Privacy Policy
Your privacy matters to us. This policy explains what information Appalachian Sheds Inc. collects, why we use it, when it may be shared, how long we keep it, and the choices available to you.
Our basic approach: We collect information reasonably needed to answer your questions, prepare and complete your project, operate our websites, provide service, maintain business records, and honor our warranty obligations. We do not sell your personal information for money, and we do not share mobile opt-in or text-message consent information with third parties or affiliates for their marketing or promotional purposes.
The Short Version
We believe a privacy policy should be understandable without a law degree. These are the main points.
What We Collect
Contact and project information you provide, plus limited website and analytics information created when you use our websites.
Why We Use It
To answer questions, prepare quotes, plan and complete projects, provide service, maintain security, and meet business and legal obligations.
What We Do Not Do
We do not sell your personal information for money or share mobile opt-in or SMS consent information for third-party marketing.
Your Choices
You may contact us to request access, correction, deletion, or other privacy choices. Applicable legal rights vary by state.
What We Collect and How We Use It
We limit collection and use to information reasonably related to operating our websites, communicating with homeowners, preparing projects, and running Appalachian Sheds Inc.
Who We Are
This Privacy Policy is published by Appalachian Sheds Inc. ("Appalachian Sheds," "we," "us," or "our"), a veteran- and family-owned builder serving Cincinnati and the surrounding Tri-State area.
This policy applies to information collected through appalachiansheds.com, appalachianclassicsheds.com, and information you provide to Appalachian Sheds Inc. through a form, telephone call, text message, email, project communication, or in-person interaction.
Appalachian Sheds Inc. is responsible for the business privacy practices described in this policy.
Information You Give Us
Depending on how you interact with us, you may provide:
- Name, telephone number, and email address.
- Property or project location and other information reasonably needed to evaluate a proposed building site.
- Building size, style, options, site conditions, access information, preferences, and anticipated timing.
- Site photographs, survey plats, HOA information, permit paperwork, drawings, or other documents you choose to send us.
- Information contained in calls, texts, emails, forms, or other communications with us.
Information Collected Automatically
When you use our websites, website and analytics technologies may collect limited technical and usage information such as browser and device information, pages visited, session information, approximate geographic area, referring source, and website interaction data.
Pricing Calculators
Our website pricing calculators perform their pricing calculations in your web browser. Your calculator selections may also generate non-contact website analytics events, such as building width, length, siding choice, or calculator actions, so that we can understand how the calculator and website are being used.
Using a calculator does not by itself provide us with your name, telephone number, email address, property address, or other contact information. We receive contact or project information when you intentionally send it to us, such as by submitting a form, sending an email, placing a call, or initiating and sending a text message.
Calculator prices and configurations are planning tools only. Final pricing, availability, specifications, scope, site conditions, taxes, permits, delivery requirements, and construction terms are established by the applicable written quote, proposal, or contract.
How We Use Information
We may use personal information for legitimate business purposes related to your inquiry, project, our websites, or our legal obligations, including to:
- Respond to questions and prepare quotes or proposals.
- Schedule and conduct site evaluations.
- Plan, build, deliver, or install a building.
- Communicate about an inquiry, order, project, or service request.
- Provide warranty service, including support related to our 30-Year Structural Warranty where applicable.
- Maintain customer, project, accounting, and business records.
- Operate, measure, maintain, troubleshoot, and protect our websites and technology.
- Detect or prevent fraud, misuse, security problems, or other harmful activity.
- Comply with applicable legal, tax, permitting, regulatory, or recordkeeping obligations.
We do not use automated decision-making that by itself produces legal or similarly significant effects concerning you.
How Information May Be Shared
Appalachian Sheds Inc. does not sell your personal information for money.
We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to operate the business or complete your project, including to:
- Hosting, analytics, email, communications, form-processing, security, data-storage, software, and other service providers that perform functions for us.
- Builders, installers, crews, suppliers, or other parties involved with your project, limited to information reasonably needed for their work.
