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Last Updated October 1,
2005
ithinkfink.com takes your privacy seriously.
Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy
(“Privacy Policy”). This Privacy Policy applies to the use of
ithinkfink.com by employers, consumers and potential clients shall be
referred to as “Users”; Users shall be individually and collectively
referred to as “you”) who are customers of ithinkfink.com and its
subsidiaries, affiliates and marketing allies (collectively, "ithinkfink.com",
"we", "us" and "our"). We use the Sites to provide you with information,
resources, tools, products and services and to provide you with
information about us and our advertisers, and our respective products and
services. We use information that we collect from you to improve your
experience in using the Sites and our various products and services, to
aid in communications among ithinkfink.com, our advertisers and you, and
to notify you of products, services and information that we think may be
of interest to you. Please read on for more details concerning our
privacy policy. We review this Privacy Policy on an annual basis and we
welcome any suggestions you might have about additional ideas regarding
our privacy policy at
privacy@ithinkfink.com
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What
information is collected from me?
Information You Give Us: The kinds of information we collect
from you will vary, depending on how you use the Sites and what
information you may choose to provide through your correspondence with us
(whether through email or otherwise). It's possible to browse most
sections of the Sites without submitting any personally identifiable
information (“Personal Information”) at all. However, if you choose to
take advantage of some of our products and/or services, or to access
certain of our tools or Site functionality, you may be asked to provide
Personal Information such as a user name and password, your full name,
email address, phone number, address. Whenever we ask for Personal
Information, we strive to provide a link to this Privacy Policy to help
you understand how your Personal Information will be used before you
decide whether to disclose it. You can choose not to provide us with
certain Personal Information, but then you may not be able to fully take
advantage of certain features of our Sites and we may not be able to
provide you with certain requested information, products and/or services.
Automatic Collection of Information: Like many Web sites on the
Internet, we automatically track certain information about you as you
visit and use our Sites to help us to better understand how the Sites are
being used and how we can enhance your overall experience on each Site
and improve the information, Site functionality, products and services
that we (and our advertisers and partners) provide to you. This
information may include, for example, your computer’s Internet Protocol
(“IP”) address, the URLs and Site pages you’ve visited, the number of
times you visit each Site page, what downloads and/or search queries you
have made, how long you spent on particular sections of each Site and on
each Site generally, and your browser type. This automatically gathered
data includes information provided through the use of "cookies" (which is
described in more detail below).
As you visit the Sites, be aware that third parties may at times be able
to gather information from and about you. For example, third party
advertiser servers, companies that place advertisements on the Sites, our
partners and affiliates, and other companies offering products or
services through one or more of the Sites may use cookies to collect,
store and use information about you and may collect information that you
submit. ithinkfink.com affiliates, partners, service providers and other
entities that have links on one or more of the Sites may also collect
information about you when you visit their Web sites or otherwise
communicate with them. Although we encourage such third parties to adopt
and follow their own consumer privacy policies, we are not responsible
for their collection and use of user information. The information
practices of those Web sites linked to one or more of the Sites are not
covered by this Privacy Policy. You should refer to the privacy policies
and statements of other Web sites or contact the respective Webmasters of
those Web sites to obtain information regarding their information
collection, use and disclosure policies.
How is
my information used and shared?
The use of your information depends on the context in which it is
collected. Therefore, pay special attention to the categories below that
relate to the features of the Sites that you wish to utilize. We may
share the Personal Information we collect from you only with your consent
or under the following circumstances:
ithinkfink.com affiliates and partners. We work closely with our
affiliates with whom we may share Personal Information. In addition, we
may share Personal Information with our partners and service providers.
Service Providers: We may use other companies and individuals to
perform supporting functions for the various tools, functionality,
products and services offered through our Site on our behalf. These
service providers will not be permitted to use the information collected
from you for any other purpose other than performing the support
functions for ithinkfink.com and/or offering additional services,
promotions or other offers to you. For example, from time to time, we may
use a third-party advertising company to serve ads when you visit our Web
site. Such company may use certain information (not including your name,
address, email address or telephone number) about your visit to this Web
site in order to provide advertisements about goods and services that may
be of interest to you. In the course of serving advertisements to this
site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique “cookie”
on your browser. If you would like more information about this practice
and to know your choices about not having this information used by this
company, please click here.
