Privacy Policy
Revised and effective: 09/15/2006
HUNGRYAGENTS.COM® ("HungryAgents") has implemented this privacy
policy to explain to you how we use and protect personal information we
may gather from you by means of this Web Site ("Privacy Policy"). Any
information that you voluntarily provide to HungryAgents on this
Web Site with will be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT HUNGRYAGENTS MAY PROVIDE CERTAIN
INFORMATION YOU SUBMIT ON THIS WEB SITE TO THIRD PARTIES, INCLUDING YOUR
NAME, ADDRESS, PHONE NUMBER, EMAIL ADDRESS SO THAT THEY MAY CONTACT
YOU ABOUT THEIR OWN OR OTHERS’ PRODUCTS, SERVICES, OFFERS AND
PROMOTIONS.
HungryAgents may gather information about you from this Web Site
and from other sources, such as information you provide to our affiliated
companies, including parent and subsidiary companies, affiliated Web
Sites or any entity directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or
under common control with said entity ("Affiliates"). This Privacy Policy
applies only to information gathered from this Web Site and does not apply
to information about you that we may gather from other sources, including
off-line data collected by HungryAgents or our Affiliates.
As a general rule, you will not be required to provide personally
identifiable information as a condition of browsing this Web Site. When
such information is gathered, we will gather the minimum information from
you necessary to facilitate transactions requested by you, to improve
this Web Site and your Member experience, to make future visits to
this Web Site easier and more personalized for you, and to provide you
with offers and additional opportunities to save money from Affiliates,
business partners and third parties.
WHAT INFORMATION IS COLLECTED AND HOW COLLECTED INFORMATION IS
USED
Users of this Web Site may browse without being obligated to submit
any personal information; however, we may collect certain personally
identifiable information from you in certain areas of our Web Site for
certain purposes. These purposes include:
- assisting you with listing bid services, including broker bids and
assistance in connection with your requests for contact from brokers or
cash buyers.
- providing information concerning properties available for bid,
broker professional profiles, bid numbers, commissions/fees, and bid
status.
- conducting other transactions offered by HungryAgents that
you may request.
- servicing your account with us and responding to your questions.
- providing you with offers and other information and opportunities
and services that may be of interest to you from our Affiliates,
including HungryMover.com, HungryLender.com, BankSixMortgage.com, HungryInsurer.com,
HungryHandyman.com, their business partners and third parties.
- providing your name, address, phone number and email address to
third parties who may contact you about their own or others’
products, services, offers and promotions.
- assisting us in providing better products and services (for example,
we may contact you to assist us in evaluating the performance of our
staff, to assess the quality of product and service received and to help
us improve our Web Site, facilities and services), and
- compiling statistics and analysis about Members’ use of our
Web Site, products and services, which statistics are used to enable us
to provide better service and products to you and others in the future.
We collect the following information:
- names
- physical addresses
- telephone numbers
- e-mail addresses
- real estate/broker license numbers and MLS numbers
- credit card information (when applicable)
- all other personally identifiable information you affirmatively
provide to us.
Failing to provide information that is required to complete certain
transactions will not inhibit your ability to browse the Web Site, but
it may prevent you from being able to complete certain transactions.
The general categories of information we gather include:
Personal User Information: We may require that you
obtain a user name and password to log on to certain portions of our Web
Site. We may also require that you supply your name, physical address,
telephone number, e-mail address, real estate/broker licenses, credit
card information (when applicable) or other personally identifiable
information in order to facilitate the specified transactions listed
above. We may also require additional personal information to provide
specific services to you as set forth above.
We do not collect any sensitive information about you (i.e., personal
information specifying racial or ethnic origin, political opinions,
religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership or information
pertaining to personal or intimate details of an individual’s
life).
Anonymous User Information: Certain non-personal,
anonymous information may be automatically provided to our Web servers
by your computer. Additionally, certain other information (such as
cookies, described below) may be transmitted by our Web server to your
computer. That information does not contain any personally identifiable
information. Specific types of anonymous information are described
below.
IP Addresses: For each visitor to our Web Site, our
Web server automatically recognizes the visitor’s domain name or
IP address (where possible). An IP address is a number assigned to your
computer when you connect to the Internet. As part of the protocol of the
Internet, Web servers can identify your computer by its IP address. In
addition, Web servers may be able to identify the type of browser you
are using or even the type of computer.
