Legal Information and Privacy Policy Tri-City Apartment & Condominium Guide
DISCLAIMER
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on this site, and is not responsible for any errors, omissions, or misrepresentations.
Product information including availability, features, floor plans and rent ranges
are subject to change without prior notice and should be verified independently
with the property managers.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN HOUSING STATEMENT
Tri-City Apartment & Condominium Guide Policy
All real estate advertised herein is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act, which
makes it illegal to advertise "any preference, limitation, or discrimination because
of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or
intention to make such preference, limitation or discrimination." State and local
laws forbid discrimination based on factors in addition to those protected under
federal law.
We will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate that is in violation
of the law. All persons are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised are available
on an equal opportunity basis.
IF YOU SUSPECT DISCRIMINATION:
Complaints alleging housing discrimination may be filed with the nearest office
of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), or by calling
HUD's toll free number, 1-800-669-9777 (voice), or 1-800-543-8294 (TDD).
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Privacy Guarantee
www.tricitiesapartmentguide.com respects the privacy of its users. In this document we explain
how we use information you supply us via the
Tri-City Apartment & Condominium Guide Web site. This privacy policy may be modified in the future.
If it is, a new policy will be posted on our Web sites and you will have the opportunity
to modify your information on file with us as explained below.
This Web site is the product of
www.tricitiesapartmentguide.com.
What personal information do we collect?
Visiting: You are not required to provide personally identifiable information
to visit the
www.tricitiesapartmentguide.com site. We do collect usage data, ZIP codes and other information
on all users, but it is not personally identifiable except as described below under
the section IP addresses.
Registration, Service Requests and Web Forms: You may be asked to provide
personal information to use certain services on this site, which will be apparent
from the forms we ask you to complete. When you request More Information, use one
of our other interactive services, or enter a contest, we may request specific information
about you, including your name, age, address and phone number, as well as demographic
and vehicle information. To use one of our other interactive services, or enter
a contest, you must be 18 years of age or older and agree to the Terms and Conditions
of the Web site.
Cookies: Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer's
hard drive by our computers (or servers) to identify your computer. Cookies are
read only by the server that placed them there and are unable to execute any code
or virus. We use cookies to recognize you when you visit our site, to personalize
your experience and generally to serve you better. For example, if you enter your
name, address or ZIP code on one of our forms, it may be stored in a cookie so you
do not have to enter it again. Cookies also can tell us what advertising you have
seen on our site, which allows us to offer you a more diverse selection of advertising
information. Cookies also may compile data about our visitors that may be shared
with other companies, such as an outside advertising company. However, no personally
identifiable information stored in cookies will be shared with outside companies
for any purpose without your permission. You can disable cookies or otherwise manage
them through tools provided with your browser software and with third-party software
packages. If you turn off cookies, many
www.tricitiesapartmentguide.com features will not work as well or at all. IP addresses:
www.tricitiesapartmentguide.com compiles IP addresses -- the location of your computer
on the Internet -- for administrative and analytical purposes.
www.tricitiesapartmentguide.com does not routinely collect any personally identifiable information
through its compilation of your IP address or the location of your computer on the
Internet. However, in cases of suspected abuse or service problems, we may use an
IP address in conjunction with other personally identifiable information to enforce
our terms of service and to protect or troubleshoot the service, the site, its users
or others who may be affected. No personally identifiable information associated
with IP addresses will be shared with third parties for marketing purposes without
your permission.
How do we use the information we collect?
Site Interaction: The information you provide when fill out other forms on
our site may be stored on our servers or, in some cases, in a cookie on your computer.
This information will be used to compile aggregate data that is not personally identifiable
and may be used internally or shared with third parties. This information may also
be used to confirm and fulfill a request you are making, to follow up on that request
and to communicate with you about the
www.tricitiesapartmentguide.com service. The messages that
Tri-City Apartment & Condominium Guide sends for these purposes may incidentally include promotional
material or other content from
www.tricitiesapartmentguide.com or its partners. In the case of these messages, we are not
sharing your personally identifiable information with third parties, nor will we
continue to send you promotional messages if you ask us not to, as described below
in the Section entitled "Accessing, changing or deactivating information collected
by
www.tricitiesapartmentguide.com."
Direct Promotion: Using the contact information provided by registrants 18
years of age and older, including e-mail addresses,
Tri-City Apartment & Condominium Guide, its affiliates, or third parties to whom
www.tricitiesapartmentguide.com discloses such information in accordance with this privacy
policy (including its partners or advertisers) may periodically send you promotional
or informational messages. In any case where we might use your contact information
for this purpose, you will be able to indicate at registration whether you wish
to receive such promotional or informational messages. However, by providing us
your personal contact information when you register or request specific services,
you agree that
www.tricitiesapartmentguide.com may contact you regarding account status, changes to this privacy
policy or other terms of service, and to confirm, fulfill and follow up on your
registration, service or information request.
