HomeAngel’s Privacy Policy
Last updated: May 24, 2011
HomeAngel Property Management Group, LLC. ("HomeAngel" or "we") Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand how we collect and use information on the HomeAngel website (the "Site").
By registering on or visiting the Site, you are acknowledging and accepting this Privacy Policy.We may from time-to-time revise this Privacy Policy, and the date of last revision will be available at the top of this page, so please be sure to check back periodically. Your continued use of the Site after changes have been posted to the Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such changes.
The Information We Collect
Personally identifiable information is information that others can use to identify you, such as your name, address, email address, or phone number. When you register on and throughout your use of the Site you provide HomeAngel with certain personally identifiable information including without limitation your name, address, zip code, email address, telephone number, information about whether you plan on buying and/or selling property, home search criteria and other information related to the lease or purchase of property. If you register or log on to the Site through Facebook, you agree to allow Facebook to share additional information with HomeAngel including your name, email address, profile picture, gender, user ID, list of friends and any other information that you have made publicly available on Facebook.
Additionally, HomeAngel servers automatically record information sent by your browser when you use the HomeAngel Site, including Internet Protocol address, browser type and language, and date and time of request. We may also collect information using cookies, web beacons or similar technologies.
When you send email or other communication to HomeAngel, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our service.
How We Use Information
Depending on your use of the Site and the services you request from HomeAngel, we may use your personally identifiable information for the following purposes:
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To enable HomeAngel Agents to contact you and provide personal service, or to provide you with personalized content, including email messages, E-Mail Alerts and/or search results.
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To facilitate all aspects of the lease or purchase (or potential sale and/or purchase) of real estate.
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For the purposes for which you provided the information, including to process and respond to inquiries and to contact you about services you have requested.
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To improve the features, content and navigability of the Site.
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To solicit your feedback about our services.
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To alert you to new Site features, promotions, services, and to deliver other information from which you may opt out.
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To enforce the Terms of Use.
In the future, we may sell some or all or our assets. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets. In the event of a sale of our assets including our database, customer information will be transferred. We will require buyers to honor our privacy policy.
Sharing Of Information
HomeAngel may disclose your personally identifiable information to another entity (i) for purposes of outsourcing one or more of the functions described in the previous section; (ii) to confirm or update information provided by you; (iii) to inform you of important information; (iv) as a part of a sale of assets as described in the previous section; (v) with other companies for the purposes of marketing products to you after obtaining your consent; and/or (vi) as otherwise authorized by you.
HomeAngel will provide you with an opportunity to opt-in to share information with and receive information from HomeAngel or third parties. When you opt-in to share and receive information from HomeAngel or third parties, your information will be shared at HomeAngel discretion. You may at any point withdraw your consent to share information with HomeAngel or third parties by sending an email with the subject "Do Not Share Information" to service@HomeAngel.com. HomeAngel will stop sharing your information within 10 (ten) days after receiving your request; provided, however, that information shared prior to that time will remain in the possession of HomeAngel or third parties and may continue to be used consistent with this Privacy Policy.
HomeAngel may share your personally identifiable information with third parties involved with your sale, lease, and/or purchase (or potential sale and/or purchase) of real estate. These third parties include, but are not limited to insurance providers, lenders, appraisers, home warranty providers, or inspectors. HomeAngel may also share your personally identifiable information with other third parties, including but not limited to third-party real-estate agents and/or third-party real-estate brokers involved in your sale, lease, and/or purchase (or potential sale and/or purchase) of real estate.
You may choose to work with companies who are third parties and who are not affiliated with or related to HomeAngel, including without limitation, lending institutions, title companies, insurers, appraisers, home warranty companies, real-estate agents, real-estate brokers and other service providers, in connection with your real-estate transaction. These companies may each have their own privacy policies governing how they handle your personally identifiable information. HomeAngel accepts no responsibility or liability for third-party privacy policies or the actions of any third party with respect to your personally identifiable information.
We may also share your information in response to a subpoena, legal order or official request, when we believe you have acted in violation of the Terms of Use, or when we believe that doing so may protect your safety or the safety of others.
Information that is de-identified (stripped of any information that could be used to identify you) may be used by HomeAngel for any reason and shared freely with affiliates, the press, partners and third parties. This information is usually aggregated (combined with information from many other users), and may include information such as Site traffic patterns, trends, demographics, search patterns and other information.
Third-Party Advertising
Third-party advertisers may serve you ads when you visit the Site. Some of these companies may use information about your visits to HomeAngel and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you.
How We Use Cookies
A "cookie" is a small data file that can be placed on your hard drive when you visit certain websites. When you visit the Site, HomeAngel sends one or more cookies to your computer that uniquely identifies your Internet browser. We use cookies to collect, store and sometimes track information for statistical purposes to improve the services we provide. If you are a registered user, we will use a cookie to save your settings and to provide customizable and personalized services. Advertisers and third parties may also use their own cookies over which HomeAngel has no control.
How We Protect Information
HomeAngel attempts to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of your personally identifiable information. Our servers are protected by reasonable physical and electronic security measures.
Links
The Site may contain links to third-party websites. HomeAngel is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.
Illinois Privacy Rights
Construction of the disclaimers above and resolution of disputes thereof are governed by the laws of the State of Illinois. The laws of the State of Illinois, U.S.A., shall apply to all uses of this data and this system. By use of this system and any data contained therein, the user agrees that use shall conform to all applicable laws and regulations and user shall not violate the rights of any third parties.
Viewing and Updating Your Information
You may edit your preferences or request changes to the information you have provided at any time by sending email to service@homeangel.com or mail to HomeAngel Property Management Group, LLC., PO BOX 1623, Plainfield, IL 60544, or by using the Site.
Contact
If you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact service@HomeAngel.com
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