Privacy Policy

HOMEHACKS PRIVACY POLICY

1. Your Privacy: Overview

This privacy policy (this “Privacy Policy”) tells you about the information that HomeHacks.com (“HomeHacks,” “we,” “us” or “our”) collects in connection with the operation of our website located at http://www.HomeHacks.com (the “Website”) and all related online services offered by HomeHacks (the “Services”), how the information is used and how you can access and correct certain information that we may collect.

Please note that this Privacy Policy applies only to information collected from you by HomeHacks via the Website and/or Services. It does not apply to information obtained or disclosed in offline correspondence or through other personal contacts with HomeHacks representatives. Further, the Website and/or Services may contain links to other entities’ websites that are not controlled or operated by HomeHacks. This Privacy Policy does not apply to such third party websites, and HomeHacks is not responsible for the content of such third party websites or the privacy practices of such third parties. Therefore, we encourage you to request and review the privacy policies of any third parties upon disclosing your information to such parties or visiting such third party websites.

This Privacy Policy is effective as of December 10, 2012.

2. Collection of Your Information

You can access some areas of the Website and/or Services without submitting any personally identifiable information. HomeHacks collects personally identifiable information only if you choose to complete any online forms to contact us, complete a profile, post content, provide design/product feedback or to request information or assistance through the Website and/or Services. The personally identifiable information that HomeHacks collects through these portions of the Website and/or Services may include your name, username, password, email address, address and telephone number and any other personally identifiable information that you choose to include in your profile or in your submissions to us. You represent and warrant that you have the right and authority to provide any information provided by you. HomeHacks may also collect certain non-personally identifiable information in connection with the operation of the Website and/or Services, including IP addresses, browser or operating system information, data on advertisements or links on which you click, and the websites that you visit before or after you visit the Website and/or Services. Such information is maintained by HomeHacks or service providers acting on behalf of HomeHacks. Other users of the Website and/or Services may be able to view your information.

3. Protection of Your Information

To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, maintain data accuracy and facilitate the appropriate use of information, HomeHacks uses physical, technological and administrative procedures to attempt to protect the personally identifiable information we collect through the Website and/or Services. Nevertheless, Internet transmissions are never completely private or secure. You understand that any messages or information you send to the Website and/or Services may be read or intercepted by others. If you have any questions about the security of personally identifiable information collected by HomeHacks, please contact us via the form on the HomeHacks Contact Page.

4. Use of Your Personally Identifiable Information

Upon our collection of your personally identifiable information, HomeHacks may use such personally identifiable information internally, separately or in combination with pre-existing information, for the following purposes:

• To provide any requested information, products or Services;
• To troubleshoot problems with the Website and/or Services;
• To customize your experience on the Website and/or Services;
• To enforce our Terms of Service or compliance with this Privacy Policy; or
• To contact you with more information about HomeHacks and its products.

Personally identifiable information collected on the Website and/or Services may be stored and processed in the United States, Canada or abroad.

5. Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose your personally identifiable information to our subsidiaries or affiliates and to third party partners whom we occasionally hire to provide services on our behalf, including support services, website services, delivering promotional materials, answering customer questions about our services and new services. HomeHacks will only provide those third party partners with the personally identifiable information they need to deliver the services to us and/or on our behalf, and they will be contractually prohibited from using that information for any other purpose. In the event that HomeHacks is involved in a transaction such as a merger, stock purchase or sale, or sale of substantially all of HomeHacks assets, your personal information may be transferred to the other party in such transaction.

HomeHacks reserves the right to disclose your personally identifiable information if required to do so by law or legal process or otherwise requested by any law enforcement officer or agency acting under color of law. In addition, HomeHacks reserves the right to disclose your personally identifiable information based on the good faith belief that such action is necessary or appropriate to: (a) protect and defend the rights or property of HomeHacks, or (b) act in urgent circumstances to protect the safety or security of the public or of users of the HomeHacks’s products and/or the Website and/or Services.

6. Retention of Your Personally Identifiable Information

The personally identifiable information that you provide will be stored and maintained by HomeHacks until you instruct us otherwise, or, in HomeHacks’s sole discretion, for the longer of: (a) for so long as is necessary or appropriate to carry out the purpose(s) for which such information was collected and (b) for so long as we are required to maintain such information by law or other applicable rules or regulations.

7. Children’s Privacy

HomeHacks recognizes the privacy interests of children and we encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in their children’s online activities and interests. The Website and Services are not intended for children under the age of 13. HomeHacks does not target its Website and/or Services to children under 13. HomeHacks does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13.

8. Choice and Opt-Out Preferences

HomeHacks does not collect your personally identifiable information unless you choose to provide it. If, at any time, you prefer not to receive further e mail communications from HomeHacks (except in connection with information, products or services that you specifically request), you will have the ability to unsubscribe from such communications by means of a link provided in every broadcast e-mail that is sent to you by HomeHacks. If, at any time, you prefer not to receive any other form of communication from HomeHacks, you will have the ability to unsubscribe from such communications by contacting us via the form on the HomeHacks Contact Page.

9. Access and Accuracy

HomeHacks will use commercially reasonable efforts to provide access to your personally identifiable information if you request such access in writing by contacting us via the form on the HomeHacks Contact Page. HomeHacks reserves the right to deny access to your personally identifiable information: (a) when such denial of access is required by law; (b) when granting you access is reasonably likely to negatively impact other people’s privacy; (c) when such access to your acceptance of This Privacy Policy and Revisions to This Privacy Policy is cost prohibitive; (d) when your acceptance of This Privacy Policy and Revisions to This Privacy Policy is necessary to protect HomeHacks’s rights and property, and (e) when such requests are frivolous or made in bad faith. If you believe that the personally identifiable information maintained by HomeHacks about you is inaccurate or incomplete, you may notify HomeHacks in writing describing in details any inaccuracies or omissions, by contacting us via the form on the HomeHacks Contact Page. Following receipt of such a properly submitted written notice, HomeHacks will, within a reasonable time period, use commercially reasonable efforts to, in its sole discretion, either: (y) amend or correct your personally identifiable information to reflect corrected or additional information provided by you, or (z) in connection with your personally identifiable information, make note of any claimed inaccuracies or omissions reflected in the notice submitted by you.

10. Your Acceptance of This Privacy Policy and Revisions to This Privacy Policy

By using the Website and/or Services, you agree to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, you may not use the Website and/or Services. HomeHacks reserves the right, in our discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time, without prior notice to you. All revisions will be posted to the Website and/or Services. We urge you to review this Privacy Policy frequently for changes. Your continued use of the Website and/or Services means that you accept those changes.

11. Questions or Comments

HomeHacks welcomes questions and comments about this Privacy Policy. Questions or comments should be directed to HomeHacks’s privacy policy compliance department via the form on the HomeHacks Contact Page.