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Home123.com
is committed to respecting the privacy of our website visitors. To demonstrate
that commitment, we have developed this website privacy policy. The Home123.com
website privacy policy is intended to address the following areas:
Information that Home123.com collects
when you visit the website.
How Home123.com collects information
from visitors to the website.
How Home123.com uses the information
that we collect.
Who Home123.com may share the
information with.
How Home123.com protects your personal
information.
How you may access and change the
information that Home123.com collects.
Children under the age of 13.
You should
carefully read this website privacy policy because it could affect your use of
the Home123.com website, and the services that Home123.com offers through the
website. But it may not necessarily apply to many of the transactions that you
may be able to conduct through (or learn about) on the website.
Each
financial institution that you link to through the Home123.com website will have
other privacy practices that must be followed as required by federal law. Those
privacy practices will relate to your relationship with each particular
financial institution or their affiliates. Home123.com, as a non-banking or
financial institution, is not responsible for the privacy practices of banks or
other financial institutions that you establish business relationships via
Home123.com.
Information that Home123.com collects
when you visit the website.
Home123.com
may collect personal information such as name, telephone number, email address,
social security number, and home or mailing address when you access certain
areas of the website that require registration for certain services. At other
times, Home123.com may collect information that cannot be used to identify you.
For example, we may aggregate non-personal information about you and other
customers who visit our website. Aggregated information will not contain any
information that can be linked directly back to you. Such information will be
used to analyze the effectiveness of our business and advertising models.
In order to
provide you with effective services, we may collect personal and non-personal
information about you from our affiliated entities, business partners, service
providers, and other third parties. For example, we may obtain information about
your home, the services that you purchased for your home, or other demographic
information.
How Home123.com collects information
from visitors to the website.
Home123.com
uses a number of tools to collect information about you, your computer, and the
web browser that you use to connect to our website. For example, cookies are
tiny text files that we place on your computer’s hard drive when you visit our
website. We use cookies to personalize your website experience. We collect
information on the pages that you visit, the advertisements that you click, and
other actions that you take while using our website. You do not have to accept
our cookies and you may delete them after they have been placed on your hard
drive. If you do not accept or delete our cookies, some areas of our website
that you access may not function properly.
Home123.com
also collects additional information from your web browser each time you visit
our website. This information includes your IP address, the type of browser, the
time that your browser was used to access our website, the content from our
cookies, and the referring website address. We may also use other standard
web-based technologies to analyze your movements while accessing our website.
The technologies include, web “beacons,” “pixel tags,” and “clear gifs.” These
technologies help us ascertain the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns,
allow us to customize the services offered on our website, and help determine
the best use for website content and programming. Some of this information,
including the IP address that we obtain from your browser, is stored on our
server logs, and may be available for extended periods of time.
Sometimes our
authorized service providers, business partners, or other affiliated businesses
and ad networks display advertisements on our website. Tracking technologies
may be used to monitor your interactions with the advertisements while on the
website. The technology will allow Home123.com to provide targeted advertising
and evaluate the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.
How
Home123.com uses the information that we collect.
Home123.com
uses the information that we collect about you to deliver products and services
specific to your needs, to help organize and manage your customer relationship
and our business, to conduct business, to provide you with customer support, to
perform functions that are described to you at the time of collection, and to
enforce our Terms & Conditions. Home123.com may use your personal information
to contact you via mail or email, or telephone or mobile devices in order to
give you updates about Home123.com or other third parties’ product and service
offerings, and promotional events that may be of interest to you.
If you are
applying for employment with Home123.com we will use that information solely in
connection with your application for current or future positions of employment,
and we may also share your application information with our third parties,
business partners, or affiliates that have positions that you may be qualified
for.
We may also
share your personal information with real estate and financial professionals and
their related businesses, credit bureaus, other institutions, as well as
companies that help us promote contests and sweepstakes.
Special
notice to California residents:
Home123.com
will not share any personal information about you with our affiliates to the
extent prohibited by California law, unless you agree otherwise as authorized by
your prior written consent.
