Propfly and its affiliates (collectively, “Propfly,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) want you to be familiar with how we collect, use, and disclose information. This Privacy Policy describes our practices in connection with information that we collect about you through:
- Our website and other Propfly-branded websites we operate from which you are accessing this Privacy Policy.
- Online contact or survey forms that we send to you by email, or that you access from Propfly Websites
- HTML-formatted email messages that we send to you that link to this Privacy Policy,
- Information you may provide to us directly via email, and
- Offline interactions you have with us.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to the privacy practices of any products or services.
Collectively, we refer to the PROPFLY Websites, our online contact and survey forms, our emails to you, and any offline interactions we have with you as the “Services.” All references to “including” in this Privacy Policy shall be construed as meaning “including without limitation.”
SECTION 1: PERSONAL INFORMATION
“Personal Information” is information that identifies you as an individual or relates to an identifiable individual. We may collect Personal Information from you via the Services when you choose to share it with us, including the following categories:
- Identifiers, such as a real name, postal address, Internet Protocol address (“IP Address”), date of birth, email address, telephone number, account name, or other similar identifiers. This also includes any other Personal Information you share with us while using our Services,
- Protected classification characteristics and sensitive Personal Information, such as your veteran or military status, gender identity, ethnicity and primary language,
- Commercial information, such as your real estate buying/selling interests or preferences,
- Financial information, such as your mortgage loan balance, bank account number, payment card number, billing address, and related financial information, when you choose to share them with us,
- Professional or employment-related information, such as your current occupation, level of completed education, and realtor license number,
- Geolocation data, which may be derived from your IP address or mobile device,
- Information from your device, such as your device’s contacts, photos, and location, when you choose to share them with us,
- Account information, including your account log-in information for third-party websites, services, or applications, like Facebook and Google, when you choose to link these accounts to PROPFLY Websites and
- Other Information (as defined below), to the extent we are required to treat such information as Personal Information under applicable law.
Collection of Personal Information
We and our service providers collect Personal Information in a variety of ways, including:
- Directly through the Services when you provide it to us.
- We collect Personal Information through the Services, for example, when you fill out a user profile when using our Services, register an account to access the Services, fill out and submit an online contact form to us when using our Services, request a market analysis of your home, or contact us by telephone or email.
- Automatically when you use the Services
- We may automatically collect Personal Information through the Services, for example, through our use of cookies, pixel tags, and other similar technologies as further described in the “Other Information” section of this Privacy Policy.
- From other sources
- We may receive your Personal Information from other sources, including:
- Publicly available databases
We collect Personal Information to provide the requested Services to you, improve upon our existing Services, and develop new products or services. If you do not provide the Personal Information requested by us, we may not be able to provide you with the Services you requested.
Use of Personal Information
We and our service providers use Personal Information for the following legitimate business purposes:
- Providing the functionality of the Services and fulfilling your requests, including:
- To provide the Services’ functionality to you, such as arranging access to your registered account and providing you with related user support services,
- To respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests, when you contact us via one of our online contact forms or otherwise, for example, when you send us questions or comments, or when you request other information about our Services,
- To send administrative information to you, such as changes to our terms, conditions and policies, and
- To allow you to send messages to another person through the Services if you choose to do so.
We will engage in these activities to manage our contractual relationship with you and comply with a legal obligation.
- Providing you with marketing materials and facilitating social sharing, including:
- To send you marketing related emails and serve you advertisements with information about our Services, new products, and other news about us, and
- To facilitate social sharing functionality that you choose to use.
We will engage in this activity with your consent to the extent required by applicable law or where we have a legitimate business interest.
- Analyzing Personal Information for business reporting and providing personalized services, including:
- To analyze or predict our users’ preferences in order to prepare aggregated trend reports, so we can improve our Services,
- To better understand your interests and preferences, so that we can personalize our interactions with you and provide you with information and/or offers tailored to your interests, and
- To better understand your preferences so that we can deliver content via our Services that we believe will be relevant and interesting to you.
We will provide personalized services based on our legitimate interests, and with your consent to the extent required by applicable law or where we have a legitimate business interest.
We use this information to manage our contractual relationship with you.
- Aggregating and/or anonymizing Personal Information.
- We may aggregate and/or anonymize Personal Information so that it will no longer be considered Personal Information. We do so to generate other data for our legitimate use, which we may use and disclose for any purpose, as long as it no longer identifies you or any other individual. We may use non-personally identifiable information, such as anonymized and/or aggregated Services usage data, in any manner that does not identify individual users for the purpose of improving the operation and management of the Services, including to develop new features, functionality, and services, to conduct internal research, to better understand usage patterns, to resolve disputes, to troubleshoot problems, to fulfill user requests, or for security and compliance purposes. Any non-personally identifiable information that is combined with Personal Information will be treated by us as Personal Information.
