This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) applies to westsidehosutonhomes.com and Westside Houston Homes (“The Company”) and governs data collection and usage. For the purpose of this Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to The Company include westsidehoustonhomes.com. The Company’s website is a real estate brokerage site. By using The Company’s website, you consent to the data practices in this statement.
Collection of Your Personal Information
In order to better provide you with products and services offered, The Company may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:
– first and last name
– mailing address
– email address
– phone number
Please keep in mind that if you direclty disclose personally identifiable informaiton or personally sensitive data through The Company’s public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.
We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services. These may include: (a) subscribing to our newsletter; (b) providing contact information to us when requesting information from us; (c) entering a contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (d) sending us an email message; (e) creating an account on our website or message board. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal and non-personal information in the future.
Use of Personal Infomation
The Company collects and uses your personal information in the following ways:
- to operate and deliver the services you have requested
- to provide you with information, products, and services that you requested from us
- to provide you with notices about your account
- to carry out The Company’s obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered between you and us, including billing and collection
- to notify you about changes to wetsidehoustonhomes.com or any products or services we offer or provide through it
- in any other way we may describe when yo provide the information
- for any other purpose with your consent
The Company may also use your pseronally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available form The Company and its affiliates.
Sharing Information with Third Parties
Company does not sell, rent, or lease its customer lists to third parties.
The Company may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, privide customer support, or arrange for dleiveries. All such third parties are prohibited form using your personal information except to provide these services to The Company and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your infomration.
The Company may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to edicts of the law or comply with legal process servied on The Company or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or propety of The Company; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protec the personal safety of users of The Company, or the public.
Automatically Collected Information
The Company may automatically collect information about your computer hardware and software. This information can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding the use of the Company’s website.
Use of Cookies
The Company’s website may use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize the Company’s pages, or register with Company’s site or services, a cookie helps the Company to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Company’s features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Company’s services or websites you visit.
Links
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
Security of your Personal Information
The Company secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. The Company uses the following methods for this purpose:
- SSL Protocol
When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.
We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet that are beyond our control; and (b) the security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this site cannot be guaranteed.
Children Under Thirteen The Company does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.
Email Communications From time to time, the Company may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from the Company or click on a link therein.
If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from the Company, you may opt out of such communications by replying STOP or clicking on the unsubscribe button.
External Data Storage Sites We may store your data on servers provided by third-party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.
Changes to This Statement The Company reserves the right to change this Policy from time to time. For example, when there are changes in our services, changes in our data protection practices, or changes in the law. When changes to this Policy are significant, we will inform you. You may receive a notice by sending an email to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on Westside Houston Homes, and/or by updating any privacy information. Your continued use of the website and/or services available after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.
Contact Information The Company welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Policy. If you believe that the Company has not adhered to this Policy, please contact the Company at:
Westside Houston Homes 2750 FM 1463 #150-132 Katy, Texas 77494
Email Address: info@westsidehoustonhomes.com
Phone Number: 281.704.4050
Effective as of January 1, 2025
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