PRIVACY POLICY
Effective Date: October 25, 2007
Please Read Carefully
This is the privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”), effective as of October 25, 2007, for the Web site available at http://www.bluestonecap.com (the “Site”) made available by BlueStone Real Estate Capital, LLC, the legal owner of the Site and its affiliated companies (“BlueStone”, “we”, “us” or “our”). This Privacy Policy sets forth our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of certain information relating to your use of the Site. Your use of this Site signifies your understanding and acceptance of the terms of this Privacy Policy.
We recognize the importance of protecting your privacy and our Privacy Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use and safeguard the personal information you provide to us, and to assist you in making informed decisions when using the Site. This Privacy Policy will be continuously assessed against new technologies, business practices and our clients’ needs. As we update and diversify our products and services, this Privacy Policy may evolve. Please check this page for updates periodically. We will try to post any changes to this Privacy Policy before they become effective. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you here, by email or by means of a notice on our Site’s home page.
Please note: by using or registering with our Site or by providing personal information, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
We have several areas where you can submit information to us, and we also have features that automatically collect information from the users of our Site. References to “personal and account information” contained in this Privacy Policy means your name, company name, account number, address, telephone number, e-mail address, subscription details (i.e., particular types of markets or property types on which you request information), and any other information that personally identifies you or would permit us to contact you.
Registration:
When you visit or transact business on our Web site, you may be
required to register with us or be requested to provide us with
personal and account information. When you provide us with
this information, we will let you know how we may use such
information. If you tell us that you do not want us to use this
information as a basis for further contact with you, we will respect
your wishes. We may also offer options for you to sign up for our
newsletters. During the registration process, you must provide us
with a member name and password, your name, address and phone number
and a valid email address. It is your responsibility to keep your
password strictly confidential.
Communications from us; newsletters and promotional offers: In
order to keep our users informed about our latest news, products and
services, we may send e-mails and announcements to your personal email
address that you provided to us while registering on our Site. If
you elected to opt–in to any of our email lists and later decide that
you no longer wish to receive newsletters or promotional e-mail from
us, you may unsubscribe from such list by following the instructions
contained in each email we send to you to unsubscribe from such e-mail
list. [Note: User opt-in registration procedures should
clearly provide notice to the user that he or she is signing up to
receive both newsletters and promotional e-mail or, alternatively, the
company should provide an signup option for just newsletters or
newsletters and promotional email.]
Contacting Us:
You are always free to contact us with a question or problem related to
your use of the Site. Our standard business practice is to retain
any communications from our Site visitors to help us to serve each of
you better.
Links: When using our Site, you may click through certain links or promotions that will enable you to purchase products or use services provided by our partners. Some of these partners may share certain information that you provide to them with us. By clicking on and through to a link or promotion on our Site, you agree to allow us to receive and use any information (except for credit card information) that you may provide to our partners, under the same terms and conditions as if you provided your information directly to us. We are not, however, responsible for any other Web site, or their respective privacy policy or how they treat information about their users. We strongly advise you to review their privacy policies to find out how they are treating your personal information.
Third Party Usage: You may also separately share your information with other Web sites or entities, such as those that create professional marketing lists, to receive special offers and promotions from their affiliates. These Web sites or entities may agree to share your information with us. Whether or not any third party actually shares your information with us and to what extent they do share your information with us will depend on their agreement with us and their respective privacy policies. BlueStone Real Estate Capital is not responsible for, and will assume no liability if a partner or other Web site or entity collects, uses or shares, any information about you in violation of its own privacy policy, or applicable law.
Marketing Data:
We may purchase marketing data from third parties and add it to our
existing user database to better target our advertising and to provide
pertinent offers in which we think you would be interested. We
may also associate this marketing data to the personally identifiable
information that you provide to us.
Automatic Data Collection
Cookies: We use what are commonly called cookies when you use our Site. We use these cookies to identify you as a valid user, to ensure that no one else can sign on simultaneously with your account from another computer and to help us serve you better based on your registration preferences. We may also use cookies to help us facilitate any promotions or surveys that we provide.
Performance tracking: We sometimes use cookies, as well as tracking technology, such as web beacons, within the promotional emails that we send to our subscribers or advertisements for our Site. These performance tracking devices help us to track whether an e-mail recipient has completed an event, such as signing up for a free trial for example. Such information is non-personally identifying and collected on an aggregate level. We sometimes utilize third party service providers to help us track the activity within our Site. These third parties may use temporary cookies and/or web beaconing technology to facilitate such tracking but the data would not be tracked in a personally identifiable way. Third parties whose products or services are accessible on our Site may also use cookies, and we advise you to check their privacy policies for information about their cookies and other privacy practices.
When and with Whom We May Share Your Information
Vendors: We may share your personal information with companies acting as our authorized agents in providing our service (e.g., credit card processing, customer/support services) to you, all of which agree to use it only for such specified purposes. Each vendor must agree to implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of your information in order to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification or disclosure.
Legally affiliated entities: In the event that BlueStone Real Estate Capital is merged, or in the event of a transfer of our assets, Site or operations, BlueStone Real Estate Capital may disclose or transfer your personal information in connection with such transaction. In the event of such a transfer, BlueStone Real Estate Capital will notify you via email or by posting a prominent notice on our Site for 30 days of any such change in ownership of BlueStone Real Estate Capital resulting in a change of control of your personal information.
Legally compelled disclosure: We will also disclose your personal information when required to do so by law, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena or other legal obligation, in response to a law enforcement agency's request, or in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing your personal information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (whether intentionally or unintentionally) our rights or property.
Bankruptcy: You should also be aware that courts of equity, such as U.S. Bankruptcy Courts, may have the authority under certain circumstances to permit your personal information to be shared or transferred to third parties without your permission.
