| We at Apartment Owner’s REsource share your concern about the protection of your personal information online. This Privacy Policy includes the types of personal information we collect and the kinds of companies with whom we share such information. These examples are illustrative and should not be considered a complete inventory of the information collection, use or sharing practices. We will comply with applicable state laws that may restrict the types of information we may disclose or require us to provide you with additional notices.
Your policy regarding the privacy of information we collect on our web site is as follows:
Information Gathered and Tracked
We at Apartment Owner‘s REsource gather two types of data about users: (a) personal information, which individual users provide (i) when registering as a member of Apartment Owner‘s REsource, (ii) when registering to one of our premium subscription services, and (iii) voluntarily at certain other points, such as contests or surveys; and (b) tracking information, which is automatically collected about all visitors to our sites.
Personal Information
We collect personal information in several places on our web sites, which are set forth generally below. We will always provide a secure area of our sites for you to enter your information, but if you prefer, you may talk offline to a customer service representative and provide the required information over the telephone or via email.
- Membership
Currently, we do not require users to become members in order to have access to the free access to our many databases of information and services. However, if you'd like to receive one or more of our free email newsletters, gain access select commentary articles from Investment Properties and other specialized and more in depth one-on-one commentary, we require you to register here to become a member. In order to register, you'll have to supply us with your email and postal addresses, choose a unique User Name and password, and provide us with some additional information about you (the reason for your visit to ApartmentOwnersREsource.com, what kind of investor you are, etc.).
- Chats, Reader's Forum and Moderator
We provide chat events for discussion of various topics and we allow readers to submit questions to the ApartmentOwnersREsource.com Moderator. No additional personal information is required to submit questions, but participants are asked in the interests of accountability, honesty and informed dialogue to include their full names, as well as their positions they have in the situation mentioned in the question submitted. Please note that information you submit to the Reader's Forum, the Moderator, or during a chat will be available for any user of that service to read, and is no longer private.
- Surveys/Polls
At certain times, you may be asked to participate in surveys. These surveys are generally aimed at obtaining general information, such as your investment experience or your reactions to a particular article. Information obtained in these surveys is connected with individual subscribers and is used internally to better market our services. Also, our writers will on occasion take polls of their readers. Such polls are solely for the editorial use of the individual columnists. All participation in these matters is voluntary.
- Contests and Sweepstakes
Our business subscribers, found in the Classifieds, may offer contests or sweepstakes in which certain personal information is required for registration, for purposes of verifying the entrants' identities and notifying the winners. This information will be disclosed to that third party. However, entrants may select contest names distinct from their User Names, and the information is not connected with their User Names.
Tracking Information
Tracking data consists of both individual and aggregated tracking information and is automatically gathered using "cookies".
- What is a "cookie"?
A cookie is a small data file containing information, such as a user's login name, that is written to the user's hard drive by a web server and used to track the pages visited. Cookies used by ApartmentOwnersREsource.com are encoded and contain a unique digital signature to prevent tampering. They do not contain user passwords. The individual information gathered in this manner is used for internal purposes only, such as accessing a member's account information. We also use the information on an aggregate basis, to track the readership of stories and usage of our services or products, to analyze traffic patterns on our sites, and to provide anonymous reporting of usage for internal and external clients.
You can control your browser's settings regarding cookies by selecting "Internet Options" or "Preferences" in the menu bar of your browser. This will allow you to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, have your browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or disable cookies altogether. However, because cookies allow you to easily navigate our web sites without having to constantly log in using your User Name and password, we recommend that you leave them turned on.
- Tracking by our Advertisers
ApartmentOwnersREsource.com advertisers include financial services companies (such as brokerage firms, banks, and mortgage companies) and non-financial services companies (such as journeymen, retail companies, specialized services and realtors). ApartmentOwnersREsource.com’s advertisers and advertising vendors display targeted advertisements. Although Apartment Owners REsource does not provide any personal information to the advertiser or advertising vendor, by interacting with or clicking on an ad you consent to the possibility that the advertiser will assume you meet the targeting criteria used.
