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PRIVACY POLICY.

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PRIVACY POLICY

 

This privacy policy describes our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of your information when you use the service and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

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We use your personal data to provide and improve the service. By using the service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this privacy policy.

 

INTERPRETATION AND DEFINITIONS

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INTERPRETATION

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The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. the following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

 

DEFINITIONS

 

For the purposes of this privacy policy:

  • Account means a unique account created for you to access our service or parts of our service.

  • Business, for the purpose of the ccpa (California consumer privacy act), refers to the company as the legal entity that collects consumers' personal information and determines the purposes and means of the processing of consumers' personal information, or on behalf of which such information is collected and that alone, or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of consumers' personal information, that does business in the state of California.

  • Company (referred to as either "the company", "we", "us" or "our" in this agreement) refers to Homes By Kinsey, address.

for the purpose of the gdpr, the company is the data controller.

  • Consumer, for the purpose of the ccpa (California consumer privacy act), means a natural person who is a California resident. a resident, as defined in the law, includes (1) every individual who is in the usa for other than a temporary or transitory purpose, and (2) every individual who is domiciled in the usa who is outside the usa for a temporary or transitory purpose.

  • Cookies are small files that are placed on your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of your browsing history on that website among its many uses.

  • Country refers to: North Dakota, United States

  • Data controller, for the purposes of the gdpr (general data protection regulation), refers to the company as the legal person which alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.

  • Device means any device that can access the service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.

  • Do not track (dnt) is a concept that has been promoted by us regulatory authorities, in particular the u.s. federal trade commission (ftc), for the internet industry to develop and implement a mechanism for allowing internet users to control the tracking of their online activities across websites.

  • Personal data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.

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For the purposes of gdpr, personal data means any information relating to you such as a name, an identification number, location data, online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity.

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For the purposes of the ccpa, personal data means any information that identifies, relates to, describes or is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with you.

  • Sale, for the purpose of the ccpa (California consumer privacy act), means selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer's personal information to another business or a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration.

  • Service refers to the website.

  • Service provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the company. it refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the company to facilitate the service, to provide the service on behalf of the company, to perform services related to the service or to assist the company in analyzing how the service is used. for the purpose of the gdpr, service providers are considered data processors.

  • Usage data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the service or from the service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

  • Website refers to Homes By Kinsey, accessible from https://homesbykinsey.wixsite.com/realtor

  • You means the individual accessing or using the service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the service, as applicable.

Under gdpr (general data protection regulation), you can be referred to as the data subject or as the user as you are the individual using the service.

 

COLLECTING AND USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA

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TYPES OF DATA COLLECTED

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PERSONAL DATA

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While using our service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

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  • Usage data

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USAGE DATA

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Usage data is collected automatically when using the service.

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Usage data may include information such as your device's internet protocol address (e.g. ip address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

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When you access the service by or through a mobile device, we may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique id, the ip address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile internet browser you use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

we may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our service or when you access the service by or through a mobile device.

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TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES AND COOKIES

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We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our service and store certain information. tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our service. the technologies we use may include:

  • Cookies or browser cookies. a cookie is a small file placed on your device. you can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. however, If you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of our service. unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our service may use cookies.

  • Flash cookies. certain features of our service may use local stored objects (or flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences or your activity on our service. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as those used for browser cookies. for more information on how you can delete flash cookies, please read "where can i change the settings for disabling, or deleting local shared objects?" available at https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/disable-local-shared-objects-flash.html#main_where_can_i_change_the_settings_for_disabling__or_deleting_local_shared_objects_

  • Web beacons. Certain sections of our service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).

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Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies. persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser. you can learn more about cookies here: cookies by termsfeed generator.

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We use both session and persistent cookies for the purposes set out below:

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  • necessary / essential cookies

 

Type: session cookies

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Administered by: us

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Purpose: these cookies are essential to provide you with services available through the website and to enable you to use some of its features. they help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. without these cookies, the services that you have asked for cannot be provided, and we only use these cookies to provide you with those services.

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  • functionality cookies

 

Type: Persistent cookies

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Administered by: us

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Purpose: these cookies allow us to remember choices you make when you use the website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. the purpose of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and to avoid you having to re-enter your preferences every time you use the website.

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  • Tracking and performance cookies

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Type: Persistent cookies

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Administered by: Third-parties

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Purpose: These cookies are used to track information about traffic to the website and how users use the website. the information gathered via these cookies may directly or indirectly identify you as an individual visitor. This is because the information collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device you use to access the website. we may also use these cookies to test new pages, features or new functionality of the website to see how our users react to them.

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  • Targeting and advertising cookies

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Type: persistent cookies

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Administered by: Third-parties

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Purpose: These cookies track your browsing habits to enable us to show advertising which is more likely to be of interest to you. These cookies use information about your browsing history to group you with other users who have similar interests. based on that information, and with our permission, third party advertisers can place cookies to enable them to show adverts which we think will be relevant to your interests while you are on third party websites.

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For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please visit our cookies policy.

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USE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

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The company may use personal data for the following purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our service, including to monitor the usage of our service.

  • To manage your account: to manage your registration as a user of the service. the personal data you provide can give you access to different functionalities of the service that are available to you as a registered user.

  • For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services you have purchased or of any other contract with us through the service.

  • To contact you: to contact you by email, telephone calls, sms, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.

  • To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information.

  • To manage your requests: to attend and manage your requests to us.

  • For business transfers: we may use your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal data held by us about our service users is among the assets transferred.

  • For other purposes: we may use your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our service, products, services, marketing and your experience.

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We may share your personal information in the following situations:

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  • With service providers: we may share your personal information with service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our service, to show advertisements to you to help support and maintain our service, to contact you.

  • For business transfers: we may share or transfer your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.