Visitor Behavior:
www.tricitiesapartmentguide.com may perform statistical analyses of user behavior in order
to measure interest in the various areas of our site, for development purposes,
and to inform advertisers and partners about consumers who click on their advertising
or other messages. In these analyses, we will disclose information to third parties
only in aggregate form, except as specified below. We also may use personally identifiable
information to improve your experience while you are visiting our site. This might
include prefilling your personal information into Web forms so that you do not have
to retype it or presenting you with editorial and advertising content that may be
of interest.
With whom do we share the information we collect?
Tri-City Apartment & Condominium Guide will share personally identifiable information with third parties
in the following cases:
- With affiliates for whom we provide Web sites. If you entered the
www.tricitiesapartmentguide.com Web site through a site maintained by one of these affiliates,
then your personally identifiable information may be shared with that affiliate
on the condition that the affiliate's use of the information is consistent with
this privacy policy.
- As is necessary for third parties to provide information or perform services specifically
requested by you. If through
www.tricitiesapartmentguide.com you request additional information from an apartment community
or property manager, we will share your information with those companies. Personally
identifiable information may also be included in reports to these third parties,
but only when you have already submitted the information to the third party as described
above. After information is provided to such third parties,
www.tricitiesapartmentguide.com does not and cannot control their subsequent use or disclosure
of information.
- For direct marketing purposes, but only if you have authorized
www.tricitiesapartmentguide.com to do so and only if you are 18 years of age or older. Although
www.tricitiesapartmentguide.com will notify all third party direct marketers that the information
provided to them is confidential,
www.tricitiesapartmentguide.com does not and cannot control the use or disclosure of information
by such marketers after the information is provided to them.
- To perform analytical and other services as an agent of
www.tricitiesapartmentguide.com. In some cases we may work with third parties that do analysis
and development on our behalf. We may share your personally identifiable information
with such a third party on the condition that the third party maintains the information
as confidential and only uses the information to perform the services specified
by
www.tricitiesapartmentguide.com.
E-mail a Friend
Tri-City Apartment & Condominium Guide sometimes offers you the ability to send e-mail to a friend
or other third party. E-mail a Friend functionality is for informational purposes
only and may not be used for any unlawful purpose. This includes all harassment
or threats.
www.tricitiesapartmentguide.com expressly reserves the right to release information you provide
through use of this functionality (including but not limited to e-mail addresses,
names and IP addresses) to third parties in any case of suspected abuse or other
problems, in order to enforce our terms of service and to protect or troubleshoot
the service, the site, its users or others who may be affected. Information collected
under the "e-mail a friend" functionality is otherwise subject to the
same limitations of use, access, security and disclosure described elsewhere in
this privacy policy.
How do we handle changes to your information or to this policy?
Notification of changes: Any changes to this policy will be posted on our
Web site in this location. If those changes affect how we use your personally identifiable
information, we will contact you at the e-mail address in our records to notify
you of the change before it takes effect in regard to your information. You can
then either agree to the changes, modify your personally identifiable information
or deactivate your user record.
Accessing, changing or deactivating information collected by
www.tricitiesapartmentguide.com: If you wish to access, verify the accuracy of, change
or deactivate your personal information on file with
www.tricitiesapartmentguide.com; change your permissions regarding use of personally identifiable
information for direct promotion purposes by
www.tricitiesapartmentguide.com or its partners (including affiliates and third parties identified
in this policy).
Deactivation of user information: If you deactivate your user information,
your account information will no longer be used by
www.tricitiesapartmentguide.com or made available to any third parties except in an aggregate
form or as required by law.
Security
Your personal information is one of our most valuable assets. It is kept physically
secure in our data centers and is accessible only to authorized personnel as needed
to perform operations governed by this policy. In addition, when we collect credit
card or other highly sensitive information from you, such as a Social Security number,
we use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption, the industry standard for ensuring
privacy in Web transactions.
Does this privacy statement extend to links to other sites?
This site contains links to other sites. While we encourage our business partners
to adopt privacy policies that build users' trust and confidence in the Internet,
we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of Web sites linked
to any of our sites. We may allow third parties to sponsor promotions and sweepstakes
through our site. Use of any personal information provided to such a third party
will be governed by that party's privacy policy.
Collection of information by third parties
www.tricitiesapartmentguide.com may use a third-party advertising company to serve ads when
you visit our site. This company may use information (not including your name, address,
e-mail address or telephone number) about your visits to our and other Web sites
in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
In addition, we may share Web site usage information about visitors to our sites
with this company for the purpose of managing and targeting advertisements on our
site and other sites. For this purpose, we and our third-party advertising company
note some of the pages you visit on our site through the use of pixel tags (also
called clear gifs or single-pixel gifs). In the course of serving advertisements
to this site, our third-party advertising company may place or recognize a unique
"cookie" on your computer.
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