HouseAllies.com provides services for real estate agents to manage the list of vendors with whom they work and refer to their clients. We also provide services to allow vendors who work in real estate related fields to market their goods and services to real estate agents. This privacy policy describes how and when HouseAllies.com collects, uses and shares your information when you use our services.
In order to provide services to you, we request some personal information from you, such as your name, business name, business address, phone, email and other information. As the nature of our services provide a way to network with other real estate industry people and businesses, this information may be shared with other members and visitors of HouseAllies.com. However, we will never sell or share your information to non-members of HouseAllies.com. Also, we will not share real estate agents’ email addresses or phone numbers with other members of the website unless you provide that information directly to another user through the use of our forum or other personal means of delivery by you.
We collect information about how users navigate through our site to help improve our product and provide a better user experience. We will not share this information with any third parties.
When you use our services, we may collect information such as your IP address, browser type, the referring page, pages visited, and search terms to help us improve our product. We collect this information when you interact with our website, respond to our emails. We will not share this information with any third parties.
Paying members may provide your payment information such as credit card or debit card number, card expiration date, CVV code, and billing address to complete your member registration. HouseAllies.com uses a third party commerce service which manages this information. When you provide this information, you may decide whether or not to allow this third party to store this payment information. During the registration process, you will be informed how to make modifications to your payment information. HouseAllies.com may store the last 4 digits of your credit card and the card expiration date to remind you before your membership expires. You may request that we remove this data at any time by contacting us through the information provided on the HouseAllies.com “Contact Us” page.
HouseAllies.com uses several third party services to help provide our services to you. Some examples are Authorize.net, Google Analytics, and Youtube. Some of these services may use logging information to collect information sent by your browser as part of a web page request, such as cookies or IP address.
We use Authorize.net to manage your membership payments and recurring billing. Authorize.net has their own privacy policy and rules for managing your billing and personal information. HouseAllies.com may store the last 4 digits of your credit card and the card expiration date to remind you before your membership expires. You may request that we remove this data at any time by contacting us through the information provided on the HouseAllies.com “Contact Us” page.
As a Vendor Member of HouseAllies.com, you are choosing to make your business information available to the general public and to the other members of our site in order to market your goods and services to these members. We may share the business information you provide through multiple different services.
We will not share your contact information with other Members of our site. You may choose to provide this information to other users of the site through our Forum or personal contact with vendors, but we will not provide any of your information without your consent.
We may use the contact information you provide to us to contact the vendor to advise them that they have been approved for membership on our site should they wish to become members. Vendor membership is only approved if a vendor has been referred to our website by a Real Estate Agent Member, a verified real estate agent, or if they are a member of a local Realtor Board.
We will not make your vendors’ information available to any other users of HouseAllies.com unless the Vendor approves the use of their data by creating their own Vendor Member account.
You may choose to enter the names and email addresses of your personal real estate clients so that you may use the services of HouseAllies.com to email vendor contact information or helpful videos and articles to them.
We will use this information to email 1 monthly home tips newsletter to each of your clients on your behalf. Your clients will always have the option to unsubscribe from this monthly newsletter if they choose. They will be able to unsubscribe by clicking the 'unsubscribe' link in each monthly email newsletter, or by contacting HouseAllies.com directly. You may also choose to opt out of the monthly newsletter email for all of your clients by removing the checkmark in the 'Send Newsletter' box on the dashboard of your Real Estate Agent Membership page.
We will never use this client information you enter on our website to directly contact your clients for any reason other then the monthly home tips newsletter. You may choose to send vendor links to your clients through tools on our website that will link them back to HouseAllies.com. We will allow your clients to register as Non Real Estate Agent Members of HouseAllies.com should they choose to register with us directly. However, we will never directly contact your clients to solicit membership. These are your personal clients and you will choose how and when to communicate with them through HouseAllies.com services. You may remove this client information at any time through your “My Account” page.
We may make changes to this policy at our discretion from time to time. The most current version of the policy will be used to determine how we collect and use the data that you provide to us. You will always be able to view the latest Privacy Policy at https://HouseAllies.com/Home/Privacy. If, in our sole discretion, we feel that a modification to this policy may substantially alter the way we use your data, we will notify you via an email to the email address that is associated with your account(s).