  • With affiliates: we may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this privacy policy. affiliates include our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.

  • With business partners: we may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services or promotions.

  • With other users: when you share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside.

  • With your consent: we may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.

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SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

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The security of your personal data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

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DETAILED INFORMATION ON THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

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The service providers we use may have access to your personal data. these third-party vendors collect, store, use, process and transfer information about your activity on our service in accordance with their privacy policies.

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ANALYTICS

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We may use third-party service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our service.

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  • Google analytics

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Google analytics is a web analytics service offered by google that tracks and reports website traffic. google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our service. This data is shared with other google services. google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

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You can opt-out of having made your activity on the service available to google analytics by installing the google analytics opt-out browser add-on. the add-on prevents the google analytics javascript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with google analytics about visits activity.

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For more information on the privacy practices of google, please visit the google privacy & terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy

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ADVERTISING

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We may use service providers to show advertisements to you to help support and maintain our service.

  • google adsense & doubleclick cookie.

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Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our service. google's use of the doubleclick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our service or other websites on the internet.

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You may opt out of the use of the doubleclick cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting the google ads settings web page: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/

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GDPR PRIVACY

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LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING PERSONAL DATA UNDER GDPR

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We may process personal data under the following conditions:

  • Consent: You have given your consent for processing personal data for one or more specific purposes.

  • Performance of a contract: Provision of personal data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with you and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof.

  • Legal obligations: Processing personal data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the company is subject.

  • Vital interests: Processing personal data is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or of another natural person.

  • Public interests: Processing personal data is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the company.

  • Legitimate interests: Processing personal data is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the company.

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EXERCISING OF YOUR GDPR DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS

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You may exercise your rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition by contacting us. please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests. If you make a request, we will try our best to respond to you as soon as possible.

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You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal data. for more information, if you are in the european economic area (eea), please contact your local data protection authority in the eea.

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CCPA PRIVACY

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This privacy notice section for California residents supplements the information contained in our privacy policy and it applies solely to all visitors, users, and others who reside in the state of California.

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CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED

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We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or device. the following is a list of categories of personal information which we may collect or may have been collected from California residents within the last twelve (12) months.

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Please note that the categories and examples provided in the list below are those defined in the ccpa. this does not mean that all examples of that category of personal information were in fact collected by us, but reflects our good faith belief to the best of our knowledge that some of that information from the applicable category may be and may have been collected. for example, certain categories of personal information would only be collected if you provided such personal information directly to us.

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  • Category A: Identifiers.

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Examples: A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, internet protocol address, email address, account name, driver's license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.

Collected: No.

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  • Category B: personal information categories listed in the California customer records statute (cal. civ. code § 1798.80(e)).

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Examples: A name, signature, social security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver's license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories.

Collected: No.

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  • Category C: Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.

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Examples: age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information).

Collected: No.

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  • Category D: Commercial information.

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Examples: Records and history of products or services purchased or considered.

Collected: No.

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  • Category E: Biometric information.

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Examples: genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data.

Collected: No.

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  • Category F: Internet or other similar network activity.

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Examples: Interaction with our service or advertisement.

Collected: Yes.

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  • Category G: Geolocation data.

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Examples: Approximate physical location.

Collected: No.

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  • Category H: Sensory data.

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Examples: Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.

Collected: No.

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  • Category I: Professional or employment-related information.

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Examples: Current or past job history or performance evaluations.

Collected: No.

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  • Category J: Non-public education information (per the family educational rights and privacy act (20 u.s.c. section 1232g, 34 c.f.r. part 99)).

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Examples: Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records.

Collected: No.

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  • Category K: Inferences drawn from other personal information.

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Examples: profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.

Collected: No.

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Under ccpa, personal information does not include:

  • Publicly available information from government records

  • Deidentified or aggregated consumer information

  • Information excluded from the ccpa's scope, such as:

    • Health or medical information covered by the health insurance portability and accountability act of 1996 (hipaa) and the California confidentiality of medical information act (cmia) or clinical trial data.

    • Personal information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the fair credit reporting act (frca), the gramm-leach-bliley act (glba) or California financial information privacy act (fipa), and the driver's privacy protection act of 1994.

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WEBSITE

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You can opt out of receiving ads that are personalized as served by our service providers by following our instructions presented on the service:

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The opt out will place a cookie on your computer that is unique to the browser you use to opt out. If you change browsers or delete the cookies saved by your browser, you will need to opt out again.

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MOBILE DEVICES

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Your mobile device may give you the ability to opt out of the use of information about the apps you use in order to serve you ads that are targeted to your interests:

  • "Opt out of interest-based ads" or "opt out of ads personalization" on android devices

  • "Limit ad tracking" on ios devices

 

You can also stop the collection of location information from your mobile device by changing the preferences on your mobile device.

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"DO NOT TRACK" POLICY AS REQUIRED BY CALIFORNIA ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT (CALOPPA)

 

Our service does not respond to do not track signals.

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However, some third party websites do keep track of your browsing activities. If you are visiting such websites, you can set your preferences in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable dnt by visiting the preferences or settings page of your web browser.

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CHILDREN'S PRIVACY

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Our service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

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If we need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your information and your country requires consent from a parent, we may require your parent's consent before we collect and use that information.

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YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS (CALIFORNIA'S SHINE THE LIGHT LAW)

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Under California civil code section 1798 (California's shine the light law), california residents with an established business relationship with us can request information once a year about sharing their personal data with third parties for the third parties' direct marketing purposes.

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If you'd like to request more information under the California shine the light law, and if you are a California resident, you can contact us using the contact information provided below.

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LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

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Our service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. we strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of every site you visit.

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We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

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CONTACT US

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If you have any questions about this privacy policy, you can contact us:

By email: homesbykinsey@gmail.com

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