Consumer Privacy at HomeLoanCenter.com,
an IAC Company
HomeLoanCenter.com is part of the IAC
family of businesses. IAC is an interactive
conglomerate with more than 60 brands including LendingTree,
HSN, Ticketmaster, Ask.com, Match.com, Citysearch, Evite,
Interval International, ServiceMagic, Entertainment
Publications, Gifts.com, Pronto and many others.
For a list of all of IAC's businesses, please visit www.iac.com.
At IAC we value
and respect our members' and users' privacy.
We also believe that our businesses can work together
to provide increased value to our members and users.
It is our mission to harness the power of interactivity
to make daily life easier and more productive for
consumers. In order to achieve those
goals, we have developed the following Consumer Privacy
statement that applies to all IAC businesses.
In addition, HomeLoanCenter.com has revised its Privacy Policy, effective 7/19/07 consistent with the IAC privacy
commitment. Refer to our FAQs for
details about the changes. Please review both the
Consumer Privacy statement and this site's complete privacy
policy.
Information we may collect
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We may collect information that can
identify you ("personal information"), such as your name and
email address, (i) when you (or other users) provide it to us
when using our website or in some other manner, or (ii) from
other IAC businesses, from our business partners, and from
other third parties. We may combine the personal
information that we receive from different sources.
We also may
collect other types of information in the following ways when
you visit our website:
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Our server logs automatically collect
information, such as your IP address, your browser type and
language, and the date and time of your visit, which helps us
track users' movements around our site and understand
trends.
·
We may assign your computer one or more
cookies
which may collect information to facilitate access to our
website and to personalize your online experience.
·
We may use standard Internet tools such as
web
beacons, which collect information that tracks your use of
our website and enables us to customize our services and
advertisements.
We do not
knowingly collect personal information from children under the
age of 13. Should we ever do so, we
will comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
Information others may collect
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We may allow
third-party advertising companies or ad networks to display
advertisements on our websites.
·
We do not provide any personal
information to these companies.
·
These companies may use tracking tools,
such as cookies, to collect information about computers used
to view or interact with their advertisements.
·
Some of these companies may be members of
the Network Advertising Initiative which
offers consumers the ability to opt out of ad targeting by all
member companies.
If you post
information about yourself or others, or communicate with
others using our website, please note that we cannot control
who reads your postings or what they do with the information
you provide. We encourage you to use
caution in posting personal information.
How we may use information we
collect
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We may use
information to:
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Fulfill your requests for products and
services;
·
Offer products and services that may be
of interest to you;
·
Customize the advertising and content
that you see on our website;
·
Facilitate use of our website;
·
Manage your account and your preferences;
·
Analyze use of and improve our website,
products and services;
·
Identify and protect against fraudulent
transactions and other misuses of our website; and
·
Enforce our Terms of
Use.
With whom we may share information we
collect
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We will not share
your personal information with others except as indicated
below, or except when we inform you in advance and give you
the opportunity to opt out. We may share personal
information with:
·
Service providers, such as credit-card
payment processors, performing services on our behalf;
·
Other IAC businesses;
·
Other businesses with which we partner or
which we carefully select to offer you products, services, and
promotions through our website or offline; and
·
Other third parties in limited
circumstances, such as complying with legal requirements,
preventing fraud, and protecting the safety of our users.
We may share
aggregated, non-personal information in any of the above
situations and also with advertisers and others.
Your choices
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You may choose:
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Not to provide personal information,
although that may result in your inability to obtain certain
services or use certain features of our website;
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To stop receiving promotional emails or
newsletters from us by contacting our Customer Care
Department at 1-800-756-0789;
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To delete or decline
cookies
by changing your browser settings, although if you do so,
some of the features or services of our website may not
function properly;
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To review and update your personal
information by contacting us at the email address below or,
if you have an online account on our website, by logging
into that account.
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To learn about additional choices click
here.
Security
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We take
appropriate physical, electronic and other security measures
to help safeguard personal information from unauthorized
access, alteration, or disclosure.
Changes to our Privacy
Policy
We may
occasionally update our Privacy Policy to reflect changes in
our practices and services. If we make material changes
in the way we collect, use, or share your personal
information, we will notify you by sending you an email to the
email address you most recently provided to us and/or by
prominently posting notice of the changes on our website.
How to contact us
If you have any
questions about this summary, our Privacy Policy, or our information practices, please contact us by
email or postal mail below:
Privacy
Officer
HomeLoanCenter.com
163 Technology Drive
Irvine, CA 92618
privacy@homeloancenter.com
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