Mattamy Homes Privacy Policy

Mattamy Homes Privacy Notice

Our website is designed to familiarize you with Mattamy Homes Limited (Canada), Calben (US) Corporation dba Mattamy Homes (United States) and their family of affiliated companies (collectively, “Mattamy,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), including information about the communities where our homes can be found, home plans and available features. To learn more about the homes described on our website and how to purchase one, please contact the Mattamy Division in which the home is located or use one of the options provided on this website to Contact Us.

Our website also provides useful information regarding mortgage, escrow, and title services that are available through Mattamy Home Funding, LLC® and Mattamy Homes Title Agency, LLC. Please note that information collected by and utilized by Mattamy Home Funding, LLC® is subject to their own privacy policy, and not this Privacy Notice. We encourage you to read the privacy policy on Mattamy Home Funding, LLC®'s website to learn more about the manner in which it may collect, use or disclose and otherwise treat personal information.

Please note that this Privacy Notice is not intended to apply to the Mattamy Portal that is provided to customers in order to allow them to access resources, information and documentation related to their home purchase, community development, and ongoing relationship with Mattamy. For information regarding how we handle the information that is collected, used and shared on or through the Mattamy Portal, see our Privacy Policy - Mattamy Customer Portal.

When we refer to “you” or “your,” we mean the person using Mattamy's Website and Services as defined below. If the person accessing the Websites or Services acts on behalf of, or for the purposes of, another person, including a business or other organization, “you” or “your” also means that other person, including a business organization.

By using the Services, you consent to Mattamy's Terms and Conditions.  If any word or phrase has been defined within Mattamy's Terms and Conditions, but has not been defined within this Privacy Notice, that word / phrase will have the meaning that has been assigned to it in Mattamy's Terms and Conditions.  

This Privacy Notice is broken up into eight parts: 
1) Summary
2) What Is Personal Information? 
3) How Does Mattamy Collect Your Information? 
4) What Cookies and Online Tracking Technologies are Used on the Website?
5) How Is Your Information Used?
6) How We May Share Personal Information?
7) How Does Mattamy Protect Your Information? 
8) Your Privacy Rights

SUMMARY

Mattamy takes privacy seriously. The purpose of this Privacy Notice is to inform you of how Mattamy and its family of affiliated companies (excluding Mattamy Home Funding, LLC®) may collect, use, and share your personal information when you purchase a home, use one of our websites ("Website") and any other services we offer (collectively, the "Services"), and otherwise interact with us (except via the Mattamy Portal, which has its own privacy policy). This Privacy Notice also describes your choices about the collection and use of your information.
  
Please read this Privacy Notice carefully before you use our Services. By using our Services, you agree to this Privacy Notice. For some Services, we may seek additional consent. We will ask you for that consent when and where it is needed.  

This Privacy Policy governs information that we collect about you (generally information you provide to us by interacting with us in person, on our website, or over the phone). The kinds of information we collect are identifiers and contact information (e.g. your name, phone number, email and address), personal characteristics (e.g. your age/military status/employment information), activity on our website (e.g. what you click on), information to complete transactions with us (e.g. banking and other financial information and a record of the transaction), feedback related to our relationship (e.g., survey responses, information provided in connection with customer service requests), and call recordings. Generally, this information is collected so we can interact with you, verify your identity, complete transactions with you, provide you with information about our products and services, improve our business and services, and in some cases to understand how you interact with our website. For a more detailed and complete breakdown of what on what is collected from you and why, click here.   

Occasionally, we need to share some information about you with third parties (such as lenders, legal counsel, telecommunications companies, utilities, insurance companies, Tarion, regulatory authorities, etc.), affiliates and a variety of service providers to complete transactions with you.  This is done as required to ensure that you receive what you paid for.  Outside of information we share with vendors to complete transactions with you, we may also share your interactions with our website with the vendors that help us understand how you and others interact with our website, and may use that to help improve the functionality, or provide you with relevant advertising on and off of our website.  We may also share your information with vendors and social media sites that provide marketing services to us. For information on how and what information is shared by Mattamy, click here.

You can also ask questions about our collection of your information, or make requests about your information (including deletion), by emailing us at privacy@mattamycorp.com or by mail at one of the addresses listed in the Contact Us section. For more information on your privacy rights, click here.

