Privacy Policy

1. Introduction and Scope

BriggsB LLC respects the privacy of every person who visits this website, sends a message, requests a span study, or otherwise works with our studio. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, why we collect it, how we handle it, how long we keep it, and the choices available to you. It applies to this website and to the consulting, inspection and design services that BriggsB LLC provides. The policy was prepared by the developer Briggs Bridge for BriggsB LLC and reflects the way our small studio actually operates day to day.

This policy covers information that identifies or could reasonably be connected to an individual, which we call personal information. It does not cover aggregated or anonymous data that cannot be linked to a person. By using this website or engaging our services, you acknowledge that you have read this policy and understand how information is handled. If you do not agree with these practices, please do not use the website or submit information through it.

Our studio is based in Ogden, Utah, and most of the people who contact us are located in the United States. Where local law gives you stronger protections, we honor those protections for you. Nothing in this policy limits any right that applicable law grants to you.

2. Who We Are

BriggsB LLC is a computer integrated systems design and bridge engineering consulting company. Our registered and operating address is 1118 W Excalibur Way, Ogden - 84401-5111, United States (US). The studio designs bascule spans, pedestrian bridges and structural retrofits, performs load ratings and inspections, supports construction staking, and prepares feasibility and cost studies.

For the purposes of applicable privacy law, BriggsB LLC is the controller of the personal information described in this policy. That means BriggsB LLC decides why and how the information is processed. Questions about this policy, or about any information we hold, may be directed to our team using the contact details in the final section. We keep a small staff on purpose, which means your question reaches a person who knows the work rather than a distant call center.

3. Information We Collect

We collect only the information that helps us answer inquiries, prepare engineering work and run the studio. The categories are described below.

• Contact details. Your name, email address, telephone number, mailing address and organization name when you provide them through a form, by email, or by phone.
• Project information. Site locations, structure descriptions, drawings, photographs, inspection reports, clearances, and other technical material that you share so we can assess a crossing.
• Correspondence. The content of messages, requests for information, and notes from calls or meetings, kept so that we can follow the history of a project.
• Billing information. Invoicing details and payment records for clients who engage our services, maintained to satisfy accounting and tax obligations.
• Website technical data. Internet protocol address, browser type, device type, operating system, referring page, pages viewed and the time of a visit, gathered in server logs for security and reliability.
• Preferences. Choices you make on the website, such as expanding an answer on the contact page, held only for the duration of your visit.

We do not seek sensitive categories of personal information such as health data, biometric identifiers, precise geolocation of individuals, or information about political, religious or philosophical beliefs. Please do not send such information to us. If engineering work happens to involve a location that reveals something personal about you, we treat that fact with the same care described in this policy.

4. How We Obtain Information

Most information reaches us directly from you. You type it into a form, send it in an email, describe it on a call, or hand over a drawing at a meeting. When a client organization shares a contact for a project, that colleague may provide your name and work details so that we can coordinate. Our website also records technical data automatically as part of ordinary server operation.

We may receive information from public records, such as parcel data or published bridge inspection summaries, when we research a site. We may also receive information from a previous client who refers a new project to us, in which case the referring party chooses what to share and we use it only to respond to the introduction. We do not purchase personal information from data brokers, and we do not build profiles for advertising.

5. How We Use Information

We use personal information for clear and limited purposes connected to our work. These purposes include the following.

• Responding to inquiries, questions and requests for proposals or span studies.
• Preparing engineering analyses, drawings, reports and recommendations.
• Coordinating site visits, inspections, staking and construction support with clients and their contractors.
• Preparing invoices, processing payments and maintaining accounting records.
• Operating, securing and improving this website and our internal systems.
• Meeting legal, regulatory, professional and insurance obligations that apply to an engineering practice.
• Sending project updates and, where permitted, occasional studio news to people who have asked for it.

We do not sell personal information. We do not rent it. We do not share it for cross context behavioral advertising. When we use information for a purpose beyond the ones listed here, we identify that purpose at the time and, where required, ask for your consent.

6. Legal Bases for Processing

Where the law requires us to identify a legal basis for handling personal information, we rely on one or more of the following. We rely on your consent when you submit a form or subscribe to updates, and you may withdraw that consent at any time. We rely on the performance of a contract when we prepare work for a client who has engaged us. We rely on our legitimate interests in running a competent engineering studio, which includes answering inquiries, protecting our systems and improving our services, balanced against your rights. We rely on legal obligation when we keep accounting records, respond to lawful requests, or comply with professional rules. In limited situations we rely on vital interests or the public interest, though such cases are rare in our practice.

7. Cookies and Similar Technologies

This website keeps its use of cookies and similar technologies to a minimum. We may use a small number of strictly necessary cookies or local storage entries to remember a preference during a visit and to keep the site working correctly. These entries do not track you across other websites and are not used to build advertising profiles.

If we ever add analytics that rely on cookies, we will describe them here and, where required, ask for your consent before they load. Many browsers let you block or delete cookies through their settings. Blocking strictly necessary entries may affect how the site behaves, but it will not prevent you from reading our pages or contacting us by email or telephone. We honor browser based opt out signals where the law requires us to do so.

8. How We Share Information

We share personal information only when it is necessary and only with parties who are bound to protect it. The categories of recipients are described below.

