Privacy Policy

Real People Real Houses is committed to respecting your privacy and recognizing the need for appropriate protection and management of personally identifiable information that you share with us. The purpose of our privacy policy is to inform you what personally identifiable information or personal information we may collect from you when you visit our web sites, how we use such information, and the choices you have regarding our use of, and your ability to review and correct, the information.

As a part of our commitment to your maintaining and protecting your privacy, Real People Real Houses adheres to the guidelines and practices adopted by the Direct Marketing Association's "Privacy Promise to American Consumers."

We do not to share our members information with any marketers or organizations. We do not sell or share our member e-mail address or other personal information with anyone, nor will our members receive any soliciations from us.

Collecting Information About You

In general, you can visit many of our web pages without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. We may track the Internet domain address from which people visit us and analyze this data for trends and statistics, but individual users will remain anonymous, unless you voluntarily tell us who you are.

Editing, Updating, Correcting and Deleting Information About You

We want to communicate with you only if you want to hear from us. If you would like to update, delete, or correct your email address, please contact us via our Contact Form.

Please note that sometimes these requests may take several weeks to be effective, particularly if we are removing your name and account from our Community. In addition, when you upload a design you are entered in a design sweepstakes, therefore, we may need to contact you via email or mail to address questions or issues specific to your entry or design.

Protecting Children

Real People Real Houses takes special care to protect the safety and privacy of children. Our web sites are general audience sites. We regulary inspect our site context for inappropriate or offensive materials. Any such materials will be immediately removed from our site. We urge parents and guardians to participate in their children's online activities and use parental control or other web filtering technology to supervise children's access to the web.

Cookies

When you login to RealPeopleRealHouses.com, we use cookies to keep track of your login as you move from page to page on the website. We do not store any other information using cookies, and we do not use data from cookies for any other reason.

Security

We use sophisticated authentication tools to protect the security of your personal information that you share with us. Unfortunately, however, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to or from our web sites, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we will do our best to protect its security on our systems.

Also remember to sign off your account and close your browser window when you have finished your visit. This is to ensure that others cannot access your account, especially if you are sharing a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place such as a library or Internet cafe.

Links to Third Party Sites

Our web sites may contain links to web sites operated and maintained by third parties, over which we have no control. Privacy policies on such linked sites may be different from our privacy policy. You access such linked sites at your own risk. You should always read the privacy policy of a linked site before disclosing any personal information on such site.

Policy Changes

If we decide to change our privacy policy in whole or in part, we will inform you by posting a notice on our web site. Those changes will go into effect on the date posted in the notice. The new policy will apply to all current and past users of our web site and will replace any prior policies that are inconsistent. This policy was posted in November 2006.

Your Feedback

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