Mattamy utilizes reasonable measures to keep your information secure and avoid the risks of a data breach, though no matter how extensive security is, breaches may still occur. In addition, we may transfer or store personal information outside the country where you are located, in which case it will be subject to the laws and disclosure requirements of such recipient jurisdictions.  For more information on how Mattamy protects your information, please click here. 

We may revise and update this Privacy Notice from time to time in our sole discretion. When we do, we will let you know by appropriate means such as by posting the revised Privacy Notice on this page with a new "revise and posted" date at the top of this page. Any changes to this Privacy Notice will become effective when posted unless indicated otherwise, and your subsequent use of the Services constitutes agreement to the updated notice to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. 

WHAT'S PERSONAL INFORMATION?

What Do We Mean By "Personal Information" and "Personal Data"?

“Personal information” or “personal data” is information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular individual. It may also include information about a  household or household members. Personal information that is publicly available, a matter of public concern (such as newsworthy information), aggregated (e.g., compiled to create statistics that cannot identify a particular individual) or de-identified (stripped of all unique identifiers such that it cannot be linked to a particular individual) is not considered “personal information” for the purposes of this Privacy Notice, unless we are required to treat it as personal information under applicable laws. 

HOW DOES MATTAMY COLLECT YOUR INFORMATION?

When you visit a sales center, purchase a home, use our website or other Services, or otherwise interact with us, we may collect and use personal information (i.e. information that identifies you, or may reasonably be associated with you). This personal information may include information you voluntarily provide to us such as your name, email address, telephone number, home or other physical address, and other categories of personal information we set out below.

• Registration/Guest Registry: When you visit a sales center, and complete a registration/Guest Registry form or through your interaction with a Mattamy New Home Counselor/Sales Agent, we may collect certain personal information such as your first and last name, mailing address, email address, and phone number (including information you choose to provide optionally, such as desired features and upgrades for your home, the number of household occupants, and other information). The information you provide is used to better understand your needs, assist you in finding a suitable home and to send you tailored communications about Mattamy's homes, products, and Services.

• Purchasing a Home: When you purchase a home, we collect personal information:
  • when you complete an Agreement of Purchase and Sale for a residential property, including the name and contact information (such as email address, mailing address, and telephone numbers) for each purchaser and purchase amount, as well as your closing date, occupancy date, and copies of executed contracts, for the purposes of facilitating the residential property transaction. We may also collect date of birth, marital status, residency status, financial information, payment card information (such as credit/debit card information), social insurance number, and photographs or video recordings of your purchased home for this purpose;
  • if you use Docusign to execute an Agreement of Purchase and Sale or other relevant agreements, geolocation information will be collected as part of an audit trail to show the proper execution of the agreement;
  • when you provide your deposit for a purchase of residential property. 
  • to provide you with homeowner updates and the status of your new home construction;
  • to complete your requested home purchase, including working with your lender and settlement/title agent to finalize your loan; verify your identity by collecting valid government-issued identification such as your driver’s license;
  • to provide the master developer and applicable homeowners associations and/or condominium associations and community development districts or special districts, if applicable, and their agents information concerning you and your home purchase;
  • when you register for a new home warranty plan or when you make a warranty customer care request;
  • to provide you with customer satisfaction surveys; and
  • to manage your relationship with Mattamy.

  
  

• Website Registration: We may require you to register for access to certain information, products, and Services on our Website. At such time, we may request certain personal information such as your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.

• Marketing Communications: When you purchase a home, complete a Guest Registry form or otherwise sign up to receive marketing communications, we may use your contact information to send you tailored communications about our homes, communities, products, Services, and promotions.  We may also send you information about products and Services of third parties that may be of interest to you, to the extent permitted by applicable laws.
  
  You can opt-out of receiving future marketing and promotional communications at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link included in our email communications, visiting our Preference Centre, or by contacting us as set forth in the Contact Us section below. 
  
  We may also use services provided by third-party platforms (such as social media, Google, and other websites) to serve targeted advertisements on such platforms to you or others, and we may provide a hashed version of your email address and other personal information about you to the platform provider for such purposes. For clarity, the information we share with such providers may be used to deliver targeted advertising to you as well as to identify other potential customers whose profiles and online activities are similar to yours, in order to deliver Mattamy ads to such third parties. The platform providers may also use the information they collect regarding engagement with such ads for their own purposes. To opt-out of Mattamy’s use and sharing of your information for such purposes, please send a request using any of the methods set forth in the Contact Us section below.
  