Protection of rights: We will release Personal Information if we
believe that such action is appropriate to: (1) comply with legal
process, (2) enforce the Terms of Use Agreement for the applicable Site,
or (3) identify, contact or bring legal action against persons or
entities who may be causing injury to us or a third party, or to
otherwise protect the rights, property or personal safety of
ithinkfink.com, its employees, other Site users or others.
Asset transfers: We continue to develop our business and in doing
so might choose to buy other businesses or assets. Personal Information
is generally one of the transferred assets acquired in such purchases.
Also, if we should choose to sell some or all of our assets, Personal
Information, including the information collected from you through the
Sites, could be included in the transferred assets. However, should any
sale of an asset include your Personal Information we will notify you of
the event and give you an opportunity to respond.
Additional Functionality: We may link information collected from
you through various means, including information collected automatically
and through the use of cookies and purchase information, or other
Personal Information you provide to help us (or our service providers and
listing providers, partners or affiliates) offer content (including,
without limitation, listing recommendations), advertisements, products
and services that we believe will be of interest to you, pre-populate
certain data-fields (to assist in your registration or subsequent use of
the tools and/or services available on the Sites), and share such
information among the Sites. In addition, we may share this information,
in aggregate form, with our current and potential advertisers and service
providers so they can present advertisements more effectively.
Requested Information Exchange: If you have indicated that you
want to be contacted by third parties, we may use the Personal
Information we collect to select which names to provide to a particular
third party in order to present you with products and services that we
believe will be of interest to you, but we will not disclose this type of
information, other than your contact information (information that
provides a means of contacting you), to any such third party.
Anonymous Data: In all other circumstances, ithinkfink.com may use
certain anonymous data automatically gathered by our servers so that we
can understand how to make the Sites more convenient and useful to our
audience. This information may also be shared among the Sites and used
for similar purposes. In addition, we may share this information, in
aggregate form, with our current and potential advertisers, service
providers and listing providers, partners, affiliates and/or marketing
allies so they can try to present advertisements and content more
effectively. We may also use aggregate information to share information
with the public regarding products, services, content or tools that may
of interest to them.
Information from Cookies
Cookies
are small files that we send to and store on your computer so that we can
recognize it as a unique machine the next time you visit the Sites. Our
cookies are used for three purposes: (1) to keep track of your
information for your own convenience; (2) to help us optimize your online
experience by altering our content depending on your particular needs or
browsing patterns, and to provide you with advertisements, products and
services that we believe will be of interest to you; and (3) to help us
understand the size of our audience and their traffic patterns within the
Sites. You are always free to decline any cookies we use if your browser
permits. Some of our advertisers and third-party service providers may
also utilize their own cookies. Also, companies offering products or
services through a ithinkfink.com Web site may use their own cookies.
Registration Information
The
Personal Information you provide when you become a registered user or
customer of one of the Sites is used primarily to help us customize your
online experience, increase the convenience of accessing new tools,
products and services, and, if applicable, provide the products and/or
services you purchase. Your email address serves as a unique identifier
in our record system, and it is used together with your password to
prevent unauthorized access to any information you choose to store on
ithinkfink.com. The data you give us about your personal preferences and
demographics (e.g., your age, ZIP code, occupation or the like) may be
used to help us offer content, advertisements, products, and services
that we believe will be of interest to you. In addition, we may share
this information, in aggregate form, with our current and potential
advertisers so that they can present advertisements more effectively. If
you forget your password for any registered area of ithinkfink.com,
please visit the
Contact Page for
assistance.
Children’s Privacy
Our Sites
are general audience Web sites targeted to the real estate market and
neither MyCondoConverson.com (nor any portion thereof) are directed to
children under the age of 13. We do not collect Personal Information from
any person we actually know is a child under the age of 13. If we become
aware that Personal Information regarding an individual under the age of
13 has been stored, we will promptly delete it from our records.
