LEGAL INFORMATION AND PRIVACY POLICY
DISCLAIMER
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available on this site, and is not responsible for any errors, omissions,
or misrepresentations. Product information including availability, features
and prices are subject to change without prior notice and should be
verified independently.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN HOUSING STATEMENT
Our Policy
All real estate advertised herein is subject to the federal Fair Housing
Act, which makes it illegal to advertise "any preference, limitation,
or discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial
status, or national origin, or intention to make such preference, limitation
or discrimination."
We will not knowingly accept or permit
any advertisement for real estate that is in violation of the law. All
persons are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised are available
on an equal opportunity basis.
The Law
When it comes to buying, selling or leasing a home or renting an apartment,
several state and federal laws were enacted to ensure the equal opportunity
in housing for all people. The Civil Rights Act of 1966 prohibits all
racial discrimination in the sale or rental of property. Moreover, the
Fair Housing Act declares a national policy of fair housing throughout
the United States, making illegal any discrimination in the sale, lease
or rental of housing, or making housing otherwise unavailable, because
of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national
origin.
Other laws also impact the purchase, sale
or lease of a home or renting an apartment. Title III of the Americans
with Disabilities Act prohibits discrimination against persons with
disabilities in places of public accommodations and commercial facilities.
The Equal Credit Opportunity Act makes discrimination unlawful with
respect to any aspect of a credit application on the basis of race,
color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, age or because
all or part of the applicant's income derives from any public assistance
program.
In addition, state and local laws often
provide broader coverage and prohibit discrimination based on additional
classes not covered by federal law.
As a home seller or landlord you have
a responsibility and a requirement under the law not to discriminate
in the sale, rental and financing of property on the basis of race,
color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin.
You cannot instruct the licensed broker or salesperson acting as your
agent to convey for you any limitations in the sale or rental because
the real estate professional is bound by law not to discriminate. Agents
in a real estate transaction also are prohibited by law from discriminating
on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status,
or national origin. They are prohibited from complying with a request
from the home seller or landlord to act in a discriminatory manner in
the sale, lease or rental. Moreover, a home seller or landlord cannot
establish discriminatory terms or conditions in the purchase or rental,
deny that housing is available, or advertise that the property is available
only to persons of a certain race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial
status, or national original.
As someone seeking to purchase a home
or rent an apartment, you have the right to expect that housing will
be available to you without discrimination or other limitations based
on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national
origin. This includes the right to expect equal professional service,
the opportunity to consider a broad range of housing choices, no discriminatory
limitations on communities or locations of housing, no discrimination
in the financing, appraising, or insuring of housing, reasonable accommodations
in rules, practices and procedures for persons with disabilities, and
to be free from harassment or intimidation for exercising your fair
housing rights.
IF YOU SUSPECT DISCRIMINATION:
Despite our zero tolerance policy, much of the information regarding
real estate and related matters in this Web Site is provided by third
parties or via hyperlink to third party sites. As such, there may be
an instance of potential discrimination by these third parties that
we are not yet aware of. If you suspect discrimination by one of these
sites, please contact our staff at feedback@nationalhomesearch.com.
Complaints alleging discrimination in
housing may be filed with the nearest office of the United States Department
of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), or by calling HUD's toll free
number, 1-800-669-9777 (voice), or 1-800-543-8294 (TDD).
You can contact HUD on the internet.
PRIVACY STATEMENT
NationalHomeSearch.com respects the privacy of its users. In this document
we explain how we use information you supply us via the NationalHomeSearch.com
Web site. This privacy policy may be modified in the future. If it is,
a new policy will be posted on our web sites.
This Web site is the product of NationalHomeSearch.com,
a project of x corporation. You may have linked to this Web site
from an NationalHomeSearch.com affiliate (the newspaper or other partner
whose name appears at the top of the home page of this Web site). If
so, please be aware that this Web site was customized by NationalHomeSearch.com
for the affiliate, that NationalHomeSearch.com may share your information
with the affiliate (as described below in the Section entitled "With
whom do we share the information we collect?) and that during your visit
to this Web site the affiliate may independently collect other information
from you.
The policy that follows is applicable
to NationalHomeSearch.com's information collection, use and disclosure
practices. For information on the policy applicable to the affiliate's
information collection, use and disclosure practices, please review
the privacy statement on the affiliate's Web site (this may be the site
from which you linked to get here). Also, please note that this Web
site contains links to other Web sites. NationalHomeSearch.com and its
affiliates are not responsible for the content or the privacy policies
of any Web sites to which you may link.
What personal information do we collect?
Registration: When you sign up to use
one of our services, request a price quote or enter a contest, we may
ask for information about you, including your name, age, address, and
phone number, as well as demographic information. To sign up to use
one of our services, request a price or enter a contest, you must be
at least 18 years of age and agree to the Terms and Conditions of the
web site.
Premium Services: Visitors 18 years of
age and older may use an order form to request optional services at
some parts of our Web site. We collect a visitor's credit card information
to bill the visitor for these optional services. All other areas of
our web site are free and may be used by visitors over 18 years of age
or older.
