ORCA Roads ("we," "our," or "us") is an AI-powered road assessment company. We collect and retain project data to perform assessments and to improve our models. This policy explains what we collect, how we use it, and who we share it with. We do not sell your data.
We collect information you provide directly to us when you:
This may include your name, organization, job title, email address, phone number, mailing address, and the geographic data you share with us for assessment purposes.
We may also automatically collect limited technical information when you visit our website, such as your IP address, browser type, referring URLs, and pages visited, via standard web server logs or analytics tools.
When municipalities and clients provide road shapefiles, aerial imagery, or GIS data for assessment purposes, that data is used to perform the contracted assessment and is retained by ORCA Roads indefinitely for the following purposes:
Road network data (geometries, shapefiles, GIS attributes) is generally public-domain infrastructure data. Assessment results produced from that data are retained as part of our model training corpus. If you have concerns about a specific dataset, contact us to discuss options.
Assessment deliverables (GeoJSON, PDF reports, shapefiles) generated from client data are provided to the client upon delivery and full payment for their unrestricted use.
We use the information we collect to:
We do not send unsolicited marketing emails. Communications from us are in response to a request you initiated or as part of an active service engagement.
We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information or project data. We share data only as necessary to operate our services:
We implement reasonable measures to protect your information against unauthorized access or disclosure, including access controls limiting data access to project personnel. No method of internet transmission or storage is 100% secure, and we make no warranty of absolute security. Contact us directly if you have specific data transfer concerns.
We retain client contact information, project data, and assessment results indefinitely. Retention serves our ongoing model training and improvement purposes, as well as professional engineering record-keeping requirements under Illinois and Wisconsin PE licensing rules. You may request deletion of personal contact information (name, email, phone) by contacting us, though we are not obligated to delete road network data or assessment results that have been incorporated into our model training corpus.
Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have the right to:
To exercise these rights, contact us at assessments@orcaroads.com.
Our website may use minimal analytics tools to understand visitor traffic in aggregate. We do not use invasive tracking cookies or cross-site advertising trackers. You can disable cookies in your browser settings without affecting your ability to access our content.
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically. Material changes will be noted on this page with an updated effective date. Continued use of our services following notice of changes constitutes acceptance.
For privacy questions, data requests, or concerns: