Privacy Policy

Last modified: May 18, 2024

  • Privacy Statement
  • Collection of Personal Information
  • Sources of Personal Information
  • Protection of Personal Information
  • Updates to this Privacy Policy
  • Third Party Information
  • Disclosing Personal Information

Privacy Statement

This Privacy Statement is designed to inform you about the types of Personal Information that HOMESREPORTS gathers when you interact with any HOMESREPORTS content, products, services, websites, or applications on mobile devices (together referred to as HOMESREPORTS Services). It explains how we handle your Personal Information, the ways we use it, and the circumstances under which we disclose it to third parties.

Protecting the Privacy of Minors 

HOMESREPORTS Services are not intended for use by minors, and we will not knowingly collect information about minors. If you are a minor, you are not allowed to use HOMESREPORTS Services or provide any information about yourself. 

Unless explicitly specified by these Terms of Use, THE SERVICES ARE NOT INTENDED TO provide you with any financial, real estate, or related advice of any kind. You understand and agree that the Services may include advertisements. To help make the advertisements relevant and useful to you, HomesReports may serve advertisements based on the information we collect through the Services. See our Privacy Policy for more details.

Unless provided for in our Terms of Use, HomesReports assumes no responsibility for any result or consequence related directly or indirectly to any action or inaction that you or any consumer takes based on the Services or any other information available through or in connection with the Services.

Collection of Personal Information

This Privacy Statement uses the term Personal Information to refer to data that can identify, describe, be associated with, or potentially be connected to a specific person or household, either directly or indirectly. Personal Information does not encompass data that is available in public government records, nor does it include anonymized or aggregated data that cannot be traced back to any particular individual or household.

As part of the HOMESREPORTS Services, HOMESREPORTS may gather Personal Information from various groups, including:

– Consumers who use HOMESREPORTS Services designed for customer use,
– Individuals such as employees, consultants, or contractors working for businesses that have or might have a relationship with HOMESREPORTS (Business Employees),
– Individuals applying for employment at HOMESREPORTS (Job Applicants).

HOMESREPORTS may collect the following categories of Personal Information: 

  • Identifiers: Name, alias, address, unique identifier, IP address, email address 
  • Personal Information associated with customer accounts: Name, telephone number, email address
  • Characteristics of protected classifications: Age, disability status, gender identity, military status
  • Commercial information: Records of products or services purchased, obtained or considered, other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies
  • Internet or similar network activity: Browsing history, search history, information regarding a user’s interaction with an internet website, application or advertisement
  • Geolocation data: Zip code or physical location
  • Sensitive Personal Information: Precise geolocation, credit or debit card information, username and password for account login 

Sources of Personal Information

HOMESREPORTS may collect Personal Information:  

  1. Directly from you,  
  2. Automatically through cookies, tags and other unique identifiers (collectively, Unique Identifiers),  
  3. From or through the business relationship between HOMESREPORTS and you or your employer or the person or entity who has engaged you (Employer),  
  4. From HOMESREPORTS’s service providers or  
  5. From other third parties with your consent.   

An organization with which HOMESREPORTS has a current or potential business relationship may also make available to HOMESREPORTS certain Personal Information of its Business Employees. 

Protection of Personal Information

HOMESREPORTS has established a robust information security framework that includes administrative, technical, and physical barriers designed to prevent unauthorized access to the Personal Information it collects. Beyond the disclosures made in this Privacy Statement, HOMESREPORTS commits to not utilizing, selling, sharing, or disclosing any Personal Information that requires heightened security measures, such as precise location data, government-issued IDs, or detailed demographic profiles (Sensitive Personal Information). Moreover, HOMESREPORTS ensures it does not sell information that directly identifies you, including your name, address, email, or phone number. To safeguard your HOMESREPORTS account against unauthorized entry, we highly advise using a distinct password, keeping your password confidential, logging out after each session, and closing your browser following the use of HOMESREPORTS Services.

Updates to Privacy Policy

HOMESREPORTS may modify this Privacy Statement at any time. Any changes to this Privacy Statement will be posted here.  Please check this Privacy Statement often for any changes.  You are consenting to the privacy practices described in the Privacy Statement each time you use HOMESREPORTS Services.   If you have any questions or concerns about the collection, use or disclosure of your Personal Information in connection with your application for employment at HOMESREPORTS, please contact the HOMESREPORTS human resources team at hr@homesreports.com.  If you have any questions or suggestions regarding this Privacy Statement, please contact us at privacy@homesreports.com.   