Automatically Gathered Data
The
information gathered automatically by our system – such as your
computer's IP address, the kind of browser you're using, and a record of
your navigation (including, without limitation, your search queries)
through our site – may be used by Homestore so we can understand how to
make ithinkfink.com convenient and useful to our audience, and to provide
additional functionality (i.e., additional content and recommendations to
you). This information may also be shared among our partners, affiliates,
service providers and listing providers, to be used for similar purposes.
In addition, we may share this information, in aggregate form, with our
current and potential marketing allies and advertisers so they can know
how to present their advertisements more effectively. When such data is
aggregated, all Personal Information is eliminated.
What
choices do I have regarding the use of my information?
Reading this Privacy Policy should help you understand how any
information you share with us might be used. If you feel concerned about
any of these uses, you might elect not to participate in certain
services, features or products that we offer. We will not collect
Personal Information about you without your knowledge, so the decision
whether or not to share this information is completely up to you.
How do I "opt-out"?
You also have the ability to terminate email correspondence (including,
for Users, newsletter correspondence) from us at any time. You may be
given the chance to opt-out of direct mailings when you disclose your
email address to us. Further, all of our email correspondence contains an
“Unsubscribe” link at the conclusion of the message. To opt-out, simply
click the link, or, in the case of text messages, send an email to the
“Unsubscribe” URL listed in the email, and you will be opted-out of
future messages from that particular email service. To opt-out or request
that we not use your Personal Information to market information to you,
please visit the
Contact Page.
If you feel concerned about the cookies that are sent between our
computers and yours, you may, through your Web browser, either choose to
reject them automatically, or have your computer prompt you before
accepting them. Generally, this is done by selecting the appropriate
cookies setting on your Web browser (usually found in "Internet Options"
or "Preferences"). Please note, however, that some of our features and
services depend on the use of cookies. Therefore, you will be unable to
take advantage of those features and services if you choose not to accept
certain cookies.
Certain content, products, services, and tools available on
ithinkfink.com (and certain enhancements thereto) are dependent upon the
collection and use of non-personally identifiable information and may not
include an opt-out opportunity unless Personal Information is directly
used for such content, product, service or functionality.
How is
my information protected?
Whenever Personal Information about you is stored on our computers, that
information is password-protected from unauthorized access or use. In
addition, this information is kept on servers that are located behind a
firewall.
Since your personal information is especially sensitive, we take special
care to keep it secure. Your Personal Information is stored on secure,
designated servers and access is limited to individuals in departments
charged with using such information only in connection with processing
your request for services rendered.
Of course, we appreciate your help in safeguarding the integrity of your
own and others' privacy. We hope you'll use common sense whenever you
disclose Personal Information over the Internet. Just as importantly, we
encourage you to let us know immediately if you suspect that the
information you share with us is being used in any way contrary to this
Privacy Policy. Finally, unfortunately no data transmission over the
Internet or the storage of information on servers can be guaranteed to be
100% secure and while we strive to protect your personal information (as
described herein), we cannot guarantee or warrant its complete security.
Scope
of This Privacy Policy: Outside Links
This Privacy Policy only applies to ithinkfink.com. This site contains
links to sites operated and maintained by third parties over which we
have absolutely no control. Please be aware that these sites may collect
information about you, and operate according to their own privacy
practices that may differ from this Privacy Policy. Remember that once
you're outside ithinkfink.com, any information you submit is outside of
our control. Certain expressly identified portions of this Privacy Policy
apply only to consumers or Users.
Effective Date and Modifications
This Privacy Policy is effective as of the date first written above and
may be updated and modified from time to time by us in our sole
discretion. If we choose to update or modify this Privacy Policy, such
updated or modified policy shall become effective five (5) business days
after its posting on the applicable Site(s). Accordingly, we encourage
you to periodically review this Privacy Policy and the Sites in order to
keep apprised of our current privacy practices. If you do not agree to
any provision of this Privacy Policy, or any update or modification
thereto, please do not use ithinkfink.com.
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