  If you visit a third-party website and sign-up to be contacted by a homebuilder, regarding the construction of a new community, we may collect your name, phone number, and email address from the third-party operating the website to contact you regarding your interest in a Mattamy home. The third-party websites that you visit have their own separate and independent privacy policies, notices, and terms of use, which we recommend you review carefully.
  
  If you opt-in to SMS messages, we may also collect, use and share your information for marketing purposes and other communications, as described in our SMS Privacy Policy, please click here.

• Survey and Customer Research: From time to time, we (or a third party on our behalf) may offer you the opportunity to participate in one of our surveys or customer research. We may collect certain personal information such as your name, email address, and your responses to the survey questions. The information obtained through our surveys and customer research is used in an aggregated, non-personally identifiable form to help us understand our customers and to improve our Services, marketing, customer service, and products. Aggregated survey results and individual responses may also be posted on our website and social media pages, without your name or contact information.

• Referral Services/Tell-a-Friend: If you choose to use one of our referral services to tell a friend about our Website or an employment opportunity, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We will send your friend a one-time email on your behalf inviting him or her to visit the Website. We store this information for the sole purposes of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program, and we do not use the names or email addresses submitted in these circumstances for any other purpose without consent to do so. You are responsible for ensuring that you have consent from relevant individuals to provide their information to us (and to allow us to use their information as described above), and for ensuring that you only submit email addresses of individuals with whom you have a personal or family relationship and who would want to receive the message.

• Customer Service: When you contact us with a comment, question, or complaint, you may be asked for information that identifies you (such as your name, address, email address, and a telephone number) along with additional information we need to help us promptly answer your question or respond to your comment or complaint (for example, lot number, warranty enrollment number, etc.). We may retain this information to assist you in the future, to improve, test, and monitor the effectiveness of our Services, and to enhance your experience with our Services. We also use personal information to establish and manage our relationship with you and provide quality customer service.

• Call Recordings and Transcriptions: When you contact us by telephone, Mattamy or its service providers record and transcribe such calls for the purposes of training, reviewing and managing our personnel. We may also use such information to follow-up on your enquiries or ensure consistency and continuity of customer service. In addition, we may analyze call recordings and transcripts to evaluate and improve our customer services, including to identify emerging trends or systemic issues (e.g., to understand customer sentiment and pain points by analyzing tone, keywords, or themes across calls) as well as to track responsiveness and efficiency of our personnel (e.g., by measuring things like hold times and how quickly customer issues are escalated or resolved).

• Careers: If you visit the career section of the Website, we may also collect information you provide on applications (such as that contained in a resume, cover letter, or other similar employment-related materials) when you upload your application or otherwise communicate with us electronically. We will use your personal information in connection with your employment inquiry, any application for employment you submit, obtaining background information about you, and to process and respond to your application for current or future employment opportunities.

We may also use personal information for any purpose otherwise required or permitted by applicable law.

WHAT COOKIES AND ONLINE TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES ARE USED ON THE WEBSITE?

Mattamy and our third-party service providers (such as social media platforms, analytics providers, and advertising partners) use cookies, pixels, web beacons, and similar online tracking technologies to gather information when you interact with the Website. This information is used to help us understand our Website activity, to monitor and improve the Website, and to deliver content and advertisements that may be of interest to you. Some online tracking technologies also help us maintain the security and functionality of the Website. 

Cookies

We use cookies and other online tracking technologies on our Website.  Cookies are downloaded by your internet browser the first time you visit the Website. The next time you visit the Website from the same device, the cookie and the information stored in it is either sent back to the site that generated it (first-party cookie) or to a different website to which it belongs (third-party cookie).

More specifically, our Website uses social media cookies, performance cookies, targeting cookies, functional cookies, and certain strictly necessary cookies.   These cookies can also be referred to as "third party analytics scripts" or "third party scripts." 

Using such cookies on our Website provides benefits to you, such as displaying content relevant to you and/or content you have not previously seen, and allowing you to maintain your last visit activity for saved products or community pages as well as previously selected preferences (e.g., language, location). 

The use of cookies also allows us to measure website activity to provide a better user experience.  For example, some cookies may be required to provide you with video and streaming functionality, social features such as embedding links to our social media, and/or customer support solutions such as live and automated chat features.  

Cookies and other tools like session replay technology (which reconstructs a user’s experience to help us improve website functionality) may also be used to track your activity and tell us additional information about the use of the Website, including, without limitation, the time and length of your visit, the device type, geolocation, the pages you look at on our Website, the website you visited just before coming to ours, and the name of your Internet browser. 