- Permit authorities, utility locators, HOAs, or similar organizations when needed for a project or when you have asked us to assist.
- Government authorities, courts, attorneys, insurers, law enforcement, or other parties when disclosure is required or permitted by law or reasonably necessary to protect rights, property, safety, or the integrity of our business.
If the ownership or assets of Appalachian Sheds Inc. are reorganized, transferred, merged, or sold, relevant business records may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable law.
Advertising Technologies
We may use advertising or measurement technologies to understand campaign performance or website traffic. Depending on how those services are configured, cookies or other identifiers may be used. Where applicable law requires consent or an opportunity to opt out of targeted advertising, we will provide the required choice.
We do not provide information you submit through our contact communications, or your mobile opt-in and SMS consent information, to third parties for their own marketing or promotional purposes.
Privacy Choices and Retention
We provide a direct way to contact us about your information, and we honor additional rights when they apply under applicable law.
Your Privacy Choices and Rights
You may contact us to request that we:
- Tell you whether we maintain personal information about you.
- Provide access to qualifying personal information we maintain.
- Correct inaccurate personal information.
- Delete qualifying personal information, subject to legitimate business and legal retention requirements.
- Provide a portable copy when required by applicable law and technically feasible.
- Stop marketing emails or text messages from us.
Additional rights, including rights concerning targeted advertising, sale of personal data, profiling, appeals, or authorized agents, may be available to residents of states whose privacy laws apply to Appalachian Sheds Inc. and to the particular processing activity involved.
We may need to verify your identity before completing a privacy request. Verification helps prevent unauthorized access to, alteration of, or deletion of another person's information.
We will respond within the period required by applicable law. When no specific statutory period applies, we will make reasonable efforts to respond promptly.
We will not unlawfully discriminate against you for exercising a privacy right provided by applicable law.
How Long We Keep Information
We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, to maintain appropriate business and warranty records, and to satisfy legal, accounting, security, dispute-resolution, or recordkeeping requirements.
General Retention Approach
- Uncompleted inquiries: ordinarily retained for up to 24 months unless there is a legitimate reason to retain relevant information longer.
- Customer and project records: core records reasonably necessary to document the building, transaction, service history, and applicable warranty may be retained through the warranty period.
- Tax, accounting, contract, permit, insurance, and legal records: retained for periods reasonably required by law, business needs, contractual obligations, or potential claims.
- Analytics and technical data: retained according to our applicable analytics settings, operational requirements, and the policies of relevant service providers.
When information is no longer reasonably required, we may delete, destroy, anonymize, or de-identify it, subject to applicable law and technical limitations.
Photos, Security, Children and Other Websites
Project Photos
We may photograph completed Appalachian Sheds projects for documentation, quality review, portfolio, educational, or marketing purposes.
Before intentionally publishing photographs in a way that identifies a customer's private property, we will obtain permission where appropriate and will make reasonable efforts to avoid publishing visible house numbers, license plates, or other information that unnecessarily identifies a customer's address or household.
You may tell us if you do not want photographs of your project used for public marketing.
How We Protect Information
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards appropriate to the nature of the information and the size and operation of our business.
These safeguards may include access limitations, password and account controls, secure website connections, software and hosting security measures, backups, and reasonable procedures for handling business records.
No website, electronic communication, network, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Accordingly, we cannot promise or guarantee that unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure will never occur.
If we determine that a security incident requires notice under applicable law, we will provide legally required notifications.
Children's Privacy
Our websites and services are intended for adults seeking information about buildings and related construction services. They are not directed to children under 13.
We do not knowingly collect personal information online from a child under 13 in a manner subject to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us so we can review the matter and take appropriate action.
Links and Third-Party Services
Our websites may contain links to manufacturers, suppliers, social-media platforms, mapping services, financing resources, or other third-party websites and services.
Third parties operate under their own terms and privacy practices. Appalachian Sheds Inc. does not control and is not responsible for the privacy, security, content, or practices of an independent third-party website or service.
