Privacy Policy
Thank you for visiting PropSmart, Inc.'s ("PropSmart") real estate search and community web site ("Site"). This Privacy Policy details certain policies implemented throughout PropSmart governing PropSmart's use of personally identifiable information provided to PropSmart via this Site or otherwise.
The More Things Change
Due to the internet's rapidly evolving nature, PropSmart may need to update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If so, PropSmart will post its updated Privacy Policy here at http://www.PropSmart.com/privacy, and may send you an email so you are always aware of what personally identifiable information we may collect and how we may use this information. PropSmart encourages you to review this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes. Your continued use of this Site will be subject to the then-current Privacy Policy.
What We Collect and What We (Don't) Do With It
You can generally visit our Site without revealing any personally identifiable information about yourself. No account creation is necessary for basic Site browsing. To interact more fully with the Site, you must create a member account, for which we require only a "screen name" and a password you provide. This ensures that your anonymity is completely within your control. To receive email from us, in the form of property alerts, newsletters, member-to-member messaging, etc., you will need to provide us a valid email address, but we will never display your email address to other members or share it with third parties. If you have created an account, you may opt to provide additional personally identifiable information in your profile such as your name, age, gender, occupation, etc. Providing any additional personally identifiable information beyond what is required to create an account is optional. We may use your personally identifiable information to deliver certain services, products or information you have requested, verify your authority to enter certain password protected areas of the Site, send you notices for services that you have used or that may be of interest to you, and improve the content and general administration of the Site. Additionally, if you have elected to reveal your email address to other registered members, they will have access to and be able to use your email address.
Not for Kiddies
PropSmart is committed to protecting the privacy needs of children and we encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in their children's online activities and interests. PropSmart's services and Site are not intended for and may not be used by children under the age of 13. PropSmart does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13 and PropSmart does not target its services or this Site to children under 13.
Mmmmmm, Cookies
The Site may use small text files called cookies to improve overall Site experience. A cookie is a piece of data stored on your hard drive, and we use it to recognize you as a member and store your preferences as you navigate from page to page on the Site. The Site does not store sensitive personal data such as passwords, email addresses, or names in cookies.
The Big Picture
The Site may track the total number of visitors to our Site, the number of visitors to each page of our Site, IP addresses, external web sites (defined below) linked to, search terms, and the domain names of our users' internet service providers, and we may analyze these data for trends and statistics in the aggregate. Such information will be maintained, used and disclosed in aggregate form only and it will not contain personally identifiable information. Such aggregate information is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person. We may use such aggregate information to analyze trends, administer the Site, track users' movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.
We Don't Serve and Tell
We don't share your personally identifiable information with any third party, unless we are required to do so by law, regulation or other government authority. We will not sell your personally identifiable information to any other company or organization, except we may transfer your personally identifiable information to a successor entity upon a merger, consolidation or other corporate reorganization in which PropSmart participates or to a purchaser of all or substantially all of PropSmart's assets to which this Site relates. Any such successor entity shall be bound by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.
We Link a Lot, Though
The Site may provide links to other Web sites or resources over which PropSmart does not have control ("External Web Sites"). Such links do not constitute an endorsement by PropSmart of those External Web Sites. You acknowledge that PropSmart is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and further agree that PropSmart is not responsible for the content of such External Web Sites. Your use of External Web Sites is subject to the terms of use and privacy policies located on the linked-to External Web Sites.
Locking the Doors
We may employ procedural and technological measures consistent with industry practice. Such measures are reasonably designed to help protect your personally identifiable information from loss, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. PropSmart may use firewalls, internal restrictions, password protection, physical lock and key and other security measures to help prevent unauthorized access to your personally identifiable information.
You are Master of Your Own Account
PropSmart provides you with the ability to review, correct and delete any of the personally identifiable information that you have provided to us. If you wish to review or correct any information you have provided to us, you may access your account and review, correct and delete your personally identifiable information.
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy please contact us.
This Privacy Policy was last updated and is effective as of December 11, 2005.