- Accomplishing our legitimate business purposes, including:
- For data analysis, for example, to improve the efficiency of our Services,
- For audits, to verify that our internal processes function as intended and to address legal, regulatory or contractual requirements,
- For fraud and security monitoring purposes, for example, to detect and prevent cyberattacks or attempts to commit identity theft,
- For developing new products and services.
- For enhancing, improving, or modifying our current products and services,
- For identifying usage trends, for example, understanding which parts of our Services are of most interest to users,
- For determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, so that we can adapt our campaigns to the needs and interests of our users, and
- For operating and expanding our business activities, for example, understanding which parts of our Services are of most interest to our users so we can focus our energies on meeting our users’ interests.
We engage in these activities to manage our contractual relationship with you, comply with a legal obligation, and/or promote our legitimate business interests.
Sharing and Sale of Personal Information
We may disclose all Personal Information categories identified in this section above to the following groups:
- To our affiliates for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
- To our third-party service providers and business partners to perform functions on our behalf (for example, to support the delivery of PROPFLY Websites).
- These can include providers of services such as data analysis, payment processing, order fulfillment, information technology and related infrastructure provision, user support service, email delivery, auditing, and other services.
- By using the Services, you may elect to disclose Personal Information.
- On message boards, chat, blogs, and other services to which you are able to voluntarily post information and content. Please note that any information you post or disclose through these services will become public and may be available to other users and the general public.
Other Uses and Disclosures
We also use and disclose your Personal Information as necessary or appropriate, in particular when we have a legal obligation or legitimate business interest to do so:
- To comply with applicable law and regulations, which may include laws outside your country of residence.
- To cooperate with public and government authorities.
- To respond to a request or to provide information we believe is important.
- These can include authorities outside your country of residence.
- To cooperate with law enforcement.
- For example, when we respond to law enforcement requests and orders or provide information we believe is necessary or appropriate.
- For other legal reasons, including:
- To enforce our terms and conditions.
- To protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, yours, or others.
- In connection with a sale or business transaction.
- We have a legitimate interest in disclosing or transferring your Personal Information to a third-party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
SECTION 2: OTHER INFORMATION
“Other Information” is any information that does not reveal your specific identity. The Services may collect Other Information, including:
- Browser and device information,
- Information collected through cookies, clear gifs, pixel tags, single-pixel gifs, and other similar technologies,
- Demographic information and other information provided by you that does not reveal your specific identity, and
- Information that has been aggregated in a manner such that it no longer reveals your specific identity.
Collection of Other Information
We and our service providers may collect Other Information in a variety of ways, including:
- Through your browser or device
- Certain information is collected by most browsers or automatically through your device, such as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type (Windows or Mac), screen resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language, Internet browser type and version and the name and version of the Services you are using. We use this information to ensure that the Services function properly.
- We may use third-party tools to automatically collect information about how you use our Services. This information includes any actions you take on PROPFLY Websites including links visited, session details and duration, and what you type into the PROPFLY Websites. This information is collected to help us identify how our users use our Services, to ensure our Services are working properly, and to improve how and what we offer on our Services.
- Using cookies
- Cookies are pieces of information stored directly on the computer that you are using. Cookies allow us to collect information, including browser type, time spent on the Services, pages visited, language preferences, and other traffic data. We and our service providers use the information for security purposes, to facilitate navigation, to display information more effectively, to improve the Services, and to personalize your experience. We also gather statistical information about use of the Services in order to continually improve their design and functionality, understand how they are used, and assist us with resolving questions regarding them. Cookies further allow us, to select which of our advertisements or offers are most likely to appeal to you and display them while you are using the Services. We may also use cookies or other technologies in online advertising to track responses to our ads. Relatedly, advertising networks may collect Personal Information by using cookies, and most advertising networks offer you a way to opt-out of targeted advertising. We do not currently respond to browser do-not-track signals. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, most browsers allow you to automatically decline cookies or be given the choice of declining or accepting a particular cookie (or cookies) from a particular website. Please refer to your web browser’s documentation for information on how to receive notification when you are receiving a new cookie and how to turn cookies off. You may also wish to refer to http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html. If, however, you do not accept cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of the Services. You also may not receive advertising or other offers from us that are relevant to your interests and needs.
- Using pixel tags and other similar technologies
- Pixel tags (also known as web beacons and clear GIFs) may be used to, among other things, track the actions of users of the Services (including email recipients), measure the success of our marketing campaigns, serve you with advertisements, and compile statistics about usage of the Services and response rates.
