March 31, 2013

EZ Property Network ("EZ Property" or "we" or "us") provides a free real estate (property) advertisement service ("the website" or "the service") that requires the collection of information from our users. The following explains:

  • What information we collect,
  • How this information is used,
  • How to access, update, and delete this information.

This Privacy Policy refers to specific terms that are explained here. You may read them now should you not be familiar with those terms.

What information do we collect?

Our service collects information in two ways:

  • Information you directly give to us: In order to post an ad on our site, users ("ad posters") must create an account and provide personal information such as their name, email address and telephone number. In addition to personal information, ad posters are required to provide details of the property they wish to advertise.
  • Information we get from your browsing while using our service: when you use our website, we collect non-personally identifiable data such as your operating system version, browser vendor, browser version, browser language, IP address, date and time of your requests, referral URL, search queries, information sent by our cookie. We use a cookie to uniquely identify your browser.

How is this information used?

Your personal information is used:

  • To personalize the website
  • To be displayed on the ads you post in order for others users to contact you
  • To send you communication about new features provided by our site
  • To deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to the website

Non-personally identifiable data is used:

  • To improve our service by working in priority on features that you use most
  • To optimize performance
  • To provide ad posters with statistics for their ads

We will ask for your consent before using information for a purpose other than those that are set out in this Privacy Policy.

We do not share your personal information with any company, organization or individual outside of EZ Property except 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, legal process or enforceable governmental request,
  • Enforce the 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 EZ Property, our users or the public as required or permitted by law,
  • Conduct (or if we are involved in) a merger, acquisition or asset sale.

Third-party websites and services

Our website provides links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of third-party websites.

Our website uses third-party services such as Google AdSense or Google Analytics. These third-party services have their own Privacy Policy. You may consult Google Advertising Privacy FAQ here.

We do not explicitly share your personal information with these third-party services.

How to access, update, and delete your information?

You may access and update the information you provided to us in a single and clear interface.

You may as well permanently close your account on the same interface. This will result in the deletion of all the data you provided to us from our active servers. Please note that for security and performance reasons, your data is not instantly deleted but may take up to 24 hours to be permanently deleted from our active servers. Because we aim to provide quality service, we regularly backup our system. It may happen that your information is kept in offline backup systems.

Security of your personal information

We are committed to safeguard our servers, which include your personal information, from any unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction. All communication relative to personal information between your browser and our servers in encrypted using SSL.

Your account is protected by a password that you choose. You are responsible for safekeeping this password along with your username. We will never request for your password to be sent to us by email or through a non-secure channel.

Policy changes

Our privacy policy may change from time to time. We will post changes on this page and we may send you an email relative to those changes.

Contact

Should you have any question about our privacy policy, you may contact us.


Key terms

Personal information is data allowing to personally identify you, such as your name, email address, telephone number, CEA salesperson number.

Non personally identifiable information is data that cannot be used to personally identify you

IP address (Internet Protocol address) is a unique string of numbers assigned to you by your Internet provider. These numbers can be used to determine from which country your computer is connected to the Internet.

Referral URL is the web page address that linked you to the page you are now requesting.

A cookie is a file created by your browser at our server's request and which contains text. Every time you request a page on our site, the data in the cookie is sent to our server. Most browsers can be configured to reject cookies. If you do that, our website will continue working but some features might not function properly.

SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer. This is a protocol designed to provide secure communications over the Internet. You can easily know when SSL is in use by looking at the address in your browser: it will start with https (instead of http for non-encrypted connections). Most browsers usually add a visual icon near the address bar such as a lock.