We collect IP addresses and related information for the purposes
of system administration, to assess the traffic to our Web Site and to
maintain and improve our Web Site. While it is not our practice to link
IP addresses to your personally identifiable information, we reserve the
right to use IP addresses to identify a user when we feel it is necessary
to protect the compelling interest of our Web Site, Members or others,
or to comply with laws, court orders, or law enforcement requests.
Use of Cookies: Cookies are short strings of text
sent from a Web server to a Web browser when the browser accesses a Web
Site. In simplest terms, when the browser requests a page from the Web
server that originally sent it the cookie, the browser sends a copy
of the cookie back to that Web server. A cookie typically contains,
among other things, the name of the cookie, a unique identification
number, and an expiration date and domain name information. Cookies are
used for personalization, tracking and other purposes. Cookies may be
"session-only" or "persistent." Persistent cookies last for more than
one visit and are typically used to allow a visitor to our Web Site to
personalize their experience.
We may use cookies to analyze the traffic on our Web Site (such as
total visitors and pages viewed), to personalize features or save you
the trouble of retyping your name or other information, and to make
improvements to the Web Site based on the data we collect. We do not
save passwords or other sensitive information in cookies. The use of
cookies has become a standard in the Internet industry, especially at
Web Sites that provide any kind of personalized service.
Cookies may also be placed by third parties prior to or during your
visit to the Web Site. Our Affiliates and business partners may use
these cookies in connection with pixel tracking (discussed below)
or otherwise. We do not control these cookies. The use of cookies
by content providers and advertisers has become standard practice in
the Internet industry.
Pixel Tracking: HungryAgents may employ
a common technique usually referred to as "pixel tracking" to measure
the effectiveness of marketing and advertisements, as well as compile
aggregate usage statistics. Pixel tracking, which may be used in
connection with advertisements on other sites, on our Web Site or in
e-mail messages, involves the use of pixel tags (also known as "clear
gifs," "Web beacons" or "1-by-1 gifs") that are not visible to the user
of the site and consist of a few lines of computer coding. For example,
if you visit our Web Site from an advertisement on another site, the
pixel tag will reference the cookie you received when you clicked on
the advertisement. The pixel tag also may register this activity with
a business partner to allow us to count the number of times or when
an advertisement is accessed. This data is collected for use in our
marketing and research. Personally identifiable information about you
is not collected by pixel tracking, nor is any tracking information
generated from the pixel tag allowed to be used for any other purpose
other than to report Web Site activity to us.
Other Information: We may also request other
personally identifiable information from you, or you may affirmatively
provide us with information. As a general matter, we try to limit the
information we gather to the minimum information we need to perform
the applicable services and to improve your Member experience. If you
send an e-mail to our Web Site or otherwise affirmatively provide us
with information beyond what we request, we will treat such information
as having your consent to collect, retain and use the information for
purposes reasonably associated with the purpose for which you provided
the information. For example, we may retain a copy of the e-mail and any
personally identifiable information you may have supplied in the e-mail
with respect to a Member service question to help us evaluate our service,
train our employees and provide better service to our Members.
We may also gather information about your transactions and, as
permitted by applicable law, information we receive from credit reporting
bureaus and other third parties, such as credit history. This information
may include credit card information, real estate/broker license numbers
and/or MLS numbers.
WHO IS COLLECTING THIS INFORMATION
We collect the user information described above by means of your
use of this Web Site and the features of this Web Site. For example,
information is collected in connection with online transactions,
registration of users and providing you with information and/or
services.
Data collected online may also be combined or merged with information
you provide to us by means other than this Web Site as part of the
standard business operations of HungryAgents and its Affiliates;
provided, however, this Privacy Policy applies only to data collected
on-line. If the same information about you is gathered from this Web
Site and also from other sources with different privacy policies,
HungryAgents may elect, in its sole discretion, to treat such
information in accordance with the privacy policy that least restricts
our use and disclosure of such information.
While you are using our Web Site, you may be linked or directed
to other third party sites outside our Web Site that are beyond our
control. For example, you might click on a hyperlink that will take
you off our Web Site. Third party Web Sites may have a privacy policy
different from our Privacy Policy. You should review the applicable
privacy policies of all other Web Sites before providing personally
identifiable information in connection with such sites. We are not
responsible for any actions or privacy policies of such third parties. In
addition, third parties who assist us with pixel tracking may collect
a limited amount of information to help us measure the effectiveness of
ads, usually by placing cookies on your hard drive.