- We may use analytics services, including Google Analytics, which uses cookies and similar technologies to collect and analyze information about use of the Services and report on activities and trends. This service may also collect information regarding the use of other websites, apps and online resources. You can learn about Google’s practices by going to https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites, and exercise the opt-out provided by Google by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
- Physical Location
- We may collect the physical location of your device by, for example, using satellite, cell phone tower or WiFi signals. We may use your device’s physical location to provide you with personalized location-based Services and content. We may also share your device’s physical location, combined with information about what advertisements you viewed and other information we collect, with our marketing partners to enable them to provide you with more personalized content and to study the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. In some instances, you may be permitted to allow or deny such uses and/or sharing of your device’s location, but if you do, we and/or our marketing partners may not be able to provide you with the applicable personalized Services and related content.
Uses and Disclosures of Other Information
We may use and disclose Other Information for any purpose, except where otherwise required under applicable law. If we are required to treat Other Information as Personal Information under applicable law, then we may use and disclose it for the purposes for which we use and disclose Personal Information as detailed in this Policy. In some instances, we may combine Other Information with Personal Information. If we do, we will treat the combined information as Personal Information as long as it is combined.
SECTION 3: SECURITY
We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical, and administrative measures to protect Personal Information within our organization. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, or if you believe you have identified a security vulnerability, please immediately notify us in accordance with the “Contacting Us” section below.
SECTION 4: CHOICES AND ACCESS
Opting Out of Marketing Communications
We give you choices regarding our use of your Personal Information for marketing purposes. You may opt-out from receiving marketing-related emails from us. If you no longer want to receive marketing-related emails from us on a going-forward basis, you may opt-out via the opt-out link in the message itself.
How you can access, change, or delete your Personal Information
Consumer privacy laws or regulations in certain jurisdictions may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of Personal Information. The following section applies solely to individuals who reside in specific jurisdictions that provide consumers with additional privacy rights..
- Right to Access Specific Information and Data Portability Right. You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of Personal Information over the past twelve (12) months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose to you:
- The categories of Personal Information we collected about you,
- The categories of sources for the Personal Information we collected about you,
- Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that Personal Information,
- The categories of third parties with whom we share that Personal Information,
- The specific pieces of Personal Information we collected about you (also called a data portability request), and
- If we disclosed Personal Information for a business purpose, the business purpose for which Personal Information was disclosed, and the Personal Information categories that each category of recipient obtained.
- Right to Correct Information. You have the right to request we update Personal Information about you that is incorrect in our systems.
- Right to Delete. You have the right to request that we delete any Personal Information about you that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) the Personal Information from our records, unless an exception applies.
- Right to Opt-out of the sale of Personal Information or sharing of Personal Information for Cross-Contextual Behavioural Advertising. To opt-out of Personal information sales or sharing, send an email to info@propfly.in Please clearly state in the subject line or the body of the email that you are requesting that we do not sell or share your Personal Information.
- Right to Limit Sensitive Personal Information Use. You have the right to limit the use of sensitive Personal Information regarding you.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights.
SECTION 5: RETENTION PERIOD
We retain Personal Information for as long as needed or permitted in light of the purpose(s) for which it was obtained and consistent with applicable law.
To determine the appropriate retention period for Personal Information, we consider the following:
- The amount, nature, and sensitivity of the Personal Information we maintain about you,
- The length of time we have had, and expect to continue to have, an ongoing relationship with you and provide the Services to you (for example, for as long as you have an account with us or keep using the Services),
- The potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your Personal Information,
- The purposes for which we process your Personal Information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means,
- Whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject (for example, certain laws require us to keep records of your transactions for a certain period of time before we can delete them),
- Whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard to applicable statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory investigations), and
- Our own internal policies regarding retention of records.
SECTION 6: THIRD PARTY SERVICES
This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information, and/or any third party operating any website or service to which the Services link. The inclusion of a link on the Services does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us or by our affiliates.
In addition, we are not responsible for the information collection, use, disclosure or security policies or practices of other organizations, including Apple, Meta, Instagram, Google, Microsoft, or any other app developer, app provider, operating system provider, wireless service provider or device manufacturer, including with respect to any Personal Information you disclose to other organizations through or in connection with the Services.
SECTION 7: USE OF SERVICES BY MINORS
The Services are not directed towards or intended for use by individuals under the age of 18, and we do not knowingly collect or solicit Personal Information from individuals under the age of 18. Please email us at info@propfly.in, If you believe we collected Personal Information from an individual under the age of 18.
SECTION 8: SENSITIVE INFORMATION
Unless we request it, we ask that you not send us through the Services, or otherwise disclose to us, any sensitive Personal Information, including social security numbers, payment card or account information, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, biometrics or genetic characteristics, criminal background information, or trade union memberships.
SECTION 9: UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
This privacy policy is subject to undergo change and review without any prior notice or approval. Any changes will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on the Services. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date, active, and deliverable email address for you and for periodically visiting this Privacy Policy to check for any changes. Your continued use of the Services following any changes means that you accept the revised Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with our policies and practices outlined in this Privacy Policy, your choice is to discontinue use of the Services.