California
residents have the right to request information from us regarding the manner
that we may share personal information with affiliated companies and other third
parties for their direct marketing purposes. To find out what and how we share
such information, you may send us an email request at webmaster@home123.com or
mail a request to Home123, 2033 Milwaukee Ave, Suite 237, Riverwoods, IL 60015,
Attn California Resident, and receive the following
information:
1. The
categories of information we disclosed to third parties for their direct
marketing purposes during the preceding year;
2. The names
and addresses of the third parties who received information for their direct
marketing purposes; and
3. Examples
of the products and services subject to the third parties direct marketing
programs, if the nature of the third parties’ business cannot be determined from
their names.
Home123.com
may also disclose your personal information as is necessary to: (a) comply with
a subpoena or court order; (b) cooperate with law enforcement or other
government agency; (c) establish or exercise our legal rights; (d) protect the
property or safety of our company and employees; (e) defend against legal
claims; (f) help with internal and external investigations; or (g) as otherwise
required by law or permitted by law. We may disclose your information in
connection with the sale or merger of Home123.com, or any transaction that
involves the sale or assignment of some or all of our assets.
Some of the
third parties with whom we share personal information may have their own website
privacy policies. If that is the case, those entities’ website privacy policies
will govern the use, handling and further disclosure by the third parties of
your personal information once we have shared your personal information with
such third parties. You should visit the websites and read the privacy policies
of those third parties. Some third parties merely provide links to our website.
And those third parties will also have separate privacy policies that will
govern how your information is used by those websites.
How Home123.com protects your
personal information.
Home123.com
has implemented physical, electronic, and procedural security measures to assist
with safeguarding your personal information, and to help protect against
unauthorized access and disclosure. Only our employees and authorized service
providers who are performing legitimate business functions for Home123.com are
permitted to access your personal information. We also use encryption to protect
any sensitive personal information that is transmitted or authorized to be
transmitted by Home123.com, and we also use electronic firewalls to help prevent
unauthorized individuals from gaining access to your personal data.
Notwithstanding our efforts, the Internet has inherent security risks.
Home123.com cannot promise, and you should not expect, that your personal
information, personal searches, and other communications will always remain
secure. You should take care with regard to how you handle and disclose your
personal information.
How you may access and change the
information that Home123.com collects.
The first
time that you provide us with registration information through our website, you
will be able to decide whether you want to subscribe to Financial Institutions
emails or newsletters. After your first use, you can change your initial choices
by contacting customer service email at webmaster@home123.com. Each commercial
email that we send to you, will offer you the opportunity to opt-out of
continuing to receive such messages. We may take up to 10 days to process your
opt-out requests. In some instances, we may have already shared your information
with one of our authorized third parties before you changed your email and
newsletter choices. FTC email compliance guidance allows us to send you
transactional and relationship email without offering you the opportunity to
opt-out of receiving those types of email. In those cases, you may have
to directly contact those third parties to opt-out of receiving their
communications.
Children
Under the Age of 13
Home123.com’s
website is a general audience website. But Home123.com’s content is neither
directed toward minors nor children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly
collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If Home123.com
becomes aware that a child under the age of 13 has provided us with personal
information, that information will be deleted from our databases. Parents who
have questions about personal information that may have been submitted by a
child under the age of 13 should email us at childrensprivacy@home123.com.
Home123.com
is owned by PBG Financial Service LTD, and operated by Brandivation, LLC, a
Delaware Limited Liability Company. Whenever we make a material change to
this Privacy Policy, we will post a notice on the Home123.com home page. The
notice will inform you the Privacy Policy has been posted as of the dated last
updated.
If you have
provided Home123.com with personal information, we will always offer you the
opportunity to choose whether to receive communications from us at the time you
provide us with that information. You can always update your personal
information and communication preferences by contacting us at onlinesupport@home123.com.
If you have
any questions regarding this privacy policy, please email us at
privacy@home123.com. |