Privacy Statement
1. Changes in Privacy Policy
All "personal information" ("personal information" is defined as
any information that identifies or can be used to identify, contact
or locate the person to whom such information pertains) that we
collect and maintain will be subject to the version of the Privacy
Policy in effect at the time of such collection. HomeSaleByDesign
reserves the right to change the Privacy Policy from time to time
at its sole discretion, and will provide notice of material changes
on the homepage of the Site. If as the result of such changes,
you want to update your Personal Profile information, you can do
so by following the procedure described below in the section entitled "Updating
your Personal Information." You will be deemed to have been
made aware of, and will be subject to, the changes to the Privacy
Policy by your continued use of the Site after such notice
has been posted for thirty (30) days with the following exception:
if at the time you provide personal information to HomeSaleByDesign
you are given the opportunity (as you currently are) to limit
how such information will be used to communicate with you,
either by HomeSaleByDesign or by third parties, HomeSaleByDesign
will not change your preference in this regard without your
express consent. However, if HomeSaleByDesign sells assets
(or the assets of a division or subsidiary) to another entity,
or HomeSaleByDesign (or a division or subsidiary) is acquired
by or merged with, another entity, HomeSaleByDesign may provide
to such entity customer information that is related to that
part of our business that was sold to or merged with the other
entity without your consent.
2. Entities Collecting
Personal Information
Personal information on this Site is collected by HomeSaleByDesign,.
The Site may contain links to other sites at which personal information
is collected. In such instances, unless expressly provided to the
contrary, the collection and use of your personal information will
be governed by the privacy policy applicable to that site. That
privacy policy should identify the entity that is collecting your
personal information.
3. Collection of Personal
Information
As a visitor to this Site, you can engage in many activities without
providing any personal information. In connection with other activities,
HomeSaleByDesign may ask you to provide certain information about
yourself by filling out and submitting an online form. It is completely
optional for you to engage in these activities. If you elect to
engage in these activities, however, HomeSaleByDesign may ask that
you provide us personal information, such as your first and last
name, mailing address (including zip code), e-mail address, employer,
job title and department, telephone and facsimile numbers, and
other personal information. When ordering products or services
on the Site, you may be asked to provide a credit card number.
Depending upon the activity, some of the information that we ask
you to provide is identified as mandatory and some as voluntary.
If you do not provide the mandatory data with respect to a particular
activity, you will not be able to engage in that activity.
When you use the Site, HomeSaleByDesign
or third parties authorized by HomeSaleByDesign
may also collect certain technical and routing information
about your computer to facilitate your use of the
Site and its services. For example, we may log environmental
variables, such as browser type, operating system,
CPU speed, and the Internet Protocol ("IP") address
of your computer. We use these environmental variables
to facilitate and track your use of the Site and
its services.
When you submit personal information
to HomeSaleByDesign through this Site, you understand
and agree that this information may be transferred
across national boundaries and may be stored and processed
in any of the countries in which HomeSaleByDesign and
its affiliates and subsidiaries maintain offices, including
without limitation, the United States. You also acknowledge
that in certain countries or with respect to certain
activities, the collection, transferring, storage and
processing of your information may be undertaken by
trusted vendors of HomeSaleByDesign. Such vendors are
bound by contract to not use your personal information
for their own purposes or provide it to any third parties.
One instance where this could occur is in conjunction
with framed pages in which the url for the pages is
not visible and the pages are being hosted by a vendor
of HomeSaleByDesign.
HomeSaleByDesign has established
relationships with various service providers whose
services are available to you from this Site or from
web sites that are linked to this Site. Typically,
these providers offer services that HomeSaleByDesign
customers might find useful, such as those that can
be used in conjunction with HomeSaleByDesign services
and products. In order to use those services, you
may be required to provide personal information to
the providers. Unless expressly provided to the contrary,
personal information that you provide while you are
visiting a provider's web site will be subject to
the privacy policy posted on such site and personal
information that you provide while on this Site in
conjunction with a provider's service will be subject
to this Privacy Policy. You should be aware that
our agreements with these service providers often
provide that they will share with HomeSaleByDesign
personal information collected from you. In such
instances, HomeSaleByDesign may use this information
in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.
In the situation where sites have a HomeSaleByDesign "look and feel," and
you reasonably believe you are on a HomeSaleByDesign
site, the site is collecting information in a solely
intermediary capacity and does not use personal
information for secondary purposes.
In order to reduce errors in our database,
authenticate our users and prevent abuse of our system
we may on occasion supplement the personal information
you submit to us with information from third party
sources. For example, we may supplement your registration
information with address information provided by the
U.S. Postal Service to qualify your information and
prevent errors in our database.
