
PARAGON HOMES is an organization employing more than one person, with legal entities, business processes, management structures, and technical systems that involve multiple people. PARAGON HOMES may share your personal information within the PARAGON HOMES corporate organization, including with its parent company Paragon Builders and affiliated companies Paragon Construction.
(b) Mergers and Acquisitions
Circumstances may arise where for business reasons, PARAGON HOMES decides to sell, buy, merge or otherwise reorganize its businesses in the United States or some other country. Such a transaction may involve the disclosure of personal identifying information to prospective or actual purchasers, and/or receiving such information from sellers. It is PARAGON HOMES’ practice to seek appropriate protection for information in these types of transactions.
(c) Agents
PARAGON HOMES may employ or engage other companies and individuals to perform business functions on behalf of PARAGON HOMES. These persons may be provided with personal identifying information required to perform their functions, but will be prohibited by contract from using the information for other purposes. These persons engage in a variety of functions which include, but are not limited to, fulfilling orders, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, and providing customer services.
(d) Affiliated Businesses
PARAGON HOMES works closely with affiliated businesses operating website stores, providing services or selling products on each other’s Websites. These businesses identify themselves to customers. Customer information related to a transaction with an affiliated business is shared with that affiliated business.
(e) Marketing Analysis by Third Parties
PARAGON HOMES reserves the right to disclose to third parties personal information about customers for marketing analysis; however, any information disclosed will be in the form of aggregate data that does not describe or identify an individual customer.
(f) Disclosure to Governmental Authorities
Under certain circumstances, personal information may be subject to disclosure pursuant to a judicial or other government subpoenas, warrants or orders.
5. Use of Computer Tracking Technologies
(a) No Tracking of Personal Information
PARAGON HOMES’ Website(s) are not set up to track, collect or distribute personal information not entered by visitors. Through website access logs PARAGON HOMES may collect clickstream data and HTTP protocol elements, which generate certain kinds of non-identifying site usage data, such as the number of hits and visits to our sites. This information may be used for internal purposes by technical support staff for research and development, user analysis and business decision making, all of which provides better services to the public. The statistics garnered, which contain no personal information and cannot be used to gather such information, may also be provided to third parties.
(b) Use of Cookies
PARAGON HOMES, or its third party vendors, collects non-identifiable and personal information through the use of various technologies, including “cookies”. A cookie is an alphanumeric identifier that a Website can transfer to a customer’s hard drive through the customer’s browser. The cookie is then stored on the customer’s computer as an anonymous tag that identifies the customer’s computer, but not the customer. Cookies may be sent by PARAGON HOMES or its third party vendors. Customer can set its browser to notify customer before a cookie is received, giving an opportunity to decide whether to accept the cookie. Customer may also set its browser to turn off cookies; however, some Websites may not then work properly.
(c) Use of Web Beacon Technologies
PARAGON HOMES may also use Web beacon or other technologies to better tailor its Website(s) to provide better customer service. If these technologies are in use, when a visitor accesses these pages of the Website, a non-identifiable notice of that visit is generated which may be processed by PARAGON HOMES or by its suppliers. Web beacons usually work in conjunction with cookies. If customer does not want cookie information to be associated with customer’s visits to these pages, customer can set its browser to turn off cookies; however, Web beacon and other technologies will still detect visits to these pages, but the notices they generate cannot be associated with other non-identifiable cookie information and are disregarded.
(d) Collection of Non-Identifiable Information
PARAGON HOMES may collect non-identifiable information from user visits to the PARAGON HOMES Website(s) in order to provide better customer service. Examples of such collecting include: traffic analysis, such as tracking of the domains from which users visit, or tracking numbers of visitors; measuring visitor activity on PARAGON HOMES Website(s); Website and system administration; user analysis; and business decision making. Such information is sometimes known as “clickstream data.” PARAGON HOMES or its contractors may use this data to analyze trends and statistics.
(e) Collection of Personal Information
PARAGON HOMES collects personal identifying information from customers during a transaction. PARAGON HOMES may extract some personally identifying information about that transaction in a non-identifiable format and combine it with other non-identifiable information, such as clickstream data. This information is used and analyzed only at an aggregate level (not at an individual level) to help PARAGON HOMES understand trends and patterns. This information is not reviewed at an individual level.