We encourage you to review the privacy information provided by a third party before giving that party personal information.
Website Information, Governing Law and Policy Changes
Website Information and Limitations
Website content — including pricing calculators, planning information, homeowner guides, photographs, descriptions, estimated prices, dimensions, specifications, and other materials — is provided for general informational and planning purposes.
Final price, scope, dimensions, specifications, materials, options, availability, site requirements, scheduling, warranty coverage, and other project terms are determined by the applicable written quote, proposal, order, warranty document, or contract.
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Appalachian Sheds Inc. is not responsible for indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, or consequential damages arising solely from reliance on general website information, use of third-party websites, or unauthorized access that occurs despite reasonable safeguards.
Nothing in this Privacy Policy limits or waives a right or remedy that cannot lawfully be limited or waived.
This Privacy Policy describes our privacy practices. Additional terms governing use of our websites, transactions, warranties, and projects may appear in our Terms of Use , written proposals, contracts, and warranty documents.
Governing Law
Appalachian Sheds Inc. is based in Ohio. Except where applicable law provides otherwise, this Privacy Policy and privacy matters arising from use of our websites are governed by the laws of the State of Ohio, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.
This provision does not eliminate privacy or consumer rights that applicable law requires to be provided to residents of another jurisdiction.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time as our websites, technology, business practices, service providers, or legal requirements change.
When we update the policy, we will revise the Last Updated date shown at the top of this page. When applicable law requires additional notice or consent for a material change, we will provide that notice or obtain that consent as required.
We encourage you to review this page periodically if you want to remain informed about our current privacy practices.
Common Homeowner Questions
Straightforward answers to the questions homeowners are most likely to have about the information they share with us.
Will Appalachian Sheds sell my phone number or email address?
No. Appalachian Sheds Inc. does not sell your personal information for money. We also do not share mobile opt-in or text-message consent information with third parties or affiliates for their marketing or promotional purposes.
Why do you need my property address?
A project location may be needed to evaluate site conditions, access, setbacks, permitting considerations, delivery or construction logistics, and other information necessary to prepare and complete an accurate project.
Does the pricing calculator save my name or contact information?
No contact information is collected merely because you use the pricing calculator. The calculator performs its pricing work in your browser, although non-contact interaction data such as selected size or siding may be recorded through website analytics. We receive your contact information only when you intentionally send it to us.
Does Appalachian Sheds use Google Analytics?
Yes. We use Google Analytics 4 to help measure website usage and understand how visitors interact with our pages and tools. Google Analytics may use cookies and measurement identifiers as described in Section 7 above.
How long do you keep my records after my building is completed?
Core project records reasonably needed to document your building, transaction, service history, and applicable warranty may be maintained through the warranty period. Other information may be deleted or de-identified sooner when it is no longer reasonably needed, subject to legal and business recordkeeping requirements.
Will photographs of my property appear on your website?
We may photograph completed work, but we make reasonable efforts to avoid publishing information that unnecessarily identifies a customer's home or address. You may also tell us that you do not want photographs of your project used for public marketing.
How do I stop text messages?
You may revoke consent to receive marketing texts by replying STOP where supported or by contacting Appalachian Sheds Inc. directly. We will honor reasonable opt-out requests as required by applicable law.
How do I ask to see, correct, or delete my information?
Call or text Appalachian Sheds Inc. at (513) 379-2421 or email ed@appalachianclassicsheds.com . We may need to verify your identity, and certain records may need to be retained for warranty, contract, tax, accounting, security, legal, or other legitimate purposes.
Questions About Your Privacy?
Contact Appalachian Sheds Inc. directly if you have a privacy question, want to exercise an applicable privacy right, or believe information about you needs to be corrected.
5627 Flagstone Way
Milford, Ohio 45150
Privacy requests are handled on behalf of Appalachian Sheds Inc. Applicable legal rights, verification requirements, exceptions, and response periods may vary depending on your location, the nature of the information, and the law that applies.