Cookies and other technologies are also used in connection with social media plug-ins and applications (see more information above) as well as Google Analytics, Meta Pixel and other technologies for targeted advertising (see more information below).  

Finally, some of these cookies help keep our Services secure, by providing us developer utilities like site monitoring and fraud detection.   

Information collected via cookies is shared with, or collected on Mattamy’s behalf by, our affiliates and social media, advertising (including ad networks), and data analytics partners. To learn more about how this Website employs cookies, or to opt-out of non-essential cookies, please click on the 'Cookie Settings' link in the footer of this website.

Please note that we have no control over the cookie settings of websites you visited before visiting our Website. However, if you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, most browsers allow you to reject cookies.

Google and Meta Services

We may use third parties, such as Google Analytics, Google's Customer Match and Meta Pixel to collect data using cookies and other online tracking technologies. 

Google Analytics sends information to Google about your interactions on our Services.  We may also use Google’s Customer Match service to deliver relevant advertising to customers and similar audiences. Google matches the information we have about you (e.g. your email, phone number, name, and mailing address) and matches it with information Google has about you through your Google account(s). To learn more about how Google collects and processes data and the choices Google may offer to control these activities, you should review Google’s relevant policies and practices, which may differ from Mattamy’s in material respects. For example, without limitation, you may wish to review:

• https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/partners
• https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites and
• https://support.google.com/analytics/topic/2919631

You can turn off personalized ads from Customer Match by going to: https://myadcenter.google.com/home and turning off personalized ads.

Meta Pixel sends information to Meta about your interactions on our Services.  For more information on the Meta Pixel you may visit: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/meta-pixel/get-started

AT Pixel

Pixels are tiny invisible images or snippets of code that load when you visit a webpage. When the pixel loads, it allows our advertising partners to recognize your browser, understand how you interact with our site and connect that activity with other information that helps us deliver more useful content and ads.

We specifically utilize the Audience Town (AT) Pixel to track device and browser details, website activity, your general location and work in concert with cookies to help us with our advertising campaigns.

You can utilize privacy tools to limit tracking technologies and opt out of interest based advertising tools, Different tools are available depending on your device, browser, and operating system. 

Third Party Advertising

We use third-party advertising companies to strengthen, manage and improve our online and email advertising campaigns. These companies may collect information about your activity on our Website and other websites (such as web pages you visit and your interaction with our advertising and other communications) and/or apps in order to make predictions about your preferences, develop personalized content and deliver advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. We may also partner with ad networks and other companies that serve ads on behalf of us and others on non-affiliated digital properties. Some of those ads may be personalized, meaning that they are intended to be relevant to you based on information these ad networks collect about your visits to our websites and other non-affiliated websites or apps over time. This information may also be used to evaluate the effectiveness of our online advertising campaigns. Your information may also be analyzed for the purpose of identifying and delivering targeted advertisements to other individuals who share certain characteristics or online browsing patterns with you. Cookies set by these third parties may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant advertisements on other sites. They do not store directly personal information (such as name or government identification numbers) but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. Accordingly, information collected by such cookies, alone or in combination with other available information, could potentially be linked to you. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.

Opting-Out of Third Party Advertising

You may visit www.aboutads.info/choices or www.youradchoices.ca/choices to learn more about third party advertising and how to opt-out of this form of advertising on your web browser by companies participating in the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”) or the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada (“DAAC”) self-regulatory programs. If you wish to opt-out of interest-based advertising in mobile apps on your device by companies that participate in the DAA’s AppChoices app, you may download that app onto your device and exercise your choice. AppChoices is available at: www.aboutads.info/choices.

You may also contact us as described in this Privacy Notice to opt-out of certain third party advertising, which we have the ability to control.

Do Not Track Signals

Mattamy does not monitor or follow “Do Not Track” (DNT) signals, in part due to uncertainty and inconsistency regarding the DNT standard, and therefore handles all user information consistent with this Privacy Notice.

The personal information collected from you is used for specific purposes, as described in this Privacy Notice (including as described below and under “How Does Mattamy Collect Your Information) or when we collect your personal information. 

The personal information collected from you is used to improve customer service and support services, to personalize users’ experience, to improve the Services, to process payments or refunds, to send regular e-mails, to conduct contests, surveys, promotions, to analyze customer behaviours and generate customer insights, for marketing purposes, or for any additional purpose specified at the time of collection of the information. 

