Website Privacy Policy
Touchstone Communities, Inc. (“Touchstone”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide to us when you visit this website: www.touchstone-communities.com/ or any of our affiliated Touchstone Communities websites (this “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, and disclosing that information. This policy also applies to information we collect when you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services. By clicking the “Accept” button, you affirmatively agree to the terms of this Website.
Touchstone Communities
Information You Provide to Us
The information we collect on or through this Website may include:
Information that you provide within a form or otherwise on this Website.
Records and copies of your correspondence, if you contact us.
Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete.
Your search queries and activities on this Website.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with this Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about you (such as demographic information), your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, information about your computer and internet connections, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services. This collection of information may be used to improve this Website and the services we provide.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
Cookies – A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of this Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser settings so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to this Website.
Flash Cookies – Certain features of this Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on this Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.
Web Beacons – Pages of our Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons(also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related statistics.
How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
To improve this Website and the services that we perform for you.
To provide you with information about our company, including its products and services.
To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
To notify you about changes to this Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
To allow you to participate in interactive features on this Website.
We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose to third parties aggregated information about our users without restrictions.
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this policy:
To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business.
To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of the company’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by the company about Website users is among the assets transferred.
To third parties to market their products or services. Note that we contractually require these third parties to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
We may also disclose your personal information: (i) to comply with any court order, regulatory order, governmental request, law, or legal process; or (ii) if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Touchstone, our customers, or others.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Website may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
Targeted Advertising. If you do not want us to use information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers’ target-audience preferences, please refrain from use of our Website.
International Transfer of Personal Information
Your personal information may be transferred to computers located outside of your state or country where the data protection laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction. If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide personal information to us, please note that we transfer personal information to the United States and process it there and your continued use of this Website demonstrates your consent for us to continue to do so.
Links to other Sites
Our Services may contain links to other websites or online locations that are not operated or controlled by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third-party’s website. We strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of every website or location you visit. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of, any third-party websites or services.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post any revisions or updates to our Privacy Policy, with an indication of the date of revision.
Contact Information
To ask questions or provide comments about this Website, including its privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: PrivacyPolicy@Touchstone-Communities.com.
(Touchstone Communities version of June 28, 2019)