HorseProperties.Net (referred to herein as "the Company," "we" or "us" or "our") is committed to protecting the privacy of the users of this Website.
This statement discloses our privacy practices. The purpose of this statement is to inform you:
- What kinds of information we collect from users of the HorseProperties.Net website at (the website) and how such information is collected;
- How the information is used by us;
- Whether we disclose any user information to third parties;
- How you can access, update or delete any information that we collect about you; and
- The security procedures which we use to protect your personal information.
By using the Website, you signify your assent to this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to change, modify, add, or remove portions of our Privacy Policy at any time. If so, any such changes will be posted on this page. Please check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of this Website following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy will mean that you accept those changes.
HOW WE COLLECT INFORMATION
Generally, you can visit the Website without revealing any personal information. Like many Websites, our Web servers collect the Internet Protocol addresses, but not the e-mail addresses, of visitors. This information can measure the number of visits, average time spent on the site, pages viewed, and other such statistics.
In addition, in order for us and our third party content suppliers and licensees to provide certain services to you, you may be asked for information that identifies you, including your name, e-mail address, mailing address, zip code, telephone number and/or fax (collectively, "Personal Information"). You may also elect to provide such information to us by sending or responding to e-mails regarding certain advertisements or services offered on our Website directly or by our third party content suppliers or licensees.
HOW WE USE AND DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION
We collect, generate, retain and use your Personal Information for our own internal purposes in connection with the facilitation, recording and processing of any requests, communications, or interactions you may have with our Website. We also collect and store statistics and other information about you and your online activities on an aggregated, non-personally identifiable basis and in a manner that may allow us or our affiliated or related entities, third party content suppliers, or licensees to improve services to you.
In addition, your Personal Information may be also be used by us to provide you with information regarding our products and services. For example, we may use your e-mail address to send you special announcements and notifications of new real estate advertisements, services or promotions that may be of interest to you. We call these e-mails "promotional e-mails".
MORE ABOUT PROMOTIONAL E-MAILS
By submitting an e-mail address to us in any manner, you agree that the Company (on behalf of itself or on behalf of others) may send promotional e-mails to that e-mail address until such time that you indicate your preference not to receive them. You may do that at any time by clicking on the "unsubscribe" link that we will embed in every promotional e-mail. Please note that, if you ask not to receive promotional e-mails from us, (a) you may still receive promotional e-mails during the next 72 hour period (as it may take some time for your preferences to be updated throughout our computer systems), (b) you may still receive non-promotional e-mails from the Company, and (c) you may still receive e-mails from certain others (including, but not limited to, parties who have listed properties on this Website). Please note also that using our e-mail "unsubscribe" feature will only affect your future e-mail communications from the Company alone. Accordingly, if in connection with a previous Company e-mail to you, you have authorized us to share any of your information with a third party or have directly provided your information to a third party, then that third party may continue to contact you. The Company will have no liability to you in connection with those third party contacts.
HOW WE USE DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
We may use your demographic information to perform business analyses or to tailor this Website and communications to your interests. We may share anonymous, aggregated (grouped) demographic information with advertisers and other third parties so that they can tailor their advertisements and communications to the appropriate audience. Any time that we are allowed under this Privacy Policy to share your Personal Information, we may also share your demographic information along with it.
YOUR IP ADDRESS
Like most e-commerce websites, each time you visit this Website, we automatically collect your IP address and the web page from which you came. In order to administer and optimize this Website for you and to diagnose problems with our Website, we use your IP address to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information about you.
COOKIES
Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer\'s hard drive. Cookies allow websites to recognize you when you return and can keep track of information that is specific to you as well as information relating to your behavior while visting our Website (e.g., how often you visit and how much time you spend on the Website generally or on specific web pages).
Our Website does use cookies in order to enhance your experience on the Website and to track your activity, including your activity across multiple visits. We may also use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests and to facilitate the retrieval of information so you do not have to re-enter it each time you visit this Website.
In addition, consistent with standard practices in the Internet industry, you may occasionally receive cookies from third parties to which you link from our Website. We do not control these third party cookies, and they are not subject to this Privacy Policy.
If you prefer, you may set your browser to ask for your permission before your receive a cookie (whether from us or others). However, if you set your browser to disable cookies, then you may not be able to access certain areas or features of this Website.
INFORMATION SHARING AND DISCLOSURE
Information about our customers is important to our business, and we are not in the business of selling it to others. We share customer information only with our related or affiliated entities.
INFORMATION SHARING FOR LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE REASONS
We may disclose specific contact information when we determine that such disclosure will be helpful to comply with law, to cooperate with or seek assistance from law enforcement, to protect the interests or safety of the Company or other visitors to this Website or of users of services or products provided by us, or to take part with others in joint anti-fraud activities. Also, your contact information may be passed on to a third party in the event of a transfer of ownership or assets, or a bankruptcy, of the Company.
RESPONSIBILITY
The Company will not be responsible or otherwise liable for any use or disclosure of your contact information by a third party to whom the Company is allowed to disclose your contact information under this Privacy Policy.
DATA SECURITY
Data security is critical to us and thus all Personal Information is held in a secured database. While it is impossible to guarantee the complete security of any computer system and the data contained therein, we maintain and implement robust security policies and procedures that combine with available technologies in accordance with prevailing industry standards, all of which are designed to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your Personal Information.
PUBLIC AREAS
This Website may from time to time provide you with the opportunity to post information for display in areas of the site that are accessible to viewing by the general public ("public areas"), including (but not limited to) bulletin boards, chat rooms and user-submitted listed property reviews. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any information that you submit for use in public areas. We ask that you do not submit any contact information or financial information for display in public areas, as other people who use this Website will see it. If you submit such information for display in public areas, the Company cannot prevent it from being used in a manner that violates the law, your personal privacy or your safety. By submitting such information for display in public areas, you assume the risks and sole liability arising as a result of such information being displayed. In addition, we ask that you not email the agents or sellers who are advertising on our site for any other reason than to inquire for the listed property.
HOW TO CONTACT US REGARDING PRIVACY NOTICE
If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy or would like to contact us regarding the information you have submitted to us, you can contact us via e-mail sent to contact@horseproperties.net.
If you wish to exercise a legal right that you may have under California law to learn whether we have disclosed your personal information to third parties for direct marketing purposes, please e-mail us at that same above requesting to know the types such information we shared and the kinds of companies with whom we have shared it for those purposes, and we will tell you. If, to the extent required by law or otherwise, we notify you that the security of the information you submit has been compromised, then you agree that we may give you such notice by e-mail instead of by regular mail.
