Privacy Policy
Last modified: July 26, 2016
Introduction
Showami, Inc. through its marketed Application Showami ("Company" "Showami" "Our" or "We") respect(s) your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the Application www.showami.com or download our Application from any source ("Application") to view the content on the Application and/or utilize the interrelated “Interactive Services” on our Application which provides inputs for matching licensed real estate agents to perform certain services. This privacy policy covers our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting and disclosing that information.
This policy applies to information we collect:
- On this Application including on our interrelated platform.
- In e-mail, text and other electronic messages between you and this Application.
It does not apply to information collected by:
- us offline or through any other means, including on any other Application operated by Company or any third party (even if there is an apparent or actual affiliation) and/or
- any third party (including any affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any Application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Application and the interrelated platform.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Application or the interrelated platform. By accessing or using this Application and/or the Interactive Services contained therein, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this Application and/or the interrelated platform after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
Children Under the Age of 13
This Application is offered and available only to users who are 18 years of age or older. Accordingly, our Application is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any information to or on the Application. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 18 and especially under 13, please immediately exit this Application. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact our legal department at EmergeCounsel, LLC (888)EMERGE0 or at [email protected].
Information We May Collect About You on our Application and How We Collect It
If you access our Application, including but not exclusively, our Interactive Services, we may collect several types of information from and about users of our Application, including information:
- by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, social security number or any other identifier including potential information about and/or from third parties, and this information may be collected online or offline ("personal information");
- that is about you but individually does not identify you, such as your location or MSA; and/or
- about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Application and usage details.
We may collect this information:
- Directly from you when you provide it to us.
- Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses and information collected through cookies, web beacons and other tracking technologies.
- From third parties, for example, through another user who identifies you for any reason, including but not exclusively, to complete a business transaction.
You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, "posted") on public areas of the Application, or transmitted to other users of the Application or third parties (collectively, "User Contributions"). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Application with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
We know through our third party (either affiliated or not affiliated with Showami) collecting data utilizing our Interactive Services for interactions between licensed or unlicensed real estate broker and agents (which we do not regulate and/or determine the veracity of information provided by any party in our course of commerce) that you are submitting information and that they are collecting information that you are providing, which will make you personally identified.
Information You Provide to Third Parties on our Platform
The information we collect on or through our Application may include:
- Information that you provide by filling in forms using Interactive Services. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use the Interactive Services and/or posting information or material, or requesting further services. We or third party vendor or affiliate on our Interactive Services platform may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us or a third party vendor or affiliate, and when you report a problem with our Application or Interactive Services platform.
- Records and copies of your correspondence (including e-mail addresses), if you contact us regarding your inputs on the Interactive Services platform.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with our Application, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns, including:
- Details of your visits to our Application, including traffic data, location data, logs and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Application.
- Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system and browser type.
The information we collect automatically is statistical data and may include personal information, or we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Application and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
- Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
- Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Application according to your individual interests.
- Speed up your searches.
- Recognize you when you return to our Application.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
- Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Application. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Application.
- Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Application may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from and on our Application. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.
- Web Beacons. Pages of our Application and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs. pixel tags and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an e-mail and for other related Application statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain Application content and verifying system and server integrity).
We currently do not collect personal Information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.
Third-party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies.
Some content or Applications, including advertisements, on the Application are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, service providers and Application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Application. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different Applications and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see e.g. http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/#completed.
How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
- To present our Application including possibly our Interactive Services platform and its contents to you.
- To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us.
- To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
- To provide you with notices about your potential or actual account/subscription now or in the future, including expiration and renewal notices.
- To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
- To notify you about changes to our Application or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
- To allow you to participate in Interactive Services on our Application.
- In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
- For any other purpose with your consent.
We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers' target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and other information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
- To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
- To contractors, service providers and other third parties we use to support our business.
- To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of Showami’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Showami about our Application users is among the assets transferred.
- To third parties as part of the services we provide and/or to market their products or services to you if you have consented to/not opted out of these disclosures.
- To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you provide information regarding your Application which you believe was not processed, we can then check into the status and/or the issue.
- For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
- With your consent.
We may also disclose your personal information:
- To comply with any court order, law or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
- To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
- If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Showami, our customers or others.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
- Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe's Application. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
- Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to share your personal information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can opt-out by emailing us. You can also always opt-out by logging into the Application and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes or by sending us an e-mail stating your request to [email protected].
- Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your e-mail address and/or other contact information used by the Company to promote our own or third parties' products or services, you can opt-out by emailing [email protected] If we have sent you a promotional e-mail, you may send us a return e-mail asking to be omitted from future e-mail distributions. This opt out does not apply to information provided to the Company through its Interactive Services provided on its platform.
- Targeted Advertising. If you do not want us to use information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our actual or potential advertisers' target-audience preferences, you can opt-out by emailing [email protected]
We do not control third parties' collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI") on the NAI's Application. (see e.g. http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/#completed.)
Your California Privacy Rights
If you live or access this site in California, California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 permits users of our Application that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an e-mail to [email protected].
Data Security
Most if not all of the information you provide is provided to third party providers using the Interactive Services contained on our Application in a platform. As we are not collecting the data, we DO NOT implement measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration and disclosure.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you or where you have chosen a password for access to certain parts of our Application, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Application through User Contributions. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Application.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Application. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Application.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:
EmergeCounsel
PO Box 13677
Denver, CO 80201