Privacy Policy

We created CondoAdvisory for you to voice and share your opinions about your experiences. The benefits are invaluable to the fellow users of CondoAdvisory.

This privacy policy is effective as of Mar 15, 2008 and governs the collection of personal information through this website on or after this date.

This privacy policy describes the types of information CondoAdvisory receives and collects from its users. This policy also describes how this information is used. Please read the following policy carefully before providing us with any personal information. If you have any questions about this policy, please contact us.

About the Information We Collect

Unregistered and Registered users share many of the same features of the site. However, by choosing to register, you will be able to use extra features of the site.

Unregistered Users

Unregistered users may view the reviews posted by other unregistered and registered users. We use a cookie on your computer's hard drive. A cookie is used to store a piece of data on the user's computer. We use cookies to understand how visitors use our site and help us improve our site. We also use cookies to confirm that users are logged in. We use a persistent cookie that stores your login ID but not your password. We do this with the intent to make it easier for you to log in when returning to CondoAdvisory. You may refuse to accept a cookie from us by using the settings in your browser.

Unregistered users may post their experiences. We may collect personal information such as your name, email address, mailing address, telephone number, user name, password, your review and preferences. The information we collect is information that you manually enter into our forms or authorize us to collect. For accuracy purposes, CondoAdvisory personnel may update your registered information to reflect any new information in communications received from you.

Registered Users

By registering with us, you will be able to enhance your Condo Advisory experience. We will be introducing new features, so we encourage you to register with us and enjoy everything CondoAdvisory has to offer.

We may collect personal information such as your name, email address, mailing address, telephone number, user name, password, your review and preferences. The information we collect is information that you manually enter into our forms or authorize us to collect. For accuracy purposes, CondoAdvisory personnel may update your registered information to reflect any new information in communications received from you.

If you have visited our site from one of our partners by clicking through, and you have registered with that partner, then certain information that you have provided to that partner may be transmitted to us. We recommend you review the privacy policy of the partner site’s form where you provided your information. We may or may not retain the information received from the partner site. If we do, we will only use the information in accordance with our privacy policy, regardless of the policy of the partner site from which your information was transmitted to us.

How We Use the Personal Information

We use the personal information to make the CondoAdvisory experience more beneficial for you and for us. We may also provide you with other information and invitations related to your membership or to the CondoAdvisory community. We may also request feedback on our site. Feedback is always welcome. We may also email you additional materials, but only if you specifically request them. These may include opt-in newsletters and other materials that you can request from CondoAdvisory.

In addition we may use your personal information to send you notification about special offer and opportunities offered by our partners. You may opt-out of any or all marketing communications from CondoAdvisory in any commercial email that we send. Or at any time you can opt-out by accessing and updating your personal information by visiting CondoAdvisory.com

We may also use certain information that you provide in order to present you with advertising that you may find interesting. It benefits us because it helps cover some of our costs and bills, and we are able to charge our advertisers more if they know that their ads will be seen by somebody who is more likely to find it useful. It benefits you because you see advertising that you may be interested in, instead of random ads which are of no use to you.

You can always cancel your registration with us by emailing us [link]. Please place your email address in the subject of the email. We will send you an email to confirm your request. After we receive your confirmation, we will delete your information from our active database, but some information may remain in our archives. We may not be able to remove your information from our partners databases, if we have transmitted any information to them.

Disclosure of Your Personal Information

CondoAdvisory does not sell or rent any personal information to any third party, other than our partners, as discussed in this policy. We may aggregate personal information from all of our users and provide that information in the aggregate to other parties, including advertisers, for marketing and promotional purposes. However, if we do so, that information will not be in a form that will allow any third party to identify you personally.

We may share some of your personally identifiable information with our parent company, our subsidiaries and sister companies around the world. Sharing this information allows us to better understand people’s needs so that it may be possible to offer products or services that can benefit our members and users. It also allows us to provide opportunities that you may be interested in. We do not place restrictions on the use of personal information by our parent company, subsidiaries, or affiliates but they will treat it at least as protectively as they treat information they obtain from their other users. They also will comply with applicable laws governing the transmission of promotional communications, and give you an opportunity in any such email that they send to choose not to receive such promotional e-mail messages in the future.

We also may share your personal information with third-parties specifically engaged by CondoAdvisory to provide services to CondoAdvisory (such as market research firms, marketing services providers and advertising agencies), in which case we will require those parties to agree to use any such personally-identifiable data solely for the purpose of providing the specified services to CondoAdvisory.

CondoAdvisory must cooperate with legal authorities and may in some circumstances be required to disclose personally identifiable information in response to requests from law enforcement authorities, or in response to a subpoena or other legal process. We will provide only the information required. In other words, we will not simply turn over our database in response to a specific legal requirement. We can also turn over information about you if we believe we must in order to prevent a violation of the law, and by accepting this policy, you consent to our doing so, at our sole discretion. You also consent to our disclosing information about you in the course of legal proceedings if we are legally required to do so, if we reasonably believe that doing so may mitigate our liability, or if doing so will assist us in enforcing our legal rights. We also may share your information in connection with a corporate transaction, such as a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset sale, and in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.

Your profile on CondoAdvisory will be publicly viewable and identifiable via your screen or user name. CondoAdvisory will not share your email address with any other members nor display it in any public manner. If you choose to participate in our member-to-member communications programs, you may be contacted by other CondoAdvisory members, using CondoAdvisory as an intermediary. All CondoAdvisory members will have the option to turn off the member-to-member communication features at any time.

How Can You Review and Update Your Personal Information

You can review and update the personal information you have provided through the registration process by visiting CondoAdvisory.com

Steps We Take to Protect Your Personal Information

CondoAdvisory has implemented security procedures to help protect the personal information stored in our systems. Access to your personal information by our employees is limited to those we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information. We also employ processes (such as password hashing, login auditing, and idle session termination) to protect against unauthorized access to your personal information. But please know that there is no way for us to guarantee the security of your personal information.

Children's Privacy

This website is a general audience site, and we do not knowingly collect information about children. Should a child whom we know to be under 18 send personal information to us, we will use that information only to respond directly to that child to inform him or her that we must have parental consent before receiving his or her personal information.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change this policy should we deem it advisable to do so. If we make material changes that will affect personal information we have already collected from you, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you of the changes and to give you the opportunity to amend or cancel your registration.