Consent to processing: By providing any personal information to us, you fully understand and unambiguously consent to the transfer of such personal information to, and the collection and processing of such personal information in, the United States and other countries or territories. Your personal information will be stored and processed on our computers in the United States. The laws on holding personal information in the United States may vary and be less stringent than laws of your state or country. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to hold and transmit your personal information in a safe, confidential and secure environment. If you object to your personal information being transferred or used in this manner please do not register with or use the Site.
BlueStone Real Estate Capital endeavors to protect the security of your personal information and your choices for its intended use. We use Secure Socket Layers or SSL technology to protect the transmission of sensitive personal information such as your credit card number. We store your personal information on a secure server, and use procedures designed to protect the personal information we collect from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification or disclosure.
Although
we will take (and require our third-party providers to take)
commercially reasonable security precautions regarding your personal
information collected from and stored on the Site, due to the open
nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that any of your personal
information stored on our servers, or transmitted to or from a user,
will be free from unauthorized access, and we disclaim any liability
for any theft or loss of, unauthorized access or damage to, or
interception of any data or communications. By using the Site,
you acknowledge that you understand and agree to assume these risks.
Automatic Data Collection
Cookies: We use what are commonly called cookies when you use our Site. We use these cookies to identify you as a valid user, to ensure that no one else can sign on simultaneously with your account from another computer and to help us serve you better based on your registration preferences. We may also use cookies to help us facilitate any promotions or surveys that we provide.
Performance tracking:
We sometimes use cookies, as well as tracking technology, such as web
beacons, within the promotional emails that we send to our subscribers
or advertisements for our Site. These performance tracking
devices help us to track whether an e-mail recipient has completed an
event, such as signing up for a free trial for example. Such
information is non-personally identifying and collected on an aggregate
level. We sometimes utilize third party service providers to help
us track the activity within our Site. These third parties may
use temporary cookies and/or web beaconing technology to facilitate
such tracking but the data would not be tracked in a personally
identifiable way. Third parties whose products or services are
accessible on our Site may also use cookies, and we advise you to check
their privacy policies for information about their cookies and other
privacy practices.
When and with Whom We May Share Your Information
Vendors:
We may share your personal information with companies acting as our
authorized agents in providing our service (e.g., credit card
processing, customer/support services) to you, all of which agree to
use it only for such specified purposes. Each vendor must agree
to implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices
appropriate to the nature of your information in order to protect your
personal information from unauthorized access, destruction, use,
modification or disclosure.
Legally affiliated entities:
In the event that BlueStone Real Estate Capital is merged, or in the
event of a transfer of our assets, Site or operations, BlueStone Real
Estate Capital may disclose or transfer your personal information in
connection with such transaction. In the event of such a
transfer, BlueStone Real Estate Capital will notify you via email or by
posting a prominent notice on our Site for 30 days of any such change
in ownership of BlueStone Real Estate Capital resulting in a change of
control of your personal information.
Legally compelled disclosure:
We will also disclose your personal information when required to do so
by law, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena or
other legal obligation, in response to a law enforcement agency's
request, or in special cases when we have reason to believe that
disclosing your personal information is necessary to identify, contact
or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or
interference with (whether intentionally or unintentionally) our rights
or property.
Bankruptcy: You should also be aware
that courts of equity, such as U.S. Bankruptcy Courts, may have the
authority under certain circumstances to permit your personal
information to be shared or transferred to third parties without your
permission.
Consent to processing: By providing
any personal information to us, you fully understand and unambiguously
consent to the transfer of such personal information to, and the
collection and processing of such personal information in, the United
States and other countries or territories. Your personal
information will be stored and processed on our computers in the United
States. The laws on holding personal information in the United States
may vary and be less stringent than laws of your state or
country. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to hold and
transmit your personal information in a safe, confidential and secure
environment. If you object to your personal information being
transferred or used in this manner please do not register with or use
the Site.
Security
BlueStone Real
Estate Capital endeavors to protect the security of your personal
information and your choices for its intended use. We use Secure Socket
Layers or SSL technology to protect the transmission of sensitive
personal information such as your credit card number. We store
your personal information on a secure server, and use procedures
designed to protect the personal information we collect from
unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification or disclosure.
Although we will take (and require our third-party
providers to take) commercially reasonable security precautions
regarding your personal information collected from and stored on the
Site, due to the open nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that
any of your personal information stored on our servers, or transmitted
to or from a user, will be free from unauthorized access, and we
disclaim any liability for any theft or loss of, unauthorized access or
damage to, or interception of any data or communications. By
using the Site, you acknowledge that you understand and agree to assume
these risks.
Modification of your choices and preferences
Opt-out right:
If you would like to opt out of any of our marketing programs, or wish
to withdraw your consent to us contacting you via your e-mail, fax or
phone number, or if your personal details change, please contact us by
sending us an e-mail at info@bluestonecap.com by including a copy of
the e-mail you have received and by typing “Remove” in the subject line
of your e-mail.
Your election not to receive newsletters or
promotional and marketing correspondence from us will not: (a) preclude
us from corresponding with you, by email or otherwise, regarding your
existing or past relationship with us, and (b) preclude us, including
our employees, contractors, agents and other representatives, from
accessing and viewing your personal information in the course of
maintaining and improving the Site.
Your Acceptance of this Privacy Policy:
By using this Site, you signify your acceptance of our Privacy
Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not
use our Site. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change,
modify, add, or remove portions from this Privacy Policy at any time so
visitors are encouraged to review this Privacy Policy from time to
time. Your continued use of our Site following the posting of changes
to these terms means you accept these changes.
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