Privacy Policy
1. Information collected. You are not required to provide personally identifiable information to visit the Websites; however, in order to take advantage of certain features you may need to provide some personally identifiable information.
• User Name and Password on the MLS Map search feature. In order to access your personally saved searches, you must enter your applicable user name(s) and password(s). To use the basic services of this Website, you do not have to enter any information unless you elect to.
• Aggregate Usage Data. 94598Homes.com may collect usage data and other information on all users, including data about their usage of the site and its various features, but it is not personally identifiable except as described below under the IP Addresses section.
• Platform Applications. 94598Homes.com has entered into agreements with third party developers (“Developers”) to make their applications available through the 94598Homes.com Platform so that you can use them through the Websites (the “Platform Applications”). In order to enable the Platform Applications to work, 94598Homes.com may need to provide the developers with your 94598Homes.com user name or other personally identifiable information that is related to your use of the Platform Application. 94598Homes.com has required that the Developers only use this information to provide the Platform Application to you and not disclose it to any third party.
In addition, some of the Platform Applications may collect personally identifiable information from you directly. In that case, any information that you provide through the Platform Application will be governed by the Developer’s privacy policy, which you should review carefully before using the Platform Application. Each Developer will be solely responsible for complying with its own privacy policy.
2. Posting. Users of the Websites may post messages regarding various topics in the posting areas of the Websites, including but not limited to chats and 94598Homes.com Rooms. Such messages may be saved on our servers and may be accessible to the public. In addition, chats in a given 94598Homes.com Room are saved on our servers as a chat log (a “Chat History”) and the Chat History will be accessible to the users of that 94598Homes.com Room, who may include law officers and other authorities. To the extent that your message and/or any Chat History include personally identifiable information, such information may be saved on our server(s) and may be disclosed to the public in perpetuity.
3. Cookies. 94598Homes.com may use cookies on the Websites. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer’s hard drive by our servers to identify your computer to our servers. Except as provided in Section 5, below, no personally identifiable information stored in the 94598Homes.com cookies will be shared with outside companies for any purpose without your permission. You can also disable cookies or otherwise manage them through tools provided with your browser software and with third-party software packages, or not use the features that require cookies.
We and our advertisers may use third-party companies to serve ads when you visit the Websites. These third-party ad-serving companies may also place cookies on your computer. Sometimes these cookies may be used to provide targeted advertising to you. These advertising companies may also use web beacons to help manage and optimize our online advertising.
To the extent that 94598Homes.com allows advertisers or other third parties to use cookies or web beacons on the Websites, 94598Homes.com will require that they agree to adopt a substantially similar privacy policy with respect to your information. Some third-party ad serving companies have agreed to allow users to opt-out of receiving targeted advertising.
4. IP Addresses. 94598Homes.com compiles logs of IP addresses of visitors to the Websites for administrative and analytical purposes. 94598Homes.com does not routinely collect any personally identifiable information through its compilation of IP address or the location of computers on the Internet. However, in cases of suspected abuse or service problems, 94598Homes.com may use an IP address in conjunction with other personally identifiable information to enforce our Terms of Use and/or to protect or troubleshoot the Website, its users or others who may be affected. Except as provided in Section 5, below, 94598Homes.com will not share personally identifiable information associated with IP addresses with third parties without your permission.
94598Homes.com may share data about aggregate IP addresses, but such data does not include personally identifiable information.
5. Sharing of Information. 94598Homes.com may share personally identifiable information with third parties in the following cases:
• to enable the normal course of functionality of the Websites (for example, your user name(s) and password(s) will be shared with your message services in order to permit you to send or receive massages). 94598Homes.com engages third party service providers in the normal course to help in the operation of its business. We may share your personally identifiable information with these third party service providers to the extent necessary for them to provide their services, on the condition that the third party maintains the information as confidential and uses the information only to perform the services specified by 94598Homes.com;
• 94598Homes.com may provide your user name and other personal information to the Developers who provide Platform Applications, as described above;
• as part of 94598Homes.com’s social features, as described above;
• to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, to prevent fraud or imminent harm, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims; and/or
• in the event that 94598Homes.com is acquired by or merged with another company, 94598Homes.com will transfer information about you to that other company.
94598Homes.com reserves the right to send you certain communications relating to the Websites and the services offered thereby, such as service announcements and administrative messages, but we plan on doing so sparingly, if ever. In any case, we reserve the right to contact you regarding violation of this privacy policy, the Terms of Use, and any other violation of law or applicable regulations and policies.
6. Notification of Changes. Any changes to this policy will be posted on the Websites in this location.
7. Links to Other Sites. The Websites contain links to and media and other content from other sites. In addition, such third-party media and content may also contain external links. Because of the dynamic media capabilities of the Websites, it may not be clear to you which links are embedded in the Websites and which are embedded in third-party media and/or content. Although 94598Homes.com requires our business partners and advertisers to adopt privacy policies similar to this privacy policy with respect to any information collected on the Websites, 94598Homes.com cannot and does not guarantee the privacy policies and practices of any third party, including the Developers who provide the Platform Applications. 94598Homes.com does not control, operate or endorse any information, products or services of any third-party websites that may be reached through links from the Websites or of any Platform Application. The use of any personal information provided to such a third party will be governed by that party’s privacy policy.
8. Acceptance. This privacy policy is incorporated into and subject to the terms and conditions of 94598Homes.com’s Terms of Use, available on the Website. Use of the Website and the services offered thereby is subject to your compliance with the Terms of Use, which constitutes a legal agreement between you and 94598Homes.com. Each time you use the Website and the services offered thereby you signify that you have read, understood and agree to be bound by the Terms of Use, which incorporates the privacy policy, and the applicable posted guidelines. USE OF THE WEBSITE AND THE SERVICES OFFERED THEREBY SIGNIFIES THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE TERMS OF USE AND THE PRIVACY POLICY. If you do not agree with the terms of either of these documents, please do not provide 94598Homes.com with any information and do not use the Website and the services offered thereby. Your continued use of the Websites and the services offered thereby in light of changes to this privacy policy, the Terms of Use, or to the relevant principles thereof will signify your acceptance of the changes. |