OUR PRIVACY POLICY

We at the Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Gary Greene (hereafter referred to as “BHGREGG”) are committed to the protection and security of the information collected by BHGREGG. Your privacy and trust are important to us and we want to honor that trust by advising you of what we do to manage your information. This document was written to describe what personal information we collect, how we use it and who we share it with, including companies affiliated with BHGREGG such as The Gibraltar Group Mortgage, The Gibraltar Group Insurance Services, and The Gibraltar Group Title Services.

WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT:

We collect personal information from you when interacting with us, such as when you talk to us about our services, such as buying or selling a home or other property, when you engage us to assist you with buying or selling property, when visiting our website and when ask us for information. For example, to provide our services to you, we may collect your contact information (e.g., name, address, telephone number, email address, etc.), financial information relating to a potential transaction (e.g., Social Security number, information about your income, debts, and assets), demographic information and other information we request from you that is required by law.

Regarding our website, if a visitor signs up for MyGaryGreene, we collect your email address and ask you to set up a password, which is optional, so that we can provide you the service. By registering for a Home Price Evaluation, we collect your email address, telephone number, address, and information about your property, so we can provide you with service. Disclosure of your email address, and any other volunteered information, to BHGREGG, is entirely optional and is a service available for visitors who wish to receive information from us.

As is the case when you visit most websites, your visit triggers the automatic logging of certain anonymous information about your computer systems such as the type of browser you use, the server name and your IP (Internet Protocol) address. When a web browser or email application requests a webpage or email from another computer on the Internet, it automatically gives that computer the address where it should send the information. This is called the computer’s “IP address”. This “address” does not contain any personally identifiable information.

HOW WE USE AND SHARE YOUR INFORMATION:

Provide Information. We use your personal information to provide brokerage and related services: contact you about the services we offer; register and service your online MyGaryGreene account and other online services; provide information that you request from us; and send you promotional materials or advertisements about our services, as well as new features and offerings.

Sharing with Service Providers. We may provide information to third-party service providers that help us provide our services to you, operate and manage our website, provide advertising for us, and others who operate our business. These service providers will have access to your personal information to provide these services, but when this occurs we implement reasonable contractual and technical protections to limit their use of that information to help us provide the service.

Sharing with Other BHGREGG Companies. We have business relationships with other companies affiliated with BHGREGG, such as The Gibraltar Group Mortgage; The Gibraltar Group Insurance Services, an insurance agency providing, among other things, homeowners insurance; and Gibraltar Group Title Services, a title insurance agency. We believe you may benefit from products and services offered by these other BHGREGG companies. We may share your personal information with these companies so they can provide information to you about their products and services. The other BHGREGG companies have their privacy policies, so please consult their privacy policies for how they handle your personal information.

Your Consent. In addition to the sharing described elsewhere in this Policy, we will share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of BHGREGG when we have your consent to do so.

Legal Proceedings.

We will share personal information with third-party companies, organizations or individuals outside of BHGREGG if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to:

Meet any applicable law, regulation, subpoena, legal process or enforceable governmental request.
Enforce applicable Terms of Use, including investigation of potential violations.
Detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues.
Protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of BHGREGG, our users, customers or the public as required or permitted by law.

Transfer in the Event of Sale or Change of Control. If the ownership of all or substantially all of our business changes or we otherwise transfer assets relating to our business or the Site to a third party, such as by merger, acquisition, bankruptcy proceeding or otherwise, we may transfer or sell your personal information to the new owner. In such a case, unless permitted otherwise by applicable law, your information would remain subject to the promises made in the applicable privacy policy unless you agree differently.

YOUR ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND CHOICES: If you have questions or concerns about the personal information we have about you, would like to opt-out of our sharing your information with other BHGREGG companies, or need to update your information, you can contact via email at privacy@garygreene.com or call us at (713) 465-6644. You can correct, update and amend information in MyGaryGreene, Home Price Evaluations or other areas mentioned above at any time. Simply access your “Set up an account” page and change or update the information there. If you have any concerns, please feel free to notify us and we will make every effort to correct, update or amend your information.

CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS: Under California’s “Shine the Light” law, California residents who provide personal information in obtaining products or services for personal, family or household use are entitled to request and obtain from us once a calendar year information about the customer information we shared, if any, with other businesses for their own direct marketing uses. If applicable, this information would include the categories of customer information and the names and addresses of those businesses with which we shared customer information for the immediately prior calendar year (e.g. requests made in 2019 will receive information regarding 2018 sharing activities). To obtain this information, please send an email message to privacy@garygreene.com with “Request for California Privacy Information” on the subject line and in the body of your message. We will provide the requested information to you at your email address in response. Please be aware that not all information sharing is covered by the “Shine the Light” requirements and only information on covered sharing will be included in our response.

COOKIE TECHNOLOGY: Cookie technology is employed on the GaryGreene.com website. The purpose of the use of cookies is to better serve our visitors. Cookies do not contain any personal information of the person visiting our website. In case you did not know, “Cookies” are small text files sent by web servers to be stored on the hard drive of Web site visitors. These files often contain personalization settings or unique identifiers to allow for successful login to the password-protected part of our website, to keep track of your information and help us understand the movements of visitors within and between websites. Our advertisers and information links may use their own cookies, so please refer to their Privacy Statements or Policies.

DATA SECURITY: We also want you, our visitors, to know that we take the security of your information very seriously. We use industry-accepted tools and procedures that protect the files in our data system. However, due to the open communication nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that communication between you and us and us and you will be free from unauthorized access by third parties nor can we be responsible for information stolen from our servers by information harvesting software which may have the ability to scrape data.

CONSENT TO PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA IN UNITED STATES: This site and our services are not intended for and are not directed to residents of the European Union. By using and accessing our site or services, users who reside or are located in countries outside of the United States agree and consent to the transfer to and processing of personal information on servers located outside of the country where they reside, and that the protection of such information may be different than required under the laws of their residence or location.

BUSINESS & PRIVACY ISSUES WITH LINKS TO OTHER SITES: BHGREGG in not responsible for the availability of or the business and privacy practices of other websites which are linked to, or which are linked from, or connected to GaryGreene.com. We provide these links to our visitors for information and service. We do not take responsibility for the contents, advertising, products or other materials made available through any other Web site nor for their data collection practices. We refer you to their Privacy Statements and Policies to learn how they collect and use information about you.

Occasionally, when linking to another site you may still see our site’s logo or frame. This is to provide you with a seamless experience when visiting our website. In these cases, you are no longer on GaryGreene.com and are now on a different Web site whose information collection practices may differ from ours. The privacy policy of the site you are on will govern how information that is collected from you is used. On these pages, you will see our site address in the location bar of your browser and we will take steps to notify you when you leave our site and go to a third-party website.

PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES: BHGREGG reserves the right to change or amend its Privacy Policy to address new issues of privacy and information security and to reflect changes to our business practices with respect to the collection, use, and sharing of personal information. Any new changes will always be posted in this section of the GaryGreene.com website.

QUESTIONS ABOUT OUR PRIVACY AND INFORMATION SECURITY PRACTICES: Your visit to this site is subject to this Privacy Policy, including limitations on damages, arbitration, and application of the law of the State of Texas.

If you have any questions about our privacy or security practices or procedures, please feel free to contact us at: privacy@garygreene.com, or by mail at Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Gary Greene, 5120 Woodway Dr. Ste 5020 Houston, Tx 77056, or by phone at (713) 465-6644.

If you do not receive acknowledgment of your inquiry or your inquiry is not satisfactorily addressed, you should then contact TRUSTe through the TRUSTe Watchdog Dispute Resolution Process at http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php. TRUSTe will serve as a liaison with the website to resolve user concerns.

Updated: September 2019