In addition to cookies placed by ApartmentOwnersREsource.com, described above, advertisers and advertising vendors that serve ads onto our web site may use their own cookies or other tracking technologies. We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies or practices of any such advertisers and vendors.
The privacy policy of Enter Name Here , an Description Here which also serves its clients' advertisements to our sites, can be found here. Any information that Enter Name Here collects using these cookies is completely anonymous. Enter Name Here may use information about your visits to this and other web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. Unless otherwise notified, Enter Name Here does not use names, addresses, e-mail addresses or telephone numbers, and does not link online actions to an identifiable person.
The privacy policy of Enter Name Here , an Description Here which also serves its clients' advertisements to our sites, can be found here. Any information that Enter Name Here collects using these cookies is completely anonymous. Enter Name Here may use information about your visits to this and other web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. Unless otherwise notified, Enter Name Here does not use names, addresses, e-mail addresses or telephone numbers, and does not link online actions to an identifiable person.
Use of the Information
ApartmentOwnersREsource.com uses personal information obtained from its users as stated in this Privacy Policy, and to enhance users' experiences on our sites.
Disclosures Permitted by Law
- ApartmentOwnersREsource.com does not sell or disclose personal information about you described above to with other people or nonaffiliated companies, except to provide you with products or services, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
- We provide the information on a confidential basis to nonaffiliated companies we engage as contractors or agents to perform services for us, such as maintaining software, sending direct mail or administering a sweepstakes or contest. Information will be shared with such contractors only to the extent reasonably necessary for them to perform services on our behalf, and pursuant to confidentiality obligations;
- In response to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, from law enforcement agencies or state and federal regulators;
- If we sell or otherwise transfer substantially all of our assets related to any web site that we own or operate and any product or service that we offer. In that event, we will require such third party to honor our current Privacy Policy, until the third party provides you with notice of changes to our Privacy Policy and permits you to exercise any rights you may have under applicable law to limit disclosures of information about you.
Disclosures for Joint Marketing and Servicing
ApartmentOwnersREsource.com may disclose all the information we collect as described above to other companies such as direct marketers to perform marketing services on our behalf, or to financial institutions, such as banks, insurance companies and securities broker-dealers, with whom we have joint marketing agreements.
Other Uses
- Free Newsletters
If you're a registered member of ApartmentOwnersREsource.com, we use your email address to send you free email newsletters containing selected stories, market information, advertisements and links to our sites. You can select which free newsletters you would like to receive or remove yourself from our free newsletter delivery list at any time by visiting the page or contacting our customer service department by email at rewebmaster@cox.net.
Special Offers and Advertisements
We may from time to time send you special offers and advertisements for products or services offered by third parties. We will not disclose any of your personal information to such third parties when we do this. If you do not wish to receive third party offers and advertisements, please change your settings on page or by contacting our customer service department by email at rewebmaster@cox.net.
Correcting and Updating the Information
ApartmentOwnersREsource.com offers to its members the ability to correct or update online the information we collected during registration by visiting the Account on page or by contacting our customer service department by email at rewebmaster@cox.net.
Security
ApartmentOwnersREsource.com limits access to personal information about you to those employees whom we determine need access to that information to provide products or services to you. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with federal standards to guard your personal information. However, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our servers, nor can we guarantee that information that users supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet.
Former Customers
ApartmentOwnersREsource.com discloses personal information about former customers only in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Your Independent Relationships with Other Companies
Please note that this Privacy Policy will not apply to your independent relationships with other companies that from time to time may offer you products and services on the Apartment OwnersREsource web site. Those companies' privacy policies will govern how they collect, use and disclose personal information that you provide to them.
Questions or comments regarding this policy should be directed to rewebmaster@cox.net.
ApartmentOwnersREsource.com reserves the right to modify this policy.
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