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PRIVACY POLICY
(Last Revised December 2, 2008)
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This Privacy Policy describes the terms
of our commitment to your privacy.
Thank you for visiting the Home Shop web site. This policy describes the
privacy practices of Home Shop regarding information collected from visitors to
our web site. It contains information about what data is collected, the purposes
for which we use the information, the circumstances under which we may share the
information and the steps that we take to safeguard the information to protect
your privacy. Home Shop reserves the right to change this policy. It is your
responsibility to regularly review this policy as your continued use of this web
site constitutes your agreement to all changes. As used herein, Home Shop means
________________________ and its affiliates.
PERSONS EXCLUDED FROM
THIS WEBSITE ARE STILL COVERED: In the event that a person excluded
from this website nonetheless unlawfully views this site, that person remains
subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy and accompanying Terms of Use and is
in violation of the accompanying Terms of Use.
PERSONS UNDER 18
YEARS OF AGE ARE EXCLUDED FROM THIS WEBSITE: This website is not
lawfully accessible to persons under the age of 18 or who are otherwise covered
by the provisions of the Child Online Privacy Act of 1998 (COPA). If you are
under the age of 18 you must leave this site immediately. Fraudulent use of
this website may make you subject to civil or criminal sanctions.
VIEWING AND/OR USE AND/OR COMMUNICATION IS CONSTRUED AS ACCEPTANCE
OF THE TERMS OF THIS POLICY AND ACCOMPANYING TERMS OF
USE: Acceptance of the terms of this Privacy Policy and the
accompanying Terms of Use are a portion of the consideration required for your
right to visit the website. If you do not accept these terms, you have no right
to visit this site and you are fraudulently using this
site.
A NOTE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS (ONLINE
PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT OF 2003 (OPPA): It is the intent of the
Privacy Policy to comply with the California Act. Various provisions throughout
this Privacy Policy address requirements of the act. In summary, you must
presume that we collect electronic information from all visitors. This is not
usually personally identifiable. If you purchase a product or service via this
website (and thereby become covered by the Act), the purchase agreement you
electronically sign prior to purchase allows the website to collect and archive
all the personal information you provide and to transmit and/or transfer that
personal information to third parties. There is no way you can modify this
information and you have no right to do so. Under the terms of the purchase
agreement, you have no right to view or receive any information about our
database. In the event that the website, under advice of counsel agrees to
divulge information, the requesting party must submit whatever information is
demanded by the website in insure that the website is releasing information to
the correct party. Other provisions of the OPPA may exempt this website from
complying. While we take measures to ensure that outside parties do not have
access to any information we have about you, we do not warranty that outside
parties will not breach our system and thus have access to your information.
(You should know that merchant service providers do not allow us access to your
credit card information.) This Privacy Policy also is subject to change without
notice. You are required to read it prior to using the website. By interacting
with the website you agree to the terms and conditions of the Privacy Policy and
accompanying Terms of Use.
WEB SITE USE
INFORMATION: Your privacy is very important to us. Our policy is to
collect no personal information about you when you visit Home Shop’s web site,
unless you affirmatively choose to make such information available to us.
In the provision of services to you, and subject to strict compliance with
all applicable laws and regulations, information may be collected about you
indirectly from monitoring or other means (e.g. recording of telephone
calls and monitoring e-mails). In these circumstances, the information is not
accessed on a continuous or routine basis, but it may be used for compliance or
security purposes.
When you visit our web site, the web server automatically recognizes only the
Internet domain and IP address from which you accessed the site. Our web site
utilizes a standard technology called "cookies" and web server logs to collect
information about how our web site is used. Information gathered through cookies
and web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed,
time spent at our web site, and the web sites visited just before our web site.
This is done so that the content of the site can continually be improved. This
information does not result in the identification of your personal e-mail
address or other personal information. These cookies expire after you leave our
site.
PERSONAL INFORMATION THIS SITE COLLECTS:
When you sign up for a particular service that requires
registration, we ask you to provide personal information. If we use this
information in a manner different than the purpose for which it was collected,
then we will ask for your consent prior to such use.
If you deal with Home Shop in your individual capacity (e.g. as a private
client), the typical information we collect about you would include:
Your name, address and other contact details;
Your age, occupation and marital status;
A personal identifier, depending on your country of residence, such as your
Social Security Number, National Insurance Number, Tax File Number, etc.
Of course, you are not required to supply any of the personal information
that we may request. However, failure to do so may result in our being unable to
provide services to you. While we make every effort to ensure that all
information we hold about you is accurate, complete and up to date, you can help
us considerably in this regard by promptly notifying us if there are any changes
to your personal information.
INFORMATION SHARING: Home Shop only shares personal
information with other companies or individuals outside of Home Shop in the
following limited circumstances:
We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any
sensitive personal information.
We provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies or
other trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of processing personal
information on our behalf. We require that these parties be contractually bound
to confidentiality and agree to process such information based both on our
instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and any other
appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of
such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law,
regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce
applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations
thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical
issues, or (d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety
of Home Shop, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.
Home Shop will not sell your personal information. If your relationship with
Home Shop ends, we will continue to treat your personal information, to the
extent we retain it, as described in this policy.
WITH WHOM
WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION: We want you to understand when and with
whom we may share personal or other information we have collected about you or
your activities on our websites or while using our services.
Personal information. We do not share your personal
information with others except as indicated below or when we inform you and give
you an opportunity to opt out of having your personal information shared. We may
share all types of personal information with:
Authorized service providers. We may share your personal
information with our authorized service providers that perform certain services
on our behalf in connection with your request for real estate or mortgage
services. These service providers may include marketing and customer services
firms, credit card payment processors, as well as companies that support
contests, sweepstakes, surveys, or other features offered through our websites,
or that provide business analysis or website support. These service providers
may have access to personal information needed to perform their functions but
are not permitted to share or use such information for any other purposes.
Real estate agents / brokers. If you are not working with a
real estate brokerage and have marked that you would like to be contacted by one
of our affiliated real estate agents, we may share your personal information
with real estate agents / brokers on our network with which you have expressed
interest. We will not share information with other real estate agents / brokers
not disclosed to you. Because these parties may retain or use your personal
information whether or not you obtain services from them, you should contact
these parties directly concerning their privacy and information sharing
practices.
Business partners. When you express interest in promotions
or services offered through our websites, we may share your expression of
interest with the businesses with which we partner to offer you those products,
services, promotions, contests and/or sweepstakes, and, as applicable, their
affiliates. When you elect to engage in a particular offer or program, you
authorize us to provide your e-mail address and other information to the
business providing that offer or program.
Other Home Shop businesses. We may share information we
collect, including personal information, with the other Home Shop companies
(some of which are nonfinancial companies). Sharing information with the other
Home Shop companies enables us to provide you with information about a variety
of products and services that might interest you. All Home Shop companies comply
with the Home Shop Privacy Policy. The other Home Shop companies also will
comply with applicable privacy and security laws and, at a minimum, in any
commercial e-mail they send to you, will give you the opportunity to choose not
to receive such e-mail messages from that company in the future. However, in no
circumstance will Home Shop share with other Home Shop companies any personally
identifiable information that you provide to us if that information bears on
your creditworthiness.
Special notice to California residents: Home Shop will not share
any personal information about you with other Home Shop companies to the extent
prohibited by applicable California law or to the extent your prior consent to
share is required by applicable California law.
Special notice to Vermont residents: Home Shop will not share
any personal information about you with other Home Shop companies to the extent
prohibited by applicable Vermont law or to the extent your prior consent to
share is required by applicable Vermont law.
Other Situations. We also may disclose your information:
In response to a subpoena or similar investigative demand, a court order, or
a request for cooperation from a law enforcement or other government agency; to
establish or exercise our legal rights; to defend against legal claims; or as
otherwise required by law. In such cases, we may raise or waive any legal
objection or right available to us.
When we believe disclosure is appropriate in connection with efforts to
investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected
fraud or other wrongdoing; to protect and defend the rights, property or safety
of our company, our users, our employees, or others; to comply with applicable
law or cooperate with law enforcement; or to enforce our websites' terms and
conditions or other agreements or policies.
In connection with a substantial corporate transaction, such as the sale of
our business, a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset sale, or in the
unlikely event of bankruptcy.
Any third parties to whom we may disclose personal information may have their
own privacy policies which describe how they use and disclose personal
information. Those policies will govern use, handling and disclosure of your
personal information once we have shared it with those third parties as
described in this Privacy Policy. If you want to learn more about their privacy
practices, we encourage you to visit the websites of those third parties. These
entities or their servers may be located either inside or outside the United
States.
USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED: We may use your
personal information to:
Administer, operate, facilitate and manage your relationship with Home Shop.
This may include sharing such information internally as well as disclosing it to
third parties, as described in the following two sections, respectively;
Contact you or, if applicable, your designated representative(s) by mail,
telephone, electronic mail, facsimile, etc., in connection with your
relationship and/or account;
Provide you with information such as recommendations or advice concerning
products and services offered by Home Shop; and
Facilitate our internal business operations, including fulfillment of our
legal and regulatory requirements.
USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO HOME SHOP: If
you choose to share personal information, such as by sending a message, or
filling out an electronic form with personal information, the information will
only be used for the purposes you authorized. Once you register with us and sign
in to our services, you are not anonymous to us. However, information will not
be disclosed to third parties or government agencies, unless required by state
or federal law. If information is required by law to be disclosed about you,
then every effort to notify you about the disclosure in advance will be taken.
Except as stated in this privacy policy or at the time of collection, a user’s
personally identifiable information will not be transferred outside our company
or our service vendors unless notice is given at the time of collection or prior
to transfer.