Your personal information will also be used for any purpose reasonably necessary to provide the Services. If you purchase a Mattamy home, this includes using your information to: verify your identity; facilitate the residential property transaction; provide construction and homeowner updates; facilitate the installation, activation and functioning of telecommunication, utility monitoring, smart home, water heating and HVAC equipment, as well as payments for such equipment; complete the home purchase, including working with your lender, solicitor and mortgage agent to finalize loans; coordinate with the master developer and applicable homeowners associations and/or condominium corporations and their agents; register you for and administer a new home warranty plan, and respond to warranty requests; and otherwise communicate with you and manage our relationship with you.

Your personal information will be kept confidential and will not be used for other purpose except as specified in this Privacy Notice or otherwise described to you. We may use some or all of your personal information to facilitate a corporate divestiture or dissolution, or as otherwise required or permitted by law.

A summary of what we've collected from our consumers within the last twelve months and why is in the table below.  Please note that depending on your relationship with us (for example, employees or job applicants) additional information may be collected.  

HOW WE MAY SHARE PERSONAL INFORMATION

If you purchase a Mattamy home, we may share your information with lenders and their legal counsel, real estate agents and brokers, Tarion and the Home Construction Regulatory Authority, third parties that provide services to the property (e.g., suppliers of smart home technology, security systems, telephone, cable, internet and other telecommunications, utility monitoring systems, water heater rental, HVAC rental, and other services or utilities), insurance companies (including title insurance companies), third parties providing labour or materials for the construction of the property, legal counsel, governmental authorities, service providers and affiliates (as described further below), and other persons with your consent.

To the extent permitted by law, your Personal Information that we collect when you purchase or use the Service may also be shared with the following categories of third parties:

• Service Providers: Your personal information may be shared with (or otherwise made available) to our affiliates and other third parties who provide services on our behalf. For example, we use service providers to provide services such as maintaining our Website, hosting our job application form, providing services related to our Website, collecting and analyzing customer satisfaction data, performing warranty work on homes, and sending electronic mail or other functions related to our business and services. We may also engage other types of service providers, as needed or helpful, in order to achieve our purposes for collecting personal information as described in this Privacy Notice. You may contact us for more information on our service providers, as set out below under “Contact Us”. Our service providers are given the information they need to perform their designated functions and are not generally authorized to use or disclose personal information for their own marketing or other purposes. However, service providers that send, administer, or analyze customer surveys are permitted to use, transfer, disclose, and sell aggregated and de-identified information for their own purposes, provided that they take steps to ensure that individual customers cannot be identified through the use of that data.

• Affiliated Companies: We may provide your personal information to our affiliated companies if they are working with you to finance or close your purchase of a home or to obtain insurance on the home you are purchasing. We may share your personal information with our affiliated companies, including Mattamy Home Funding, LLC℠, Mattamy Homes Title Agency, LLC, Mattamy Homes Insurance Agency, LLC, so that they may provide you with information on the products and services they make available to our homebuyers.

You have the opportunity to “opt-out” of having your personal information shared for marketing purposes with third parties at any time. You may opt-out or change your previous election by sending a request using any of the methods set forth in the Contact Us section below. If you do not wish to be contacted by our affiliated companies about products and services they make available to our homebuyers including mortgage financing, insurance, and settlement/closing services, you may change your election by sending a request using any of the methods set forth in the Contact Us section below.

• Third Party Marketing: After you have executed a purchase contract, we may share your personal information with third parties that have a product, service, or other marketing information that we believe may be of interest to you as a home buyer, such as your name, address, telephone number, postal address, and e-mail address with these companies in an effort to help you find these resources. These companies may include one or more telecommunications companies, gas companies, and utility providers who serve the community, and subcontractors who have worked on your home so that they may provide you with information on extended service or warranty plans or monitoring or maintenance services they may offer.  You have the opportunity to “opt-out” of having this personal information shared for marketing purposes with third parties at any time. You may opt-out or change your previous election by sending a request using any of the methods set forth in the Contact Us section below.

• Third Party Platforms: As described under “How Does Mattamy Collect Your Information”, we may provide a hashed version of your email address and other personal information about you to third-party platform providers for the purposes or delivering targeted ads to you. These third parties may also use such information to generate new leads for us, including to identify potential customers whose profiles and online activities are similar to yours and deliver ads to such persons. The platform providers may also use the information they collect regarding engagement with such ads for their own purposes. To opt-out of Mattamy’s sharing of your information for such purposes, please send a request using any of the methods set forth in the Contact Us section below.

