Privacy Statement
THIS STATEMENT WAS LAST UPDATED ON JANUARY 17, 2008
1stHomeExchange.com and EchangeVacances.com are Web sites owned and operated by iBiz Avenue Inc.
1stHomeExchange.com and iBiz Avenue are committed to your protecting your privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web site.
We have adopted the following practices to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal information. From time to time, changes to this Privacy Statement are made. These changes will be communicated on this Web site.
Cookies and other automated gathering information mechanisms
We use cookies to identify traffic that comes to our Web site.Cookies are small pieces of information that a Web site places on your computer's hard drive so it knows it's you when you visit the Web site. The use of cookies is a very common practice on the Internet.
What information do we ask for?
When you register to use 1stHomeExchange.com we collect contact information (like your e-mail address), demographic information (like your city of residence). Obviously, you may also provide us with photographs of your home.We may share some of this information for our own research purposes with our professional advisors or consultants and third party partners, however the information shared will be limited to non-personally identifying demographic information shared under cover of a confidentiality agreement.
How will this information be used and who has access to it?
If you choose to have our newsletter sent to you, we may use your contact information to send you valuable information about our site and home exchange offers.Our Web site provides you with the opportunity to opt-in to receiving different types of communications from us at the point where we request registration information. You may modify this choice at any time from the member home page. We reserve the right to use your contact information at any time to advise you of any updates that may materially affect your rights or status on our site.
Your non-personally identifying demographic information is used to allow other members and visitors to find you through a search and to deliver targeted advertising and promotional offers to you . Your contact information (e-mail address and name) is only made available to other members when you first contact them to express an interest in a home exchange via our contact form.
The specific information we collect is not shared with other organizations and we will never release your personally identifiable information to an external organization without your prior consent except for the purposes of validating credit information and collecting debts. We may disclose your personally identifiable information if we reasonably believe we are required to do so by operation of law, which may include, but is not limited to a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on 1stHomeExchange.com or iBiz Avenue.
Although 1stHomeExchange.com makes use of up to date technology in order to protect your personal information from being copied or captured by unauthorized third parties, please keep in mind that we cannot ensure complete protection.
