Importance of Your Privacy. At Home
Assure, LLC, your privacy is of great importance
to us. We understand that you entrust us with
your private information to help us help you
with your lender/provider ("Service Provider").
In exchange for your trust, you expect and
deserve our commitment to treat your information
with respect and in accordance with this Privacy
Policy. Rest assured that we protect your
privacy. Under no circumstances will Home
Assure, LLC sell or share any personal
information about you to or with any person or
organization except (i) as authorized by you,
(ii) with Service Providers, (iii) as may be
required by law or court order, or (iv) as
otherwise set forth herein. The Privacy Policy
below describes the standards we adhere to in
handling information about you and any personal
information you submit through our Web site
located at
www.homeassure.com (the "Web site").
PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY BEFORE
USING ANY OF Home Assure, LLC'S SERVICES. BY
USING ANY SUCH SERVICES YOU ARE ACKNOWLEDGING
THAT YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND THIS POLICY
AND THAT YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ITS TERMS. IF
YOU DO NOT AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF
THIS PRIVACY POLICY, SIMPLY EXIT THIS PAGE
WITHOUT ACCESSING OR USING OUR WEB SITE OR ANY
OF OUR SERVICES.
A Special Note About Children.
Children are not eligible to use our service and
we ask that minors (under the age of 13) do not
submit any personal information to us or use the
service. Home Assure, LLC does not collect or
maintain information from those actually known
to be under the age of 13, and no part of the
Web site is structured to attract anyone under
the age of 13.
Important Categories of Information for you
to Know:
- Who we are
- Information we may collect at the Web
site
- How your information is used
1. Who We Are. Home Assure, LLC owns
and operates the Web site, the purpose of which
is to assist consumers to Service Providers.
Based on the information you supply at the Web
site (a "Submission"), Home Assure, LLC may use
that information and eventually transmit your
data to the appropriate Service Provider.
2. Information We Collect. There are
several areas on the Web site where you may be
asked to enter both personal and non-personal
information. We DO NOT sell or share any
personal information about you to or with any
person or organization except as otherwise set
forth herein
- (a) Information we receive from you
via Submissions. To use Home Assure,
LLC's services, when you come to the Web
site you'll need to provide personal
information such as your name, phone number
and e-mail address.
- (b) Technical information we collect.
In order for Home Assure, LLC to ensure that
we are providing the best possible consumer
experience on the Web site, we collect and
track certain user information. When you
visit the Web site, our Web server sends a
cookie to your computer. This cookie stores
a limited amount of information about your
site visit. The cookie tracks aggregate
information on how our site is being used,
including session counts, navigation
patterns, pages visited, etc. These cookies,
however, do not store any personally
identifiable information such as your name,
email address or phone number as you browse
the site. When you complete a Submission, we
store your cookie identification in our
system. This cookie allows our site to
recognize you when you return. Home Assure,
LLC also utilizes Web Logs to track
aggregate information about how our site is
being used. Web Logs track anonymous user
information, including the number of
visitors to the Web site, operating systems,
Internet Provider addresses (if publicly
available), and browser type. Unlike
cookies, Web Logs are maintained only on
Home Assure, LLC servers and do not store or
place anything on the user's computer. If
you come to the Home Assure, LLC web site
from an online banner ad, an anonymous
identification number may be passed to the
Web site. This information cannot be used to
gather any personally identifiable
information about you. It will only allow us
to track the overall effectiveness of our
online advertising, marketing and banner
advertisement campaigns.
- (c) Information from surveys. You
may have the option of completing an online
survey at the Web site from time to time.
Participation in surveys is completely
voluntary and it is your choice whether or
not you wish to disclose your personal
information to us in connection with any
such survey.
- (d) Information from the "Contact Us"
section of the Web site. You may contact
Home Assure, LLC through the "Contact Us"
feature. Participation in this area is
completely voluntary and it is your choice
whether or not you wish to disclose your
personal information to us.
- (e) Information collected other
sections of the Web site. Home Assure,
LLC may, from time to time, make various
resources available to you at the Web site
to help educate you about various
industries. At times we may collect personal
information in connection with providing
such services.
3. How your information is used. We
use the information you provide in your
Submission to negotiate on your behalf
with a Service Provider. Home Assure, LLC may
also share certain aggregated data with other
third parties for the purpose of negotiating on
your behalf. As the Service
Providers may keep and use your information
whether or not you work with them on a
transaction, we recommend that you contact them
directly for more information about their
specific privacy policies. Some of our services
may be offered in conjunction with partner
companies, affiliates or other companies or web
sites with which we work. In order for us to
provide these services to you, it may be
necessary for us to share your personal
information with one of such entities. These
parties are not allowed to use personally
identifiable information except for the purpose
of providing these services. If you do not want
your data to be shared, you can choose not to
allow the transfer by not using that particular
service.
In addition, Home Assure, LLC may disclose
account or other personal information when we
have reason to believe that disclosing this
information is necessary to identify, contact or
bring legal action against someone who may be
causing injury to or interference with Home
Assure, LLC's rights or property, other Web site
users or anyone else that could be harmed by
such activities.
Security
Home Assure, LLC uses extensive and
sophisticated secure technology to protect your
data and transmissions between you and Home
Assure, LLC. Transmission between browsers and
our web server is implemented using Secure
Sockets Layer (SSL) technology. This technology
requires an SSL-capable browser. Our database is
physically separated from our web server and is
protected by a physical firewall. Although Home
Assure, LLC has taken these reasonable and
appropriate measures to ensure that your
personal information is delivered and disclosed
only in accordance with your instructions, Home
Assure, LLC cannot and does not guarantee that
the personal information you provide will not be
intercepted by others and decrypted.
Changes to Privacy Policy
If we make a change to our Privacy Policy in
the future that will affect how we treat your
information, we will post such change at the Web
site, and such change will be deemed to be
effective 10 days from the date of such posting.
In that case, your ability to opt out of the new
policy will be determined by applicable laws.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on
August 7, 2007.
PLEASE PRINT AND RETAIN A COPY OF THIS
AGREEMENT FOR YOUR RECORDS.