This Privacy Policy of Merrifield Media, LLC (“Company”) covers the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information that may be collected by the Company anytime you interact with the Company, such as when you visit our web site, when you use the Company’s Services, or when you call a member of our staff. All terms and provisions set forth in our Website “Terms of Use are incorporated and made a bind part hereof and capitalized terms herein shall have the same meaning as set forth in the Terms of Use. Please take a moment to carefully read the following to learn more about our information practices, including what type of information is gathered, how the information is used, to whom we may disclose information, and how we safeguard your personal information. By accessing or using the Company website or engaging with the company through other forms of communication, you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy. For purposes of this Privacy Policy the terms “we,” “our,” and “us” refer to the Company and the terms “you” and “your” refer to clients, customers, and other persons or entities that use our Website or Services. If you have questions or concerns about our Terms of Use, please contact us at contact@merrifieldhomeupdate.com.

Reasons the Company Collects Personal Information
We collect your personal information because it helps us deliver a superior level of customer service. It enables us to give you convenient access to our products and services and focus on categories of greatest interest to you. In addition, your personal information helps us keep you informed on the latest product and service announcements, special offers, and events that you might like to hear about. If you do not want the Company to keep you up to date with our news and the latest information on products and services you may UNSUBSCRIBE to our Newsletter and opt out of future marketing emails.  

Information the Company Collects and How the Information May be Used
There are a number of situations in which your personal information may help us give you better service. For example: We may ask for your personal information when you are discussing services with an associate, participating in an online survey, or purchasing services. When you interact with the Company, we may collect personal information relevant to the situation, such as your name, mailing address, phone number, email address, and contact preferences; your payment information and information about your business, the services you are requesting, and information relating to a support or service issue. 

We also collect information for market research purposes to gain a better understanding of our users or customers and thus provide more valuable service. We collect information regarding customer activities on our Website. This helps us to determine how best to provide useful information and to understand which parts of our Website, products, and internet services are most interesting to them. We may use personal information to provide services that you have requested as well as for auditing, research, and analysis to improve our services. This information may be shared with third parties in special circumstances as described elsewhere herein. 

By providing your contact information, name, address, email address, or telephone number, to the Company, you expressly consent that the Company and its agents and Affiliates, may contact you by telephone, including through the possible use of an automatic telephone dialing system or other automated technology, text and pre-recorded messages, marketing messages, emails. offers and other information regarding products and services. You expressly consent to be contacted through such means and at the telephone numbers (including wireless numbers) and email or other address that you provide to the Company. You represent and warrant that any mobile or wireless telephone number and email address provided belongs to you and is associated with your account for a mobile device or application in your possession or control. You agree to notify Company immediately if your mobile or wireless telephone number or email address changes and further agree to indemnify and hold the Company harmless for all claims, damages, and liabilities resulting from your failure to do so.

Publicly Displayed Information is Public
If you use a bulletin board or chat room you should be aware that any information you share is visible to other users. Personally identifiable information you submit to one of these forums can be read, collected, or used by other individuals to send you unsolicited messages. The Company is not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums. For example, if you choose to make information which was previously nonpublic, available by enabling certain user features, the Company will collect that information from your interaction and the information will become publicly available.

When the Company Discloses Your Information
The Company takes your privacy very seriously. The Company does not sell or rent your contact information to other marketers. There are also times when it may be advantageous for the Company to make certain personal information about you available to companies that the Company has a strategic relationship with or that perform work for the Company to provide products and services to you on our behalf. These companies may help us process information, deliver services to you, manage and enhance customer data, provide customer service, assess your interest in our services, or conduct customer research or satisfaction surveys.
 
The Company may also take the personal information we receive from individuals responding to our customer surveys and combine it with the responses of other customers to create broader, generic responses to the survey questions. The Company then uses the aggregated information to improve the quality of its services to you and to develop new services. This aggregated non-personal identifying information may be shared with third parties. We also reserve the right to disclose your personal information for any reason if, in our sole discretion, we believe that it is reasonable to do so, including law enforcement, litigation, or to satisfy requirements of federal, state, or local laws and regulations. We may also disclose personal information that is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be violating our contracts, policies and procedures. Finally we may also disclose information about you if we determine that for national security, law enforcement, or other issues of public importance, disclosure is necessary.

