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Privacy policy

Effective Date: 09/10/2009

ForSalebyOwner.tv is dedicated to safeguarding your privacy online. The following explains how your information will be treated as you make use of our products and services. The Company is committed to respecting your privacy, and has established this Privacy Policy to describe how your personal information will be treated. Please read it carefully.

Your Information
ForSalebyOwner.tv draws a distinction between information that is provided when registering on the site and information that is provided when listing your property for sale on our Web site.

Personal Information
Personal information is defined as information entered when registering on our Web site. ForSalebyOwner.tv does not sell or distribute any of your individual personal information to other companies or vendors except as described in this privacy statement. We will not release any of your personal information to other users without your permission except as disclosed in this privacy statement. We may use or provide partners with aggregate information from the information provided by all users.

ForSalebyOwner.tv will collect our users' name, email address, address and phone number primarily for registration and processing purposes. ForSalebyOwner.tv will also collect this information when you wish to provide feedback to our website in order to respond to your feedback. We use your email address to communicate with you for service related reasons. An example of this is we will send you a confirmation email if you purchase a product from our website. We will also give you the opportunity to receive informational emails and newsletters from us. If you wish to unsubscribe from these non-service related emails, please email us at support@forsalebyowner.tv with “Unsubscribe” in the Subject of the email.

Listing Information
Listing information, such as the address you are trying to list, is defined as information that is provided when a user signs up to list his/her property on our Web site. In order to provide the maximum exposure for properties listed on our site, ForSalebyOwner.tv has formed partnerships with many other listing services on major Internet portals and other sites. These partners are provided with your listing information so that your property can be viewed with some detail on our partners' sites. When your listing information is received by ForSalebyOwner.tv, your listing contact information is automatically transferred to our partners' sites on a daily basis. If you request address specific products or services we will transfer your listing contact information as required by vendors, unless you specify otherwise. All customers are provided with the option of withholding the posting of any listing contact information.

When purchasing a product or service from our website, you will be transferred to one of our partnership sites that are not located on our domain. These partnership sites will process your credit card and shipping information for us. While we do not collect your credit card information, we do collect your shipping information and will share that information with our shipping service provider. These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose. The credit card information our service providers collect on our behalf will be SSL encrypted.

Tell a Friend: If you choose to use our tell-a-friend service to email a friend about our site, or a property listing on our site, we will ask you for your friend's name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him/her to visit the site. This information is not used for any other purposes.

Another service provider of ours hosts a function that allows our users to compare and profile different neighborhoods and cities. This is essentially a website being framed within our website. There are areas of this framed site that allow users to input personal information. The information submitted here is collected by our service provider and is not governed by this privacy statement. The service provider page that is framed by our site can be identified by its branding, “Sperling's Best Places” located at bestplaces.net.

We use a third party service provider to host our live chat services.

Blogs, Forum, Social Network and Testimonials
If you use a blog, post a testimonial on ForSalebyOwner.tv, use the chat room and social network on this site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums.

Third Party Advertisers
The ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to users by Google Adsense, our advertising partner.   We share Web site usage information about users with a reputable third party Google Adsense for the purpose of targeting our Internet banner advertisements on this site. Google Adsense uses cookies and clear GIFs on this site, which allow it to recognize a user's cookie when a user visits this site. The information that Google Adsense collects and shares through this technology is not personally identifiable. For more information about our third-party advertiser, or to learn more about the choices available to you regarding this please click here to view the Google Adsense privacy policy.

Cookies
This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by ForSalebyOwner.tv only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

In order to enhance your visit with personalized services, ForSalebyOwner.tv makes use of cookie technology. A cookie is a small file that is assigned to a user when they register on a Web site. These cookies do not collect personally identifiable information, nor are they shared with our partners and vendors. We use cookie technology to track the way in which customers use the site so that we can provide them with content that caters to their needs. We also use cookies to make your visit more convenient by saving your password so that you do not have to re-enter it each time you visit our site.

Some of our business partners (e.g., Google Adsense) also use cookies on our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies. As a third party advertising supplier Google uses cookie DART files in order to show you only relevant AdWords advertisements that might be interesting for you personally. The use of cookie DART files technology makes it possible to show you relevant ads both on ForSalebyOwner.tv and on other websites you browse through. You can deny giving a permission of using cookie DART files by visiting the page stating Google privacy policy in regards of Google and Google partner websites network ads showcasing.

IP Address
IP addresses are unique to each computer, and they are used to identify senders and receivers of information over the Internet. ForSalebyOwner.tv uses your computer's IP address to administer our Web site and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. Individual user information is not released.

Contests and Surveys
ForSalebyOwner.tv occasionally asks users to complete surveys that we use for research purposes. This information is only shared with advertisers on an aggregate basis. Individual user information is not released.

A Word About Security
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

All of the information transmitted to ForSalebyOwner.tv is stored safely and securely behind our firewall. A firewall is a buffer that isolates our network from the Internet.
 At ForSalebyOwner.tv, we constantly monitor our Web security in order to protect your information. Once your information is received at ForSalebyOwner.tv, access to your information is limited. Each employee is provided with a copy of this document so that they are aware of our privacy practices.

ForSalebyOwner.tv works closely with our partners to ensure your privacy, however we are not responsible for the privacy policy or content of our partners' Web sites.
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.
 
Changing and Editing Your Information
You, as a user, can change or edit your personal information and listing information at any time. This procedure is accomplished by choosing to edit your account information once logged in on our Web site. If you have any difficulties with, or questions about the modification of personal information or listing information, please contact us. You may also access your information by emailing us at support@forsalebyowner.tv

Conclusion
Thank you for taking the time to educate yourself about the ways in which ForSalebyOwner.tv collects, uses, and stores the information that you provide. We recommend that you also read our Terms and Conditions of Service and Use and our Copyright and Trademark Notices since they provide more information about ForSalebyOwner.tv policies. If you have any questions about our privacy policy and security statement, please email us. Please revisit this site on occasion to make sure that you have viewed the most recent version of the privacy policy and security statement. ForSalebyOwner.tv reserves the right to change any of the information listed on this document and will notify users of any changes by posting the new version of this document.

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the page, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our property page.