This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes how Welcome Building Corporation and its related companies (“Welcome Homes,” “we,” and “us”) collect, use and share information when a person or business (“you,” “your”) accesses the Website at welcomehomes.com (the “Website”) or uses in any manner any Welcome Homes mobile application, product, service, feature, technology, content, or Website as applicable (collectively, the “Services”).
BY CLICKING A BOX INDICATING YOUR ACCEPTANCE, BY USING OR BY REGISTERING TO THE SERVICES, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO BE LEGALLY BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND ARE CONSENTING TO WELCOME BUILDING’S PRACTICES RELATED TO YOUR INFORMATION AND THIS PRIVACY POLICY. YOUR CONTINUED USE OF THIS SITE OR SERVICES AFTER WELCOME BUILDING MAKES A CHANGE IS DEEMED TO BE ACCEPTANCE OF THOSE CHANGES.
IF YOU ARE USING THE SERVICES FROM OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES, YOU FURTHER AGREE TO THE USE, COLLECTION, PROCESSING, AND STORAGE OF YOUR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION IN THE UNITED STATES OR OTHER COUNTRIES, AND YOU ALSO AGREE THAT SUCH PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION WILL BE SUBJECT TO THE PRIVACY LAWS AND OTHER LAWS OF THESE COUNTRIES.
YOU REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT (I) YOU ARE 16 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER, AND (II) YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTOOD THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND PRACTICES, DO NOT USE, VISIT, REGISTER OR OTHERWISE ACCESS THE SITE, THE SERVICES AND CONTENT CONTAINED ON THE SITE OR SERVICES.
WHAT WE COLLECT
We get information about you in a range of ways.
Information You Give Us.
We collect your name, postal address, email address, phone number, username, password, demographic information (such as your gender and occupation) as well as other information you directly give us when you register for the Services (“Account Information”).
We also process financial information such as your credit card when you order Services in order to facilitate the processing of payments (“Payment Information”).
Information Automatically Collected.
We automatically log information about you, your computer or your mobile device when you visit the Website or access the Services (“Non-Personal Information”). For example, when visiting the Website, we log your computer operating system type, browser type, browser language, pages you viewed, how long you spent on a page, access times and information about your use of and actions on the Website. If you use a mobile device to access the Services we may collect device information (such as your mobile device ID, model and manufacturer), operating system, version information and IP address.
Information We Get From Others.
We may get information about you from other sources. We may add this to information we get from the Website or your use of the Services. We may use third-party service providers to provide anonymous site metrics and other analytics services. These third parties may use cookies, web beacons, and other technologies to collect information, such as your IP address, identifiers associated with your device, other applications on your device, the browsers you use to access our Services, webpages viewed, time spent on webpages, links clicked, and conversion information (e.g., transactions entered into). This information may be used by us and third-party service providers on our behalf to analyze and track usage of our and better understand how you use our Services. The third-party service providers that we engage are bound by confidentiality obligations and other restrictions with respect to their use and collection of your information.
Cookies and Web Beacons.
We may use the standard cookie feature of major browser applications and third-party providers, or employ internally developed cookies and tracking codes, that allows Welcome Homes to store a small piece of data on a User’s computer (or any other device used to access the Services, including a mobile device) about the User’s use of the Site. It’s a text-only string of information that allows us to distinguish you from other Users, but not in a personally identifiable way. We do capture personally identifiable information in cookies or use cookies to mine personally identifiable information. If you do not want us to use cookies, you must disable them in your browser. If you choose to do so, you may still use the Site, but your ability to use some of areas and features of the Site may be limited.
We employ technologies such as clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons), tags and scripts to help us better manage content by informing us what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track online usage metrics. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer or device, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on web pages. We do tie the information gathered by clear gifs to personally identifiable information.
USE OF INFORMATION
We use your Account Information and Payment Information to provide our Services to you.
We use your Account Information to respond to comments and questions and provide customer service.
We use your Account Information to send information including confirmations, invoices, technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages.
We use your Account Information to provide and deliver products and services customers request.
We may use your email to communicate about promotions, upcoming events, and other news about products and services offered by us and our selected partners.
We may use your Account Information to link or combine user information with other personally identifiable information.
We may use your Account Information to protect, investigate, and deter against fraudulent, unauthorized, or illegal activity.
We use Non-Personal Information for the purposes of analyzing use of the Services and for internal business purposes.
We also aggregate any information we receive in anonymized form (meaning after having stripped this information of personally identifying characteristics) (“Anonymized Data”) to compile analytics, understand trends and customer needs.
INFORMATION CHOICES AND CHANGES
You may access, review, change, delete and update the Account Information and Payment Information you have submitted tous at any time via your account on the Website. You may close or request that we delete your Welcome Homes account at any time by emailing us at hello@welcomehomes.com.
You may also request that we limit use or limit the disclosure of personal information by emailing us at hello@welcomehomes.com.
Our marketing emails tell you how to “opt-out.” If you opt out, we may still send you non-marketing emails Non-marketing emails include emails about your accounts and our business dealings with you.
You can typically remove and reject cookies from the Website with your browser settings. Many browsers are set to acceptcookies until you change your settings. If you remove or reject our cookies, it could affect how the Website works for you.
While we will use commercially reasonable efforts to remove your personally identifiable information, some informationwill be retained. For example, some information may be retained on a backup server or media, which is necessary to help ensure the continued availability of the Services. We will also retain personally identifiable information when it is necessary for providing the Services, for compliance with a legal obligation, or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. No uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this Privacy Policy.
LINKS
The Services may contain references, frames, links and other functionality that connect with certain internet websites, applications or resources, or social media platform or services maintained by third parties ("Links"). These Links are provided for your convenience only. You acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible or liable for: (i) the availability or accuracy of such websites or resources; or (ii) the content, features, products, services, privacy policies or terms of service on or available from such websites or resources. Links to such websites or resources do not imply any endorsement by us of such websites or resources or the content, products, or services available from such websites or resources, or its owners, sponsors or operators.
This Privacy Policy applies only to the Services The Services may contain links to other websites not operated or controlled by us (“Third Party Sites”). The Privacy Policy does not apply to Third Party Sites.
You acknowledge sole responsibility for and assume all risk arising from your use of any such websites or resources or the content, products or services on or available from such websites or resources, privacy policies or terms of service of any other third party, including, without limitation, any Social Networking Services.
SECURITY
We are very serious about keeping your personally identifiable information safe. We provide reasonable and appropriate security measures to protect the personally identifiable information submitted to us, both during transmission and upon receipt. However, the Internet is not a secure environment and we do not warrant that personally identifiable information may not be accessed, copied, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach despite the security protections undertaken by us. We cannot guarantee the absolute security of your personally identifiable information. No data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have any questions about security on the Website and the Services, you can email us at #{link_to "hello@welcomehomes.com","mailto:hello@welcomehomes.com", aria: { label: "Contact us" } }.
POLICY TOWARD CHILDREN
We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16, and you must be 16 years of age or older in order to establish an account with Welcome Homes or otherwise use the Services. In the event you become aware that an individual under the age of 16 has enrolled please contact us immediately at hello@welcomehomes com and we will remove their information from our system immediately.
CONTACT INFORMATION.
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or its implementation, you may contact Welcome Homes via hello@welcomehomes.com or at the following address:
Welcome Building Corporation
41 Madison Ave, Floor 33
New York City, New York 10010
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY. We may change this privacy policy. If we make any changes, we will change the Last Updated date above.