TimeToBuyFlorida.com Gathers User Information
In The Following Processes:
Optional Voluntary Information
We offer the following free services, which
require some type of voluntary submission of personal information by
users:
Privacy Policy Sample
1. Electronic newsletters policy
(Dispatches)
We will offer a free electronic newsletter
to users. TimeToBuyFlorida.com gathers the email addresses of users who
voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove themselves from this mailing
list by following the link provided in every newsletter that points users
to the subscription management page. Users can also subscribe to the
newsletters at the time of registration.
2. "E-mail this to a friend" policy
Our site users can choose to electronically
forward a link, page, or documents to someone else by clicking "e-mail
this to a friend". The user must provide their email address,
as well as that of the recipient. This information is used only in
the case of transmission errors and, of course, to let the recipient
know who sent the email. The information is not used for any other
purpose.
3. Polling
We may offer interactive polls to users
so they can easily share their opinions with other users and see
what our audience thinks about important issues. Opinions or other
responses to polls are aggregated and are not identifiable to any
particular user. TimeToBuyFlorida.com may use a system to "tag" users
after they have voted, so they can vote only once on a particular
question. This tag is not correlated with information about individual
users.
4. Surveys
TimeToBuyFlorida.com may occasionally conduct
user surveys to better target our content to our audience. We sometimes
share the aggregated demographic information in these surveys with our
sponsors, advertisers and partners. We never share any of this information
about specific individuals with any third party.
Children
Consistent with the Federal Children's
Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly
request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age
of 13 without requesting parental consent.
Usage tracking
TimeToBuyFlorida.com tracks user traffic
patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we do not correlate this
information with data about individual users. TimeToBuyFlorida.com does
break down overall usage statistics according to a user's domain name,
browser type, and MIME type by reading this information from the browser
string (information contained in every user's browser).
TimeToBuyFlorida.com sometimes tracks and
catalogs the search terms that users enter in our Search function, but
this tracking is never associated with individual users. We use tracking
information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't
like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual
users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps
us continue to build a better service for you.
Cookies
We may place a text file called a "cookie" in
the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain
Personal Information although it will enable us to relate your use
of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly
provided. But the only personal information a cookie can contain
is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off
your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. TimeToBuyFlorida.com
uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above).
Our advertising system delivers a one-time cookie to better track
ad impressions and click rates.
You can refuse cookies by turning them
off in your browser. If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting
cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do
not need to have cookies turned on to use this site. However, you do
need cookies to participate actively in message boards, forums, polling
and surveys.
Privacy Policy Use
USE OF INFORMATION
TimeToBuyFlorida.com uses any information
voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience in our network
of sites, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on
the sites or to better prepare future content based on the interests
of our users.
As stated above, we use information that
users voluntarily provide in order to send out electronic newsletters
and to enable users to participate in polls, surveys, message boards,
and forums. We send out newsletters to subscribers on a regular schedule
(depending on the newsletter), and occasionally send out special editions
when we think subscribers might be particularly interested in something
we are doing. TimeToBuyFlorida.com never shares newsletter mailing lists
with any third parties, including advertisers, sponsors or partners.
When we use tracking information to determine
which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to
those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how
well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better
service for you. We track search terms entered in Search function as
one of many measures of what interests our users. But we don't track
which terms a particular user enters.
TimeToBuyFlorida.com creates aggregate
reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for advertisers, sponsors
and partners. This allows our advertisers to advertise more effectively,
and allows our users to receive advertisements that are pertinent to
their needs. Because we don't track the usage patterns of individual
users, an advertiser or sponsor will never know that a specific user
clicked their ad. We will not disclose any information about any individual
user except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to
protect the personal safety of our users or the public.
SHARING OF THE INFORMATION
TimeToBuyFlorida.com uses the above-described
information to tailor our content to suit your needs and help our advertisers
better understand our audience's demographics. This is essential to keeping
our service free. We will not share information about
individual users with any third party, except to comply with applicable
law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users
or the public.
SECURITY
TimeToBuyFlorida.com operates secure data
networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection
systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed
and enhanced as necessary and only authorized individuals have access
to the information provided by our customers.
OPT-OUT POLICY
We give users options wherever necessary
and practical. Such choices include: