Privacy policy

Who we are

LandClearingAndExcavation.com is a cost-research and contractor-referral website operated by Choose4Choice, a company based in India. Shaikh Soheel Ahmed is accountable for this site and for the handling of the data described on this page.

The site is written for and serves the United States only. We are a marketing and referral platform — we do not perform land work, and we are not a contractor.

For anything on this page, including a deletion request, write to info@landclearingandexcavation.com. Email is our contact channel; we do not operate a phone line.

What we collect, and when

When you request quotes

The quote form is the only place on this site where we ask you for personal information. When you submit it, we record:

• Your name — required.
• Your email address — required.
• Your phone number — optional. Leave it blank and contractors will email you instead.
• Your ZIP code — required. This is what decides which contractors see your job.
• What you need done — the free-text box. Whatever you choose to put in it.
• The page you submitted from, and the service, city and state that page was about.
• The date and time of the submission, and the page that referred you to us.

We do not ask for and do not want your date of birth, government ID, bank details, card number or Social Security number. No page on this site has a field for any of them. Nobody legitimately acting for us will ever ask you for them by email.

When you visit any page

We use Google Analytics to count page views and see which guides get read. It records the usual measurement data — approximate location from your IP address, device and browser type, pages viewed, and how you arrived. We do not use it to build advertising audiences.

Our host also keeps standard server logs of requests, which include IP addresses, for security and abuse prevention.

Pages may also show ads from Google, which collect data of their own. That is covered in Advertising and cookies below.

If you are a contractor with an account

The contractor portal collects what you enter when you sign up and complete a profile: company name, contact name, email address, phone number, website, city and state, years in business, licence details, and a description of your business. Your password is stored only as a hash — we never see or store the password itself.

Profile information you submit for publication is intended to be shown publicly on this site once approved. That is the point of a listing. Your login email and password are not published.

Why we use it

• To get you quotes. Your project details go to licensed contractors who work in your area. This is the service you asked for.
• To answer you. If you email us a question or a correction, we use your address to reply.
• To count and improve. Aggregate analytics tell us which guides are useful and which are not.
• To keep the site working and honest. Server logs, spam filtering, and the record of which pages produce enquiries.

We do not use what you submit through the quote form to build an advertising profile, and we do not send marketing newsletters. If that ever changes, it will be something you opt into, not something we assume.

Advertising and cookies

This site may show ads served by Google AdSense, and those ads use cookies. Ads help pay for the free guides and calculators.

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
• Google's advertising cookies let Google and its partners serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and other sites on the internet.
• These cookies and similar technologies can collect data such as your IP address, device and browser details, the pages you view, and the ads you see or click.

How to opt out:

• Turn off personalized ads in Google Ads Settings.
• Opt out of personalized advertising from many other vendors at aboutads.info.
• Block or delete cookies in your browser settings. You may still see ads, but they will be less tailored.

Google explains its practices in how Google uses information from sites that use its services.

We do not choose which individual ads appear, and an ad is not a recommendation from us. Nothing you type into the quote form is passed to Google's advertising services.

Who we share it with

Licensed partner contractors in the United States. When you submit the quote form, the details you gave us are passed to contractors who work in your county so they can prepare a quote. They contact you directly. They are independent businesses, not our employees, and once they have your details they are responsible for how they handle them under their own privacy practices.

Service providers who operate the site for us — our web host, our email provider and Google Analytics. They process data on our instructions in order to run the site.

Where the law requires it — a valid legal request, or where we need to protect the site or someone's safety.

Google and its advertising partners — they collect the cookie-based data described under Advertising and cookies directly from your browser when an ad loads.

That is the complete list. We do not sell your quote details, we do not rent mailing lists, and we never give your name, email, phone number or project details to advertisers.

Consent to be contacted

By submitting the quote form you are asking to be contacted about your project, and you agree that licensed partner contractors may contact you at the phone number and email address you provided — including by phone call and by text message — about the job you described.

This is not a condition of any purchase, and you can stop it at any time: reply STOP to a text, tell the contractor on the call, or email info@landclearingandexcavation.com and we will remove your record from our side. Message and data rates may apply to texts you receive.

If you would rather not be called, leave the phone field blank. It is optional, and contractors will use email instead.

How long we keep it

• Quote requests: 24 months from submission, then deleted. We keep them that long because the record of which pages produced enquiries is how we decide what to write next.
• Emails you send us: as long as the conversation is useful, and no more than 24 months after it ends.
• Contractor accounts: for as long as the account is open, and 12 months after it is closed.
• Analytics: retained by Google under its own schedule; our property is configured to the shortest retention Google offers.
• Server logs: short-term, per our host's standard configuration.

Ask us to delete sooner and we will, as described below.

Your choices

Whoever and wherever you are, you can ask us to:

• Tell you what we hold about you.
• Correct it if it is wrong.
• Delete it.
• Stop contacting you, and stop passing your details to anyone else.

Email info@landclearingandexcavation.com from the address you used, so we can find the right record. We will respond within 30 days. We do not charge for this and we will not make you jump through hoops for it.

If you are in California, the rights above are the substance of what the CCPA gives you, including the right to know, the right to delete, and the right to opt out of sale or sharing. We never pass quote details to advertisers. For the cookie-based advertising described above, use the opt-out options in that section. The deletion and access rights apply in full and you will not be treated differently for using them.

One limit we have to be honest about: once a contractor has received your enquiry, we cannot delete it from their systems. We will delete our copy and tell you which contractors received it so you can ask them directly.

Children

This site is for adults arranging work on property. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18. If you believe a child has submitted the form, email us and we will delete the record.

Where your information goes

We operate from India and our partner contractors are in the United States, so information you submit is processed in both. Submitting the form means you understand it will be handled that way. We apply the same practices described on this page wherever the data sits.

Security

The site is served over HTTPS with HSTS. Passwords in the contractor portal are hashed, never stored in readable form. Quote submissions are stored in a location that is not reachable from the web.

No system is perfect and we are not going to claim ours is. What we can say is that we collect as little as the service needs, which is the only security measure that never fails.

Changes to this policy

If we change what we collect or who we share it with, we update this page and move the date at the top. Material changes to sharing will be described here in plain terms rather than buried in a redefinition.

Contact

Questions, access requests, corrections and deletions all go to info@landclearingandexcavation.com, addressed to Shaikh Soheel Ahmed, Choose4Choice.

See also our terms of service, our disclosure page for how the site makes money, and our editorial policy for how we source what we publish.