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Web Site Privacy Policy
Homes Just Listed, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as "Homes Just Listed") is
committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Please read the following policy
to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use
of our many offerings. This policy may change from time to time so please check
back periodically.
This policy will let you know:
- What personally identifiable information is collected from
you;
- What cookies are and how they are used;
- How your information is used;
- Who is collecting your information;
- With whom your information may be shared;
- What choices are available to you regarding collection,
use, and distribution of your information;
- How you can access, update or delete your information;
- How Homes Just Listed treats your personal and financial
related information;
- The kind of security precautions that are in place to
protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of your information;
- How Homes Just Listed protects children's privacy; and
- What else you should know about your online privacy.
1. What personally identifiable information does
Homes Just Listed collect from me?
Homes Just Listed collects information in several ways. Some personal
information is gathered when you register. During registration, Homes Just
Listed asks for your name, email address, birth date, gender, zip code,
occupation, industry and personal interests. The more information you volunteer
(and the more accurate it is), the better we are able to customize your
experience.
In addition, we may ask you for personal information at other times,
including (but not limited to) when you enter a sweepstakes, contest or
promotion sponsored by Homes Just Listed and/or one of our affiliates; when you
make a purchase from Homes Just Listed; and when you report a problem with our
services. If you contact Homes Just Listed we may keep a record of that
correspondence. Homes Just Listed also occasionally asks users to complete
surveys that we use for research purposes. Wherever Homes Just Listed collects
personal information we make an effort to include a link to this Privacy Policy
on that page.
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2. What are cookies and how does Homes Just
Listed use them?
As part of offering and providing customizable and personalized services,
Homes Just Listed uses cookies to store and sometimes track information about
you. A "cookie" is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a
web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. All sites on Homes Just
Listed where you are prompted to login or that are customizable require that you
accept cookies. (See "What are my choices regarding collection, use and
distribution of my information?" for more information on cookies.)
Generally, we use cookies to:
- Remind us of who you are and to access your account information (stored on
our computers) in order to deliver to you a better and more personalized
service. This cookie is set when you register or "Sign In" and is modified when
you "Sign Out" of our services.
- Estimate our audience size. Each browser accessing Homes Just Listed is
given a unique cookie which is then used to determine the extent of repeat
usage, usage by a registered user versus by an unregistered user, and to help
target advertisements based on user interests and behavior.
- Assist merchants linked to Homes Just Listed to track visits to and business
at their stores, and to process the items in your shopping basket. This
information collected by cookies is sometimes called "clickstream" or "click
trail" and may also describe which pages you have seen in each merchant's store.
- Track your progress and number of entries in some of our promotions,
sweepstakes and contests. When a Homes Just Listed hosted promotion uses
cookies, the information written to the cookie indicates the player's progress
through the promotion, and may be used to track entries, submissions, and status
in prize drawings.
- Measure certain traffic patterns, and your visiting patterns in the
aggregate. We use this research to understand how our users' habits are similar
or different from one another so that we can make each new experience on Homes
Just Listed a better one. We may use this information to better personalize the
content, banners, and promotions that you and other users will see on our sites.
Advertising networks that serve ads onto Homes Just Listed may also use their
own cookies.
Homes Just Listed also collects IP addresses for system administration and to
report aggregate information to our advertisers.
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3. How does Homes Just Listed use my information?
Homes Just Listed's primary goal in collecting personal information is to
provide you, the user, with a customized browsing experience. This includes
personalization services, interactive communications, online shopping and many
other types of services, many of which are completely free to you. In order to
provide services free of charge, we display advertisements. By knowing a little
about you, Homes Just Listed is able to deliver more relevant advertisements and
content, and hence better service, to you.
In our role of delivering targeted advertisements, Homes Just Listed plays
the middleman. Advertisers give us an advertisement and tell us the type of
audience they want to reach (for example, homes for sale in Pennsylvania). Homes
Just Listed takes the advertisement and displays it to users meeting those
criteria. In this process, the advertiser never has access to individual account
information. Only Homes Just Listed has access to individuals' accounts. This
kind of advertisement targeting is done with banner ads. You will only receive
special offers via email from Homes Just Listed if you have indicated in your
account preferences that you would like to receive them. You can change your
account preferences at any time.
