How The Clear Brick Institute handles personal information

1. Information we may collect

• Contact details you provide, such as your name, display name, email address, profile image, or messages you submit.
• Purchase records, such as brick purchases, optional recurring purchase status, and public wall display preferences.
• Account and profile information connected to your use of sign-in providers, including Facebook Login if you choose to use it.
• Discussion board posts, comments, uploaded images, and profile notes you intentionally submit.
• Optional About Me answers, private saved artwork, and community poll responses. About Me and written poll answers are visible only to you and the team. Signed-in members see aggregate choice-poll totals, not a list of voters. You can edit or clear About Me answers and remove your own visible poll responses.
• Technical information needed to operate and secure the site, such as browser type, device information, IP logs, and session identifiers.

2. How we use information

• To create and manage user accounts and supporter profiles.
• To process purchases, publish public wall activity, and display milestones and transparency information.
• To respond to messages, support requests, moderation issues, and user-submitted content.
• To improve site stability, performance, security, and user experience.
• To comply with legal obligations, enforce site rules, and protect the site and its users from abuse.

3. Facebook Login and connected sign-in

If you choose to sign in with Facebook or another connected provider, The Clear Brick Institute may receive limited profile information authorized by you, such as your name, email address, and profile image. This information is used only to authenticate your account, create or update your profile, and support features you choose to use within the site.

The site does not sell Facebook profile information. You may request deletion of your connected account data at any time by following the instructions on the Delete My Data page.

4. Public and private information

When purchase email is configured, a private receipt and claim code are sent to the purchaser and copied to the institute’s administrator inbox for purchase support. Email delivery providers process the recipient address and receipt content. Administrators can search purchase records and recover claim codes after recording how ownership was verified. Codes control purchases and should be kept private. Public wall activity shows placed bricks, colors, coordinates, and timestamps; it does not include receipt emails or private claim codes. Draft designs are saved in this browser until you clear local data. Free Wall artwork, colors, paint details, coordinates, and placement times are public and shared with other visitors. Free Wall clears on the first of each month at 00:00 UTC; its bricks may also be overwritten sooner. A private random browser token tracks your simulated free-brick balance. Free Wall records and these tokens are cleared at the monthly reset. Private operational backups may retain earlier snapshots. Export your own draft if you want to keep it.

Some information is intended to appear publicly if you choose that option, such as a public supporter name, brick message, discussion post, team application details meant for public publishing, or media content approved for the public site. Other information remains internal and is used only for administration, moderation, accounting, compliance, and support.

5. Sharing and disclosure

For optional sharing rewards, we store your submitted public post URL, author profile URL, account-specific verification code, review notes, linked profile and credit history. The reviewing team uses these records to verify control and prevent duplicate rewards. These proof records are not included in the public wall or ledger. We do not request your social password or publish a post for you. Approved sharing bricks use your existing public profile and anonymity settings. Review history is retained for reward support and fraud prevention; contact us through the data-deletion page to request removal of personal proof details, subject to necessary record retention.

The Clear Brick Institute does not sell personal information. Information may be shared only when needed to operate the platform, process payments, store media, comply with law, respond to valid legal requests, investigate abuse, or protect the rights and safety of the organization, its users, or the public.

6. Data retention

Information is retained only as long as reasonably necessary for account management, supporter history, transparency records, moderation, security, legal compliance, and operational continuity. When deletion is requested and permitted, data is removed or de-identified within a reasonable timeframe, except where retention is required by law or necessary for fraud prevention, accounting, or dispute resolution.

7. Your choices

• You may request access, correction, or deletion of your account information.
• You may request that public-facing information tied to your account be updated or removed when reasonably possible.
• You may disconnect third-party sign-in access from the provider side and separately request deletion from The Clear Brick Institute.

8. Contact

For privacy questions or account data requests, contact The Clear Brick Institute through the official contact channel published on the website or by the support email listed in the site footer or business materials.