This privacy policy explains what information is collected when you use the Web sites, applications, content and services of Housby.com and its affiliated properties (“Housby”), why this information is collected, and how we use it to improve your experience.
Your Housby Information
Generally
Housby is provided by Housby Mack, Inc. and its affiliates (“we” or “us”). Your Housby information consists of personally identifiable information collected or received about you when you register with us, or when you log in to a Housby service as a registered user and interact with Housby products and services. Your Housby information may include (a) registration-related information (such as name, address, telephone and fax numbers, email address); (b) business-related information (such as business name, address, telephone and fax numbers); (c) information about your visits to Housby or our other web sites, pages and services; (d) your responses to our offerings and advertisements; (e) information about the features or offerings you use from us; (f) customer service information; and (g) other information specifically related to your use of a particular Housby feature or offering. Your information may be supplemented with additional information from other companies such as publicly available information and other information that we may append or match to your information.
You Consent to our Collection of Information
By providing information to us for the purposes of creating your Housby account, interacting with Housby’s services and features, you understand and agree that we may process information about you and make information about you available to others. In addition, if you post any information about yourself on areas of Housby that are publicly accessible, such as message boards or forums, you understand and agree that such information will be available to others.
How Housby Information Is Used
Your Housby information is used to operate and improve the features, offerings and content presented to you by us; to personalize the content to you; to fulfill your requests for products, programs, and services; to communicate with you and respond to your inquiries; to conduct research about your use of our products; to share information about you and your business; and, to communicate with other users and business contacts;
The contents of your online communications, as well as other information about you as a Housby user, may be accessed and disclosed in response: to lawful governmental requests or legal process (for example, a court order, search warrant or subpoena), in other circumstances in which we have a good faith belief that a crime has been or is being committed by a user, that an emergency exists that poses a threat to the safety of you or another person, when necessary either to protect our property, or for us to render the service you have requested.
In the event that our ownership was to change as a result of a merger or acquisition by another company, your Housby information may be transferred. We will provide you notice prior to any such transfer of your Housby information.
Cookies, Advertising Networks
We and certain third party partners may place “cookies” on your Web browser when you visit our properties (including our websites and emails). Cookies are small pieces of information or text files that a website sends to your computer for record-keeping purposes, which information is stored in a file on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies make Web‑surfing and browsing easier for you by saving your preferences so that we can use the saved information to facilitate and improve your use of Housby’s services. Please note that you will not be able to access and use all of Housby’s features if you delete or refuse to accept cookies. For example, without cookies, you will not be able to set certain personalized preferences, and/or you may have difficulty completing transactions.
Mobile Services
Our mobile applications may include location-based services. These services may include applications that can help you search and find businesses located near you. When you sign in and use our location-based services, we must periodically receive your location in order to provide our services to you. We may collect and process information about your actual location, like GPS signals sent by a mobile device. We may also use various technologies to determine location, such as sensor data from your device that may, for example, provide information on nearby Wi-Fi access points and cell towers. By using our location-based services, you authorize us to locate your device and to record, compile and display your location. We may also collect and store certain information about our users, such as, users’ wireless mobile subscriber ISDN numbers and users’ network access identifier information. We may use third party providers to help operate our services. Google, Inc. provides our location-based mapping services. By using the location-based mapping services, you agree that Google may collect information when you use the maps as described in its privacy policy located at http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/, which Google may update from time-to-time. You may discontinue any location-based service by going to the location services settings on your device and turn off GPS and other settings that can locate your device.
Our applications may give you the ability to store your log-in credentials on a mobile device so that you can be logged-in automatically when your launch our services. You may deactivate the automatic feature by using the log-off feature on our applications. You understand that you are solely responsible if someone else obtains access to your mobile device if it is lost or stolen. You agree to notify your mobile carrier promptly to prevent unauthorized access to your device. You may also notify us if you believe your profile has been compromised.
Security
We make available a secure page for entering sensitive information, protected by industry-standard SSL encryption technology. This technology encrypts your information prior to transmitting it over the Internet.
We maintain the confidential information you provide us in a secure database. We further require credentials such as a user identification (e.g., email address) and password to limit access to registered accounts. Please keep in mind that while we have established safeguards to help prevent unauthorized access to or misuse of you Housby information, we cannot guarantee that your personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in a manner inconsistent with this Privacy Policy (for example, in the event of unauthorized acts by third parties that violate applicable law or our policies).
Questions
If you have further questions or concerns that have not been addressed in this statement, please send your inquiries to:
Housby Mack, Inc.
4747 NE 14th St
Des Moines, Iowa 50313
Please be sure to include your name, address and daytime phone number so we can contact you.
Changes
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, and so you should review this Policy periodically. If there are significant changes to our information practices, you will be provided with appropriate online notice. You may be provided other privacy-related information in connection with your use of offerings from us as well as for special features and services not described in this Policy that may be introduced in the future.
Last Updated: December 21, 2016
