Privacy Policy

DG Precise Permitting & Engineering prepares and submits building permit applications, and provides engineering services, for licensed contractors in Southwest Florida.

This policy explains what we collect through this website and in the course of doing that work, why we collect it, who else sees it, and how long we keep it. One part of it is unusual and worth reading even if you skip the rest: section 6, because filing a permit means giving your information to a government agency, and permit records in Florida are generally public.

1. Who we are

DG Precise Permitting & Engineering, Southwest Florida.

[CONTACT EMAIL: client to supply] · (239) 276-1803

Serving Lee, Collier and Charlotte counties and the municipalities within them.

2. What we collect from you

Through this website. The contact form asks for your name, company, phone number, email address, contractor license number, the job address, the scope of work, your timeline, and anything you type into the message box. Whatever you write in that box is what we receive.

The form includes an optional text-message checkbox. It is unchecked by default and you do not have to check it.

In the course of the work. If you engage us, you will send us far more than the form asks for: plans and drawings, product approval and NOA documentation, engineering calculations, insurance certificates, contracts, notarized authorization forms, and correspondence from building departments.

What we do not collect here. There is no payment on this website, no shopping cart, no account to create. We do not ask for card numbers, bank details or Social Security numbers through this site.

3. Information you give us about other people

This section exists because our work is unusual in this respect and most privacy policies do not address it.

Permit paperwork routinely contains personal information about people who are not you and who have never visited this website, most often the property owner. A Notice of Commencement names the owner. An application may carry an owner's signature, address, or contact details. Plans may identify a designer or engineer by name and license number.

When you send us that information, you are confirming that you are entitled to share it with us for the purpose of preparing and filing the permit. We use it only for that purpose.

We treat information about third parties with the same care as your own, and it is subject to the same retention and disclosure terms set out below, including section 6, which applies to it just as much as it applies to you.

4. What is collected automatically

When you browse this site, analytics collects standard web-measurement data: pages viewed, approximate location derived from your IP address, device and browser type, how you arrived, and which links and buttons you interacted with.

When you submit the form, we also record your IP address, your browser's user-agent string, the page you submitted from, and the date and time, together with whether you granted or declined text-message consent and the exact wording that was shown to you at that moment.

5. Why we collect it

To read your inquiry and reply to it.

To determine which authority has jurisdiction over your job and what the submittal will require.

To prepare, submit and track permit applications on your behalf, and to provide engineering services where engaged.

To keep a record of communication consent, which we need to be able to evidence.

To understand which pages people find useful, so we can improve the site.

To meet a legal or professional obligation where one applies.

That is the complete list. We do not sell, rent or trade your information, we do not supply it to data brokers or lead resellers, and we do not add you to a marketing list you did not ask for.

6. What happens when we file your permit

Read this one. It is the most consequential thing in this policy and it is specific to what we do.

Filing a permit means submitting your information, and information about the property and its owner, to a county or city building department. That is not incidental to the service; it IS the service, and it cannot be opted out of while still obtaining a permit.

Once submitted, that material is in the hands of a government agency and is governed by that agency's rules, not by this policy. In Florida, records made or received by a public agency in connection with official business are generally public records available on request, subject to statutory exemptions. Many jurisdictions also publish permit records through an online portal that anyone can search.

A recorded Notice of Commencement is filed with the Clerk of Court and becomes part of the public record of the property.

In practice this means the fact of your permit, the contractor of record, the property address, the scope of work and often the submitted documents can be seen by members of the public, including your competitors. We cannot restrict that, withdraw it, or ask an agency to treat it as confidential.

If there is something you do not want in a public filing, tell us before we submit, and we will tell you whether the application can be completed without it.

7. Who else sees your information

Building departments and other authorities having jurisdiction, as described in section 6.

The Clerk of Court, where a Notice of Commencement or similar instrument is recorded.

Our hosting and email providers, in the ordinary course of running a website and an inbox. They process what passes through them in order to deliver it.

Design professionals, where your job requires an engineer, architect or surveyor we coordinate with.

Analytics and advertising providers receive site-usage data as described in sections 9 and 10. They never receive the contents of your form submission or any project document.

We may disclose information where the law requires it, or to establish or defend a legal claim.