• Developers: After you have visited or expressed interest in a particular community, we may share your visitor information with the master developer of that community.

• Sale of Business: We may disclose your personal information to third parties in connection with financing that we seek or in connection with a prospective or completed business transaction, including a merger or sale (including transfers made as part of insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings) involving all or part of Mattamy or as part of a corporate reorganization or stock sale or other change in corporate control.

• Legal/Compliance: Mattamy, its affiliated companies, and its Canadian, U.S., and other foreign service providers may provide your personal information in response to a search warrant, judicial process, subpoena, or other legally valid inquiry or order, or to another organization for the purposes of investigating a breach of an agreement or contravention of law or detecting, suppressing or preventing fraud, or as otherwise required or permitted by applicable Canadian, U.S., or other law. Your personal information may also be disclosed where necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims and to investigate or prevent actual or suspected loss or harm to persons or property.

• Other: Mattamy may also disclose personal information about you as required or permitted by law, including for such purposes as resolving consumer disputes or inquiries and reporting to consumer reporting agencies.

Your personal information may be maintained and processed by us, our affiliates, and other third-party service providers in Canada, the U.S., or other jurisdictions. In the event personal information is transferred to the U.S. or other foreign jurisdiction, it will be subject to the laws of that jurisdiction and may be disclosed to or accessed by the courts (or related parties), law enforcement, and governmental authorities in accordance with those laws. If you are located in Canada, you may contact our General Counsel as described below under “Contact Us,” to obtain written information about our policies and practices with respect to service providers (including affiliates) outside Canada, or to ask questions about the collection, use, disclosure, or storage of personal information by such service providers and affiliates outside Canada.

As a summary, the information on what we've shared over the past twelve months is detailed below:

User Generated Content

In addition to the above, Mattamy engages a service provider to identify social media postings related to Mattamy properties. Mattamy or its service provider may repost / republish such social media postings, including photographs, with the user’s consent. Prior to granting consent for Mattamy to repost / republish your content, you are responsible for obtaining valid consent from any third party whose personal information is contained in your posting. Your social media postings will be used and publicly disclosed (including via publication online) by Mattamy and/or its service provider for the purposes of promoting and marketing Mattamy’s products and services. Unknown third parties may have the ability to download, copy, use, republish and make comments on such postings (including any personal information contained therein) without moderation, and Mattamy may not be able to control further dissemination of the information even if you withdraw consent for Mattamy to continue using and disclosing the information. For additional information, visit Mattamy’s User Generated Content Terms and Conditions.

Links to Other Websites

Our Website may contain links to other sites that we do not own or operate, including social media websites. Also, links to our Website may be featured on third party websites on which we advertise.  Except as provided herein, we will not provide any of your personal information to these third parties without your consent.  We provide links to third party websites as a convenience to the user.  These links are not intended as an endorsement of or referral to the linked websites.  The linked websites have separate and independent privacy statements, notices and terms of use, which we recommend you read carefully.  We do not have any control over such websites, and therefore we have no responsibility or liability for the manner in which the organizations that operate such linked websites may collect, use or share, secure and otherwise treat your personal information. This Privacy Notice does not address the privacy and data security practices of any third parties. 

Social Media

We may offer you the opportunity to engage with our content on or through third-party social media websites, plug-ins and applications, including LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Google and Pinterest. When you engage with our content on or through third-party social networking websites, plug-ins and applications, you may allow us to have access to certain information associated with your social media account (e.g., name, username, email address, profile picture, gender) to deliver the content or as part of the operation of the website, plug-in or application. When you provide information from your social media account, we may use this information to personalize your experience on the Website. These social media services are capable of tracking your browser across other sites and building up a profile of your interests, which may impact the content and messages you see on other websites you visit. We are not responsible for the privacy and data security practices of social media platform providers.  Any personal information that you provide through social media platforms will be subject to the privacy policy of the platform operator, and not this Privacy Policy.

YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS

Your State Privacy Rights

Right to Know or Access: You may have the right to obtain confirmation about whether or not your personal information is being processed by us. If so, you may have the right to access the personal information we hold about you (including the specific pieces of personal information) and/or request other related information, such as the purposes for which use that information, the categories of personal information we process about you, the categories of recipients to whom your personal information has been or will be disclosed, the retention period for such personal information, or, if not possible, the criteria used to determine that period, your legal rights with respect to your personal information, etc.