This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and disclose personal information when you visit and use our real estate website. We understand the importance of privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information. Please read this policy carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal information and how we will treat it.

Information We Collect

1.1 Personal Information: When you visit our website and voluntarily provide your personal information, such as your name, email address, phone number, and any other contact details, we collect and store this information. We may also collect additional information you choose to provide, such as property preferences, budget, or any other relevant details.

1.2 Usage Information: We may collect certain non-personal information automatically when you use our website, including your IP address, browser type, operating system, and the pages you visit. This information helps us improve our website and provide a better user experience.

1.3 Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your browsing experience, personalize content, and analyze website traffic. You have the option to disable cookies through your browser settings, but please note that some features of the website may not function properly as a result.

We collect personal information directly from the relevant individual, through our website https://homestock.com/ or using the following technologies: “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org. “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps. “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.

Use of Personal Information

2.1 Providing Services: We use your personal information to provide you with the services you request, including contacting you with relevant property listings, responding to your inquiries, and facilitating communication between you and potential sellers or buyers.

2.2 Website Improvement: We may use your information to improve our website, develop new features, conduct market research, and enhance the overall user experience.

2.3 Marketing Communications: With your consent, we may send you marketing communications regarding our services, special offers, or other relevant information. You can opt out of receiving these communications at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in the email or contacting us directly.

2.4 Legal Compliance: We may use or disclose your personal information if required by law, regulation, legal process, or government request, or to protect our rights, property, or safety, as well as the rights, property, or safety of others.

Sharing Personal Information

3.1 Legal Obligations: We may disclose your personal information to comply with legal obligations, enforce our terms of service, or protect our rights, property, or safety.

3.2 HOME STOCK LLC may disclose your personal information as described above to a third party for a business purpose. When we disclose personal information for a business purpose, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract.

We may share your personal information with the following entities:

– Affiliated Entities. We may share your personal information with our subsidiaries and corporate affiliates, including future subsidiaries and affiliates of HOME STOCK LLC to use your information consistent with this Policy.

– Third-Party Service Providers. We may share personal information with third-party service providers who provide us with services, such as data analysis, online advertising, payment processing, order fulfillment, IT services, customer service, and other similar services. We grant our service providers access to personal information only to the extent needed for them to perform their functions, and require them to protect the confidentiality and security of such personal information.

– Commercial Partners. We may share personal information with unaffiliated third parties who partner with us to deliver our services or on our commercial activities. Depending on your choices and the nature of the joint activity, these third parties may contact you regarding products or services that may interest you.

– Business Transfers or Assignments. In the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including without limitation in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings), we may transfer any information that we collect from site users or offline to a third party.

– Law Enforcement; Emergencies; Compliance. We may disclose personal information about you to others as we believe to be appropriate: (i) under applicable law including laws outside your country of residence; (ii) to comply with legal process (iii) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (iv) to enforce our terms and conditions; (v) to protect our operations and property interest; (vi) to protect the rights, privacy, safety or property of HOME STOCK LLC, our employees, users of our service, or others; and (vii) to permit us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

– At your direction. We may disclose your personal information as you otherwise consent to or request, such as to real estate agents and potential pre-approved cash buyers, as requested by you as part of our matching service.

3.3 Behavioral Advertising As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work. You can opt out of targeted advertising by Google, Facebook, Bing, Taboola, ads Blade, Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/

Data Security

We implement reasonable security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. However, please note that no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Your Rights

You have certain rights regarding your personal information, including the right to access, correct, or delete your information and the right to restrict or object to its processing. To exercise these rights or for any privacy-related inquiries, please contact us using the information provided below.

Children’s Privacy

Our website is not intended for individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child without appropriate parental consent, we will take steps to delete it.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or applicable laws. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the updated policy on our website and indicating the effective date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we handle your personal information.

