Privacy Policy | LoftyHomesRE

The policy set forth below is provided only in English to avoid any misinterpretations caused by a language translation. If necessary, seek the proper advice, or do not use this site.

A privacy policy is a statement that discloses the ways a website collects, uses, discloses, and manages the data of its visitors and customers. It fulfills a legal requirement to protect a visitor or client's privacy.

Countries have their own laws with different requirements per jurisdiction regarding the use of privacy policies.

Scope

This Policy applies to all visitors to Loftyhomesre.com, as well as any information that we obtain about persons offline, including buyers/sellers/renters/owners. The descriptions below regarding our collection, use, and disclosure of your information apply equally regardless of our relationship with you unless noted otherwise.

The Information We Collect About You

We collect information directly from you, automatically as you use our website, and from other sources. The type of information that we collect about you varies based on your relationship with us (e.g., whether you are a prospective buyer or seller of real estate, real estate agent, or vendor) and how you interact with us (e.g., through our Site or offline). Specifically, we collect this information as follows:

Information that We Collect Directly From You

We collect information from users of our Services (including buyers, sellers, owners, renters, and other persons) when you take the following actions:

Create an Account: Prospective buyers, sellers, and other interested persons may use our Services without creating an account. Certain features of our Services (such as saving properties, saving searches, and real-time listing alerts) require account creation. When you create an account, we collect your name, email address, and any other information that you choose to provide (such as whether you are looking to buy or sell a home, geographic preference, and price range). Once you create an account, you can keep track of your favorite homes.
Purchase History: We maintain a record of whether you purchase, rent, or sell a property using our services.
Participate in a Survey: If you choose to provide feedback, such as participating in a survey, we will collect this information from you, which may include your contact information and your feedback.
Contact Us: If you contact us, whether online or by other means, we will record information about the reason for your inquiry. Please note that if you request information from one of our independently owned and operated locations, we, and our franchisee, will maintain a copy of that request.
Sign Up for our Newsletter: We collect your name, email address and phone number if you request our newsletter.

In addition, if you are a vendor (such as a real estate photographer), we collect your contact information and specialty. You also may create an account with us as described above.

Information We Collect About You From Other Sources

Your Friends and Real Estate Agent: We may obtain information about you from your friends and/or real estate agent so that you can collaborate with one another about properties of interest.
Social Media: If you post information on our social media pages, we may collect the information that you post. We do not typically associate your social media information with the personal information we collect about you.
Internet Service Providers, Operating Systems, Analytics Providers: As described below, we collect data automatically through your use of our Site and our Services. This information may come from internet service providers, operating systems, and analytics providers that provide services on our behalf.

Information We Collect Automatically

We automatically collect information about you when you use our Services (usage information). The type of information that we collect varies depending on the settings of your web browser or device, but it may include: the pages you view on our Site; the date and time you access our Site; how long you use our Services; the type of web browser you are using (for example, Firefox or Chrome); the type of device you are using (for example, whether you are using a mobile device); your Internet Protocol address; and device IDs (including device advertising identifiers). With your permission, we will collect your device’s location information to help you identify available properties near your location; you may disable this feature through your device’s settings. Our service providers also may track your behavior through links that you click on our Site. See the section below titled “Cookies and Tracking” for more information. We may associate this information with the personal information that we collect about you, such as whether and when you logged into your account.

We collect this information from Internet Service Providers, Operating Systems, and Analytics Providers: as stated above, we collect data automatically through your use of our Services.

How do we store this site's visitors' personal information?

Loftyhomesre.com is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to provide and or sell our products and services to you. Your data is stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.

All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.

