OwnQuarter Privacy Policy

Last modified: November 26, 2006

 

 

At OwnQuarter we recognize that privacy is important. This Policy applies to all of the products, services and websites offered by Lanza Nick Villas SL. or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies (collectively, Ownquarter's "services"). In addition, where more detailed information is needed to explain our privacy practices, we post separate privacy notices to describe how particular services process personal information, which are accessible from the navigation bar to the left of this notice.

Ownquarter adheres to the EU privacy principles.

If you have any questions about this Policy, please feel free to contact us through our website or write to us at privacy@ownquarter.com.

We offer a number of services that do not require you to register for an account or provide any personal information to us, such as our Step By Step Guide. In order to provide our full range of services, we may collect the following types of information:

• Ownquarter cookies - When you visit OwnQuarter.com, we can send one or more cookies - a small file containing a string of characters - to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service by storing user preferences and tracking user trends. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some Ownquarter features and services may not function properly if your cookies are disabled.
• Log information - When you use Ownquarter services, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
• User communications - When you send email or other communication to OwnQuarter, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.
• Affiliated sites - We offer some of our services in connection with other web sites. Personal information that you provide to those sites may be sent to Ownquarter in order to deliver the service. We process such information in accordance with this Policy. The affiliated sites may have different privacy practices and we encourage you to read their privacy policies.
• Links - OwnQuarter may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been followed. We use this information to improve the quality of our services, customized content and advertising.
• Other sites - This Privacy Policy applies to web sites and services that are owned and operated by OwnQuarter. We do not exercise control over the sites displayed as search results or links from within our various services. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you.

OwnQuarter only processes personal information for the purposes described in the applicable Privacy Policy. In addition to the above, such purposes include:

• Providing our products and services to users, including the display of customized content;
• Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve our services;
• Ensuring the technical functioning of our network; and
• Developing new services.

OwnQuarter processes personal information on our servers in countries around the world. In some cases, we process personal information on a server outside your own country. We may process personal information to provide our own services. In some cases, we may process personal information on behalf of and according to the instructions of a third party, such as our advertising partners.

Choices for personal information

When you sign up for a particular service that requires registration, we ask you to provide personal information. If we use this information in a manner different than the purpose for which it was collected, then we will ask for your consent prior to such use.

If we propose to use personal information for any purposes other than those described in this Policy, we will offer you an effective way to opt out of the use of personal information for those other purposes. We will not collect or use sensitive information for purposes other than those described in this Policy, unless we have obtained your prior consent.

You can decline to submit personal information to any of our services, in which case OwnQuarter may not be able to provide those services to you.

Information sharing

OwnQuarter only shares personal information with other companies or individuals outside of OwnQuarter in the following limited circumstances:

• We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information.
• We provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies or other trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of processing personal information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
• We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or (d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of OwnQuarter, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.

If OwnQuarter becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its assets, we will provide notice before personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, such as the number of users who accessed our site for a particular page, for example, or how many users clicked on a particular link. Such information does not identify you individually.

Please contact us at this address for any additional questions about the management or use of personal data.