Privacy Statement
ClosedHomes.com respects and protects the privacy of the individuals that use ClosedHomes.com's search services ("ClosedHomes.com Search Services", "ClosedHomes.com"). Individually identifiable information about you is not willfully disclosed to any third party without first receiving your permission, as explained in this privacy statement ("Privacy Statement").
If you are looking for our Visitor Terms of Use, click here.
ClosedHomes.com and Cookies
Upon your first visit to ClosedHomes.com, ClosedHomes.com may send a "cookie" to your computer. A cookie is a piece of data that identifies you as a unique user. ClosedHomes.com uses cookies to improve the quality of our service and to understand our user base more. ClosedHomes.com does this by storing user preferences in cookies and by tracking user trends and patterns of how people search. ClosedHomes.com will not disclose its cookies to third parties except as required by a valid legal process such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, or court order.
Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Be aware, however, that some parts of the ClosedHomes.com Search Service may not function properly if you refuse cookies.
What Information Do We Collect?
ClosedHomes.com does not collect any unique information about you (such as your name, email address, postal zipcode, etc.) except when you specifically and knowingly provide such information. ClosedHomes.com notes and saves information such as time of day, browser type, browser language, and IP address with each query. That information is used to verify our records and to provide more relevant services to users. For example, ClosedHomes.com may use your IP address or postal zipcode to determine which search results or advertisements to show.
If you register an account with ClosedHomes.com, you are automatically subscribed to the ClosedHomes.com Website Announcements list and also the ClosedHomes.com Newsletter list. We may contact you periodically via email regarding news, updates/upgrades to our services, or important information regarding your ClosedHomes.com account. You may unsubscribe to either of these lists at anytime by logging into your account at anytime and updating your email notification preferences in your Profile.
Links to Other Sites
The information displayed on search results, advertiser/agents pages, or linked to by ClosedHomes.com Search Services are developed by people or advertisers over whom ClosedHomes.com exercises no control. These other sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data, or solicit personal information. ClosedHomes.com may choose to exhibit its search results in the form of a "URL redirecter." When ClosedHomes.com uses a URL redirecter, if you click on a URL from a search result, information about the click is sent to ClosedHomes.com, and ClosedHomes.com in turn sends you to the site you clicked on. ClosedHomes.com uses this URL information to understand and improve the quality of ClosedHomes.com's search technology. For instance, ClosedHomes.com uses this information to determine how often users are satisfied with the first result of a query and how often they proceed to later results.
With Whom Does ClosedHomes.com Share Information?
ClosedHomes.com may share information about your visit with advertisers, business partners, sponsors, and other third parties. However, we only divulge aggregate information about our users and will not share personally identifiable information with any third party without your express consent. For example, we may disclose how frequently the average ClosedHomes.com user visits ClosedHomes.com, or which other query are most often used. Please be aware, however, that we will release specific personal information about you if required to do so in order to comply with any valid legal process such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, or court order.
ClosedHomes.com will not sell, rent or lease your personal information to others. ClosedHomes.com will not share your personal information with third parties except in responding to your requests for more information or additional services from those third parties. Your permission will be requested when you submit your information via an online form on the ClosedHomes.com website.
ClosedHomes.com contracts with third-party agents, service providers, and suppliers to deliver complete services and customer solutions. Agents, service providers, and suppliers are required to keep confidential the information received from users/visitors of ClosedHomes.com and may not use it for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for you or ClosedHomes.com. These service providers may change or we may contract with additional service providers to better accommodate you.
Secure and Safe Web Site
ClosedHomes.com is committed to ensuring the security of your information. We've put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online, and we provide a safe browsing experience.
Secure storage of your information
We use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, the industry standard for protecting your on-line account transactions. It encrypts your information, including name, email, address, and all other information so they can't be read while traveling over the Internet.
What to look for:
- A picture of a padlock or key along the bottom of your browser's window indicates that any information transmitted from your browser to the server is protected by SSL. Make sure the padlock or key is closed when your sending or modifying your account information.
- The URL of any secure page on our site from which we collect your personal information always begins with https//: (rather than the normal http//:). This means your data is safe.
- As you navigate through the site, you may receive security warnings dictated by your browser settings. By responding to these warnings, you are taking the first step toward protecting yourself from vulnerability to theft and privacy invasion.
Your consent and changes to the Privacy Statement
By using the ClosedHomes.com Search Services and our web site, you consent to the collection and use of your information as we have outlined in this statement and to our Visitor Terms of Service Statement. ClosedHomes.com may decide to change this Privacy Statement from time to time. When we do, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of the information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
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