# Terms of Service > **Quick answer:** Plain-language terms for using this site and our free referral service. The most important one: we're not a contractor, and your contract is always with the licensed contractor you choose. Source: https://coachellavalleyremodeling.com/terms/ Updated: 2026-11-06 Published by: Coachella Valley Remodeling, a free referral service for homeowners; not a contractor. These terms apply when you use this website or our referral service by form, phone, text or email. "We" and "us" means ProjectThunder.com, Inc., a California corporation doing business as Coachella Valley Remodeling, 42-215 Washington St. Suite A #168, Palm Desert, CA 92211. By using the site, you agree to these terms. If you don't agree, please don't use it. ## What the service is We're a free referral service for homeowners and property managers in the Coachella Valley. We learn about your project and, if it fits, introduce our licensed partner contractor, an independent contractor with an active California Contractors State License Board (CSLB) license, and only with your OK. **We are not a licensed contractor.** We don't perform, bid on, negotiate or contract for home improvement work, and we don't collect payment for work. Our coordinators don't quote prices. Our partner contractor is an independent business, responsible for its own work, license, insurance, permits and contracts. ## How we're paid The service is free for homeowners. Our partner contractor pays us a referral fee for the projects we introduce. ## Your agreements with contractors Any estimate, contract, payment, permit, schedule, warranty or dispute about the work is between you and the contractor. Before you sign: - Check the license at [cslb.ca.gov](https://www.cslb.ca.gov/) or 800-321-CSLB (2752), whether we introduced the contractor or not. - Get a written, itemized contract. In California, the down payment on a home improvement contract can't be more than 10% of the price or $1,000, whichever is less. - Know your right to cancel: three business days for most home-solicitation contracts, and five for buyers 65 and older. Our partner agreement includes [our standard](https://coachellavalleyremodeling.com/our-standard/), and we'll help mediate if something goes wrong. But we can't guarantee another company's workmanship, prices, availability or schedule, and we aren't a party to your contract. ## Cost information is not a quote Cost ranges, the cost calculator and the guides on this site are general estimates drawn from published sources, with those sources named. They are not quotes, offers or promises of a price. Only a contractor's written bid, after seeing the job, is a price. ## General information, not professional advice Information about permits, HOA approvals, materials and California law is general and may change. It isn't legal, engineering or financial advice. Confirm permit requirements with your city or Riverside County, and HOA rules with your association. ## Using the site You agree to: - give accurate information, and only your own contact details or details you're authorized to give - be the owner of the property, or have the owner's permission to arrange the work - not submit automated, fraudulent or abusive requests, scrape the site, or interfere with how it works We may decline, pause or remove any request, and we don't have to refer every project. ## Consent to contact If you check the call-and-text consent box on a form, you agree to be contacted as described next to it. Consent is not a condition of any purchase, and every form offers an email-only option. You can withdraw consent at any time by replying STOP, telling us on a call, or using the contact details at the bottom of every page. Message and data rates may apply. ## SMS Terms ProjectThunder.com, Inc. (Coachella Valley Remodeling) sends text messages from (760) 766-2218 only to people who check the text consent box on one of our forms or text us first. We text about your request: confirming it, scheduling a call or visit, and follow-ups about your project. Message frequency varies. Message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to stop at any time, or HELP for help. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. Consent to texts is not a condition of any purchase. We do not sell or share your SMS opt-in data with third parties for marketing purposes. The full text-message terms are on our [SMS Terms](https://coachellavalleyremodeling.com/sms-terms/) page. ## Photos and information you send You keep ownership of the photos and descriptions you send. You give us permission to store them, use them to refer your project, and pass them to our partner contractor once you approve the introduction. We won't publish them or use them in advertising without your separate written permission. ## Site content The text, design and code of this site belong to us or our licensors. Photographs are licensed stock images used for illustration. They don't show any contractor's work or any customer's home. You may share links to our pages, but don't copy the site's content for commercial use without permission. ## Links to other sites We link to outside sites such as the CSLB and city building departments for your convenience. We don't control them and aren't responsible for their content. ## Disclaimers The site and the referral service are provided "as is" and "as available." To the extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including about the accuracy of cost information and the availability of contractors. ## Limitation of liability To the extent the law allows, we aren't liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages from using the site or the service, or for any work, product, delay or omission by an independent contractor. Nothing in these terms limits rights you have under California law that can't be waived. ## Changes We may update these terms. The "last reviewed" date on this page shows the latest version, and changes apply from that date. Using the site afterwards means you accept the updated terms. ## Governing law California law governs these terms. Disputes about these terms or the site belong in the courts of Riverside County, California, except where the law gives you the right to another forum. ## Contact Questions about these terms: use the phone number or email at the bottom of every page, or write to the mailing address shown there. ## Related pages - [Privacy Policy](https://coachellavalleyremodeling.com/privacy/) - [How it works](https://coachellavalleyremodeling.com/how-it-works/) - [Our standard](https://coachellavalleyremodeling.com/our-standard/) - [Accessibility statement](https://coachellavalleyremodeling.com/accessibility/) - [/contractor-partners/](https://coachellavalleyremodeling.com/contractor-partners/)