Cookies: Cookies are small text files
that are placed on your computer's hard drive by our computers (or servers)
to identify your computer. Cookies are only read by the server that
placed them there and are unable to execute any code or virus. We may
use cookies to recognize you when you visit our site, to personalize
your experience and generally to serve you better. For example, if you
enter your name, address, telephone number, email address, ZIP code
or other personally identifiable information on one of our forms, such
information will be stored in a cookie so you do not have to enter this
information again. Cookies can also tell us which advertising you have
seen on our site, allowing us to offer you a more diverse selection
of advertising information. Cookies may also compile data about our
visitors.
IP Addresses: NationalHomeSearch.com also
compiles your IP address - the location of your computer on the Internet
- for administrative purposes only. NationalHomeSearch.com does not
collect any personally identifiable information through its compilation
of your IP addresses or the location of your computer on the Internet.
How do we use the information we collect?
NationalHomeSearch.com may perform statistical analyses of user behavior
in order to measure interest in the various areas of our site, for development
purposes, and to inform advertisers and partners about consumers clicking
on their advertising or other messages. In these analyses, we will disclose
information to third parties only in aggregate form.
E-mail: Using the e-mail addresses provided
by registrants 18 years of age and older, NationalHomeSearch.com, its
advertisers, affiliates, partners, or third parties may periodically
send promotional e-mail. In any case where we might use an email address
for this purpose, you will be able to indicate at registration that
you do not wish to receive such promotional e-mails from NationalHomeSearch.com,
its advertisers, affiliates, partners or third parties. However, by
registering, you agree that NationalHomeSearch.com may contact you by
e-mail regarding account status, changes to the registrant agreement,
and to confirm registration. In addition, if you provide your email
address or other contact data in connection with a request for product
information, NationalHomeSearch.com, an advertiser, affiliate, partner
or third parties, as applicable, will use that information to contact
you.
Data Security: To prevent unauthorized
access, maintain data accuracy and ensure the appropriate use of information,
we have put in place appropriate procedures to protect the information
we collect online, including reasonable and appropriate security for
credit card submissions.
What is NationalHomeSearch.com's relationship
with affiliates and business partners?
We have close relationships with affiliated newspapers and other business
partners. Certain of those affiliates and partners have web pages that
are branded both with our trademarks and the trademarks of our business
partners. You may visit us through a co-branded page that is, for example,
an NationalHomeSearch.com page that is co-branded with XYZ Newspaper's
web site.
With whom do we share the information
we collect?
In the future, NationalHomeSearch.com may share your personally identifiable
information with third parties for direct marketing purposes, but only
if you have authorized NationalHomeSearch.com to do so and only if you
are over the age of 18. At the present time, NationalHomeSearch.com
will only share personally identifiable information with third parties
as is necessary for those third parties to provide information or perform
services specifically requested by you. Additionally, if you entered
the NationalHomeSearch.com web site through a site maintained by one
of our affiliates or business partners, then your personally identifiable
information may be shared with that affiliate or business partner, provided
that use of the information does not violate this privacy policy.
Third Party Advertising Company: NationalHomeSearch.com
uses a third-party advertising company to serve ads when you visit our
site. This company may use information (not including your name, address,
email address or telephone number) about your visits to our and other
web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services
of interest to you. In addition, we share web site usage information
about visitors to our sites with this company for the purpose of managing
and targeting advertisements on our site and other sites. For this purpose,
we and our third-party advertising company note some of the pages you
visit on our site through the use of pixel tags (also called clear gifs).
In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party
advertiser may place or recognize a unique "cookie" on your
computer. If you would like more information about the information collection
practices of this third-party advertising company and to know your choices
about not having this information used by this company, click here
Message Boards: NationalHomeSearch.com
offers message boards, or forums, on some of its web sites for use by
visitors who are 18 years of age and older. Any information you disclose
when posting a message in these forums becomes public. Moreover, registrants
who post a message in our forums make their e-mail addresses available
to others through a feature of our software, which could result in unsolicited
e-mail from third parties.
Children's Guidelines: We believe that
it is especially important to protect children's privacy online. We
encourage parents to get involved with your children's online usage
and to be aware of the activities in which they are participating. Note:
we define "children" as minors younger than 13 years of age.
We do not knowingly collect or use any personally identifiable information
from children, and we do not provide any personally identifiable information,
regardless of its source, to any third party for any purpose whatsoever
from our visitors under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly allow children
to register with us, or to participate in any of our promotions or contents.
No information should be submitted to or posted at NationalHomeSearch.com
by visitors under 13 years of age. You should be aware that if your
child voluntarily discloses his or her name, e-mail address, or other
information on any web site, such disclosures may result in unsolicited
messages.
Does this privacy statement extend to
links to other sites?
This site contains links to other sites. While we encourage our business
partners to adopt privacy policies that build users' trust and confidence
in the Internet, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or
the content of web sites linked to any of our sites. We may allow third
parties to sponsor promotions and sweepstakes through our site. Use
of any personal information provided to such a third party will be governed
by that party's privacy policy.
If you have any
questions about this privacy statement, please e-mail us at click here
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prosecution.
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LLC PERMITS REAL ESTATE AGENTS TO PUBLISH INFORMATION REGARDING THEMSELVES
AND THEIR SERVICES. NATIONALHOMESEARCH.COM, LLC DOES NOT RECOMMEND OR
ENDORSE ANY OF THE REAL ESTATE AGENTS, AND IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE
ACCURACY OR RELIABILITY OF ANY OPINION, ADVICE, OR STATEMENT MADE BY
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