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RESIDENT INTERACTIVE'S
PRIVACY STATEMENT
Welcome to Resident Interactive!
By using this site, you are deemed to have agreed
to this Privacy Policy. PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING
PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to modify
our Privacy Policy at any time. You should check the
Privacy Policy periodically for changes. By using
the site after we post any changes to the Privacy
Policy, you agree to accept those changes, whether
or not you have reviewed them. If at any time you
choose not to accept the terms of this Privacy Policy,
please do not use this site.
INFORMATION COLLECTION AND
USE
Resident Interactive collects
personally identifiable information from you at several
points through your use of this site. In order to
service this site, we may collect personally identifiable
information for registration, financial transactions,
surveys and contests, Tell-A-Friend, public forums
and receipt of newsletters and other promotional materials.
USE OF COOKIES
A cookie is a piece of data stored
on your hard drive containing information about your
website usage preferences. Usage of a cookie is in
no way linked to any personally identifiable information
while on our site. When you log on to our site, a
cookie is set that tells us who you are, what your
preferences are, and which Resident Interactive communities
you belong to. This cookie is referenced as you navigate
through our site. It is used so that we can verify
what access rights you have within our site. If you
reject cookies, you will not be able to access the
interactive and secured portion of our site. If you
have questions or concerns about the use of cookies
on the Resident Interactive website, please email
us at security@residentinteractive.com.
Some of our business partners also use cookies on
our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have
no access to or control over these cookies.
SECURITY
Resident Interactive takes reasonable
precautions to protect your information. When you
submit sensitive information via the website, your
information is protected both online and off-line.
When our registration/order form asks you to enter
sensitive information (such as credit card number
and/or social security number), that information is
encrypted and is protected with encryption software
recognized in the industry - SSL. While on a secure
page, such as our order form, the lock icon on the
bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator
and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as
opposed to un-locked, or open, when you are just surfing.
While we will use SSL encryption to protect sensitive
information online, we also protect your information
off-line. All of your information, not just the sensitive
information mentioned above, is restricted in our
offices. Only employees who need the information to
perform a specific job (for example, a customer service
representative) are granted access to personally identifiable
information. Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date
on our security and privacy practices. Finally, the
servers that we store personally identifiable information
on are kept in a secure environment, behind locked
doors. If you have any questions about the security
at our website, you can send an email to security@residentinteractive.com.
SHARING OF INFORMATION WITH
THIRD PARTIES
We share aggregated or non-personally
identifiable information with our partners and advertisers.
We also partner with other parties to provide specific
services. When you sign up for these services, we
will share information in order to best provide these
services. These parties are not authorized to retain,
share, store, or use personally identifiable information
for any secondary purposes.
TRANSFER OF BUSINESS ASSETS
As we continue to develop our
business, we might acquire or buy other businesses
or assets. In such transactions, customer information
generally is one of the transferred business assets.
Also, in the event that Resident Interactive, or substantially
all of its assets are acquired, both personally identifiable
and non-personally identifiable customer information
will be one of the transferred assets.
LINKS
This web site contains links to
other sites. Please be aware that Resident Interactive
is not responsible for the privacy practices of other
sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave
our site and to read the privacy statements of each
and every website you visit. This privacy policy applies
solely to information collected by Resident Interactive
on this website.
CONTROLLING YOUR PERSONALLY-IDENTIFIABLE
INFORMATION AND OUR OPT-OUT POLICY
Our users are given the opportunity
to 'opt-out' of having their information used for
purposes not directly related to our site when the
information is requested. Users who no longer wish
to receive our newsletter or promotional materials
from our partners may opt-out of receiving these communications
by replying to unsubscribe in the subject line in
the email or by emailing us at support@residentinteractive.com.
Users of our site are notified when their information
is being collected by any outside parties. We do this
in order to allow our users to make an informed choice
as to whether they should proceed with these services.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Resident Interactive
Lenox Center Suite 450
3355 Lenox Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30326
1 (877) 962-8751
security@residentinteractive.com
support@residentinteractive.com
REGISTRATION
In order to use this website,
you must first complete the registration form. During
registration you are required to give your contact
information (such as name and email address). This
is used for verification of membership rights to the
various Resident Interactive communities that you
attempt to register for, to identity and verify official
votes within the Resident Interactive communities,
and to verify identity when you RSVP to events. It
is optional for you to provide address information.
Address information is used to generate "one-click"
map directions from your home to events and to local
businesses. This information is also used to contact
you about services on our site for which you have
expressed interest. It is optional for you to provide
demographic information (such as income level and
gender), but you are encouraged to do so that we can
provide a more personalized experience to you on our
site.
FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS
We may request information from
you for financial transactions. If you must provide
contact information (like name and shipping address)
and financial information (like credit card number
and expiration date), the information is used for
billing purposes and to fill customers' orders. If
we have trouble processing an order, this contact
information is used to get in touch with you.
SURVEYS AND CONTESTS
We may request information from
you via surveys or contests. Participation in these
surveys or contests is completely voluntary and optional.
Information requested may include contact information
(such as name and shipping address), and demographic
information (such as zip code). We also collect the
responses to the survey questions. Some of the survey
contact information will be used to notify the winners
and award prizes. Survey information will also be
used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use
and satisfaction of this site. Resident Interactive
has the ability to deploy surveys to your community.
For example, a Homeowners Association president can
deploy an on-line survey to the residents of the neighborhood
as a means for collecting feedback on various issues.
Your individual response will be visible to the creator
of the survey, and linked to your user id. We advise
you to exercise caution in providing any personal
information in these surveys. From time-to-time Resident
Interactive will allow third parties to post their
surveys on our web site in order to reach our user
base. In this case, the user id will be tracked in
order to prevent individual users from responding
more than once to a single survey. However, the responses
to the surveys will only be shared with the third
party at an aggregate level. These aggregate level
responses are not linked to any personal information
that can identify any individual person.
TELL-A-FRIEND
If you elect to use our referral
service to inform a friend about our site, we ask
you for the friend's name and email address. Resident
Interactive will automatically send the friend a one-time
email inviting them to visit the site. Resident Interactive
stores this information for the sole purpose of sending
this one-time email. The friend may email us at support@residentinteractive.com
to request the removal of this information from our
database.
PUBLIC FORUMS
This site makes use of a directory,
chat rooms, classified ads, and message boards. Please
remember that any information disclosed in these areas
becomes public information, and you should exercise
caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.
NEWSLETTER
If a user wishes to exercise their
option to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for
contact information such as name and email address.
NO LIABILITY FOR ACTS OF THIRD PARTIES
Although Resident Interactive
will use all reasonable efforts to safeguard the confidentiality
of your personal identification information, transmissions
made by means of the Internet cannot be made absolutely
secure. Resident Interactive will have no liability
for disclosure of information due to errors in transmission
or unauthorized acts of third parties.
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