4. How your Personal Information
is Used
HomeSaleByDesign collects your information in order to record and
support your participation in the activities you select. If you
subscribe to a service, for example, the information is used to
register your rights, if any, to technical support or other benefits
that may be made available to registered users. As another example,
if you enter a contest, information is collected to qualify the
entry and contact you regarding the contest or prize awards. Your
personal information is also used to keep you informed about product
upgrades, special offers, and other products and services of HomeSaleByDesign
and selected third parties if you have so opted to receive such
communications.
HomeSaleByDesign may collect information
about the use of the Site; such as the types of services
used and how many users we receive daily. This information
is collected in aggregate form, without identifying
any user individually. HomeSaleByDesign may use this
aggregate, non-identifying statistical data for statistical
analysis, marketing or similar promotional purposes.
5. Your Choices with Respect
to Personal Information
HomeSaleByDesign recognizes and appreciates the importance of responsible
use of information collected on this Site. Without your consent,
HomeSaleByDesign will not communicate any information to you regarding
products, services and special offers available from HomeSaleByDesign,
although we may find it necessary to communicate with you regarding
your use of the services on this Site. Except in the particular
circumstances described in this Privacy Policy, HomeSaleByDesign
will also not provide your name to other companies or organizations
without your consent.
There are other instances in which
HomeSaleByDesign may divulge your personal information.
HomeSaleByDesign may provide your personal information
if necessary, in HomeSaleByDesign's good faith judgement,
to comply with laws or regulations of a governmental
or regulatory body or in response to a valid subpoena,
warrant or order or to protect the rights of HomeSaleByDesign
or others.
6. Protection of Your Personal
Information
The personal information that you provide in connection with registering
yourself as a user of HomeSaleByDesign products or services or
registering a HomeSaleByDesign product is classified as Registration
Information. Registration Information is protected in several ways.
Access by you to your Registration Information is available through
a password and unique login ID selected by you. This password is
encrypted. We recommend that you do not divulge your password to
anyone. In addition, your Registration Information resides on a
secure server that only selected HomeSaleByDesign personnel and
contractors have access to via password. HomeSaleByDesign encrypts
your personal information and thereby strives to prevent unauthorized
parties from viewing such information when it is transmitted to
HomeSaleByDesign.
Personal information that you provide
that does not constitute Registration Information also
resides on a secure server and is only accessible to
selected HomeSaleByDesign personnel and contractors
via password. Since this information is not accessible
by you, you will not be asked to select a password
in order to view or modify such information.
Please note that any information
you post to a public bulletin board, chat room or
Member Web Site (the "Public Forums"), is available
to all persons accessing that location. Your email
address will not automatically be posted on the Forums
unless you modify the default setting to permit that.
Your email address would then be available to all
persons accessing the Public Forums.
7. Use of Cookies
When you visit this Site, you can browse the Site
and access important information without revealing
your identity. We may use "'cookies" to
track your visit. A cookie is small amount of data that is
transferred to your browser by a Web server and
can only be read by the server that gave it to
you. It functions as your identification card,
and enables HomeSaleByDesign to record your passwords, purchases,
and preferences. It cannot be executed as code or deliver
viruses.
Most browsers are initially set to
accept cookies. You can set your browser to notify
you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance
to decide whether or not to accept it. (For some Web
pages that require an authorization, cookies are not
optional. Users choosing not to accept cookies will
probably not be able to access those pages.)
While HomeSaleByDesign uses cookies
to track your visit to HomeSaleByDesign.com, and
our Web servers automatically log the IP/Internet
address of your computer, HomeSaleByDesign does not
generally use this information to identify you personally.
However, if you expressly provide consent for HomeSaleByDesign.com
to "remember" the unique identifier that you select
when you register for various activities on the
site, that unique identifier will be stored on
a cookie on your computer, linked to your registration
information, and your navigation path around the
site will be tracked. We associate this data to
understand how our site and services are being
used so we can understand our customers and offer
appropriate products and services.
8. Privacy Related Inquiries
and Complaints
HomeSaleByDesign takes its users' privacy concerns seriously. If
you believe that HomeSaleByDesign has not complied with this Online
Privacy Policy with respect to your personal information or you
have other related inquiries or concerns, you may email the HomeSaleByDesign
Privacy Officer at privacy_officer@HomeSaleByDesign.com.
In your correspondence, please describe
in as much detail as possible the nature of your inquiry
or the ways in which you believe that the HomeSaleByDesign
Online Privacy Policy has not been complied with. We
will investigate your inquiry or complaint promptly.
Please note that if you provide HomeSaleByDesign
with inconsistent privacy preferences (for example,
by indicating on one occasion that third parties may
contact you with marketing offers and indicating on
another occasion that they may not), HomeSaleByDesign
cannot guarantee that your most recent privacy preference
will be honored.
Also, please note that HomeSaleByDesign
is not responsible for the content or privacy practices
of non-HomeSaleByDesign Web Sites to which this Site
or any other HomeSaleByDesign Web Site may link. You
should review the privacy policy of such sites before
using the sites.