Homes Just Listed does research on our users' demographics, interests, and
behavior based on the information provided to us upon registration, during a
promotion, from our server log files or from surveys. We do this to better
understand and serve our users. This research is compiled and analyzed on an
aggregated basis. Homes Just Listed may share this aggregated data with
advertisers or business affiliates.
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4. Who is collecting information?
When you are using Homes Just Listed and are asked for personal information,
you are sharing that information with Homes Just Listed alone, unless it is
specifically stated otherwise. For example, some Homes Just Listed services are
offered in conjunction with an affiliated company. In order to provide this
cobranded service to you, it is necessary for us to share your personal
information with our affiliated company. If data is being collected and/or
maintained by any company other than Homes Just Listed, you will be notified
prior to the time of the data collection or transfer. If you do not want your
data to be shared, you can choose not to allow the transfer by not using that
particular service.
Promotions that run on Homes Just Listed may be sponsored by companies other
than Homes Just Listed or may be cosponsored by Homes Just Listed and another
company. Some or all data collected during a promotion may be shared with the
sponsor. If data will be shared, you will be notified prior to the time of data
collection or transfer. You can decide not to participate in the promotion if
you don't want your data to be shared.
Please be aware that Homes Just Listed advertisers or web sites that have
links on our site may collect personally identifiable information about you. The
information practices of those web sites linked to Homes Just Listed are not
covered by this privacy statement.
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5. With whom does Homes Just Listed share my
information?
As a general rule, Homes Just Listed will not disclose any of your personally
identifiable information except when we have your permission or under special
circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the law requires it or
under the circumstances described below. The following describes some of the
ways that your information may be disclosed.
Business Affiliates & Sponsors: Homes Just Listed may disclose your
personal information to business affiliates or sponsors, but this is
specifically described to you prior to data collection or prior to transferring
the data. Some or all data collected during a Homes Just Listed promotion may be
shared with a sponsor. If personally identifying data about you will be shared,
we will tell you before we collect or transfer the data.
Many promotions offer opportunities to request additional information from
sponsors. By requesting more information, you give Homes Just Listed permission
to transfer your personal information to the sponsor so they can fulfill your
request. In many instances, only your email address will be shared. If more
information will be shared with the sponsor, you will be notified prior to the
transfer.
Merchants: If you make a purchase from a merchant linked to Homes
Just Listed, the information obtained during your visit to that merchant, and
the information you give such as your credit card number and contact
information, is provided to the merchants. This is to enable transactions to
take place.
Merchants linked to Homes Just Listed have separate privacy and data
collection practices. Homes Just Listed has no responsibility or liability for
these independent policies. For more information regarding the merchant, their
store, and their privacy policies, return to that store's home page and click on
their Information link.
From time to time, you may be offered the opportunity to receive materials or
special offers from third parties. If you opt-in to receive information from
these third parties, Homes Just Listed will (with your permission) share your
name and email address with them.
Third Party Data and Data in the Aggregate: Under confidentiality
agreements, Homes Just Listed may match user information with third party data.
Also, Homes Just Listed discloses aggregated user statistics (for example, 45%
of our users are female) in order to describe our services to prospective
affiliates, advertisers, and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes.
Other: Homes Just Listed may also disclose account information in
special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is
necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be
violating Homes Just Listed's Terms and Conditions of Use or may be causing
injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) Homes
Just Listed's rights or property, other Homes Just Listed users, or anyone else
that could be harmed by such activities. Homes Just Listed may disclose or
access account information when we believe in good faith that the law requires
it and for administrative and other purposes that we deem necessary to maintain,
service, and improve our products and services.
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6. What are my choices regarding collection, use,
and distribution of my information?