Supplemental California Consumer Privacy Act Rights Notice

a. Our Collection of Personal Information under the California Consumer Privacy Act

We may collect the following categories of personal information:

Personal identifiers, such as

– Your name, address, phone number, and e-mail address

Personal information described in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e), such as

– Your signature

– Employment

Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law, such as

– Age

– Veteran or military status

Commercial information, such as

– Circumstances related to your purchase or sale of a home

– Real estate offer letters

Internet or other electronic activity information, such as

– Browsing history

– Information related to your interaction with an internet website application

Geolocation data, such as

– Physical location

Sensory data, such as

– Audio, electronic, or visual information

Professional or employment-related information, such as

– Work phone number

– Employer name

Sensitive personal information, such as

– Your driver’s license or state ID information

– Your account log-in

– Precise geolocation

Inferences, such as

– Time of day contact preference

– Preferences regarding how you like to tour home (e.g., with an agent)

Categories of sources from which we collect these categories of personal information about you:

– We collect the categories of personal information listed above from the types and categories of sources described above in Section 2 of this privacy policy.

Categories of third parties to which we may disclose these categories of person information:

– We may disclose the categories of personal information listed above to the categories of third parties described above in Sections 3, 4 and 5 of this privacy policy.

Operational purposes for disclosing these categories of personal information. We have disclosed these categories of personal information above and sensitive personal information for a range of operational purposes, including for business purposes such as:

– Auditing related to counting ad impressions to unique visitors, verifying positioning and quality of ad impressions, and auditing compliance with this specification and other standards.

– Helping to ensure security and integrity to the extent the use of the consumer’s personal information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for these purposes.

– Debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.

– Short-term, transient use, including, but not limited to, nonpersonalized advertising shown as part of a consumer’s current interaction with the business, provided that the consumer’s personal information is not disclosed to another third party and is not used to build a profile about the consumer or otherwise alter the consumer’s experience outside the current interaction with the business.

– Performing services on behalf of the business, including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, processing or fulfilling orders and transactions, verifying customer information, processing payments, providing financing, providing analytic services, providing storage, or providing similar services on behalf of the business.

– Undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration.

– Undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of a service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by the business, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance the service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by the business.

We do not sell or share your personal information or sensitive personal information. We have no actual knowledge that we have sold any personal information of consumers under 16 years of age.

b. Your California Rights

In addition to HOME STOCK LLC’s general privacy policies, consumers who are California residents (hereinafter, “you”) have specific rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended.  They include:

– The right to request that we disclose what personal information we collect, use, and share about you during the preceding 12 months free of charge, unless subject to a legal exception. The request may include the following:

– The categories of personal and sensitive personal information we collected about you.

– The categories of sources from which the personal information and sensitive personal information is collected.

– The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information or sensitive personal information.

– The categories of third parties with whom we share personal information or sensitive personal information.

– The specific pieces of personal information or sensitive personal information we have collected about you.

The right to opt-out of sale or sharing to third parties of your personal information (as sale and sharing is defined by the CCPA).

The right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information.

The right to request that we delete personal information collected or maintained by us about you, unless subject to a legal exception.

The right to know what personal information or sensitive personal information is sold or shared and to whom.

The right to limit use and disclosure of sensitive personal information.

The right to designate an authorized agent to make a request under state law on your behalf by having the authorized agent submit such request and provide appropriate documentation needed to substantiate the authorization and/or request.

The right to be notified that we collect personal information about you, and the purposes for which the information will be used.

c. Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights under the CCPA. Unless permitted by law, 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 of quality of goods or services; or

– Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

d. Retention of Your Information

We retain the personal information and sensitive personal information we collect as described in this privacy policy for as long as you use our services or as necessary to fulfill the purpose(s) for which it was collected, provide our services, resolve disputes, establish legal defenses, conduct audits, pursue legitimate business purposes, enforce our agreements, and comply with applicable laws.

Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or the handling of your personal information, please contact us at: sales@homestock.com

We will strive to address your inquiries and resolve any concerns promptly and appropriately.

By using our real estate website, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy and agree to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information as described herein–.HOME S