Columbus Home Builder's Association is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology
that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy
applies to the Columbus Home Builder's Association site and governs data collection and usage.
By using the Columbus Home Builder's Association site, you consent to the data practices described
in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
Columbus Home Builder's Association collects personally identifiable information, such as your email
address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Columbus Home Builder's Association also
collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as
your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically
collected by Columbus Home Builder's Association. This information can include: your IP address,
browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This
information is used by Columbus Home Builder's Association for the operation of the service, to
maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use
of the Columbus Home Builder's Association site.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information
or personally sensitive data through Columbus Home Builder's Association public message boards,
this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Columbus Home Builder's Association
does not read any of your private online communications.
Columbus Home Builder's Association encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites
you choose to link to from Columbus Home Builder's Association so that you can understand how those
Web sites collect, use and share your information. Columbus Home Builder's Association is not responsible
for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Columbus Home Builder's Association
and Columbus Home Builder's Association family of Web sites.
Use of your Personal Information
Columbus Home Builder's Association collects and uses your personal information to operate the Columbus Home Builder's Association
Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Columbus Home Builder's Association also uses
your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services
available from Columbus Home Builder's Association and its affiliates. Columbus Home Builder's Association may also
contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services
or of potential new services that may be offered.
Columbus Home Builder's Association does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.
Columbus Home Builder's Association may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business
partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases,
your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone
number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Columbus Home Builder's Association
may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send
you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All
such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to
provide these services to Columbus Home Builder's Association, and they are required to maintain
the confidentiality of your information.
Columbus Home Builder's Association does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such
as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
Columbus Home Builder's Association keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within
Columbus Home Builder's Association, in order to determine what Columbus Home Builder's Association services are
the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising
within Columbus Home Builder's Association to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested
in a particular subject area.
Columbus Home Builder's Association Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice,
only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is
necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process
served on Columbus Home Builder's Association or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or
property of Columbus Home Builder's Association; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect
the personal safety of users of Columbus Home Builder's Association, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The Columbus Home Builder's Association Web site 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 Columbus Home Builder's Association pages, or
register with Columbus Home Builder's Association site or services, a cookie helps Columbus Home Builder's Association
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 Columbus Home Builder's Association Web site, the information
you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Columbus Home Builder's Association
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 setting 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 Columbus Home Builder's Association services or Web sites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
Columbus Home Builder's Association secures your personal information from unauthorized access,
use or disclosure. Columbus Home Builder's Association secures the personally identifiable information
you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from
unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit
card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use
of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Changes to this Statement
Columbus Home Builder's Association will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect
company and customer feedback. Columbus Home Builder's Association encourages you to periodically
review this Statement to be informed of how Columbus Home Builder's Association is protecting your
information.
Contact Information
Columbus Home Builder's Association welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy.
If you believe that Columbus Home Builder's Association has not adhered to this Statement, please
contact Columbus Home Builder's Association at no.reply@columbushomebuilders.org.
We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the
problem.