Information Security - How We Protect Your Privacy: Home
Shop is committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of your personal
information. We limit access to your personal information to authorized Home
Shop employees or agents and, as described above, our service providers are held
to stringent standards of privacy. We also maintain physical, electronic and
procedural safeguards to protect the information against loss, misuse, damage or
modification and unauthorized access or disclosure. Some of the other central
features of our information security program are:
The use of specialized technology such as firewalls;
Testing of the security and operability of products and services before they
are introduced to the Internet, as well as ongoing scanning for publicly known
vulnerabilities in the technology;
Internal and external reviews of our Internet sites and services;
Monitoring of our systems infrastructure to detect weaknesses and potential
intrusions;
Implementing controls to identify, authenticate and authorize access to
various systems or sites;
Providing Home Shop personnel with relevant training and continually
updating our security practices in light of new risks and developments in
technology.
PRIVACY AND THE INTERNET: The following additional
information will be of interest to you if you access Home Shop products or
services through Home Shop web sites:
Users of private Home Shop web sites are required to identify and
authenticate themselves prior to accessing our services. Generally,
identification and authentication take place through the use of your user name
and a password.
The private Home Shop web sites are built upon a secure infrastructure with
multiple layers of protection, including measures ranging from proper physical
security of our machines to system intrusion detection capabilities. Within such
private sites, Home Shop uses industry standard encryption technologies to
protect your information from external compromise.
Security is a cooperative effort between Home Shop and the users of the Home
Shop web sites. Please remember that your password is personal to you and
should not be made available to any other person. Also, you should discontinue
their use and notify us if you have any reason to suspect that someone else may
be using them.
"Cookies" are small text files consisting of information stored by your Web
browser. This information is used for administrative purposes and to improve
your experience with our web sites. This information helps authenticate you
(i.e. verify that you are who you say you are), an essential component of site
security. Cookies also make it easier for you to navigate a Home Shop web site
by, among other things, remembering your identity so that you do not have to
input your password multiple times as you move between pages or services. You
can set your web browser to inform you when cookies are set, or to prevent
cookies from being set. However, if you decline to use cookies, you may
experience reduced functionality, and declining to use authentication related
cookies will prevent you from using the web site altogether.
"Clickstream" or similar data (e.g. information regarding which of our web
pages you access, the frequency of such access and your product and service
preferences) may be collected and shared internally within Home Shop in order to
assess the usage, value and performance of our online products and services.
SPAM:) 2003 Mining Gold Corporation & IP
Management LLC By providing to this website information that forms
the basis of communication with you, such as an email address, you waive all
rights to file complaints concerning unsolicited email or spam from this website
since, by providing such information, you agree to receive communication from us
or other marketing organizations. However, all email communication with you
shall contain an 'unsubscribe' link where you may notify the website that you no
longer wish to receive solicitations or information from the website and your
name will be removed from the general solicitation database.
Other Privacy Policies or Statements AND Changes to
Policy: This policy provides a general statement of the ways in
which Home Shop protects your personal information. You may, however, in
connection with specific products or services offered by Home Shop, be provided
with privacy policies or statements that supplement this policy. This policy may
be changed from time to time to reflect changes in our practices concerning the
collection and use of personal information. The revised policy will be effective
immediately upon posting to our Web site.
Other Web Sites Linked to Our Web Site: We are not
responsible for the practices employed by web sites linked to or from our web
site nor the information or content contained therein. Often links to other web
sites are provided solely as pointers to information on topics that may be
useful to the users of our web site. The information practices of companies
collecting data on our site or web sites linked to ______________________ are
not covered by this privacy statement.
If you have other questions about our privacy policies, or have suggestions
on how these policies can be improved, please feel free to contact us by
telephone at ___________________ or by email at
__________________________________.
CHOICE OF LAW: This Privacy Policy shall be governed by
and construed in accordance with the laws of the state of Florida, without
regard to conflicts of laws provisions. Sole and exclusive jurisdiction for any
action or proceeding arising out of or related to this Privacy Policy shall be
in an appropriate state or federal court located in Orange County, Florida and
the parties unconditionally waive their respective rights to a jury trial. Any
cause of action you may have with respect to your use of this web site must be
commenced within one (1) year after the claim or cause of action arises. If for
any reason a court of competent jurisdiction finds any provision of this Privacy
Policy, or a portion thereof, to be unenforceable, that provision shall be
enforced to the maximum extent permissible so as to affect the intent of this
Privacy Policy, and the remainder of the Privacy Policy shall continue in full
force and effect. This Privacy Policy and the accompanying Terms of Use
constitute the entire agreement between Home Shop and you with respect to this
site and it supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications, agreements
and understandings between Home Shop and you with respect to the subject matter
hereof. A printed version of this Privacy Policy and the accompanying Terms of
Use shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings.
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