WITH WHOM THE INFORMATION MAY BE SHARED
PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT HUNGRYAGENTS MAY PROVIDE CERTAIN
INFORMATION YOU SUBMIT ON THIS WEB SITE TO THIRD PARTIES, INCLUDING YOUR
NAME, ADDRESS, PHONE NUMBER, EMAIL ADDRESS SO THAT THEY MAY CONTACT
YOU ABOUT THEIR OWN OR OTHERS’ PRODUCTS, SERVICES, OFFERS AND
PROMOTIONS.
Additionally, you may authorize us to share your e-mail address
with our Affiliates and business partners and third parties. If you
opt-in and/or receive an e-mail opt-in confirmation, our Affiliates
and business partners and third parties may contact you via e-mail,
mail and/or telephone with a variety of special promotions, offers or
other information that may be of interest to you.
HungryAgents may share personally identifiable information
with its Affiliates and business partners necessary to complete on-line
transactions as part of its standard business operations and to assist us
in offering products or services to you and/or handling transactions.
We may disclose user information in special cases when we have reason
to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify,
contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury
to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) our
rights or property, our Members or other users of our Web Site, or anyone
else who could be harmed by such activities. Second, we may disclose
user information when we believe in good faith that such disclosure is
required by applicable law.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
HungryAgents does not solicit personal information from
children. We abide by the United States Children’s Online Privacy
Protection Act and will not knowingly collect personally identifiable
information from children under age 13. We recommend that parents
actively participate in their children’s use of the Internet.
CHOICES YOU CAN MAKE ABOUT YOUR INFORMATION
We will give you an opportunity to opt-out of the
gathering of your personally identifiable information,
specific uses of your personally identifiable information
and any marketing promotions in accordance with the
procedures set out in the section below, "Correcting
and Changing Your Information." By adjusting the settings
in your browser, you can refuse to accept cookies or
give yourself the opportunity to accept or reject
cookies, or receive notice of cookies. Software programs
are available that block cookies. Refusing cookies may
impinge or block altogether your user experience by
eliminating personalization or other features.
CORRECTING OR CHANGING YOUR INFORMATION
If you wish to amend, correct, update, delete or opt-out of
any information to which you have previously opted-in or wish to
review information we have collected about you, please contact
HungryAgents via e-mail at privacy@HungryAgents.com, and we
will attend to your request and make any necessary revisions. If
you prefer, you can call us at (314) 961-6300 or send mail to us at:
HungryAgents, Internet Privacy Questions, 118 East Lockwood Avenue,
Saint Louis, MO 63119-3003.
This provision applies only to personally identifiable information
collected via our Web Site and not to information that is provided to
us by other means, as set forth in this Privacy Policy, non-personally
identifiable that may be gathered by cookies or from IP addresses or to
aggregate information. We reserve the right not to allow access to your
information if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is prohibited
by law or if the rights of another individual might be violated.
SECURITY PROCEDURES
We are concerned with the security of your personally identifiable
information and try to provide secure transmission of your information
from your PC to our servers. For certain transactions on certain of our
Web Sites, we may use Secured Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to secure
the transfer of information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over
the Internet can be guaranteed to be absolutely secure. As a result,
while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee
the security of any information transmitted over the Internet.
If you have a user name and password for any of the features on our Web
Site, you have the responsibility of keeping your password secret. You
should not reveal your password to anyone. We will not ask you in an
unsolicited telephone call or e-mail for your password. In addition,
you should take reasonable precautions when using a computer that is
not your own or in a public setting.
CHANGES IN TERMS
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time, and we will change
the Effective Date located at the beginning of this Privacy Policy.
CONTACTING HUNGRYAGENTS
If you have any specific questions regarding any issues about
privacy on our Web Site, please contact HungryAgents via e-mail
at privacy@HungryAgents.com, and we will attend to your request and make
any necessary revisions.
If you prefer, you can call us at (314) 961-6300 or send mail to us
at: HungryAgents, Internet Privacy Questions, 118 East Lockwood
Avenue, Saint Louis, MO 63119-3003.
APPLICABLE LAW
Our collection and use of information shall be governed by laws of
the United States.
CONSENT
By using our Web Site and providing personally identifiable information
about yourself, you consent to (1) our collection use and sharing of
data as described in this Privacy Policy, (2) the notice, choice, access
and security we are providing, and (3) the methods we have described to
notify you of changes to this Privacy Policy.
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