Nobody buys this information from us, because we do not sell it.

8. How long we keep it

Inquiries that do not become work are kept for up to 24 months from our last contact, and then deleted.

Project records (the applications, plans, correspondence and submittal history for permits we actually filed) are kept for longer. We keep them because they are the evidence of what was submitted on your behalf and when, which matters if a permit, an inspection or a job is later questioned.

Engineering project records are retained for the period required by the rules governing professional engineering practice in Florida. [RETENTION PERIOD: to be confirmed against the current Board of Professional Engineers rule and stated here as a specific number of years before this page is published.]

Consent records (whether you granted or declined text messages, when, and the wording shown) are kept for as long as we may need to evidence that consent.

Server logs are kept for troubleshooting and cleared within 30 days.

Anything already filed with a government agency is outside our control and is retained according to that agency's own schedule, regardless of what we delete on our side.

You can ask us to delete your information sooner. See section 12.

9. Cookies and analytics

This site uses Google Analytics 4 to measure how it is used. GA4 sets cookies in your browser to recognize repeat visits and group page views into a session, and records events such as clicking a call-to-action, clicking a phone or email link, opening an FAQ, and submitting the form.

Google processes this as our analytics provider, under Google's own privacy policy at policies.google.com/privacy.

To opt out, use Google's browser add-on at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout, or block cookies in your browser settings. Blocking it does not affect the site; the contact form works either way.

10. Advertising: Meta and Google

This site uses advertising and measurement tools from Meta (the company behind Facebook and Instagram) and from Google. We advertise on those platforms, and these tools are how we find out whether the advertising works.

The Meta Pixel records the same kinds of actions described above (pages viewed, a call-to-action clicked, the form submitted) and sends them to Meta together with your IP address and browser details. If you have a Facebook or Instagram account, Meta may be able to connect that activity to it. That is Meta's doing rather than ours, which is why it is written here plainly instead of buried.

Google Ads tags work the same way, and additionally allow remarketing: having visited this site, you may later be shown our ads elsewhere on Google's network, including search results and YouTube.

In practice: you may see ads for DG Precise on Facebook, Instagram, Google or YouTube after visiting this site, and we can see how many people who clicked an ad went on to inquire.

What we do not do: we do not upload your inquiry details, your license number, your job address or any project document to either platform, and we do not build advertising audiences out of anything you type into a form.

To limit it: Meta's controls are under Settings → Ads, including Off-Facebook Activity. Google's are at adssettings.google.com. Browser tracking protection, an ad blocker, or blocking third-party cookies will also stop it.

If either tool is not running at the moment you read this, nothing here is collected by it. This section describes the fullest extent of what the site measures, so that it can never quietly become more than you were told.

11. Text messages

If you check the text-message box, you are agreeing to receive texts from DG Precise Permitting & Engineering about your inquiry or your permit, at the number you provided. Message frequency varies. Message and data rates may apply. Checking the box is optional and is not a condition of doing business with us.

To stop: reply STOP to any message. You will receive one confirmation and then nothing further.

For help: reply HELP to any message, or contact us directly.

Message delivery depends on your mobile carrier, and carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.

No mobile information will be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. We do not sell, rent or trade your mobile number or your consent.

The full terms for the messaging program are on the SMS Terms page.

12. Your choices

See it. Ask what we hold about you and we will tell you.

Fix it. If something is wrong, tell us and we will correct it.

Delete it. Ask us to delete your inquiry and we will, unless we need to keep it for an active project, a professional record-retention obligation, or a legal reason. If that applies we will tell you which.

Understand the limit. We cannot delete anything already filed with a building department or recorded with the Clerk of Court. See section 6.

Stop texts. Reply STOP, as in section 11.

Contact us using the details in section 1. We will respond within 30 days, and normally much sooner.

13. Security

The site is served over HTTPS and submissions travel over an encrypted connection.

No method of transmitting data over the internet is completely secure, and we are not going to claim otherwise. Please do not send highly sensitive material, such as passwords, account numbers or financial details, through the contact form. If a project requires something like that, we will arrange a secure route.

14. Children

This site is for construction businesses. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18.

15. Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version is posted here with a new effective date. Material changes to how we handle information already collected will be flagged at the top of this page.