Our Use of Your Information

We use your information, including personal information, for a variety of business and commercial purposes:

Transactional Purposes: to establish and maintain your account, to provide our services to you, and for other transactional purposes.
Customer Service/Communications: to provide you, upon request, with personalized search results; for technical support to answer your inquiries.
Marketing/Advertising: for marketing purposes, including to provide you with information about properties and services that may be of interest to you. Our marketing communications with you may include communications via postal mail and email. We, and our service providers, also use your information to determine the success of our advertising campaigns, regardless of the marketing and advertising channel.
Administration: for administrative purposes, including to manage our inventory; to help us better understand how our persons access and use our Services, including the pages viewed, or other Site activity; to maintain security and operability of our Site (including for debugging purposes); to provide reports to prospective partners, service providers, regulators, and others; to implement and maintain security, anti-piracy, fraud prevention, and other services designed to protect you and us; to enforce this Policy, our Terms of Use, and other policies.
Research and Development/Analytical Purposes: for research and development purposes, including to analyze trends, improve our Services, products, and customer experience; to understand what parts of our Site are most popular or to improve upon our Services; to understand our customer demographics; and for other research and analytical purposes.
Legal Compliance: to comply with applicable legal or regulatory obligations, including to respond to a subpoena or court order; to cooperate with law enforcement or other governmental investigations; and as part of legal proceedings.
Protection of us and others: where we believe it is necessary to protect us and others, including, without limitation to detect, prevent, and respond to fraud, security incidents, or other issues where we believe it is appropriate to protect us and others.
Additional Note Regarding Aggregated and De-Identified Data: we may use data in aggregated and de-identified form for research, analytics, marketing, and any other purposes.

Sharing of Information

We may share your information, including personal information, with the following entities:

For all persons: we may share your information with the following persons/entities and in the following situations:
Corporate Relatives. We may share your information with any current or future parent company, affiliate, subsidiary or division.
Our Franchisees. We share your information with our respective franchisees. For example, if you express interest in a property listed by one of our franchisees or are looking for property in a location serviced by a franchisee, we will share your information with the respective franchisee.
Vendors. We may share your information with vendors to perform a service on your behalf, such as a photographer or stager for a property that you own or are listing.
Service Providers. We share your information with our service providers or others who perform functions on our behalf. For example, we share your information with service providers who host our Site; coordinate mailings; analyze aggregate information about our customers; assist us in detecting and deterring fraud, security incidents, or other unlawful activity; and for other business purposes as described above in how we use your information. We also permit service providers to collect information about you online through cookies and other tracking tools; please see the Cookies and Tracking and Analytics Providers sections below.
Analytics Providers/Advertisers. As set forth above, we share information with analytics providers to assist us in implementing and evaluating relevant advertising. We also may disclose certain information (such as your email address) to Facebook Custom Audience, which may use it to target advertising to you. See Interest-Based Advertising below.

Additional Disclosures Related to Vendor Information: we may share your information with home owners and real estate agents who are seeking a vendor that provides your services.
Additional Disclosures Related to buyers, sellers, owners, or renters: we may share your information with your real estate agent and other friends/collaborators at your direction. Specifically, you have the option of sharing select searches and properties with your chosen real estate agent or friends.

We may also share your information in the following ways:

Business Transfers. We may share your information with another entity if we or any of our current or future corporate relatives are acquired by or merged with another legal entity, if any of our assets or the assets of one of our corporate relatives are sold or transferred to another legal entity, as part of a bankruptcy proceeding, or as part of a sale of a business or a similar transfer of assets.
In Response to Legal Process. We share your information when we believe it is appropriate to comply with the law or a regulatory requirement; to comply with governmental, administrative, or judicial process or other similar requirement or order, such as a subpoena or court order; to cooperate with law enforcement or other governmental investigations (without necessarily requiring the law enforcement or government agency requesting the information to formally serve us with a subpoena); or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved. We also reserve the right to report to appropriate law enforcement or governmental agencies any activities that we believe are in violation of applicable laws, rules, or regulations without providing notice.
To Protect Us and Others. We share your information where we believe it is necessary to prevent or investigate a possible crime, such as fraud or identity theft; to enforce a contract; to protect the legal rights, Services, your safety, or the safety of any other person or entity; to enforce our Terms of Use or this Policy; and to monitor and remediate security issues.
Aggregate and De-Identified Information. We may disclose aggregate and de-identified information about our customers for marketing, advertising, research, or other purposes.