• Service providers. Hosting companies, email providers, accountants and similar vendors who help us operate, each under a contract that limits their use of the information to the service they provide.
• Project partners. Surveyors, fabricators, testing laboratories and contractors working on a client project, and only the details needed to complete the shared task.
• Professional advisers. Our attorneys, insurers and auditors when their advice or coverage requires the information.
• Authorities. Government bodies and courts when the law compels disclosure or when disclosure is necessary to protect rights, safety or property.
• Business transfers. A successor entity in the event of a merger, acquisition or reorganization, subject to this policy or a policy at least as protective.

We require every recipient to keep information confidential and to use it only for the agreed purpose. We do not permit any recipient to sell your information. When we share technical project data, we remove personal identifiers wherever the work allows.

9. Data Retention

We keep personal information only as long as it serves the purpose for which it was collected, plus any period required by law or by sound professional practice. Inquiry correspondence is kept for a reasonable period so that we can follow a conversation across months or years. Engineering project records, including drawings, calculations and inspection data, are kept for the life of the structure and beyond, because a bridge is a long lived asset and later engineers may need the original design record. Billing and tax records are kept for the period that accounting and tax rules require.

When a retention period ends, we delete or anonymize the information. If deletion is not immediately possible because data sits in a backup, we isolate it and remove it when the backup cycle completes. Website server logs are rotated on a short schedule.

10. How We Protect Information

We use administrative, technical and physical safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the information we hold. These safeguards include encrypted connections for this website, access controls that limit internal systems to authorized staff, strong authentication, regular software updates, and secure storage of paper and electronic project records. Staff receive reminders about confidentiality, and access to client files is granted only to the people who need it for the work.

No method of transmission or storage is perfectly secure. We cannot promise absolute security, but we work to reduce risk and we review our practices as the studio and its tools change. If a breach affects your personal information, we will notify you and the relevant authorities as required by law, and we will describe what happened and what we are doing about it.

11. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the rights listed below. You may exercise them by contacting us with the details in the final section.

• Access. Request a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
• Correction. Ask us to fix information that is inaccurate or incomplete.
• Deletion. Ask us to delete information, subject to legal and professional retention duties.
• Portability. Receive certain information in a portable format.
• Objection. Object to processing based on legitimate interests.
• Restriction. Ask us to limit how we use information while a concern is resolved.
• Withdrawal of consent. Withdraw consent at any time where consent is the basis for processing.
• Non discrimination. Receive equal service regardless of whether you exercise a privacy right.

We will verify your identity before acting on a request and will respond within the time the applicable law allows. If we cannot fulfill a request, we will explain why. You may also have the right to complain to a supervisory authority, though we hope you will contact us first so that we can help.

12. Privacy for Children

This website and our services are intended for adults and for organizations. They are not directed to children under the age of thirteen, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe that a child has provided information to us, please contact us and we will delete it promptly. If a project involves a school or a park used by children, we collect only the technical site data needed for the engineering work and never information about individual children.

13. Engineering Project Data

Bridge engineering often involves detailed technical records. Drawings, calculations, load ratings, inspection notes and photographs become part of a project file. Much of this material is about a structure rather than a person, but it can include personal details such as the name of an inspector, a site contact or a property owner. We treat those details as personal information and apply this policy to them.

Project files may be shared with the client who commissioned the work, with authorities who require filings, and with contractors who need the documents to build. We do not publish project files without permission. When we use a project as an example in marketing, we remove personal details and, where a client asks, we omit identifying site information as well. Records of moving spans are kept especially long because the trunnion, the counterweight and the deck connections have long service lives and future engineers may need the original assumptions.

14. Third Party Services and Links

This website may link to websites run by other organizations, such as a mapping service or a professional association. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites, and we encourage you to read their policies before providing information to them. If we embed a third party tool that collects information, we will identify the tool and the purpose here.

Our own hosting and email providers process information on our behalf under contracts that limit their use of it. Those providers may store data in data centers located in the United States or in other countries, as described in the section on international transfers. We choose providers who maintain recognized security certifications and who commit to protecting the information they handle for us.

15. International Data Transfers

BriggsB LLC operates in the United States, and the information we collect is generally stored and processed in the United States. If you contact us from another country, your information will be transferred to the United States, where privacy law may differ from the law of your home country. Where required, we use appropriate safeguards for such transfers, such as standard contractual clauses with our service providers. By using this website or engaging our services, you understand that your information may be processed in the United States.

16. Marketing and Outreach

We send studio news and project updates only to people who have asked to receive them or who have an existing client relationship. Every marketing message tells you how to stop receiving further messages, and we act on a request to stop promptly. We do not buy contact lists and we do not share our list with other organizations. If we invite you to an event or send a seasonal note, it is because a member of the studio thought it would be useful to you.

17. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy as our practice, our tools or the law change. When we make a material change, we will update the effective date at the top of this page and, where appropriate, provide a more prominent notice. The version posted on this website is the current version and replaces all earlier versions. We encourage you to review this page from time to time so that you remain informed about how we protect information.

18. How to Contact Us

If you have a question about this Privacy Policy, wish to exercise a privacy right, or want to raise a concern about how your information has been handled, please contact BriggsB LLC using any of the details below. We take every message seriously and we will respond as quickly as we can.

This policy was prepared by the developer Briggs Bridge on behalf of BriggsB LLC. It is plain in its language on purpose. If a sentence is unclear, tell us and we will explain it, because a privacy policy only works when the people it protects can understand it.