Third Party Information

You may access HOMESREPORTS Services through third party websites or social media (collectively, Third Party Websites).  By accessing HOMESREPORTS Services through a Third Party Website, you may be allowing such Third Party Website to view, collect or use any information you provide to HOMESREPORTS.  If you are concerned about accessing HOMESREPORTS Services through a Third Party Website, you can instead access HOMESREPORTS Services directly through HOMESREPORTS websites. HOMESREPORTS Applications and HOMESREPORTS emails may include links that allow you to access Third Party Websites. HOMESREPORTS does not control the collection, use or disclosure of any information on such Third Party Websites or the content on such Third Party Websites.  

Except with respect to Personal Information of Business Employees, this Privacy Statement does not describe the collection or use of Personal Information when HOMESREPORTS receives Personal Information from third parties in connection with services provided by HOMESREPORTS to such third parties as a service provider.  In those instances, HOMESREPORTS will use and disclose Personal Information provided by such third parties in accordance with the agreements entered into between HOMESREPORTS and such third parties. 

Disclosing Personal Information

HOMESREPORTS collects and uses Personal Information to operate its business and provide, develop and improve HOMESREPORTS Services, including:

    1. To fulfill the request for which the information is provided; 
    2. To respond to your communications; 
    3. To communicate with you in connection with your HOMESREPORTS account (for example, to provide services or notify you about HOMESREPORTS Services, the benefits available to you through your HOMESREPORTS account and other special offers and promotions); 
    4. To effectively plan communications and marketing campaigns; 
    5. To provide functionality, analyze performance, fix errors and improve the usability and effectiveness of HOMESREPORTS Services;   
    6. To personalize and improve your experience with HOMESREPORTS Services by making recommendations and delivering content, products and services that might be of interest to you; 
    7. To display targeted advertisement on Third Party Websites;   
    8. To fulfill our business purposes, including internal record keeping and administration and 
    9. To prevent unauthorized or unlawful use of HOMESREPORTS Services and protect the rights, property, security and safety of our users, HOMESREPORTS and HOMESREPORTS Services.

HOMESREPORTS collects Sensitive Personal Information for the following purposes:

      1. Precise geolocation to provide information about real estate professionals and their services in your then-current location and 
      2. Payment card information to process your purchase of real estate reports. 
      3. HOMESREPORTS does not store precise geolocation information or complete payment card information.   

HOMESREPORTS may disclose Personal Information:

    1. To our service providers as necessary for our business purposes (for example, to provide HOMESREPORTS Services, to communicate with you through a chat feature, process credit card transactions, analyze data, serve and measure ad impressions, provide marketing assistance and measure unique visitors); 
    2. As necessary to defend against legal claims or otherwise protect our rights; 
    3. To third parties as required to respond to your inquiries, or by law or judicial proceeding and 
    4. As requested by you, such as when you submit a request for information from a real estate professional or services through a HOMESREPORTS Application, except that HOMESREPORTS has no control over the subsequent use or disclosure of the Personal Information by such third parties.  

HOMESREPORTS may share Personal Information collected through Unique Identifiers:  

    1. With third parties to help build a profile of your interests and for cross context behavioral advertising, cross device linking or for other purposes similar to serving targeted advertising (collectively, Targeted Advertising). To learn more or to make choices about use of your Personal Information for Targeted Advertising, please click here: https://youradchoices.com/.    
    2.  You may opt out of receiving Targeted Advertising by changing your browser options to either stop accepting cookies or prompt you before accepting a cookie from any website. 
    3. If you disclose Personal Information when you review products or services (including third party products and services) or submit content or materials intended for public postings, the information may be viewable by others.
    4. You may update or change your Personal Information by contacting HOMESREPORTS
    5. You may opt out of receiving promotional emails from HOMESREPORTS: 
      • At any time by using the link included on all marketing emails; 
      • When you complete a purchase order form on real-reports.com; 
      • Through your HOMESREPORTS account or 
      • By contacting HOMESREPORTS.  

If you choose to opt out of receiving promotional emails, you will only receive emails in connection with the HOMESREPORTS Services to which you have subscribed.