PRIVACY STATEMENT
This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for
RichmondsBestHomes.com.
This privacy statement will notify you of:
1. What personally identifiable information of yours
is collected from you through the web site
2. The organization collecting the information
3. How the information is used
4. With whom the information may be shared
5. What choices are available to you regarding collection,
use and distribution of the information
6. The kind of security procedures that are in place
to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under
control
7. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
If you feel that this company is not abiding by its posted
privacy policy, you should first contact John McClung, Long &
Foster Realtors by
EMAIL: JohnMclung@RichmondsBestHomes.com
or mail to:
John McClung
Long & Foster Realtors
11600 Busy Street
Suite 100
Richmond, Virginia 23236
Information Collection and Use
John McClung of Long & Foster is the sole owner of the
information collected on this site. We will not sell, share,
or rent this information to others in ways different from what
is disclosed in this statement. John McClung of Long &
Foster collects information from our users at several different
points on our website.
Registration
During registration a user is required to give their contact
information (such as name and email address). This information
is used to contact the user about the services on our site for
which they have expressed interest. It is optional for the
user to provide demographic information (such as income level
and gender), and unique identifiers (such as social security number),
but dicouraged at this time.
Order
We request information from the user on our order form.
Here a user must provide contact information (like name and shipping
address) This information is used to fill customer's orders.
If we have trouble processing an order, this contact information
is used to get in touch with the user.
Cookies
Cookies are not currently used on this site. However, because
they add functionality and ease of use we resrve the right to
add them at a future date.
Some of our business partners use cookies on our site (for example,
advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over
these cookies.
Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site,
track user's movement, and gather broad demographic information
for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally
identifiable information.
Sharing
We will share aggregated demographic information with our
partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information
that can identify any individual person.
We partner with another party to provide specific services. When
the user signs up for these services, we will share names, or
other contact information that is necessary for the third party
to provide these services.
These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information
except for the purpose of providing these services.
Links
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware
that we John McClung of Long & Foster is not responsible for
the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage
our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the
privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally
identifiable information. This privacy statement applies
solely to information collected by this Web site.
Newsletter
If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for
contact information such as name and email address.
Surveys & Contests
From time-to-time our site requests information from users
via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys
or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has
a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information
requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping
address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level).
Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award
prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of
monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.
Tell-A-Friend
If a user elects to use our referral service for informing
a friend about our site, we ask them for the friend's name and
email address. RichmondsBestHomes.com will automatically
send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site.
RichmondsBestHomes.com stores this information for the sole
purpose of sending this one-time email. The friend may contact
John
McClung at www.RichmondsBestHomes.com to request the removal
of this information from their database.
Security
This website takes every precaution to protect our users'
information. When users submit information via the website,
your information is protected both on our server and off-line.
However we discourage the sending of sensitve financial information
due to the lack of security associated with EMAIL. We will not
use Email to send any sensitve information that you may have supplied
us in writing or on the phone.
If you have any questions about the security at our website, you
can send an email to security@RichmondsBestHomes.com.
Special Offers
We send all new members a welcoming email to verify password
and username. Established members will occasionally receive information
on products, services, special deals, and a newsletter. Out of
respect for the privacy of our users we present the option to
not receive these types of communications. Please see our choice
and opt-out below.
Site and Service Updates
We also send the user site and service announcement updates.
Members are not able to un-subscribe from service announcements,
which contain important information about the service. We communicate
with the user to provide requested services and in regards to
issues relating to their account via email or phone.
Correction/Updating Personal Information:
If a user's personally identifiable information changes (such
as your zip code), or if a user no longer desires our service,
we will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update or remove
that user's personal data provided to us. This can usually
be done at the member information page or by emailing our
Customer Support.
Choice/Opt-out
Our users are given the opportunity to 'opt-out' of having
their information used for purposes not directly related to our
site at the point where we ask for the information.
Users of our site are always notified when their information is
being collected by any outside parties. We do this so our
users can make an informed choice as to whether they should proceed
with services that require an outside party, or not.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those
changes on our Homepage so our users are always aware of what
information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances,
if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use
personally identifiable information in a manner different from
that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users
by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether
or not we use their information in this different manner. We will
use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which
the information was collected.