WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY

Our Commitment to Privacy

Platinum Properties International, Sterling Escrow, Platinum lending Group and/or its affiliates (PPI) respects your right to privacy and always strive to establish and maintain relationships of trust between us and our website visitors. That means Platinum Properties protects your identity and will make best efforts to keep any personal information that we may collect confidential.

This Privacy Policy statement is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use and safeguard the personal information you provide us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our site and our products and services. We trust that our clients and friends will abide by similarly high standards of fairness and ethical behavior in their dealings with us. By visiting our site, you are accepting the practices outlined in this Privacy Policy Statement.

Our corporate values, ethical standards, policies and practices are committed to the protection of consumer information. In general, our business practices limit our use and disclosure of such information only to authorized persons and/or transactions.

Our website has been designed to make the vast majority of its information and services available without your having to provide any private information. However, PPI collects personal data when you voluntarily request information through our website, order products or services through our website, or when you participate in promotions or enter contests on our website.

What Information Do We Collect?

When you visit our website you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and website use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our website.

Personal information you choose to provide can include such items as name, mailing address, e-mail address, and/or home and business phone numbers. If you choose to correspond with us via e-mail, we may retain the content of your e-mail messages together with our responses.

In general, it is possible to collect website use information through the application of “cookies,” a feature of web browser software that allows web servers to recognize your computer as you access a website. Cookies are small bits of alphanumeric data that are stored by your web browser on your hard drive. Cookies can remember the information you access on a web page to simplify subsequent interactions with that website or use such information to streamline your transactions on related web pages. Cookies can be used to deliver content specific to your stated interests. Cookies make it easier for you to move from web page to web page and to complete transactions over the Internet. We may also use web server logs to collect information about how our website is used, which may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our website, and the web sites you visited just before and after you visit our website. This information is collected on an aggregate basis and is not associated with you as an individual. At the present time, we do not use “cookies” or any other techniques to collect information about you without your personal knowledge. This Statement will reflect any future change in that policy.

We do not rent or sell any of your information with third parties. However, as we can not control what others do, please be aware that other websites that you may visit through links to or from our website may collect information about you and use it according to their own policies, which you should read before providing them with personal information that you may wish to protect.

We only collect information necessary to deliver the products and services you request and we endeavor to maintain your privacy even after you stop being our client.

Why Do We Collect This Information?

In general, we only use personal information for purposes of monitoring and administering our business activities, providing a high level of customer service and making available other products and services of interest to our clients and prospects.

How Does Platinum Properties Obtain and Use Personal Information?

Platinum Properties may obtain personal data as a result of your requests for information about our real estate services via our website. We also obtain information when you participate in contests, promotions or online surveys, or contact us with questions (in the case of contests, the law requires that we supply the names of winners on request. All contests and promotions are subject to rules that apply to each contest or promotion). Some of the information we obtain may be considered public information, such as your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address, but we treat all information as if it were confidential. We only use your personal information to respond to your requests for real estate-related information or assistance.

The Platinum Properties website may link you to other companies’ websites that may offer products or services related to the interest you have indicated in real estate. These websites do not obtain any specific information about you from our website. We may collect web traffic statistics from you and other clients’ web browsers to help us assess the effectiveness of our website.

From time to time you may notice offers from outside companies advertised on our website. We try to select service or product providers that are responsible and afford privacy protections to their customers. However, we cannot make any representations about the practices and policies of these companies. Often links to other websites are provided solely as pointers to information on topics that may be useful to the users of our website. This Policy Statement does not apply to the practices of companies that PPI does not own or control, or to people that PPI does not employ or manage.

Are Information Transmissions Secure?

Communications that you send us may not be secure unless we advise you that security measures are in place prior to your transmitting the information. Therefore, we ask that you not send confidential information such as Social Security or credit card account numbers to us through unsecured e-mail.

CHANGES IN OUR PRIVACY POLICY

Our Privacy Policy will be continually assessed as modifications are made to our website, business practices and/or technology evolves, or our customers’ needs or legal requirements change.
In the unlikely event that PPI is ever merged with another company, information about you may be transferred to the successor company and may become subject to a different privacy policy. Should that be the case, this Privacy Policy will be modified accordingly. If you have any concerns or questions about this, please do not hesitate to let us know.