Privacy Statement
The Homes Association of Cedar Hills is committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy policy was created so you will understand when and how personal information is collected, used, disclosed and protected with respect to our web site www.cedarhillshoa.org (the "Site"). By using the Site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement as modified from time to time by us.
Information we collect from you
"Personal information" is information which is directly associated with a specific individual, as well as information about activities that are directly linked to a specific person. This type of information may include your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. The Homes Association of Cedar Hills may collect this personally identifiable information as part of the member registration process.
Anonymous demographic information, or "aggregate information," is data collected about a group or category of users from which individual identities have been removed. Anonymous demographic information, or "aggregate information," may include items such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites. The Homes Association of Cedar Hills also collects anonymous demographic information to help us understand trends and user needs so that we can better consider new services or tailor our existing offering to user desires. In other words, how you use our Site may be collected and combined with information about how others use the Site, but no personal information will be included in the resulting data. An example of aggregate data is a report that shows how frequently certain features of the Site are accessed versus other features of the Site. The report would not contain any personal information.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected whenever you interact with the Site. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, referring Web site addresses, and your browsing behavior as relates to the Site, including entry and exit points for the Site and page views. This information is used by the Homes Association of Cedar Hills for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Site.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through the Homes Association of Cedar Hills public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.
The Homes Association of Cedar Hills encourages you to review the privacy statements of web sites you choose to link to from the Site so that you can understand how those web sites collect, use and share your information. The Homes Association of Cedar Hills is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on web sites outside of the Site.
Use of your Personal Information
The Homes Association of Cedar Hills collects and uses your personal information to operate the Site and deliver the services you have requested. The Homes Association of Cedar Hills may use your personally identifiable information to inform you of services available from The Homes Association of Cedar Hills. The Homes Association of Cedar Hills may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
The Homes Association of Cedar Hills does not sell, rent or lease its user lists to third parties. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, The Homes Association of Cedar Hills 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 The Homes Association of Cedar Hills, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
The Homes Association of Cedar Hills does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations.
The Homes Association of Cedar Hills keeps track of the pages our users visit within the Site in order to determine what The Homes Association of Cedar Hills services are the most popular and to monitor the performance of the Site.
The Homes Association of Cedar Hills will disclose your personal information only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: conform to legal requirements or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other legal process received by The Homes Association of Cedar Hills, whether or not a response is required by applicable law; to enforce or apply The Homes Association of Cedar Hills and/or Site policies; to protect The Homes Association of Cedar Hills and/or Site rights and/or property; to protect Site users from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful use, of the Site; or to protect the safety of The Homes Association of Cedar Hills members, Site users and/or the general public.
Use of Cookies
The Homes Association of Cedar Hills 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 The Homes Association of Cedar Hills pages, or register with The Homes Association of Cedar Hills site or services, a cookie helps The Homes Association of Cedar Hills to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. When you return to the same The Homes Association of Cedar Hills Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Homes Association of Cedar Hills features that you customized. In the event that we permit third parties to advertise on our Site, advertisers that serve ads on our Site may also use their own cookies. Such outside cookies are governed by the privacy policies of the entities placing the ads, and are not subject to this Site's privacy policy.
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 Homes Association of Cedar Hills services or Web sites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
While we take reasonable measures to protect user's personal information, The Homes Association of Cedar Hills cannot guarantee that user's personal information may not be disclosed or accessed by accidental circumstances or by the unauthorized acts of others.
Changes to this Statement
The Homes Association of Cedar Hills will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback, or if Association practices change, technology changes, or as the Association adds services and/or features to the Site. The Homes Association of Cedar Hills encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how The Homes Association of Cedar Hills is protecting your information. If any material changes to this Privacy statement and/or how user's personal information is handled, an "Update" notice will be posted on the Site for thirty days.
Contact Information
The Homes Association of Cedar Hills welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that The Homes Association of Cedar Hills has not adhered to this Statement, please contact The Homes Association of Cedar Hills using the contact information posted in the contacts section of this site. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.