Privacy Policy

This is an independent guide, not affiliated with the North Carolina Licensing Board for General Contractors or any state agency, and it was built to work without knowing anything about you.

Rather than list categories of data, this page is organized around the places anything could end up: the device you are reading on, our inbox if you write in, and the request logs that exist because a web page has to be served from somewhere.

Nothing here asks who you are

There is no sign-up, no login, no newsletter and no form. Nothing on the site has a field for your name, your address, your phone number, your company or your license number, so most of what a privacy policy normally exists to explain does not arise.

The device you are reading on

Several pages carry a calculator or a checklist. Every figure you type into one stays on the machine you typed it on. It is not sent to us, it is not written to any server, and there is no copy of it for anyone here to look at — the arithmetic happens in the page in front of you.

Some of those tools will hold your place, so you can close the tab and come back to a half-finished checklist instead of starting again. That memory belongs to the browser and not to this site: the values sit in the small store a browser keeps aside for each site it visits, they stay on the machine, and clearing your browsing data clears them. We cannot read them, and we cannot restore them for you either.

Our inbox, if you use it

The contact page lists one email address. When you write, what arrives is what you sent — the address it came from, and whatever you decided to put in the message.

It is used to deal with the thing you raised — to check a correction against its source, to fix a page that is broken, to reply where a reply is owed — and for nothing beyond that. Writing in signs you up for nothing. No address is sold, rented, traded or passed to a partner.

Leave documents and personal details out of it. We cannot advise on your own license, application or dispute, so a copy of your paperwork would not help, and holding it serves neither of us.

The request logs that come with being on the web

Pages are delivered by a hosting provider which, like every web host, handles technical request data — an IP address, a browser string, which file was asked for — in order to serve the page and keep the site standing up under abuse. That handling is the host’s, it is short-lived, and nothing on our side uses it to work out who a visitor is.

What measurement is for

Where aggregate analytics run, they answer one question: which pages are actually being read, and whether the thing works at all. They are configured so that personal information is not collected, and no effort goes into identifying an individual reader. The output is counts of pages, never profiles of people.

Links to a partner

A few links here lead to a commercial partner, and every one of them carries a paid label where it sits on the page; the affiliate disclosure sets out the arrangement in full. Those links leave through this site’s own domain, so the aggregate request logs described above show how many visits reached one. We read that to see which pages earn their place and whether a partner placement deserves the space it takes. The hop writes no cookie, executes no script, and attaches nothing that would identify the person who followed it — what comes out the other end is traffic, not readers.

Cookies and trackers

No cookie is set here to follow you around the web. There is no advertising network on the site, no social embed, no remarketing tag, and nothing that would let a third party assemble a picture of you out of a visit.

Leaving for an official source

Citations point at the Board, the statutes and the administrative code, and following one takes you somewhere we do not run. What those sites do with a visit is governed by their own policies, and this page stops applying the moment you leave.

Not a site for children

The audience is people working in, or trying to get into, the construction trades in North Carolina. The site is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect anything from one.

If this page changes

It may be revised. Whatever is published here is the version that applies. The terms on which the site itself is offered are at terms of use.