How the Company Protects Your Personal Information
The Company takes precautions, including administrative and technical measures to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft, and misuse, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. You can help us by also taking precautions to protect your personal data when you are on the Internet. Change your passwords often using a combination of letters and numbers, and make sure you use a secure web browser. While we make every effort to ensure the integrity and security of our network and systems, we cannot and do not warranty or guarantee that our security measures will prevent third-party “hackers” from illegally obtaining your personal information.

Integrity of Your Personal Information
The Company has safeguards in place to keep your personal information accurate, complete, and up to date for the purposes for which it is used. You always have the right to access and correct the personal information you have provided and can help us ensure that your contact information and preferences are accurate, complete, and up to date by emailing our Company. 

Privacy of Children
Protecting children’s privacy is especially important to us. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children for marketing purposes, but because some information is collected electronically, it can appear to be the personal information of the Company and will be treated as such by this privacy policy. If a child under the age of 18 submits personal information to the Company and we learn that that personal information is the information of a child under the age of 18, we will attempt to delete the information as soon as possible. It is our policy to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 and all other applicable laws. Therefore we restrict our web site to persons 18 years or older. YOU MUST BE EIGHTEEN (18) YEARS OR OLDER TO ACCESS THE COMPANY’S WEBSITE. IF YOU ARE UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE, YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO ACCESS THE COMPANY’S WEB SITE FOR ANY REASON. DUE TO THE AGE RESTRICTIONS FOR USE OF THAT WEBSITE, NO INFORMATION OBTAINED BY THAT WEBSITE FALLS WITHIN THE CHILDREN’S ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT OF 1998 AND IS NOT MONITORED AS DOING SO.

Cookies and Other Technologies
While the Company does not currently use or implement tracking technologies or “Cookies” on our Website, it is standard practice for many corporate web sites to use cookies, pixel tags, and various other technologies to collect and store information to help understand which parts of a website is the most popular, where visitors are going, and how much time they spend there. A “cookie” is a text file that uniquely identifies the visitor’s browser and device characteristics. While most browsers accept cookies by default, you can manually set your browser to refuse all cookies, accept cookies from specific Websites, or highlight when a cookie is sent to your browser. Company servers may automatically record information when you visit our Website, including the URL that directed you to our Website, your IP address, browser type, the date and time of your visit, or other metadata. Your use of this Website and / or your completion of any forms on this Website constitutes your consent to Company’s monitoring and collection of your information. To prevent unauthorized access and disclosure, to maintain data accuracy, and to ensure the appropriate use of your information, the Company reserves the right to utilize industry standard physical, technical and administrative procedures to safeguard any personal information we collect without further notice. You agree to maintain the confidentiality of any usernames or passwords that you obtain for purposes of using this Website and you acknowledge that the Company reserves the right to terminate your use of this Website at any time as determined in our sole discretion. 

The Company further reserves the right to use tracking technologies to make sure that our online information is bringing you to our products and services to improve our marketing efforts without further notice to you. We may use these technologies to study traffic patterns on our Website, to make it even more rewarding as well as to study the effectiveness of our customer communications. We may also use analytics and insights to customize your experience and provide greater convenience each time you interact with us including Google Analytics or other third-party analytics tools to compile data regarding user interactions. You can opt out or set preferences for Google advertising in your Google settings and learn how Google uses data collected through partner sites or applications. You may also disable cookies in your web browser but certain features of our Website may not be available if we are using cookies and cookies have been disabled. Like most web sites, we reserve the right to gather certain information automatically including but not limited to Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. We may use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user database.
 
Links to Sites of Other Companies
Our Website may include links to the sites of other companies. We are not responsible for their privacy practices. We encourage you to learn about the privacy policies of those companies. A link to another website from the Company Website does not constitute an endorsement or representation about the value, quality or usefulness of anything found on that third-party website or its privacy policies regarding the use of any information you may provide to any websites accessed via links on this Website. 

10.  Effective Date; Updates to Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is deemed effective September 1, 2024. The Company reserves the right to revise, amend, or modify this privacy policy at any time and in any manner. When we change this privacy policy in a material way we will endeavor to post a notice on our Website along with the updated privacy policy. Your use of our Website and any other Service(s) provided by the Company after such changes are implemented constitutes your acknowledgement and acceptance of said changes. Please consult this privacy policy prior to every use to learn about updates or policy changes. 

Merrifield Media, LLC – Privacy Policy – Issue No. 1 – December 2025.