Privacy Policy:
COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
This site is owned and operated by Tim Trott/TimeToBuyFlorida.com
. Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At TimeToBuyFlorida.com,
we want to make your experience online satisfying and safe.
Because we gather certain types of information
about our users, we feel you should fully understand our policy and the terms
and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy
statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.
INFORMATION TimeToBuyFlorida.com GATHERS AND
TRACKS
TimeToBuyFlorida.com gathers two types of information
about users:
- Information that users provide through optional,
voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions to receive our electronic
newsletters, to participate in our message boards or forums, to email a
friend, and from participation in polls and surveys:
- Information TimeToBuyFlorida.com gathers through aggregated
tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our
sites. This information allows us to better tailor our content to readers'
needs and to help our advertisers and sponsors better understand the demographics
of our audience. Because TimeToBuyFlorida.com derives its revenue mainly from sponsorships
and advertising, providing such aggregated demographic data is essential
to keeping our service free to users. Under no circumstances doesTimeToBuyFlorida.com
divulge any information about an individual user to a third party.
TimeToBuyFlorida.com Gathers User Information In The
Following Processes:
Optional Voluntary Information
We offer the following free services, which require
some type of voluntary submission of personal information by users:
Privacy Policy Sample
1. Electronic newsletters policy (Dispatches)
We will offer a free electronic newsletter to
users. TimeToBuyFlorida.com gathers the email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe.
Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by following the link provided
in every newsletter that points users to the subscription management page.
Users can also subscribe to the newsletters at the time of registration.
2. "E-mail this to a friend" policy
Our site users can choose to electronically forward
a link, page, or documents to someone else by clicking "e-mail this to
a friend". The user must provide their email address, as well as that
of the recipient. This information is used only in the case of transmission
errors and, of course, to let the recipient know who sent the email. The information
is not used for any other purpose.
3. Polling
We may offer interactive polls to users so they
can easily share their opinions with other users and see what our audience
thinks about important issues. Opinions or other responses to polls are aggregated
and are not identifiable to any particular user. TimeToBuyFlorida.com may use a system
to "tag" users after they have voted, so they can vote only once
on a particular question. This tag is not correlated with information about
individual users.
4. Surveys
TimeToBuyFlorida.com may occasionally conduct user surveys
to better target our content to our audience. We sometimes share the aggregated
demographic information in these surveys with our sponsors, advertisers and
partners. We never share any of this information about specific individuals
with any third party.
Children
Consistent with the Federal Children's Online
Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally
identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting
parental consent.
Usage tracking
TimeToBuyFlorida.com tracks user traffic patterns throughout
all of our sites. However, we do not correlate this information with data about
individual users. TimeToBuyFlorida.com does break down overall usage statistics according
to a user's domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information
from the browser string (information contained in every user's browser).
TimeToBuyFlorida.com sometimes tracks and catalogs the
search terms that users enter in our Search function, but this tracking is
never associated with individual users. We use tracking information to determine
which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those
areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each
page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for
you.
Cookies
We may place a text file called a "cookie" in
the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain Personal
Information although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information
that you have specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal information
a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read
data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. TimeToBuyFlorida.com
uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above). Our advertising
system delivers a one-time cookie to better track ad impressions and click
rates.
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in
your browser. If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies,
you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have
cookies turned on to use this site. However, you do need cookies to participate
actively in message boards, forums, polling and surveys.
Privacy Policy Use
USE OF INFORMATION
TimeToBuyFlorida.com uses any information voluntarily
given by our users to enhance their experience in our network of sites, whether
to provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare
future content based on the interests of our users.
As stated above, we use information that users
voluntarily provide in order to send out electronic newsletters and to enable
users to participate in polls, surveys, message boards, and forums. We send
out newsletters to subscribers on a regular schedule (depending on the newsletter),
and occasionally send out special editions when we think subscribers might
be particularly interested in something we are doing. TimeToBuyFlorida.com never shares
newsletter mailing lists with any third parties, including advertisers, sponsors
or partners.
When we use tracking information to determine
which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those
areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each
page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for
you. We track search terms entered in Search function as one of many measures
of what interests our users. But we don't track which terms a particular user
enters.
TimeToBuyFlorida.com creates aggregate reports on user
demographics and traffic patterns for advertisers, sponsors and partners. This
allows our advertisers to advertise more effectively, and allows our users
to receive advertisements that are pertinent to their needs. Because we don't
track the usage patterns of individual users, an advertiser or sponsor will
never know that a specific user clicked their ad. We will not disclose any
information about any individual user except to comply with applicable law
or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the
public.
SHARING OF THE INFORMATION
TimeToBuyFlorida.com uses the above-described information
to tailor our content to suit your needs and help our advertisers better understand
our audience's demographics. This is essential to keeping our service free. We
will not share information about individual users with any third party,
except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the
personal safety of our users or the public.
SECURITY
TimeToBuyFlorida.com operates secure data networks protected
by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security
and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and
only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our
customers.
OPT-OUT POLICY
We give users options wherever necessary and
practical. Such choices include:
- Opting not to register to receive our electronic newsletters.
- Opting not to participate in certain interactive areas, which
completely alleviates the need to gather any personally identifiable
information from our users
YOUR CONSENT
By using this site, you consent to the collection
and use of this information by TimeToBuyFlorida.com. If we decide to change our privacy
policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware
of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances
we disclose it.
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