Opting-Out of Marketing Emails

You may opt out of marketing messages by following the instructions in the email. Please allow up to ten (10) days for us to process your request. Please note that opting out of email messages from us will not opt you out of messages from real estate agents with whom you interact, which are separate businesses from us. If you opt-out of marketing communications, we still may send you transactional messages related to your use of our Services.

Security

Again, your data is stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall. Please note, although Wix is a multi-billion dollar company, no level of security is 100% perfect. That being said, we recommend that you take measures to protect your data, such as not using the same password for multiple accounts, creating unique passwords, and safeguarding your own information. We cannot ensure or warrant the ultimate security of any information you transmit.

Cookies and Tracking

We and our service providers use cookies and other mechanisms to track information about your use of our Services.

Cookies. We or our service providers may use cookies to track visitor activity throughout our Services. A cookie is a text file that a website transfers to your device for record-keeping purposes. We or our service providers may use cookies to track user activities on our Site, such as the web pages you view and time you spend on our services. The help section on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your computer from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. Visitors to our Site who disable cookies may not be able to browse certain areas of the services. When you register at the Site, we may use a cookie to store a unique, random session ID. We may use this ID to identify you in our database and to track information while you are on our Site. Learn more about "Types of Cookies".
Clear GIFs, Pixel Tags and Other Technologies. Clear GIFs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in functionality to cookies, which are embedded invisibly on web pages. We or our service providers may use clear GIFs (also known as web beacons, web bugs, pixel tags, or action tags, among other names), in connection with our services to perform functions like tracking the activities of visitors to our services, helping us manage content, and compiling statistics about use of our Services. We or our service providers may also use clear GIFs in emails to help us track email response rates, identify when our emails are viewed, and track whether our emails are forwarded.
Embedded Scripts. We may use embedded scripts, which is code designed to collect information about how visitors interact with a website, such as the website that linked you to our Site.
Analytics. We use service providers, such as Google Analytics, to evaluate the use of our Services. We use these tools to help us improve our services, performance, and user experiences. These entities may use cookies and other tracking technologies, such as web beacons or local storage objects (LSOs), to perform their services. To learn more about Google’s privacy practices, please review the Google Privacy Policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. You can also download the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on to prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Do Not Track. Our Services do not respond to Do Not Track signals. You may disable certain tracking as discussed in this section (e.g., by disabling cookies).

Interest-Based Advertising

We also use Facebook advertising, including Facebook Custom Audience. As set forth above and in the Cookies and Tracking section below, we may disclose certain information (such as your email address) to Facebook Custom Audiences (for more information on Facebook Custom Audience, go to the

Facebook ad preferences page)—so that we can better target ads and content to you and others with similar interests on third parties’ websites or media (“Custom Audiences”).

In addition to Facebook, we use network advertisers to serve advertisements on unaffiliated websites and other media (e.g., social networking platforms). This enables us and these network advertisers to target advertisements to you for products and services in which you might be interested. Ad network providers, advertisers, sponsors and/or traffic measurement services may use cookies, JavaScript, web beacons (including clear GIFs), Flash LSOs and other tracking technologies to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content to you. These cookies and other technologies are governed by each entity's specific privacy policy, not this one. We may provide these parties with information, including personal information, about you to assist us with our advertising campaigns.

You may opt out of many ad networks. For example, you may go to the Digital Advertising Alliance ("DAA") Consumer Choice Page for information about opting out of interest-based advertising and their choices regarding having information used by DAA companies. You may also go to the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI") Consumer Opt-Out Page for information about opting out of interest-based advertising and their choices regarding having information used by NAI members.

Children's Privacy

Our Services are not designed for children under the age of 13. If we receive actual knowledge that we have received personal information from persons under the age of 13, we will delete the information from our database.

Future changes

We may update this Policy from time to time. It is your responsibility to check this Policy periodically for changes.

Contact Information

Please contact us at Lisset@loftyre.com if you have questions about this Policy.

Cookies and Tracking

Analytics Providers sections

Interest Based Advertising