Privacy Policy
At Find a Home In Big Bear.com ("Find a Home In Big Bear" or "we" or "us" or "our"), we appreciate your use of and contributions to our Web site and features (known as the "services"). Find a Home In Big Bear respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information.
This is our privacy policy and we will comply with it, as well as applicable U.S. privacy law, when we gather and use information from users of our services. We encourage you to read this privacy policy to understand what we do with the information we collect from you.
Advertising-
Find a Home In Big Bear and our extensive set of features are generally funded through advertising dollars. This advertising revenue helps keep Find a Home In Big Bear free of charge for our user community. It also allows us to explore and build new features.
We strive to make advertisements relevant and useful to you. Therefore, we may serve advertisements to you based on the information we collect from you or in relation to your interaction on our site.
We pledge to be transparent about the information we monitor and collect from you. We keep information private between you and Find a Home In Big Bear, except as explained below.
Collection of Information
When you use Find a Home In Big Bear, we collect a variety of information.
- Information you provide. When using our site and services, you may provide information
about yourself, such as name, address, and e-
mail. This may occur when you register on Find a Home In Big Bear, claim a home, or complete other forms, such as a loan request. We may combine this information with other information we collect from your activity on our Web site or from other companies. - Cookies and Web beacons. Cookies are bits of electronic information that can be transferred
to a computer to uniquely identify that computer's browser. When you visit Find a
Home In Big Bear and use our services, we may place one or more cookies on your computer.
The use of cookies helps us improve the quality of our services to you, by identifying
information which is most interesting to you, tracking trends, or storing information
you may want to retrieve on a regular basis, such as your favorite homes. At any
time, you may adjust settings on your browser to refuse cookies. However, if you
choose to disable cookies, many of the free features and services on Find a Home
In Big Bear will not operate properly. Also, the pages of our service may include
Web beacons, which are electronic files to count users who have visited that page
or to identify certain cookies on the computer accessing that page. Some pages on
our site may use third-
party Web beacons. In addition to our use of the data to analyze visitor activity on our site, other sites may use anonymous information about your visit in order to improve its products and services and to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you. - Third-
party cookies. We work with service providers and advertising networks to track and manage cookie information and your activities while you're on Find a Home In Big Bear or using our services. You may opt-out of cookie tracking and analysis from any of these ad networks by Opting Out of Collection of Information, which is explained further below. - Usage logs. When you use Find a Home In Big Bear, your computer communicates a variety of information to computer servers, including the existence of cookies, your Internet Protocol address, and information about your browser program. We also create a record of what information you are requesting, such as the page or subject areas you're visiting.
- Calls. Calls to Find a Home In Big Bear or to third parties through Find a Home In Big Bear may be recorded or monitored for quality assurance and customer service purposes. If a call is recorded between you and a third party, it will be deemed private information of both you and the third party, and may be released to either of you.
Usage and Disclosure
In general, Find a Home In Big Bear uses the information collected from you to communicate with you and operate our features and services. Find a Home In Big Bear also uses this information to present you with advertising that we believe will be of interest or useful to you.
Your privacy is important and we are committed to protecting information that identifies you personally, where you have chosen to keep it private. We will only share personal information that you provide outside the public areas of our services in the following circumstances:
- Consent. When you consent or direct Find a Home In Big Bear to share the information.
For example, if you choose to contact a real estate agent or lender through Find
a Home In Big Bear, your name and e-
mail address will appear to the recipient of the message. - Service providers to Find a Home In Big Bear. When Find a Home In Big Bear hires a service provider to help operate the services or our business, Find a Home In Big Bear may give access to personal data only as necessary to perform the service for Find a Home In Big Bear, and subject to the terms of this privacy policy.
- Legal obligation or protection from harm. When Find a Home In Big Bear has a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the personal information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any requirement of law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce or investigate a potential violation of the Terms of Use, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise respond to fraud, security or technical concerns, or (d) protect the rights, property, or safety of Find a Home In Big Bear, its users, or the public against harm.
- Merger or sale. When and if Find a Home In Big Bear is involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its business, personal information may be transferred along with the business
When you provide public information without identifying yourself, we will protect your personal identity as described above. If your account profile does not identify you personally, Find a Home In Big Bear won't reveal your identity to third parties except in accordance with this policy.
When we deliver ads based on that data about your use of Find a Home In Big Bear, we keep your identity anonymous. We won't identify you personally to third parties, except in accordance with this privacy policy. Of course, if you choose to respond to an advertised offer with your name and contact information, you will no longer be anonymous to the advertiser.
Some Things are Not Covered
This privacy policy will not apply to the following:
- Public posting. You should keep in mind that the information that you choose to provide in a public area of Find a Home In Big Bear and our services (such as your profile page or the discussion forums) will not be protected by this privacy policy because you have made an active choice to make that information public.
- Real estate information. Find a Home In Big Bear strives to provide open and transparent information about real estate markets. As a result, we make available past sales prices for homes, and allow any user to post a question or answer about a given home. Many times, this information is already publicly available. As long as discussion surrounds real estate and not individuals, we intend to keep this information freely available on our Web site. Where a professional participates in the Find a Home In Big Bear community, we may also allow users to comment on the professional, such as the lender ratings in the Find a Home In Big Bear Mortgage Marketplace.
- Aggregated non-
personal information and other information without personal identification. While we do not share your personal information with third parties unless permitted above, Find a Home In Big Bear may share aggregate anonymous information with third-parties. This information does not personally identify individuals, but instead provides a helpful understanding of the groups of people who prefer certain types of information and services.
E-
You may receive e-
Opting Out of Collection of Information
Find a Home In Big Bear, its third-
Third-
Find a Home In Big Bear has relationships with the following services:
Find a Home In Big Bear marketing service provider. If you do not want Find a Home
In Big Bear and its marketing service provider to follow your usage of our services
via cookies and Web beacons, you can opt-
Opt out of Cookies/Web beacons from:
Opting out of these services does not mean you will no longer receive online advertising. It does mean that the service from which you opted out will no longer deliver ads tailored to your Web preferences and usage patterns.
Windows Live™ Virtual Earth
Windows Live Virtual Earth imagery is supplied by Microsoft Corporation, and use is subject to the Microsoft MapPoint Privacy Statement.
Third-
Throughout Find a Home In Big Bear, we may link to the Web sites of other companies
and/or individuals. These third-
Children Under the Age of 13
Find a Home In Big Bear will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from any person under the age of 13. Our services are not designed to attract the attention of persons under the age of 13.
Storage and Security of Information
Personal information will be processed and stored by Find a Home In Big Bear in databases hosted in the United States. Find a Home In Big Bear has taken reasonable steps to protect the information users share with us, including, but not limited to, setup of processes, equipment and software to avoid unauthorized access or disclosure of this information.
Contacting Find a Home In Big Bear
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, or the privacy practices
of Find a Home In Big Bear, please e-
Please note that this policy may be amended from time to time. You should check back for the most current version before relying on any of the provisions in this privacy policy.
— Updated January 2012 2010