HomesByOwner Site Ownership Privacy Statement
This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for the site ownership inquiries at http://www.homesbyowner.com/national_opportunity.asp.
HomesByOwner
is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this
information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this
statement. HomesByOwner collects
information from our users at several different points on our website. For the site ownership inquiry form, we collect information from businesses
that are interested in working with For sale by owner (FSBO) clients in thier local area by establishing a local FSBO site.
In order to contact local businesses that are
interested in working with For Sale By Owner clients in their area, we collect contact information from these businesses by asking them
to fill out a form with their contact information. This information is used by HomesByOwner
to contact the business about the services on our site for which they have expressed interest. This information will not be sold or used for other purposes than contacting the business to discuss the site ownership opportunity. If you are not comfortable filling out the information in this form, you can also send an inquiry to info@homesbyowner.com or call us at (800) 453-0331.
A
cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing
information about the user. Usage of a
cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on
our site. Once the user closes their
browser, the cookie simply terminates.
For instance, by setting a cookie on our site, the user would not have
to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our
site. If a user rejects the cookie,
they may still use our site. The only
drawback to this is that the user will be limited in some areas of our
site. Cookies can also enable us to
track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our
site.
Some
of our business partners use cookies on our site (for example,
advertisers). However, we have no
access to or control over these cookies.
We
use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement,
and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally
identifiable information.
We
will share aggregated demographic information with our partners and
advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify
any individual person.
We use third-party advertising
companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name,
address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide
advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to
serve ads on this site. Google's uses the DART cookie to enables it to serve ads to users based on their visit
to this sites and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the
Google ad and content network privacy policy
We
use an outside shipping company to ship orders, and a credit card processing
company to bill users for goods and services. These companies do not retain,
share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary
purposes.
This
web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that HomesByOwner is not
responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they
leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site
that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by
this Web site.
This website takes every precaution to protect our
users’ information. When users submit
sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both
online and off-line.
When our registration/order form asks users to enter
sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security
number), that information is encrypted and is protected with the best
encryption software in the industry - SSL.
While on a secure page, such as our order form, the lock icon on the
bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet
Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or open, when you are just
‘surfing’.
If you have any questions about the security at our
website, you can send an email to info@homesbyowner.com.
Correction/Updating Personal
Information:
If
a user’s personally identifiable information changes (such as your address),
or if a user no longer desires our service, we will endeavor to provide a way
to correct, update or remove that user’s personal data provided to us. This can usually be done by emailing our
Customer Support at info@homesbyowner.com
.
If
we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our
privacy statement so our users are always aware of what information we collect,
how we use it, and under circumstances we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally
identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it
was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or
not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information
in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was
collected.