6. Information Security
(a) Commitment to Online Security
PARAGON HOMES employs procedures to safeguard the security and integrity of personal information. Personal information is accessible only by staff designated to handle online requests or complaints. All PARAGON HOMES agents and contractors that may receive access to personal information on the PARAGON HOMES website(s) are also bound to adhere to PARAGON HOMES security standards.
(b) No Liability for Acts of Third Parties
PARAGON HOMES will exercise all reasonable efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of customer personal information. However, transmissions implemented by human beings cannot be made absolutely secure. Consequently, PARAGON HOMES shall not be liable for unauthorized disclosure of personal information due to no fault of PARAGON HOMES including, but not limited to, errors in transmission and unauthorized acts of PARAGON HOMES staff and/or third parties.
7. Privacy Policy Changes and Opt-Out Rights
(a) Changes to Privacy Policy
This privacy notice was last updated on March 20, 2025. PARAGON HOMES reserves the right to change or update its privacy policy statement at any time without affirmative notice. Customer can contact PARAGON HOMES for updates to its privacy policy at any time and receive information.
(b) Opt-Out Right
Customer and/or prospective customer has the right at any time to cease permitting personal information to be collected, used or disclosed by PARAGON HOMES and/or by any third parties with whom PARAGON HOMES has shared and/or transferred such personal information. Right of cancellation may be exercised by contacting PARAGON HOMES via e-mail at mark@paragonhomesfm.com, via the PARAGON HOMES website, telephone or certified postal mail. After processing the cancellation, PARAGON HOMES will delete customer or prospective customerโs personal information from its database.
8. Access Rights to Data
(a) Information Maintained by PARAGON HOMES
Upon customer’s request, PARAGON HOMES will provide a reasonable description of customer’s personally identifiable information that PARAGON HOMES maintains in its data bank. PARAGON HOMES can be contacted by email at mark@paragonhomesfm.com, telephone (701) 371-8791, or certified postal mail at 1153 4th Ave S, Moorhead, MN 56560.
(b) Corrections and Changes to Personal Information
Help PARAGON HOMES to keep customer personal information accurate. If customer’s personal information changes, or if customer notes an error upon review of customer information that PARAGON HOMES has on file, please promptly email PARAGON HOMES at mark@paragonhomesfm.com and provide the new or correct information.
(c) Your California Privacy Rights
Beginning on January 1, 2005, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits customers of PARAGON HOMES who are California residents to request certain information regarding PARAGON HOMES’ disclosure of personal information for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please write to: PARAGON HOMES, 1153 4th Ave S, Moorhead, MN 56560. Within 30 days of receiving such a request, PARAGON HOMES will provide a list of the categories of personal information disclosed to third parties for third-party direct marketing purposes during the immediately preceding calendar year, along with the names and addresses of these third parties. This request may be made no more than once per calendar year. PARAGON HOMES reserves its right not to respond to requests submitted other than to the address specified in this paragraph. California’s privacy laws require a company to provide notice to California users of their rights to receive information on to which entities their information was shared for marketing purposes.
9. Accountability
(a) Questions, Problems and Complaints
If you have a question about this policy statement, or a complaint about PARAGON HOMES compliance with this privacy policy, you may contact PARAGON HOMES by email at mark@paragonhomesfm.com.
(b) Terms of Use
If a customer chooses to subscribe to or use PARAGON HOMES’ services, customer’s action is hereby deemed acceptance of PARAGON HOMES practices described in this policy statement. Any dispute over privacy between customer and PARAGON HOMES is subject to the provisions of this notice. Any dispute that cannot be resolved between the customer or potential customer and PARAGON HOMES is required to be submitted to binding arbitration governed by the rules of the American Arbitration Association. Any disputes that customer or potential customer or any visitor to PARAGON HOMES’ website in any court or tribunal must be diverted to arbitration as referenced in this policy and all costs for such transfer will be paid by the customer, potential customer, or website visitor. This includes attorney fees and court costs.