Privacy Policy
Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to www.HomeExpert.com and Home Expert and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Home Expert include www.HomeExpert.com. The Home Expert website is a Consumer Matching Service For All Things Home Services site. By using the Home Expert website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
In order to better
provide you with products and services offered on our Site, Home
Expert may collect personally identifiable information, such as
your:
- - First and Last Name
- - Mailing Address
- - E-mail Address
- - Phone Number
We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on the Site. These may include: (a) registering for an account on our Site; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering an purchasing products and services on our Site. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.
Use of your Personal Information
Home Expert collects
and uses your personal information to operate its website(s) and
deliver the services you have requested.
Home Expert may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Home Expert and its affiliates.
Sharing Information with Third Parties
Home Expert may
sell, rent, or lease customer information to third parties for the
following reasons:
Affinity Services
Home Expert may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is transferred to the third party. Home Expert may share data with trusted partners to help 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 Home Expert, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Home Expert may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Home Expert or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Home Expert; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Home Expert, or the public.
Tracking User Behavior
Home Expert may keep track of
the websites and pages our users visit within Home Expert, in
order to determine what Home Expert services are the most popular.
This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising
within Home Expert to customers whose behavior indicates that they
are interested in a particular subject area.
Automatically Collected Information
Information about
your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected
by Home Expert. This information can include: your IP address,
browser type, domain names, access times and referring website
addresses. This information is used for the operation of the
service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide
general statistics regarding use of the Home Expert website.
Use of Cookies
The Home Expert website may 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 Home Expert pages, or register with Home Expert site or services, a cookie helps Home Expert to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Home Expert website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Home Expert features that you customized.
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 Home Expert services or websites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
Home Expert
secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use,
or disclosure. Home Expert uses the following methods for this
purpose:
- - SSL Protocol
When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.
We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.
Children Under Thirteen
Home Expert does not knowingly
collect personally identifiable information from children under
the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you
must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this
website.
Disconnecting your Home Expert Account from Third Party Websites
You will be able to connect your Home Expert account to third
party accounts. BY CONNECTING YOUR HOME EXPERT ACCOUNT TO YOUR
THIRD PARTY ACCOUNT, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOU ARE
CONSENTING TO THE CONTINUOUS RELEASE OF INFORMATION ABOUT YOU TO
OTHERS (IN ACCORDANCE WITH YOUR PRIVACY SETTINGS ON THOSE THIRD
PARTY SITES). IF YOU DO NOT WANT INFORMATION ABOUT YOU, INCLUDING
PERSONALLY IDENTIFYING INFORMATION, TO BE SHARED INTHIS MANNER, DO
NOT USE THE THIS FEATURE. You may disconnect your account from a
third party account at any time. Disconnect Via The Expert
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Opt-Out & Unsubscribe from Third Party Communications
We respect your privacy and give you an opportunity to opt-out of
receiving announcements of certain information. Users may opt-out
of receiving any or all communications from third-party partners
of Home Expert by contacting us here:
- - Email: remove@homeexpert.com
E-mail Communications
From time to time, Home Expert
may contact you via email for the purpose of providing
announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys,
and/or other general communication. In order to improve our
Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email
from Home Expert or click on a link therein.
If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Home Expert, you may opt out of such communications by clicking on the UNSUBSCRIBE button.
Changes to this Statement
Home Expert reserves the
right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will
notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal
information by sending a notice to the primary email address
specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our
site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page.
Your continued use of the Site and/or Services available through
this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a)
acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement
to abide and be bound by that Policy.
Contact Information
Home Expert welcomes your questions
or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe
that Home Expert has not adhered to this Statement, please contact
Home Expert at: info@homeexpert.com
Effective as of December 06, 2018
For California Consumers The Following Applies
Your Rights and Choices
The CCPA provides consumers (California residents) with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.
Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights
You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose to you:
- The categories of personal information we collected about you.
- The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.
- Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information.
- The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
- The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).
- If we sold or disclosed your personal information for a
business purpose, two separate lists disclosing:
- sales, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient purchased; and
- disclosures for a business purpose, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained.
Deletion Request Rights
You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collect from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies.
We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service providers to:
- Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
- Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
- Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
- Comply with a legal obligation.
Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights
To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by email:
- Request Information Do Not Be Sold Go To www.affordable-painters.com/Do-not-sell-ca
- Request Right To Know Information Go To www.affordable-painters.com/right-to-know-ca
- Request To Delete Your Information Go To www.affordable-painters.com/delete-my-info-ca
- Emailing us at CCPA@affordable-painters.com
- Toll Free CCPA Hotline - 877-592-0592
Only you or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.
You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:
- Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative. (At times we may require you to confirm a link sent to your phone via SMS or email)
- Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.
We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor's identity or authority to make the request.
Response Timing and Format
We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within 45 days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to 90 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. We will deliver our written response by email to the email that was verified. Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request's receipt. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.
Non-Discrimination
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:
- Deny you goods or services.
- Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
- Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services.
- Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.