Online Privacy Policy

Home Sweet Home has established this Privacy Policy to explain how it protects and manages the personal information that it collects from you (the customer) online.

Consent for Collection, Use and Disclosure

Your use of the Home Sweet Home site services constitutes your consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use Home Sweet Home. A customer may withdraw his or her consent for collection, use and disclosure at any time.

Accountability

Home Sweet Home collects, at the time of your registration and your sign-on to it ’ s web site, certain “ personal information ” including but not limited to your name, email address, home or work address, telephone number, and information about your computer hardware and software (e.g., IP address, operating system, browser type, domain name, URL, access times, and referring web site addresses).

Purposes for Collecting Personal Information

Home Sweet Home collects and uses personal information for the following Identified Purposes:

to understand customer needs regarding Home Sweet Home ’ s services;
to develop and provide our web site and our products and services for our customers;
to fulfill your requests for products, services or information;
to communicate with customers and site visitors, when necessary, and to inform customers of upgrades from Home Sweet Home.
to allow customers to access limited-entry areas of Home Sweet Home ’ s site;
to personalize some of our services and products for you and to deliver targeted advertisements and offers from Home Sweet Home.
to bill accounts and maintain payment records;
to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or government request;
to respond to a legitimate claim, or to address our reasonable belief, that you are violating the rights of any third party or any of the agreements or policies that govern your use of the Home Sweet Home site.
to protect the services and rights of Home Sweet Home, including but not limited to the security or integrity of the Home Sweet Home site; and
to identify and resolve technical problems concerning Home Sweet Home ’ s site, services.

Home Sweet Home also uses personal information in an aggregate form (i.e., not individually attributable to you) for its business analysis, operational, marketing and other promotional purposes.

If we hire other companies to provide some products or services on our behalf, then we will only provide those companies the personal information they need for the Identified Purposes, and we will limit their rights to use and further disclose your personal information as appropriate in the course of their work for us.

Limiting the Collection of Personal Information

Home Sweet Home limits it ’ s collection of personal information to only that information which is necessary for the Identified Purposes. Home Sweet Home does not direct it ’ s site to, nor does it knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of thirteen.

When you visit the Home Sweet Home web site, a cookie may be placed on your computer or the cookie may be read if you have visited the Home Sweet Home site previously. If you choose to not have your browser accept cookies from the Home Sweet Home web site, you may not be able to view all the text on the screens, or to experience a personalized visit, or to subscribe to certain service offerings on the Home Sweet Home site.

Disclosure, Processing and Retention

Home Sweet Home does not sell, rent or disclose your personal information to anyone else, except:

to someone you have designated to act as your agent, for one or more of the Identified Purposes (listed in Section 2, above);
to Home Sweet Home ’ s employees, independent contractors, subsidiaries, affiliates, consultants, business associates, service providers, suppliers and agents, acting on Home Sweet Home ’ s behalf for any of the Identified Purposes;
as necessary if Home Sweet Home has reason to believe that disclosure is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference (either intentionally or unintentionally) with Home Sweet Home ’ s rights or property, other users of Home Sweet Home ’ s web site, services, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities; and
to respond to judicial process and provide information to law enforcement agencies or in connection with an investigation on matters related to public safety, as permitted by law, or otherwise as required by law.

In addition, as we continue to develop our business, we or our affiliates may sell or buy other businesses or entities, or we may merge with another company. In such transactions, personal information may be one of the transferred business assets. Also, in the event that Home Sweet Home or substantially all of its assets are acquired, your personal information may be one of the transferred assets.

Your information may be stored and processed in Canada or the United States, or in any other country. By using this web site, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country.

After your account becomes inactive (that is, if you request to be removed from our database), Home Sweet Home will keep your personal information in it ’ s archives. Your information will then be used only as necessary for tax reasons or to prove Home Sweet Home ’ s compliance with any applicable law.

Accuracy of Personal Information

Home Sweet Home will use reasonable efforts to keep customer personal information accurate for the Identified Purposes and for minimizing the possibility of making inappropriate customer decisions based on such information. Customers are responsible for informing Home Sweet Home about changes to their personal information. To make changes to your personal information just log into your account and change what is necessary.