Homes Just Listed may, from time to time, send you email regarding our
products and services. In addition, if you indicated upon registration that you
are interested in receiving offers or information from Homes Just Listed and our
affiliates, we may occasionally send you direct mail about products and services
that we feel may be of interest to you. Only Homes Just Listed (or agents
working on behalf of Homes Just Listed and under confidentiality agreements)
will send you these direct mailings and only if you indicated that you do not
object to these offers. If you do not want to receive such mailings, simply tell
us when you give us your personal information. Or, at any time you can easily
edit your Homes Just Listed Account Information to no longer receive such offers
and mailings. You will need your Homes Just Listed User ID and Password in order
to access your Homes Just Listed Account Information.
On some types of Homes Just Listed promotions, we will ask for your email
address in order to update you on your score, entries, and status in prize
drawings. When you participate in these types of promotions, you automatically
receive promotion-related email, unless you choose the no-email option that some
promotions offer. Occasionally these promotion related email messages may
include targeted advertisements.
You also have choices with respect to cookies. By modifying your browser
preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies, to be notified when a
cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. If you choose to reject all cookies you
will be unable to use those Homes Just Listed services that require registration
in order to participate.
Homes Just Listed does not sell or rent user information to anyone. We will
notify you at the time of data collection or transfer if your data will be
shared with a third party and you will always have the option of not permitting
the transfer. If you do not wish to allow your data to be shared, you can choose
not to use a particular service or not to participate in certain promotions or
contests.
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7. What is Homes Just Listed's policy on allowing
me to update, correct, or delete my personally identifiable information?
You may edit your Homes Just Listed Account Information at any time by using
your Homes Just Listed User ID and password. If you have forgotten your
password, please click here to retrieve your
password. For all other problems signing in to Homes Just Listed, please
click here.
If you are participating in a Homes Just Listed promotion and you wish to
update your email address on the promotions mailing list or to quit a promotion
and cease receiving promotion related email, please contact
promotionsfeedback@HomesJustListed.com.
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8. How does Homes Just Listed protect my personal
and financial related information?
Keeping your personal financial information private is vitally important to
us.
Knowing that you use certain services or features may help us to offer you
better and more relevant content and advertisements. But as with all personally
identifiable information, we do not make this available to any third parties
without your permission. Any user statistics that we may provide to prospective
advertisers or affiliates regarding financial product or service usage on Homes
Just Listed are provided in the aggregate only and do not include any personally
identifiable information about any individual user.
Please note that there are several places on Homes Just Listed where you can
transmit credit card information in order to complete a purchase transaction or
for verification purposes. Any time we ask for a credit card number we transmit
that credit card number in an encrypted format. We use industry standard, SSL
(secure socket layer) encryption.
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9. What security precautions are in place to
protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of my information?
Your Homes Just Listed Account Information is password protected so that you
and only you have access to this personal information. You may edit your Homes
Just Listed Account Information by using your Homes Just Listed User ID and
password.
We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. Homes Just
Listed will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or in
an unsolicited email. Also remember to sign out of your Homes Just Listed
account and close your browser window when you have finished your work. This is
to ensure that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence
if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public
place like a library or Internet cafe.
When you give Homes Just Listed personal information, that information may be
sent electronically to servers outside of the country where you originally
entered the information, such as to the United States or other countries. In
addition, that information may be used, stored and processed outside of the
country where you entered that information. Whenever Homes Just Listed handles
personal information as described above, regardless of where this occurs, Homes
Just Listed takes steps to ensure that your information is treated securely and
in accordance with the relevant Terms and Conditions of Use and this Privacy
Policy.
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be
100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information,
Homes Just Listed cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you
transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you do so at your
own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure
its security on our systems.
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10. What about children's privacy?
Naturally, the safety of children is very important to us. Homes Just Listed
is a general audience web site. Children should always ask a parent for
permission before sending personal information to anyone online. Homes Just
Listed does not share personal information about users under the age of 13 with
third parties and we do not sell or rent personal information about any of our
users, regardless of age. In addition, Homes Just Listed will not send any
direct email offers to users who indicate they are under the age of 13.
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11. What else should I know about my privacy?
Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal
information online, for example on message boards, through email, or in chat
areas that information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you
post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may
receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.
Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your
passwords and/or any account information. Please be careful and responsible
whenever you're online.
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Additional Information
Questions regarding this statement should be directed to privacypolicy@HomesJustListed.com.
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